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Supporting Young Children's Autonomy

Supporting Young Children's Autonomy

June 5th 2025 From the moment they are born, children begin their journey towards independence. It can be hard to think about it now, while our children are so young, but most parents would probably agree that the Read more

Gentle Parenting

Gentle Parenting

January 20th 2025 Gentle Parenting is a relatively new term that has seen a recent rise in popularity with the help of social media. As consumers and parents, it can be tricky to recognise which parenting philosophies Read more

Saying Sorry!

Saying Sorry!

September 30th 2024 While our children are young, we often find ourselves in situations where we reflexively prompt them to apologise. ‘Say sorry to your friend,’ we might insist after an incident. It’s Read more

Biting in Early Childhood

Biting in Early Childhood

July 24th 2024 If you are, or have ever been, a parent of a child who attends an early childhood centre, it’s likely you have experienced the dreaded message from your child’s teacher: ‘Unfortunately, your ch Read more

Supporting Children’s Brain Development

Supporting Children’s Brain Development

September 13th 2021 I once taught a four-year-old who had joined our early childhood centre after moving to a new house. After a few weeks with us, this child made a confession. “I’m not supposed to tell you Read more

Why an Open Day works for our infants

Why an Open Day works for our infants

March 25th 2021 Since 2019 we have been moving towards an Open Day format for our Burrow (under 2) space. There are often questions around why we do this as opposed to an individual tour through the space, so we Read more

Risk taking through play for young children

Risk taking through play for young children

November 9th 2020 How many of you have had a moment of terror when you have caught your young child climbing on top of the coffee table or trying to jump off their bed into the floor? I think it’s safe to say if you Read more

The Magic Of Rituals | Connection through the everyday.

The Magic Of Rituals | Connection through the everyday.

June 30th 2020 From mindfulness to bubble baths, Christmas to birthdays, bedtime to bathtime, many of us use rituals in our lives. Even as adults, we’re often using rituals without even realising. Rituals create Read more

What you should ask when looking for an ECE centre

What you should ask when looking for an ECE centre

March 28th 2020 The below blog has been created by our director Nikki after showing many families through Oma Rāpeti and searching for her own child prior to owning a centre. These are some of the common questions Read more

How to help your child with their toilet learning

How to help your child with their toilet learning

November 8th 2019 As a teacher, one of the most common things I get asked about is something along the lines of “how come my child isn’t toilet trained yet?” To start with, at Oma Rāpeti we use the term Read more

Understanding The Role Philosophy Plays in ECE

Understanding The Role Philosophy Plays in ECE

September 19th 2019 When it comes time to choose an ECE service, we believe it’s vitally important to understand the philosophy of the centre - so important that we think it should be one of the very first things you Read more

What is Te Whāriki?

What is Te Whāriki?

November 20th 2021 At Oma Rāpeti, we feel it's really valuable for whānau to understand the basics of our curriculum so they too, can recognise more of the amazing learning their tamariki undertake. Te Whāriki is Read more

Part 1 - Making sense of an ECE ERO report - Akanuku

Part 1 - Making sense of an ECE ERO report - Akanuku

November 20th 2021 We know as parents and whānau a centre's ERO result can be a great place to start to figure out exactly what is happening behind the scenes. We also know it can be really confusing to wrap your head Read more

Part 2 - Making sense of an ECE ERO report - Akarangi

Part 2 - Making sense of an ECE ERO report - Akarangi

November 19th 2021 Have you read the first part of this blog over here? Here we set out the previous way ERO worked, what it looks like for new owners and how an Akanuku review would work. Part of quality education Read more

What do I do with all of this art?

What do I do with all of this art?

September 8th 2021 It's a typical Thursday, and you've come to collect your child from their centre. They greet you happily from the kai table where they're finishing off their afternoon tea, and you head inside to Read more

Kōrerotia te reo!

Kōrerotia te reo!

August 26th 2021 Is it a surprise to you if I told you that New Zealand has two official languages and neither of them are English? English is presumed to be an official language by most people, however the official Read more

Finding Treasure - Outdoors, Together.

Finding Treasure - Outdoors, Together.

December 15th 2020 Summer is knocking on our door, and with that comes Christmas time. As parents, we’re likely to be spending considerably more time outdoors over the next few months, and many of us will have gift Read more

Is a Centre or Homebased Childcare Right For My Child?

Is a Centre or Homebased Childcare Right For My Child?

October 6th 2020 You might think because we run a cool little centre in Auckland Central that, in our opinion, provides the best possible care out there and therefore we would be bias towards children being in ECE Read more

Embrace the mess | The science behind messy play

Embrace the mess | The science behind messy play

September 4th 2020 Messy play. Korihori pōrehe. Two simple words that have the incredible capacity to make both parents and educators either recoil in horror, or jump for joy. Why do we intentionally let our Read more

Starting School

Starting School

June 3rd 2020 Written by Claire, one of our wonderful team members who has completed her Masters in Education (ECE) through Auckland University. Transitioning to school is one of the topics Claire is passionate Read more

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