Question for Parents

What is your child interested in? How do you support that interest? Could you be doing more? Read more...

Thought for the Weekend

Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas time.
-Laura Ingalls Wilder


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Thought for the Weekend

"Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood."
-Fred Rogers (Mister Rogers)


So true, isn't it? Kids learn through all types of play. For example, when children pretend, they often practice planning skills. Ever watched your little one play school or house? She's planning and acting out a day- a great way to exercise her planning and organization skills. And when you're helping him with that art project? He's learning about colors, how they mix, and the scientific properties of paint.


How do you help your chid learn through play?


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Thought for the Weekend

"Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body."
-Elizabeth Stone


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Thought for the Weekend

You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once.  -Polish Proverb Read more...

Thought for the Weekend

"Children are people we should be spending a lot of time talking to, listening to and helping because they're new here." -Deb Lewis

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