Updated 16 September 2026
An outdoor hour when it is 33 °C and hazy
Young children need about three hours of movement a day and real outdoor time.
Guides
The problems, in the parent’s words
Each guide answers one question in the first eighty words, gives the method with the evidence, and then shows how Yearkeep does it. Read them without an account.
Learning at home
Updated 16 September 2026
Documentation is the assessment: how to see progress without testing a toddler
Photos, quotes, and short observations tell you more about a young child than any checklist.
Updated 16 September 2026
Mastery ladders instead of empty praise
Telling a toddler she is clever weakens the learning mindset it is meant to build.
Updated 16 September 2026
Plan-Do-Review at home in two minutes
The HighScope routine that builds executive function, scaled to a family kitchen: a one-sentence plan in the morning, the doing, a two-minute review at bedtime.
Updated 16 September 2026
What to capture about your child's day, and what to skip
One photo of the work, one quote in its language, one sentence. That is the daily record.
Updated 16 September 2026
Why we do not use flashcards with toddlers
Flashcards, 'baby can read' kits, and right-brain programmes trade the things that build a young mind for the things that look like learning.
Heritage languages
Updated 16 September 2026
Heritage language at home: an input budget, not lessons
A minority language survives on hours of real talk from several speakers.
Updated 16 September 2026
Keeping a heritage language when school is English
Once school starts, English takes the day.
It takes a village
Updated 16 September 2026
How to hand a 2-year-old's morning to another adult
Another adult does not need a curriculum PDF. They need the schedule, the risk-versus-hazard rule, one script per block, and a way to log in three taps.
Every family
Updated 16 September 2026
A family tenant: what private should mean for your child's photos
Most family apps are a feed with a lock.
Updated 16 September 2026
Dialogic reading with a toddler, without becoming a teacher
PEER and CROWD are the two acronyms behind the best-evidenced way to read with a young child.
Updated 16 September 2026
The yearbook is the year's only report
At each birthday, a book: the photos, the quotes in their languages, the projects, the ladders climbed, and the child's own words. Not a report card.