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At Little Vine we are devoted to train our Nannies and Childminders in nurturing the whole child intellectually, socially, emotionally, physically, and ethically in your home environment. It is essential that our Nannies and Childminders and Mommy’s are aware of the importance of the first 1000 days in a child’s life.
The first 1000 days of a child’s life are the most fundamental days in a child’s development.
A child’s development refers to their physical, health, mental, emotional, and social development, and the readiness to learn.
The first 3 years of a child’s life are the most critical in shaping a child’s brain. Early experiences provide the base and foundation for development throughout a child’s life. It impacts how a child learn skills, their social and emotional abilities.
A child learns and develops rapidly in the first 3 years of their life. This provides more reason why they need love, nurture, mental stimulation, and proper nutrition that develops into confidence as they grow.
It is a time of cognitive, linguistic, social, emotional, and motor development of a child’s life and rapid learning continues well into the preschool years.
Babies and toddlers, learn and develop rapidly when they receive these fundamental aspects and understanding a baby or toddlers development ensures that you are equipped on how to support the child as they grow and develop.
Childhood development programs support and offer the expertise to parents, child minders and nannies from infancy to 5 years of age to ensure they reach their full potential in life.
It is the duty of a parent, child minder or nanny to ensure that children are protected, educated, nurtured, and well nourished.
A close relationship between a child miner/nanny and a child is the best way to nourish a child’s growing brain. When a caregiver plays, sings, speaks, read stories to a child, feeds them well, offers love and affection, they nurture the child’s brain to grow.
Babies need lots of affection and nurturing in the early years. Nurturing, holding, and cuddling a baby stimulates their brain growth.
For young children, crying is a way of communicating their needs and responding correctly to a child’s needs establishes a sense of security and trust
Contrary to popular belief, boys and girls have the same physical, mental, emotional, and social needs. Both have the same capacity for learning, affection, attention, and approval.
Little Vine’s Nifty Nannies course aims to provide these necessary skills and expertise to caregivers and nannies to ensure that our children are given and provided exactly what they need to develop – grow – explore- discover.
We equip and ensure that our child minders/nannies understand their role in the home and within your child’s life. We focus on everyday routine as well the purpose in the wellbeing and development of your child.
Our top priority is making sure your baby is well nurtured, healthy, safe, and happy. We ensure that the nanny/child minder knows all about the preparation of the infant and toddler’s environment is prepared with that in mind. We focus on safety in the house, outside and within the child’s play environment.
Contrary to popular belief, boys and girls have the same physical, mental, emotional, and social needs. Both have the same capacity for learning, affection, attention, and approval.
This goes hand in hand with keeping a babies or child’s play environment safe and clean to ensure that we avoid various infections and viruses. Toy cleaning at this age is vital to ensure that babies and children’s toys are clean and prevent cross contamination.
In today’s time, every parent’s fear is the risk of Covid -19. Our aim is to ensure that our child minders/nannies understand the risk, complications, and the need to ensure that they themselves keep due diligence of their own health and safety, ensuring that they keep the child’s and families health in mind. We focus on sanitization, cleaning, and health in their own environment and within their employer’s house.
From Infancy to toddler years, a child sleep is vital for their growth and development. We focus on sleep routines, the child’s sleep environment and safety of the sleep environment.
A child’s nourishment is the most important aspect in their brain development. We focus on healthy meals, snacks, and the importance of healthy feeding habits. We understand that each family has their own feeding preferences, however we focus on the importance of mealtime, preparation, and hygiene of both the child minder/nannies and the children in the home.
It is important that a child minder/nanny can identify when a child Is not well. We train nannies on how to identify what is normal and what Is not normal when treating sick children. From basic tasks of taking temperatures and communicating with the parents on the health of the child.
Nappy changing is a daily routine when looking after babies or toddlers. We train our child minders/nannies on how nappy changing can identify certain health issues and how to treat basic nappy rash and the importance of hygiene when changing nappies.
Every parent wants to know that their baby or child is safe, healthy, and happy. Child minders/nannies play a vital role in their growth and development and would spend most of their time looking after the baby and child. We focus on communication with parents as an open space to discuss a baby/child’s development or concerns and the importance of creating that trust between parents and child minders/nannies.
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The first 2 years of a child is where the rapid development happens. Especially in the first 18 months. We train and focus on various milestones in a baby’s development and what is normal and what is not normal in a child’s development. This is a vital key for any parent to identify any developmental challenges and being able to address them quickly and concisely.
Going hand in hand with Milestones, various cognitive, linguistic, gross, fine motor skills develop in a babies and toddlers first 3 years. We offer various activities and play ideas to child minders/ nannies equipping them with the skills and the understanding of why age-appropriate play is important to assist the child in reaching their growth potential.
We understand that every child minder/nannies/parents’ worse nightmare is the fear of an emergency happening at home and you are not skilled to take control and manage the situation. That is why we offer a level 1 CPR course by a First Responder (Seta accredited) to all child miners/nannies. Giving you the peace of mind that in an emergency childminder/nanny is skilled to assess and manage the situation.
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This is an amazing program. We teach you how to plan your babies’ meals and toddlers’ meals ahead and the most amazing recipes. By – Chef Renier sponsored by Vital Health Care. Aromatherapy Synergy Blends for babies and children Child safe
Blended by a qualified Aromatherapist
The Baby/Toddler and Reflexology Prepared by a Qualified Aromatherapist and Reflexologist Assisting E-Book Link to 5 videos
R750 for package
