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For Quality Family Time Have a Game Night
The History of Games Playing games seems to be a basic human instinct. From Senet in ancient Egypt to Monopoly in modern America, every culture and every age has games that are taught to children and enjoyed by people of all ages.
Helping Young Children Develop Fine Motor Skills
What are Fine Motor Skills? Fine motor skills have to do with using the hands to do tasks. A baby has a whole-hand grasping reflex at birth but can’t flex individual fingers until about six months. When a baby starts picking up peas with her thumb and forefinger, she has just made a giant [...]
The Importance of Crawling for Babies
When Do Babies Start to Crawl? It is important that babies and young children do a lot of crawling, specifically “cross-crawling” where they move opposite arms and legs—left arm and right leg forward, then right arm and left leg. Most babies start getting mobile at around 6 to 10 months of age. Not all babies [...]
The Best Educational Toys are Open-Ended
What are Open-Ended Toys? According to Dr. Dimitri Christakis, professor of pediatrics at Seattle Children’s Hospital Research Institute and the University of Washington, open-ended toys are those “that have the potential to be different every time [children] play with them.” In other words, open-ended toys get children’s creative juices flowing. Fixed toys, on the other [...]
Kindergarten Readiness
Kindergarten Readiness Woo hoo! It’s almost spring! Tulips will be popping up soon. It’s time to make hummingbird food and get the grill cleaned up. And an even bigger event… 5 and 6-year-olds are getting registered for kindergarten! Parents, friends and preschool teachers are all talking to children about, “When you go to kindergarten….” So, [...]
Toys: Coming Full Circle
Dolls… action figures… animal figurines… board games. Stop and think of your favorite one. Is it bringing back memories of your childhood? Maybe you’re picturing something your child got on his last birthday. ~~~~~ Dolls… action figures… animal figurines… board games. Well, these are things that have been around for thousands – yes, thousands of [...]
Fun in the kitchen!
Fun in the Kitchen! You’re in the kitchen baking with the kids and it’s been great fun. You’ve measured, stirred, rolled, cut. The cookies are in the oven. Frosting and sprinkles are ready to top those treats. Looking around the kitchen you see the result of the heavenly aroma wafting through the house. The kitchen is [...]
The Little Green Man
“Shhhh…. Listen and keep your eyes open to look for the Leprechaun.” I whisper as we creep through our preschool. The excitement of the children increases as we follow the green footprints! The footprints soon lead us to the end of the rainbow where we find a large pot filled with little bags of Lucky [...]
Nursery Rhymes, Phonemic Awareness and what can be accomplished…
obviously the # 1 advantage of rhymes is – rhyming! * Hickory, Dickory, Dock ~ time, opposites/position words (up/down) * Jack Be Nimble ~ position words (over); Letter J * Little Boy Blue ~ position words (under); Color: blue; Farm * Humpty Dumpty ~ opposites/position words (on/off); (eggs); Letters H, D, E; * Jack and [...]
How Can We Help Children Develop a Healthy Sense of Self-Esteem?
So, did you try re-phrasing your praise vs. encouragement towards your child? I agree – it takes some getting used to! It seems so natural to praise our children. Most people think that’s the way to help them gain self-esteem. But when no judgment is imposed, the child’s self-esteem can actually be inflated. The foundations [...]
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