These are the three words this mom wishes all parents would remember. Now that a new school year is about to begin, please keep them in mind. Let your children be little, do not rush them through their childhood forcing them to meet milestones at…
These are the three words this mom wishes all parents would remember. Now that a new school year is about to begin, please keep them in mind. Let your children be little, do not rush them through their childhood forcing them to meet milestones at…
I’ve always been an advocate of the importance of play in children’s development and always been worried about the increasing divorce between preschool curriculum and free play. After watching this video I am even more concerned! You might find it controversial, I rather call it…
¨There has been a lot of recent attention focused on the importance of executive function for successful learning. Many researchers and educators believe that this group of skills, which enable a child to formulate and pursue goals, aremore important to learning and educational success than IQ or inherent academic…
In family dynamics, every member matters. We might have a more aggressive or impulsive child, or one facing developmental challenges. Address the situation among siblings. It’s important to remember that everything that happens within the family will impact its members to some extent. Check some basic strategies in…
It is that time of the year in which children have more “free time” than what parents would like. So adults start going crazy looking for activities or camps that will fill all those hours that school used to take care of. They don’t realize…
Rosalind Wiseman, Author and Educator, shares advice for parents on how to prepare your daughter for dealing with mean girls during adolescence. Teaching Daughters To Deal With Mean Girls with Rosalind Wiseman Other videos from Rosalind Wiseman Your Kids and Bullying Teaching Your Daughter Not To…
We want to share with you our top 10 favorite children’s books to read out loud with little ones. I hope you enjoy them as much as we do when we read them in the classroom or at home! 10. The Animal Boogie by Fred Penner and…
“Crecen tan rápido!” Esa frase que solemos repetir cuando ya es muy tarde y no podemos volver el tiempo atrás! Sabemos que durante la infancia de nuestros hijos parece como que nunca hay tiempo para nada. Salimos corriendo a llevarlos al jardín, los buscamos, la…
We all know how important fine motor skills are in our children’s development. There are many activities we can encourage our children to do at home and at school in order to practice these skills. Practice is the key to developing fine motor skills and…
Art is underestimated most of the time in our schools’ curriculum. When budget is cut the subject that suffers its consequence first is art. If we stopped to analyze the benefits of exposing our children to art we should never consider a curriculum that lacks this…