Starting kindergarten is an exciting experience for a young child – but it can also be a difficult one. Whatever the personality of the child, however eager he or she may seem to be for the new situation, there will be a moment when the child suddenly realises that...

More and more companies are recognizing that providing benefits such as workplace child care centers are beneficial to the company because of increased productivity and decreased absence. Often parents returning to the workplace are unable to, or find extremely...

A Kindergarten with a Multicultural Environment Originally published in Diplomacy & Trade, 2013 May “This is not our first kindergarten in Budapest,” explains Educational Director Suzy Jones when asked about the history of the Happy Kids International Kindergarten...

The years of early childhood represent the most fertile period for creating true champions of your children. This is the time they are most receptive to knowledge, learning by example and absorbing all that happens around them like a sponge absorbs water. What is a...

The importance of play, play in a Forest School Play begins in a very early age, with constantly repetitive movements and acts (schemas) – clapping hands in time to music, playing games like pat-a-cake, and rhythmically move to sounds. It progresses into active play...

Budapest is a beautiful European city. It offers loads of attractions with historical, traditional and cultural points of interest for the whole family. Some favourites we can recommend for families with young children are Winter family programs in City Park (Kós...

Nurturing children’s personal development in an international environment through the language of food in Happy Kids Food as language? Educational institutions, nurseries should be symbolic and functional statements of equality and diversity. They should celebrate the...

Due to their age and maturity, children have not developed effective coping mechanisms to deal with stress. Due to the amount of time that teachers are with a child, they may be more aware of stress in a child’s life than their parents. Parents and teachers alike need...

A world without sticks… Based on parental requirements and rare unfortunate events new laws are created on a regular basis that further limit the ways children can engage with the world around them. As a society we tend to react and leap to every worst possible...

“I’m not hungry,” four-year-old Andrew says sweetly, sitting at the dining room table, his untouched meal before him. His mother takes a deep breath, and the little vein in her neck begins to throb. Another dinner-time battle has begun. Andrew has figured out how to...