So often, adults make the mistake of thinking that play is a waste of time for kids. They encourage their children to spend their time learning, instead of wasting time playing and having fun. They look for early childhood experiences that provide the most rigorous academic training to ensure the child’s superiority upon entering kindergarten. […]
Teaching Kids to Listen Safely
Last week, I shared some simple and playful ways to help kids learn how to listen to directions. The game that I suggested for helping to teach these skills can be very fun and very effective in teaching kids to listen. But often times when I talk with parents and child care providers about using […]
How to Teach Kids to Listen
One of the biggest complaints I get from parents is, “He just won’t listen to me!” Adults really want kids to listen to them and comply with their demands instantly, because that’s just the way the world works, right? Wrong! Children enter into this world with little understanding about authority, respect and how listening to […]
10 Ways to Build Language Skills
In last week’s blog, I revealed a shocking study that noted the impact that income level has on a child’s development of language skills. The results showed that children from low income families hear fewer words from their parents and caregivers than children in higher income families, and as a result, have poorer language skills […]
Income’s Impact on Language Development
A few years ago, as I was prepping to teach a class to child care providers, I came across an alarming statistic about the language skills of low income children compared to their middle class and higher income counterparts. Recently, as I was doing some research for my presentation on Emotional Intelligence, I came across […]
3 Parent Phrases I’d Like to Ban
Over the years, I’ve heard a lot of common parental phrases that have caused me some anguish. I dislike them for their lack of effectiveness in teaching the child a lesson (the true reason they’re being used in the first place) and their effectiveness in making the child feel as if having an opinion and […]
Sensory Processing Disorder
Last week, I attended a training on self-regulation in children. The training addressed some common problems that occur in children that can affect a child’s ability to self-regulate (i.e. calm their bodies, minds and emotions enough to function in school and social situations). One of the common problems that was addressed was Sensory Processing Disorder, […]
Turn Problem Behaviors into Positives
In young children, there’s a fine line between those positive behaviors that make parents beam with joy, and problem behaviors that cause parents to blush with embarrassment. In a matter of seconds, a well-behaved child may lose all control over those positive behaviors and dissolve into an absolute mess of whining, screaming, stomping and pouting. […]
3 Must-Read Parenting Blogs
Every week, I post articles, parenting tips and other resources for parents on my Facebook page. To provide these resources to you, I have to do a lot of reading and weeding through the good and the bad information that is available on the internet Tip: There seems to be more bad than good in […]
4 Ways Kids Learn
During a thorough session of Spring cleaning this week, I came across some notes from a child development class about the ways in which children learn. I wanted to share the content of the notes because I fear that when we define the word learn or learning, as adults we are tempted to think about […]
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