Scottish School of Child & Baby Massage

26/05/2025

🤣🤣 sorry this one was just too hilarious

26/05/2025

23/05/2025

Another lovely group of parents & babies! Thank you ❤️ it was such a pleasure to teach & be with you all. May 2025 class.

15/05/2025

Next Baby Massage Instructor Courses:
12th & 13th June, 2025 + 3rd assessment day- In Person - Edinburgh
19th & 20th June, 2025 + 3rd assessment day - via Zoom (all 3 days)
Cost £285 per person. Notes, resources to personalise, lunch (except for Zoom!) & chat all included. Email sscbmassage@gmail.com to book. Cheers! ☺️
www.babymassage.org.uk for more information.

Teaching Baby infant massage courses

15/05/2025

Some lovely feedback from recent training finished for NHS Fife:

I absolutely loved the training days. It is one of the best courses /training I have been on. The teaching style was perfect and nothing was rushed.

I really enjoyed the course – probably one of the best & most useful I have ever done. Thank-you.

I have really enjoyed this course. The teaching was informative, yet relaxed. I will use this course both professionally + personally.

NHS Health Visiting Team Nursery Nurses
Fife - March 2025

14/04/2025

So sad.... thankfully slowly it is all changing....and it is what the book 'Why Love Matters' really highlights how important early connection is for mental & emotional development & health!!

31/03/2025

When very young humans learn that they cannot rely on their parents or carers to consistently meet their needs, their body and brain sometimes speeds up the development of more *independent* coping mechanisms. Their system gets the message, that they are on their own and in order to survive, they need to figure things out alone.
These children may as a result seem more self-sufficient, they may call out or signal their needs less than their peers, they may appear older and wiser than their peers due to their earlier signs of independence.
To some, this may seem like a positive. Something to celebrate.
Because isn’t it ultimately our goal as parents to have children who can stand on their own two feet?
Sure, that may well be the end- goal, but here’s the news flash … getting there early is not necessarily a good or healthy thing.
No matter what those baby whisperer, toddler taming, parenting books may make you think.

Faster is not always better when it comes to child development, especially emotional development.

Human babies, toddlers, preschoolers, school-aged, teens and young adults are MEANT to be dependent.
They’re meant to be able to rely on their parents/ caregivers to help them meet their needs, regulate and make sense of their world and experiences as they grow and learn at an astounding rate.
We are meant to do this together.

Sure, their independence does grow across this time period but not at the ridiculous rate celebrated in some parts of society where even in early infancy, independence is held up as gold standard parenting- independent sleep/ self soothing being the very start of all that follows.

Coregulation and lots of it is what helps our children build the most stress resilient brains for life. It is where they learn through frequent experience how healthy regulation feels and sets them up to build their own skills in self-regulation at their own pace.
We don’t need to force self-regulation on our babies.

We, as a society need to stop being so darn scared of being needed by our young ones.
They DO need us.
Desperately.
Deep in their core.
And if you haven’t already figured it out, there’s a good chance so many people are scared of being needed because they also never had their own dependence needs reliably met as a child and so this brings all kinds of discomfort and fear to our adult selves.
Humans need humans.
Independence is overrated.
Let’s do better as a society and nurture our young ones without fear or hurry.
There is no time like the present.

Carly ✨

31/03/2025

Finished teaching a wonderful group of NHS Fife Community Nursery Nurses how to teach Baby Massage to Parents. Wish I could give them all bonuses! Such an amazing, dedicated group. The parents of Fife are very fortunate✨🌷✨

Quote from one participant: 'Teaching Baby Massage has been a joy - seeing parents relax and enjoy bonding with their baby'

Please ask your health visitor about classes/1:1 if you are a new parent in Fife.✨👶✨

31/03/2025

Play doesn’t need to teach anything to be worthy. A child spinning in circles, digging a hole for no reason, or talking to a stick isn’t wasting time—they’re claiming space in a world obsessed with outcomes. Play is not preparation for life. It is life.

Too often, play is tolerated only when it leads to something “productive.” But research tells a different story. Real play—freely chosen, self-directed, often nonsensical—is where children build their sense of self, explore emotional landscapes, and experience joy on their own terms (Hughes, 2011; Lester & Russell, 2008).

Peter Gray, research professor of psychology and leading voice in the field of play and self-directed education, warns that when adults hijack play to teach, we strip it of the very qualities that make it powerful. True play has no predetermined outcome. It doesn’t need to be educational, therapeutic, or efficient. Even when it looks frivolous, it’s doing deep work: protecting mental health, supporting autonomy, and resisting a culture that demands constant productivity from even the youngest among us.

Let kids dig holes. Let them be “unproductive.” That’s where the real work lives.

29/03/2025

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” ― Pablo Picasso

24/03/2025

Very good. Worth a read x

Adolescence puts one thing very clear: we are failing as parents, as a society, if we keep giving our young children unsupervised access to the internet

22/01/2024

https://www.facebook.com/share/rNo5NmW6oU76rPRD/

Findings reveal early comprehension begins around 6-7 months, and significant improvements in language understanding occur around a child’s first birthday.