Because a child’s imagination is Nature’s classroom
My two youngest children (yikes, they are ages 23 and 28) love to remind me that I am “as old as dirt”, which ties in beautifully to my thoughts today about the phrase, “to be continued”. When I was a kid in the dark ages, newspaper and magazine serials would carry a chapter an issue, [...]
With just a few weeks to go before school started, my three kids were beginning to show the inevitable signs of summer-sibling-strain: way too many squabbles going on with calls to mom or dad for reporting or resolution. So we did the family meeting thing. We started with the ”something has to change” parent speech. [...]
In the Sunday, May 3 edition of the New York Times Magazine, Peggy Orenstein writes about the rise of testing and academics, and the demise of play in kindergarten. Her article, Kindergarten Cram, prominently features an important report published in March by the Alliance for Childhood. The report, Crisis in the Kindergarten; Why Children Need [...]
Spring has sprung and I’m awed by the wisdom of two year olds! The ONLY place they want to be is “outzide,” chasing birds, comparing sticks, picking dandelion blossoms, digging in the dirt. Watching. Alert for all that unfolds before them-whether it be garbage trucks or crawling ants! Follow the lead of the child and [...]
These are some of the “big ideas” gleaned from the experts in child development and play that we’ve listed in our Resources list! Busy parents tell us they WANT to read everything they can get their hands on, but time is short. Tour these websites when you can, but in the meantime, here are some [...]
