Back when my 3-year-old was a toddler with new teeth, we were purchasing a whole lot of “training toothpaste.” (Lorelei was fond of cracking it open and sucking it down like a sports gel when we weren’t looking – fortunately, part of the “training” aspect of this product is fluoride-free and safe if swallowed, though […]
Home child care providers usually have some type of daily communication with parents. The format of that daily communication varies greatly though. Some prefer to just give or receive a verbal update at drop off and pick up times, some use a written daily journal in a notebook, others send a quick email off in […]
In all aspects of life, technology has made life easier. Why wouldn’t early childhood be the same? I think in years to come, we will look back at the debate of technology use in early childhood and wonder why it was ever such a huge concern? Children learn from example; they see their parents engaging […]
Social media is changing the landscape of personal and professional risk. Using blogs, social networking and personal websites to communicate is now common place. Much of the appeal with social media is the relative anonymity and the speed with which information can be shared. Users can impart their views on any subject to a worldwide […]
In an effort to understand how child care is evolving throughout the world, we asked our Superloopers what ‘Best Practice’ means to them. In the first of this series, we welcome an awesome response from Hannah Benitez-Moatt from England. Of course we encourage feedback from all child care providers, lets start a conversation… The quest […]
Oh yes, guilt will always be a major factor in any parent’s return to work. It’s a nightmare. You feel terrible. You beat yourself up for making the decision to leave your child. Are you going back too soon? Will it affect your child’s confidence, development, happiness, trust… the list goes on. And it’s not […]
Corrimal Community Preschool For the past 8 weeks, BFS Corrimal have been using kinderloop to communicate with their parents and the results have been fantastic! Kinderloop case study Saving time and money Corrimal Community Preschool have been trailing kinderloop for almost 3 months now and the results have been fantastic. Averaging 25 posts per day, […]
So imagine our delight when we found out that while we were over in San Francisco exploring the US market and demo’ing Kinderloop to many interested parties, 500 Startups was organising Mamabear, one of the biggest family tech conferences in America! Of course we went and boy what a fabulous day! We met some amazing […]
Thanks to the lovely guys at The Currency Network for giving us an opportunity to tell our story, it was a fun morning… More can be seen by following this link: http://ccynet.com
This lovely post comes from Justine Poidevin an education guru from TAFE, its exciting for us to see Kinderloop being used by these guys to help train early childcare workers. Hi Dan, Thanks again for the opportunity to meet. Each time I meet with you and Dan I am inspired by the possibilities. I have […]
