Parenting with Nikki Bush

The pendulum has swung far from authoritarian to the laizzez-faire approach and, more recently, gentle parenting. They all have their pros and cons, Rresident parenting expert, Nikki Bush help parents position themselves as their child's chief influencer using three over-riding concepts.

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Resident human potential and parenting expert, Nikki Bush discusses sticky notes for the brain or how to help our children improve their working memory, with the exam season on the horizon.

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Resident Human Potential & Parenting Expert, Nikki Bush on how to speak to children about Suicide, with the 10th of September being International Suicide Prevention Day.

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Resident Chef & Food Anthropologist, Dr Anna Trapido helps explain the story behind the Rocky Road and the best recipe for making your own Rocky Road.   

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Resident Human Potential & Parenting Expert, Nikki Bush on what to make of The dangerous JumpKick Challenge is the latest dare on the popular Tik Tok social media platform, Nikki speaks on how parents can use it as a teachable moment to help develop their child's critical thinking skills to protect themselves.

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Did you know that, despite the fact that your children go to school to learn a formal academic curriculum, as parents, you provide the hidden curriculum? Resident Human Potential & Parenting Expert, Nikki Bush speaks more on this.

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Resident Human Potential & Parenting Expert, Nikki Bush on the importance to cheerlead your kids for effort and strategy, not just innate talent.

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Resident Human Potential & Parenting Expert, Nikki Bush on the effects of being over-indulgent with materialistic possessions when it comes to our kids can have some unexpected consequences.

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Kabazela speaks with Nikki Bush, the resident authority on human potential and parenting. about being busy but making a conscious effort to interact with your youngster.

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Every parent of a teen needs some help diffusing bad behaviour or attitude (think the eye roll) in a way that doesn’t tie them up in guilt and emotional knots. This morning we chat to Nikki Bush, our human potential and parenting expert about what parents of teens can do.

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Resident Human Potential & Parenting Expert, Nikki Bush on the positive side of power is confidence and on how confidence comes in waves making our children feel either powerful or powerless.

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Resident Human Potential & Parenting Expert, Nikki Bush on how to turn roughhousing and wrestling into a positive experience with your kids can transform powerlessness into confidence and isolation into human connection.

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Resident Human Potential & Parenting Expert, Nikki Bush on how to raise compassionate children and on why compassion can be the wellspring of other special, positive qualities in children such as kindness and generosity.

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Resident Parenting and Human Potential Expert, Nikki Bush discuss the new movie Inside Out 2, a story about the emotional havoc of puberty and provides a fabulous bridge for conversation and understanding between parents and their tweens and teens.

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Resident Parenting and Human Potential Expert, Nikki Bush on the importance of encouraging your child to put themselves out there and managing expectation failure.

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Every child needs to learn how to cut with scissors, it’s part of school readiness testing for Grade R which is happening right now. Resident Parenting and Human Potential Expert, Nikki Bush, our human potential and parenting expert about when and how to help your preschooler learn this skill.

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Resident Parenting and Human Potential Expert, Nikki Bush on the importance of raising an emotionally intelligent child.

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With it being Mother’s Day tomorrow, Resident Parenting and Human Potential Expert, Nikki Bush looks at why we are discussing why mothers need time out and time off every now and then.

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Resident Parenting and Human Potential Expert, Nikki Bushon on how to help your child become a decoding expert, because this is exactly what reading is about.

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Resident Parenting and Human Potential Expert, Nikki Bush on how children can develop their school readiness skills through play.

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Resident Parenting and Human Potential Expert, Nikki Bush on the importance of family rituals to kid’s development and creating lasting memories.

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Resident Parenting and Human Potential Expert, Nikki Bush about the importance of movement for your child’s brain development.

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Resident Parenting and Human Potential Expert, Nikki Bush on how to talk clever to your child, Nikki Bush looks at the importance of using your voice and your words with your little one.

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It’s the Easter Holidays and the kids are at home! We chat to Nikki Bush, our resident human potential and parenting expert, about some making fun out of nothing activities to keep your kids busy and stimulate their creativity

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Easter is on its way and with it, the Easter Egg hunt! Resident human potential and parenting expert, Nikki Bush speaks on the concept of treasure hunts, why kids love them and how we can maximise the concept beyond Easter.

