What's one of the best ways to guarantee your child will thrive? By carefully tending to their creative spirit and infusing a sense of PLAYfulness to their learning. And guess what? Creativity and PLAYfulness come together naturally in pretend PLAY! What is Pretend PLAY? • Starts around 2 to 3 years of age • Scenes and people from family life, school and/or daycare all act as inspiration • It revolves around the acting out of stories. Stories' themes let kids: · explore multiple … [Read more...]
3 Key Points for Parents on PLAY
I believe in the power of PLAY, base my teaching on PLAY, and know PLAY is the natural and organic way a young child learns. One benefit of welcoming parents to stay for class at preschool was it allowed them to witness the natural state of the learning child. That natural state includes: curiosity hands-on inspection manipulation & experimentation extrapolation & inference movement noise all of the above results in the child AND their surrounding getting and being MESSY! Why … [Read more...]
Taking-Off! It’s Time for Holiday Travel
Holiday times are here! Busy times to be sure. Memory-making times. Full-of-family-and-FUN times! Travel. AND stress! Got some travel coming up? If so, with some PLANNING your family'll be thinking “It’s The Most Wonderful Time of the Year” PLAN & Be PREPARED Okay, you’ve been a parent for a while now. You know to expect the unexpected so PLAN for it and be PREPARED! Better Safe Than Sorry... ● Safety comes 1st, especially during the holidays, when there are more people on the roads. … [Read more...]
Why Playing Hide-And-Seek is Important
No doubt you played peek-a-boo with your child when they were a baby. Peek-a-boo, a time-honored game played by generations of parents and babies, has real developmental benefits to it. Playing peek-a-boo helps with separation anxiety and object permanence. Hide-and-seek takes peek-a-boo to the next level and beyond. ALL Learning Requires Some Risk I’ve said it before and I’ll continue to say it. To grow and learn, everyone—young and old—must be willing to risk something. Hide-and-seek offers … [Read more...]
Learning Opportunities Knock—Don’t Miss ‘Em
Through the course of a typical day there’re many chances to share activities with your kiddo that will help them grow and develop. Every day Life presents learning opportunities. Even chores like setting the table provide learning opportunities! Find another idea here. Of course, if you’re trying to work from home per coronavirus in addition to raising your children sharing learning opportunities just need to be … [Read more...]