Self Care Skills By Age (Babies, Toddlers and Preschool Children) Giving children a chance to practice self care skills is a very important part of growth and development. The time and effort you invest into encouraging self care is a sure way to help your child feel capable. Learning to get dressed, brushing teeth and… Continue Reading
Hello Sunday! We took a ride on an old steam train today! We had a picnic, played with balls,bubbles, made new friends and even had a chance to climb up the engine and look at the coal tender…An amazing adventure! Articles & posts that I’m sharing this week: The Mule has this great… Continue Reading
Sometimes we have so much to do. So many plans, packed schedules… perhaps you are driving the children from one activity to the next, juggling work, the household, your own projects…things get a bit out of hand. It’s easy to start to feel disconnected from our children, from ourselves. When we are constantly running through… Continue Reading
Creative play is a very important part of children’s development. Play has a very central role your child’s learning and development. Every kind of play, be it free play, creative play, art based or music based play can nurture your child’s imagination. Such activities also allow your child to actively work on developing good motor… Continue Reading
Today I am sharing a very insightful interview with the very lovely Kelly Bartlett, a fellow Certified Positive Discipline Parenting Educator, author and mom of two. Kelly is sharing a bit about her journey into positive parenting, some of her favorite positive discipline tools as well as really helpful ideas on what to do when… Continue Reading
Happy Sunday, Sharing four articles today, a range of topics from reading, crying to potty issues. For the upcoming week, I will be posting a lovely and insightful interview with Kelly Bartlett who is a fellow Positive Discipline Parenting Educator, some ideas to enhance cooperation and how to deal with messy messy play! From… Continue Reading
Welcome to the May edition of the Authentic Parenting Blog Carnival, hosted by Authentic Parenting and Mudpiemama. This month’s topic is “Parenting Practices and Criticism”. Please scroll down to the end of this post to find a list of links to the entries of the other participants. Enjoy! *** When I became a parent, I… Continue Reading
Sometimes we fall into the habit of waiting for the negative behaviors of our children to show up and really hang around before we change certain situations. For instance, have you ever asked your child to come along on a boring errand, you have no distractions on hand, your child gets bored, maybe starts whining,… Continue Reading
Everyone wants to feel loved. Everyone NEEDS to feel loved. For many parents the connection between “good” behavior and showing love to a child is a very powerful one. Sometimes parents feel they must withhold love if a child is acting “badly”. This conditioned thought may stem from our own childhood where we felt approved and loved when… Continue Reading
It’s Sunday again! We had a wonderful family weekend with water play, swimming, dancing, swinging in beach-towels and eating popsicles. Tomorrow is Spank Out Day USA – I’ll be posting something on some untruths about spanking and offering a list of alternatives as well as links to other sites that are participating in Spank Out… Continue Reading