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Is your child a bucket filler or a bucket dipper? Resident human potential and parenting expert, Nikki Bush discuss the topic of raising kind children 

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How do you cope with small children when you are out shopping? This morning our resident human potential and parenting expert, Nikki Bush look at how to make shopping with children a happier and more sane experience.

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In an increasingly screen-based world, tactile learning or learning through the sense of touch is more important than ever. We explore this topic this morning with our resident human potential and parenting expert, Nikki Bush.

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What’s the point of homework? We chat to our resident human potential and parenting expert, Nikki Bush about homework hurdles and how to deal with them.

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Resident Human Potential and Parenting Expert, Nikki Bush on how to go about letting go of a child going off to university or college especially if it’s the first time they’ll be living away from home.  

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With Valentine’s Day is next week. This morning, we chat to our resident human potential and parenting expert, Nikki Bush about how parents can use it to put love in perspective. How can parents de-commercialise Valentine’s Day and use it as a teachable moment?

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With World Safer Internet Day on 6 February, this morning we discuss online safety and kids with our resident human potential and parenting expert, Nikki Bush, who also co-authored the best-selling book, Tech-Savvy Parenting with tech guru, Arthur Goldstuck.

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With the new school term now well underway, Resident Human Potential and Parenting Expert, Nikki Bush looks at how parents can encourage independence in their children.

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This past week the matric results were announced. We chat to our resident human potential and parenting expert, Nikki Bush about how much they really matter in the long term.

-              Do matric results define who you are?

-              Advice for families with a matriculant whether it went well or not

-              Is a degree still the be all and end all?

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Resident Human Potential and Parenting Expert on looks at how to handle first term jitters in the back-to-school period.

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The parenting tip of the day is on how to deal with the worry that comes with going back to school. We look at a few things that would make our lives easier and less stressful as we prepare to go back to school. We discuss practical preparations for the start of the new school year with Nikki Bush, our resident human potential and parenting expert. Uniforms, stationery, playdates with children your kids are going to school with, Back-to-School Sanity Savers and eBook for parents.

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Christmas holiday memories can be made in the kitchen, together. We discuss some Making Fun Out Of Nothing Activities with our resident human potential and parenting expert, Nikki Bush.

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Resident Parenting and Human Potential Expert, Nikki Bush life lessons for children from gardening

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End of year school awards ceremonies can be both exciting and devastating. It’s not always your child’s time to shine. They need to get that and so do you. This morning we chat to our resident human potential and parenting expert, Nikki Bush, about how to help you and your child cope better.

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Resident Parenting and Human Potential Expert, Nikki Bush  interrogates the phenomenon of " Mom rage" and how to alleviate it.

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Resident Parenting and Human Potential Expert, Nikki Bush interrogates the idea of moulding a child picture perfect and parents' struggles of accepting your child as they are. Knowing that No child is perfect. Every parent must, at some stage, mourn the perfect child. Nikki speaks about embracing what is.

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Speaking to us about the overlooked joys of raising a teenager, Nikki Bush explains how parents battle to let go and instead hold on tight to their teenagers not understanding that their teenagers are not just children but  individuals who have individual interest, thoughts, values and more.

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Award winning Parenting Blogger, Bayanda Gumede on what to expect from The Intentional Parenting Summit taking place on 9th November and said to be an extraordinary event designed exclusively for parents and care givers, designed to equip and inspire parents and caregivers with the tools and knowledge to raise confident, resilient, and well-rounded children. 

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Resident Parenting and Human Potential Expert, Nikki Bushon how to go about dealing with kids' difficult questions, especially knowing how kid's questions can get daunting at time, Nikki speaks on how adults should go about addressing their little one’s difficult questions without disrupting their curiosity.

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Guest: Resident Parenting and Human Potential Expert, Nikki Bush on how to build hope and optimism in our children.

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Resident Parenting and Human Potential Expert, Nikki Bush on the importance of speaking to your kids about wills, especially taking care of your family includes making financial provision for when you may no longer be around to care for them. 

