Ideas for the school holidays

It’s the school holidays and the days are still beautiful. Here are a few ideas of what to do with your kids, from our resident childcare expert, Jenni Johnson….

 Organize a beach party with all your friends. Pack a picnic basket, rugs and an umbrella and have a sand building competition. Children love to sit in cars made out of sand. Make one for each child or a great big sand bus!

Four things that I teach in my antenatal classes are, if you are prepared you will not be scared. If you want a natural birth with no epidural wait until your contractions are lasting a full minute and are coming every 3-5minutes apart before you go to hospital, an epidural is not painful and stand up straight after a caesarean before you walk.

Have you ever walked into your home to find nearly every light on in the house? This is a frustration for many parents as they follow around their children switching off lights on their behalf. Teach your children from when they are tiny to turn off a light when they leave a room.

Family values that every parent should and would like to uphold are belonging, forgiveness, respect, communication, flexibility, honesty, curiosity, tradition, integrity and generosity.

* Catch Jenni on-air every day just after 10am with her tip of the day.

Jenni Johnson, our resident ‘Baby Whisperer’, has been a practicing child-care practitioner for 15 years, and owns a busy ante and post natal clinic in Durban.

At Jenni’s ante and post natal clinic in Durban, parents are taught a system that gives them structure and routine to the baby and childhood years. Jenni has a nursing background. She’s a registered nurse, midwife, psychiatric nurse and a practicing child-care practitioner for the past 15 years. Jenni’s online clinic, can be accessed online via www.jennisays.com. For appointments, e-mail [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter via @JenniSays or on Facebook by 'liking' The Berea Baby Clinic.