We recently returned from a massive summer road-trip and are amazed at all our preschooler learned along the way. Learning through travel is not a novel concept – expanding your horizons happens automatically when you’re exploring all that a destination has to offer…like art and culture, history, science, different people and food… We hit cities…
A few months ago, I came across an article on social media that really set me off. It was extolling the benefits of process-based children’s art, but at the same time, completely bashing any type of children’s craft that results in a product. This sent me leaping up onto my living room soapbox because sometimes…
It’s no secret that we’re big fans of the library – even though our home is pretty much bursting with books, we still find it necessary to max out the check-out limit on all three cards in order to somehow cram even more of the silly things into our bookcases! The library is an amazing…
Do you embrace fairy tales at your house, or choose to shy away from these often politically-incorrect stories with your children? Oh, maybe you’re fine with the Disney-fied versions, but you’re positive the originals would result in a grim future (pun intended) of night terrors for your little sleepyhead. Whatever your view, you might be…
If you’re the parent of a toddler or preschooler, then you probably learned early on that you can’t easily escape nursery rhymes. These ditties seem fairly innocuous at first, but it doesn’t take long before you’re going bonkers from hearing “The Itsy Bitsy Spider” for the 4,783rd time. You start to wonder why you’re allowing…
The other day, a friend asked me for help with a problem she’d been having in getting her toddler to sit still whenever she read to him. She knows my daughter loves books as much as my husband and I do, and since I taught first and second graders to read during my years as an…
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