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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 [...]
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 [...]
The key to self control and confidence as a Teen starts now!
The extent to which children believe they have the characteristics valued by the important adults and peers in their lives figures greatly in the development of self-esteem.
Is your baby more like Stevie Wonder, or Maya Angelou? Find out here…
Look at the list of the well-known people below and their special intelligence. Can you see it? It’s probably pretty evident with most of them. And it will be with your child too – once they start to grow and you watch – be aware – and observe. Your child’s own individual intelligence is how they learn best. It’s who they are.
Did your baby comes with wires? Apparently mine did….
But do babies have wires? We ALL have wires. How much wiring do we have? An amazing 60,000 miles of it!
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