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While you are spring cleaning your cupboards it’s also a good time to reboot your parenting too before the very busy end of year period, Resident Parenting and Human Potential Expert, Nikki Bush speaks more on this. 

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Resident Parenting and Human Potential Expert, Nikki Bush on the effects of Parental alienation on kids, parental alienation is said to be a strategy whereby one parent intentionally displays to the child unjustified negativity aimed at the other parent. The purpose of this strategy is to damage the child's relationship with the other parent and to turn the child's emotions against that other parent.

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Nikki Bush speaks about why girls love to be called beautiful and how inequality is brewed from the teaching that girls from the young age either at home and school.

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This morning we chat to our resident parenting expert Nikki Bush about helping your child to prepare to enter the world of work.

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Resident Parenting and Human Potential Expert, Nikki Bush on the importance of teaching your children good manners.

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With tomorrow being Father’s day, this morning we look at the importance of dads in a child’s life. For more on this, I’m joined now by our human potential and parenting expert, Nikki Bush

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Resident Parenting and Human Potential Expert, Nikki Bush on the right time to give your child a smartphone in light of news that parents in the Irish town of Greystones have banded together to collectively tell their children they cannot have a smartphone until secondary school.

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Human potential and parenting expert, Nikki Bush on some principles of an eating competence model and being deliberate positive and comfortable with eating and getting enough to eat of enjoyable and nourishing food.

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This week we chat to Nikki Bush, our human potential and parenting expert about our children’s natural curiosity with the world around them and the importance of that sometimes frustrating and irritating three letter word, ‘why’

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Jane Dutton speaks to Human potential and parenting expert, Nikki Bush on some fun ideas for creating memorable and cost-effective kids' birthday parties. Kids' birthday parties are supposed to be fun, but for the parents doing the planning, they can feel like a nightmare.

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Jane Dutton speaks to Human potential and parenting expert, Nikki Bush on why parents, need to shut up from time to time and listen more to their children and stop trying to finish their child’s sentences.  

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Human potential and parenting expert, Nikki Bush on the need for the skill of reframing disruption in teaching our kids to help them keep perspective and keep calm in a disruptive world. 

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Ray White is joined by Human Potential and Parenting expert, Nikki Bush looking at a child’s journey to reading and how it can be encouraged. 

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Refiloe speaks to Human Potential and Parenting expert, Nikki Bush looking at ways parents can make their shopping experiences pleasant and memorable. 

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Human Potential and Parenting Expert, Nikki Bush joins Refiloe, providing tips for parents on how to prepare their children for life post matric. 

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Human Potential and Parenting expert, Nikki Bush joins Refiloe, looking at ways to branch out into the adult world following the matric results that were released last week on the 20th of January. 

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Refiloe chats to Human Potential and Parenting expert, Nikki Bush sharing tips on how to make things easier for the little ones as they return to school. 

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Human Potential and Parenting Expert, Nikki Bush on how to be the hero of fun and her final toy recommendation for the year.

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Human Potential and Parenting Expert, Nikki Bush joins Refiloe, talking about ways to keep your kids busy in the holidays and a fabulous construction toy you should be looking at for Christmas. 

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Refiloe is joined by Human Potential and Parenting Expert, Nikki Bush sharing tips on the kind of toys to purchase during the holidays and throughout this festive season. 

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Four weeks to Christmas and counting and Nikki Bush, our Human Potential and Parenting Expert shares the best bath time toys to make bath time enjoyable for your kids this festive season.

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Refiloe chats to Nikki Bush, Human Potential and Parenting Expert about her two top toy and game recommendations for this week.

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Refiloe is in conversation with Human Potential and Parenting Expert, Nikki Bush discussing stress hacks for exams as well as unboxing two great counting games for kids this Christmas, which is just  a few weeks away.

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Refiloe is joined by Human Potential and Parenting Expert, Nikki Bush sharing what’s on her list of Toy Talk recommendations for us this week. Spoiler alert, it’s all things marbles today!

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Refiloe is in conversation with Human Potential and Parenting Expert, Nikki Bush providing some of her top toy and game recommendations as we approach Christmas season.

