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Phasing Out a “Phase”
A friend of mine recently told me his sister was extremely worried about her son’s behavior. He was bouncing off the walls, getting into mischief, and extremely stubborn. After some time stewing...
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Do You Use Flashcards?
Flashcards are a common catch-phrase for developmentally inappropriate teaching methods. Even I use it that way. But like many teaching approaches, it is important to separate the objective, the...
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Weekend Reads 3.5.11
The Importance of Roughhousing {Let the Children Play} Block Off Time For Learning {NAEYC} (Block Play) Siphon Magic and Tracks in the Paint {Irresistable Ideas for Play Based Learning} Creativity...
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Talking to Young Children About Death
As much as we don’t really like to think about it, death is something that touches each of us at some point in our lives. And often it touches not only our own lives, but the lives of the little ones...
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Growing an In-Sync Child (Giveaway!)
Carol Kranowitz and Joye Newman had me interested before I even opened their new book, Growing an In-Sync Child. I was already familiar with the Out-of-Sync Child books, written by Kranowitz as a...
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Weekend Reads 3.12.11
First off, congrats to Melissa Taylor! She’s the winner of the Growing an In-Sync Child Giveaway! Melissa, I’ll be emailing you soon so we can get that on the way! Here are some great spots around...
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Time-Outs are for Coaching
As I was filling out my bracket for this year’s March Madness, I was reminded of this post from last year, which has also been incorporated into a part of my ebook, Parenting with Positive Guidance....
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Little Shoulders
My grandmother had a lot of sayings. “Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without.” “Do not throw upon the floor the food you can not eat. For many a starving children would think it quite a...
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Weekend Reads 3.19.11
20 Small Steps Toward an Easier Day — Fifteen Minutes at a Time {Simple Kids} Green Fizzy Fun {I Can Teach My Child} Funnel Painting {Tinker Lab} The gift of reading: Finding the “gift” in any book...
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Early Birds and Night Owls {Simple Kids Guest Post}
“Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.” – Yehudi...
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