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6 Free Preschool Math Worksheets for Ages 3-5
Six free preschool math worksheets for ages 3-5, covering counting, number recognition and simple addition. Print, colour and count together at home today.
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STEM Activities for Preschoolers: Easy Science Games
Simple, mess-friendly STEM activities for preschoolers you can set up in five minutes with things already in your kitchen. No worksheets, no fancy kits.
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StoryTime Menyapa Dunia Kanak-Kanak di Konvokesyen Bir Ali
StoryTime hadir sebagai penaja di Takharruj Ceremony Bir Ali 2025, menyaksikan anak-anak berinteraksi dengan teknologi secara sihat dan bermakna.
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Kurikulum Prasekolah 2026 (KP2026)
Perubahan besar sistem pendidikan Pra Sekolah demi masa depan anak-anak
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Cuti Sekolah dan Cabaran Mengawal Screen Time Anak
Bagi ibu-bapa, musim cuti sekolah ini membawa cabaran yang besar, iaitu peningkatan *Screen Time* dalam kalangan anak-anak mereka.
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StoryTime's New Dress-Up Activity: Where Culture Meets Creative Play
Discover StoryTime's new Dress-Up activity, featuring 300+ culturally diverse outfits that help children explore identity, culture, and creative expression through interactive digital play. Perfect for ages 3-7
Am I ruining my child with screen time?
Most kids apps are designed the same way slot machines are, to keep your child hooked, overstimulated, and asking for just one more.
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What Makes an App Addictive?
What parents need to know on why screen time can be addictive
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Making Screen Time Works for Your Family
The truth is, screen time isn't inherently good or bad. It's like sugar, exercise, or letting your kids wear mismatched socks to the grocery store (yes, Karen from playgroup, I see you judging). The magic isn't in avoiding it completely – it's in how you use it.
How to Help Kids Under 7 Speak: The Parent's Guide to Not Losing Your Mind
So there you are at 3 AM, Googling "why won't my 2-year-old talk" while your perfectly verbal neighbour's kid recites Shakespeare in the sandbox. (Okay, maybe just counting to ten, but it feels like Shakespeare when your own child's vocabulary consists of "no," "mine," and an impressive array of dinosaur sounds.)
I Scold My Kids and I Feel Bad: The Science of Making It Right
So there you are, already late for work, coffee getting cold, and suddenly you hear that voice coming out of your mouth, the one that sounds suspiciously like your own mother (or father) when she was at her wit's end. "JUST PUT ON THE SHOES!" you yell, immediately followed by that familiar sinking feeling in your stomach. Great. You've become that parent.
Win the Potty Training Battle
Welcome to potty training, folks. It's like trying to negotiate a peace treaty with a tiny dictator who has no concept of international law and whose primary weapon is their bladder.
Cegah Buli dari Awal: Peranan Ibu Bapa
Gejala buli bukanlah perkara baru yang kita dengar malah sudah mengakar dalam kehidupan seharian terutama para murid di sekolah.
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Meet Motion: Making Physics Fun Through Digital Play
Discover Motion, StoryTime's innovative digital activity that transforms children's natural fascination with movement into engaging STEM learning through play.
Dyslexia in Young Children: Early Signs, Diagnosis, and Treatment Options Every Parent Should Know
Many parents think dyslexia simply means reading letters backward. In reality, it's a complex language-based learning disorder that affects about 20% of the population and can be identified before your child starts reading. Understanding the signs and getting early support can make a tremendous difference in your child's educational journey.
ADHD in Young Children: A Comprehensive Parent's Guide to Early Signs and Support
As a parent of a young child, you might notice your little one being more energetic, distracted, or impulsive than their peers. Understanding ADHD early can make a significant difference in your child's development and success. Let's explore what ADHD looks like in young children and how you can provide the support they need to thrive.
BreakTime Updates
We’ve made a few major improvement in BreakTime. Our goal in StoryTime is to provide calm, healthy and safe screen-time space for kids. We hope with these new improvement it's a step closer to make our goal a reality.
What makes screen addictive?
As parents, we often worry about our kids' screen time and addiction. We've all heard stories about children demanding to watch cartoons in the middle of the night.
Creativity is not a synonym for art
What is creativity? When we call a child creative, what do we actually mean? Is it because they can draw beautifully? Or because they come up with imaginative stories?
Beyond Tapping Buttons: How StoryTime was Born
The lightbulb moment came one night when I was playing with my 5-year-old son, Umar. As we played, I noticed something amazing that has been in front of me all this while - he was telling stories.
Digital vs Physical Play Dilemma
In the age of touchscreens and tablets, we're faced with a false comparison. Digital or physical play? The answer isn't in choosing sides. It's in embracing the spectrum.
Understanding Your Child's Development: Beyond Academic Achievement
As parents, it's natural to worry about our children's future, especially their academic success. However, there's a crucial aspect of childhood that often gets overlooked: developmental milestones. Let's explore why these milestones matter and how you can support your child's growth in key areas.
New Activity, Hijri
Hijri is an Islamic calendar based on the lunar year. The word Hijri comes from the Arabic word Hijra which means migration. Hijri year starts on the year Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and his companions migrate to Madinah. This new activity is designed to teach kids the important events in Islamic history.
New Activity, Balance
When we started, we knew well enough that gadgets can badly affect kids’ attention-span. We made all our design decisions with this important information in mind. What we don’t know is, a year after starting this journey we developed a digital activity that can help increase kids’ attention span.
Now on iPad
When we started building StoryTime last year, we decided to focus on the iPhone first then the iPad. Our reasoning was, that more people use iPhones than iPads. How wrong we were.
No Instructions
When you download StoryTime for the first time. You will see unlike many other apps, there are no instructions in StoryTime. You might feel lost. Don’t know where to start and what to do. Your kids might feel the same too.
Screen Time Guideline for Parents
How much screen time is too much? At what age you can give screen to your kids? How to have better screen time for your kids? Here are American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry recommendation:
How Mr Rogers inspires StoryTime
Time moves fast on TV. In one hour the “TV World” can cover the whole day or weeks. Everything looks easier and faster. Even struggles and hardships will not take long on TV. Yet, in the real world, everything takes longer and harder. Because of that, we get bored, tired and unmotivated easily.
Made for kids
We often see words like "Kids-friendly" attached to different products. "This cafe is kids-friendly." "This movie is kids-friendly." "The ride at the theme park is kids friendly". But what does kids-friendly actually means?
What StoryTime is not
StoryTime is a set of digital activities to explore and discover many things. And while using it, your kids will learn about emotional regulation. They might love our beautiful earth more. They might improve their focus and attention and they will learn how to think better.
The story of our home screen
All children love books. They love looking at it even before they can read. Being a book publisher, we share the same interest. So when we decided to develop an educational app for kids, we wanted it to be around books. We also wanted to bring the way kids interact with books into StoryTime.
Kids see world differently
With every activity we design and develop, we learn a lesson. For this activity, kids view the world as it is. With limited life experience, kids often perceive things as it is. And it's often different from what we thought. What seems straightforward for us might not be the same to kids.
Our first activity, ABCs
While “ABCs” is not designed to teach kids how to read, we designed it to teach kids the sounds of each alphabet.
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Introducing StoryTime!
When kids play, they are crafting stories. We hope to bring that same experience to kids in StoryTime.
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Shapes: Our New Activity in StoryTime!
We just added a new activity to StoryTime. It's called Shapes. In Shapes, kids can play around with multiple shapes freely. Kids can move these shapes around the screen, combining them to create objects or simply exploring how they fit together.