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Human Potential and Parenting Expert, Nikki Bush speaks to Refiloe about how to help children to expand their emotional vocabulary. 

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Nikki Bush, Human Potential and Parenting Expert looks at how to help kids expand their horizons and shift their perspective through travel.

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Parenting & Human Potential Expert, Nikki Bush on the importance of helping children develop a musical relationship with the world.

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When it comes to social media and a right to privacy, less is more. This morning we chat to human potential and parenting expert, Nikki Bush, about this topic when it comes to both parents and their children.

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Parenting & Human Potential Expert, Nikki Bush on the importance of adult role-modelling for kids.

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Parenting & Human Potential Expert, Nikki Bush on how to help families raise their social confidence again, post-pandemic instead of suffering from Shrinking Violet Syndrome.

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Parenting & Human Potential Expert, Nikki Bush on how to go about cheerleading our kids for effort and strategy.

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Refiloe talks to the Parenting & Human Potential Expert, Nikki Bush about how parents can encourage children’s development by following their lead. 

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Wasanga Mehana speaks to the Parenting & Human Potential Expert, Nikki Bush about the magic you can create in the kitchen with your kids and why it’s great for incidental learning. 

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Marketing Manager at Skynamo, Zane van Rooyen on what the Skynamo Industry Thermometer which benchmarks industry sales activity across 27 sectors says about the state of doing business in SA as an SME.

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Gugu Mhlungu and Resident Human Potential and Parenting Expert, Nikki Bush on How parents can assist children consider the digital world careers. 

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Gugu Mhlungu and Human Potential and Parenting Expert, Nikki Bush, on how families can use loadshedding positively, amidst the constant loadshedding impacting on every household. 

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Gugu Mhlungu and Human Potential and Parenting Expert Nikki Bush on Handling parent-teacher meetings, with the growing problem of more parents are undermining their children’s teachers. 

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Gugu Mhlungu and Human Potential and Parenting Expert, Nikki Bush on the important role fathers play in their children’s lives with Father’s Day coming up this weekend.

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Gugu Mhlungu and Human Potential and Parenting Expert, Nikki Bush Plot on how and why we need to reduce the ‘noise’ around us in order to induce a greater sense of calm. With 

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Gugu Mhlungu and Human Potential and Parenting Expert, Nikki Bush looks at how to go about doing a parenting report card and on the A’s and the F’s you should be aiming for in parenting.  

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Gugu Mhlungu speaks to Human Potential and Parenting Expert, Nikki Bush about how parents can encourage independence in their children.

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Gugu Mhlungu and Human Potential and Parenting Expert, Nikki Bush on the effects of Building or construction toys and the role they play in child development and how children connect the dots in their minds and bodies when they build.

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Gugu Mhlungu and Parenting & Human Potential Expert, Nikki Bush speak about how to give your children a playroom experience even if you don’t have one.

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Gugu Mhlungu speak to Parenting & Human Potential Expert, Nikki Bush on how to create fun out of nothing, especially if you are holidaying at home with the kids. 

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Gugu Mhlungu speak to Parenting & Human Potential Expert, Nikki Bush about the thrill of the treasure hunt for kids, with Easter on the horizon, Easter Egg hunts create an opportunity for plenty of good old-fashioned family fun and the creation of warm, fuzzy memories. 

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Gugu Mhlungu speak to Nikki Bush, Human Potential and Parenting Expert about parent fitness. Nikki says that after two years in various stages of isolation, parents need to get back in the saddle, so to speak.

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Gugu Mhlungu and Parenting & Human Potential Expert, Nikki Bush on how to get creative with what you’ve got when it comes to playtime for kids.

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Nikki Bush, Parenting & Human Potential Expert speak to Gugu Mhlungu on how to speak to children about Human rights start with individual rights and teaching children

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Nikki Bush, Parenting & Human Potential Expert on the importance of Face-to-face family time and how essential it is to raising a connected family.

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Parenting & Human potential expert Nikki Bush chats to us about the do's and don'ts when it comes to helping your little one determine their dominant hand.

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Nikki Bush, Human Potential and Parenting Expert on child development, specifically about fun ways to improve our child’s low muscle tone and left handedness.

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