The way you support your families in the earliest of days lasts a lifetime - WHAT a legacy!
Oliiki in your Nursery
“This app helps my parents and staff to understand how play supports a baby’s brain development. I’ve recommended it to so many other nurseries. My parents and staff love it!”
It’s well documented that high-quality nursery education is fundamentally important to children’s successful outcomes.
Delivering high-quality education is about getting the learning and play in your setting right but it’s also about the support you provide to the parents of the children in your care.
Supporting parents before their baby is even born sets them up for parenting success. It ensures they provide the best start for their baby, helps them understand the importance of learning through play and enables you to build on the wonderful foundations of learning they have laid.
With the Oliiki app you can begin that support for the parents of the children in your nursery and your soon-to-be parents who come to look around easily and cheaply from sign-up to your setting. So helping your parents-to-be to feel part of the community you are creating.
Did you know?
Although what happens later matters too, academic outcomes at just 22 months can predict academic outcomes at 26 years
The way parents interact with their babies predicts their children’s later development and outcomes
The way babies’ brains develop is shaped by their interactions with others
A range of long-term studies have found that the more that is invested financially in the earliest of days of life, the greater the return is over time
…and it’s not just about academics
The brain and all the other systems in the body are interconnected and adapt to the environment they are in
Experiences during pregnancy and in the first two years after birth affect lifelong health and mental health at least as much as they affect school achievements and outcomes
Learning and health are deeply interconnected in the body. Supporting one helps support and develop the other.
Supporting parents
Supporting parents from the outset of their pregnancy journey changes the conversation!
Traditionally parents start on their journey into parenthood with the support of a midwife and the health visitor. There are few parenting classes and even less focus on how to support baby development through play or the role of the parent in the child’s development.
The first real contact a new parent has with someone who knows about child development and playful learning is the childminder or the nursery. It’s at this stage that we start trying to engage parents and show them the impact that play can have on children’s outcomes. To an uncertain parent, not sure if they are doing the right thing for their child, these conversations can feel judgmental and undermining.
It doesn’t have to be like this!
“ With the Oliiki app, we can start supporting parents even before they start with us, that helps them feel part of the nursery from the very beginning and well informed about their little ones development.”
How does Oliiki help?
The Oliiki app supports a baby’s development for their first 1,000 days – from before birth to their second birthday.
It supports the baby’s learning and provides invaluable support to parents, who know they are giving their child the best possible start in life. It helps parents consider their parenting and the impact they have on their child’s outcomes from the beginning.
Because the Oliiki app shows parents not only what to do, but also how to do it and WHY they are doing the activities you will find that parents have a greater understanding of the impact the tiny playful moments are having on their child. This knowledge encourages them to do more play, interact more and therefore help their child develop more.
A child who arrives at nursery with a firm foundation of playful learning is more likely to thrive in the education setting making our job as educators easier and the value-add we can give to a child far greater.
The Oliiki app supports you to support your parents to build strong foundations of playful learning for their children so each child can arrive at nursery and thrive.
Oliiki allows you to be the nursery that goes beyond caring for the children and cares for the parents and the family as well!
By supporting parents from the outset we can help them to not only think about their parenting but also the learning their child is gaining from the play they are doing. Helping parents understand what play looks like to a baby changes expectations and therefore outcomes.
As a nursery, by providing your parents and parents-to-be with the Oliiki app at look round or sign up, you are strongly signaling that you care for their child, them as parents and their family. You wouldn’t let a new nursery nurse start a new job with no support or mentorship, likewise, we don’t want parents to start their new role alone either!
Read why our creator Clare Stead produced the app here.
Oliiki in the Workplace
Workplace benefits have never been more important.
If you want to offer your employees the ultimate benefit when they prepare to become a parent, Oliiki is what you are looking for.
Did you know?
1 in 5 women leave the workforce after having a baby
9 in 10 mums face issues in returning to work after maternity leave
70% of new mums report experiencing mental health problems during or after pregnancy
And it isn’t just mums…
As many as 1 in 3 dads suffer post-natal depression
1 in 10 parents say parenthood has negatively impacted their work performance.·
Supporting parents
The Oliiki app supports parents to be confident in their new role by showing them how much their child is learning from the tiny things they do each day.
Once a parent is confident they are doing the right thing, their child will thrive and that leaves the parents able to focus on their role at work.
You wouldn’t expect a new person in the office to start their new job without help and support, likewise we wouldn’t want parents to start their new role alone either.
Read why our creator Clare Stead produced the app here.
How does Oliiki help?
The Oliiki app supports a baby’s development for their first 1,000 days – from before birth to just before their second birthday.
It supports the baby’s learning and provides invaluable support to parents, who know they are giving their child the best possible start in life.
It is a unique offering and will demonstrate to your employees that you don’t just care about them, but their families too.
By providing this additional support during the transition to parenthood you can help your employees remain in the workplace, retaining a valuable asset and maintaining an engaged talent pipeline.
Employee engagement denotes the strength of the mental and emotional connection employees feel towards their place of work.
Oliiki for Charities and those who work with parents-to-be
Supporting parents early and often has never been so important. Charities, hypnobirthing, doulas, private midwives and others all play a part in this vital role.
Much of the support offered to parents is for birthing support, there is much less focus on supporting parent and child development in the first 1000 days of the baby’s life, that transitional time, when not only a child is being born, but also a mother, a father and a family.
The role you play in supporting these families is vital. Adding an extra dimension to your offering in the form of the Oliiki app enhances that role. It does so by helping you to help your parents develop their parenting role with confidence in a non-judgmental way through tiny daily activities and playful moments.
Different organisations use the Oliiki app in different ways.
“Giving our volunteers the Oliiki app enabled them to better support the families they work with.”
Some use the Oliiki app to directly support their volunteers, while others share the app directly with their clients and families.
The Oliiki app is a tool of support,
it might be you offer the app as information to put in your goodie bag like Poppy and Jack Hypnobirthing do,
mention Oliiki in your book like Elimination Communication baby does,
add it to your recommended resources list like Adoption.Resources.Uk does or
you might want to share it directly with your families like Home-Start Buntingford,Royston and South Cambridgeshire do.
However you want to use the Oliiki app, we are here to help you support your families from the first day of conception right through until their baby is two. And of course, once a family has a lifetime version of the app, they can use it for as many children as they have so your investment keeps on giving!
“I find the Oliiki app super helpful. I’m on my own a lot with my son it gives me really good ideas for activities and it’s such a bonus that they help development. I really appreciate the fact that the suggestions are referenced and cited and that the activities don’t cost a lot of money to do. ”
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