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Taste of Home Kid-friendly cooking & Crafts Magazine Review
2007-07-17 15:09:00 This week’s review will be on the Taste of Home ’s Kid-friendly cooking & Crafts Magazine . I had bought the Magazine last week when I was in the check-out isle at the Grocery Store. As I was waiting for my turn to check-out I scanned the magazine rack ... More About: Holidays , Cooking , Review
Arts & Crafts for Kids ? Why is art important for Preschoolers
2007-07-13 08:30:00 You know that arts and crafts are great for your kids. After all, they keep them entertained and occupied, sometimes for hours at a time despite their typically short attention spans. And they give you a focused activity that you can enjoy which frequently results in a product that you and your child can both ... More About: Kids , Home , Arts , Crafts , Family Life
10 Ideas for Quality Time with the Kids
2007-07-12 07:56:00 I will be the first to admit that life is busy. I find that I don’t have much time by myself. I am a Wife and a Mother of five children ranging in age from nearly 17 all the way down to 4. I also run a busy business ... More About: Ideas , Kids , Time , The Kids , Quality
Online Phonics Game - Weekend Review
2007-07-09 01:35:00 I came across an Online Phonics game this weekend that I was very impressed with that I had to share it with you. It is called ClickN’ ... More About: Reading , Review , Home , Weekend
How To Know If Your Child Is Ready For Kindergarten
2007-07-04 04:12:00 Your preschooler is getting older and it’s time to start thinking about kindergarten but you aren’t quite sure whether or not he’s ready. Maybe he’s just a little bit shy of kindergarten age and you aren’t sure whether to go ahead and enroll him, making him the ... More About: How To , Home , Child , Ready , Kindergarten
Educational Activities for the Summer
2007-06-30 01:12:00 We all remember the joy of summer vacation. It was when we went on trips, enjoyed some leisure time with friends and family and otherwise got to have a little bit of a break from the daily grind of our many years of formal education. But as an adult, ... More About: Summer , Educational , Home , Activities , Ducati
Homeschooling Styles
2007-06-28 16:59:00 You’ve decided that homeschooling is the way to go with your child, at least during the early preschool years when you want to retain more influence over your child’s learning than you would have if he went to a public school. But making that decision is just ... More About: Homeschooling , Home , Styles , Family Life
How To Improve Your Preschooler?s Listening Skills
2007-06-27 01:19:00 It is infuriating when it feels like your child ignores the directions that you have given. As a parent, it’s frustrating to feel like your child doesn’t have the listening skills that she needs to be able to understand, remember and act upon what you have told ... More About: Improve , Skills , Kill , Rove , Listening
Teaching Your Child to Deal with a Bully
2007-06-24 18:12:00 You feel like your worst nightmare has come to pass. Another child in your preschooler’s life has started to bully him or her and you’re not sure what to do about it. On the one hand, you want to teach your child to stick up for himself and to ... More About: Teaching , Bully , Deal , Child , Teac
Chores For Preschool Kids
2007-06-23 03:52:00 Should your preschooler be required to do chores? At what age are chores appropriate for your kids? And how do you go about delegating chores to your preschooler? These are all questions that parents often face as they try to teach their kids about responsibility in the ... More About: Kids , Chores
Establishing Healthy Bedtime Routines
2007-06-22 07:04:00 Bedtime. Does the very word strike fear into your heart? Don’t worry; you aren’t alone. Many parents dread the nightly bedtime ritual. This is especially true for parents of preschoolers who are worried about leaving their children alone in the night but getting a little bit desperate ... More About: Healthy , Shin , Heal
How you know you are doing a good job Homeschooling your Children
2007-06-22 02:42:00 I read this really great post today on Guilt-Free Home schooling that I wanted to share with you. The author writes about 10 signs that you know you are doing a good job as a Homeschooling Parent. Here is a little snip-it: More About: Children , Good , Doing
How To Stop Your Preschooler From Thumb Sucking
2007-06-21 08:16:00 Thumb sucking is an issue of concern for many parents right around the time that kids are entering preschool age. As babies, it’s not an issue. In fact, many parents feel that it’s good for their pre-teeth youngsters because it comforts them, helps them to fall asleep ... More About: Stop , Thumb
Understanding Your Preschooler?s Imaginary Friends
2007-06-20 05:02:00 We are always wondering if our children are “normal”. We don’t mean to do it, but nevertheless, it’s something that we do all of the time. From the time that we first count those ten toes and ten fingers, we’re subconsciously (or consciously) comparing our kids to ... More About: Friends , Ends , Understand , Standing , Under
Table Manners
2007-06-19 07:12:00 You know that kid. He’s the one who is appalling even the other children with his atrocious table behavior. He spills food all over the place, he doesn’t ask before grabbing items, he makes obnoxious bodily noises and he talks with his mouth open. He’s only a ... More About: Table , Anne , Manner , Manners
Preschool Kids & Fitness
2007-06-17 23:52:00 There was a time when parents didn’t worry about their preschoolers getting enough exercise. After all, kids that age are a bundle of energy that don’t ever seem to stop being in motion so they naturally get all of the exercise that they need, right? Wrong. It ... More About: Kids , Fitness , Children , Family Life
Happy Father?s Day : Observations on Fatherhood
2007-06-17 20:16:00 I found this amazing Photo essay on the Observations on Father hood. It is so beautiful to watch and I felt that It was fitting for Father’s Day. He chronicles in pictures the development of his son through his Preschool Years. I was so touched that I had ... More About: Holidays , Happy , Fatherhood
Homeschool burnout
2007-06-17 03:29:00 I found this absolutely wonderful post at HomeSchool Zoo Annex. It is in regards to Homeschool Burn out . Not only do parents get burned out, but so does Homeschooled children. Whether you are thinking about homeschooling your children or you are already homeschooling you should definitely check out this post!!read more | digg ...
Father?s Day History
2007-06-16 01:12:00 With Father ’s Day just around the corner I got to thinking of how Father’s Day got started. Since I’m a Mother my first thought is to say that Father’s Day probably started because Men couldn’t swallow the fact that there was a Holiday out there that had ... More About: Holidays , History , Family Life , Hist
Preschool Children and Television: The Rules
2007-06-14 23:24:00 Unless you are part of a very small percentage of the population, you have a television in your home. More likely than not, you have more than one television in your home or at least one TV and a laptop or other computer that can function as a television. ... More About: Television , Children , Rules , Family Life , Visi
Defining a Good Mom
2007-06-13 05:54:00 Check out this excellent post about what makes for a “Good Mom”. I had to share it with my viewers. A good mom talks to her child. Hearing words and conversations is one of the biggest ways to impact a child?s ability to learn. The more words they hear ... More About: How To , Family Life
Building Self Confidence in your Child
2007-06-13 04:55:00 Children who truly believe that they can do anything they set their minds to are the children who grow up to succeed at all levels of life. It’s that belief in one’s self that lets them take appropriate risks, deal with challenges and learn to navigate the ... More About: Building , Confidence , Child , Build
Teaching Letter Recognition To Your Child
2007-06-10 15:19:00 When your child is able to look at a written letter on a page or hear the sound that a letter makes when spoken out loud and then identify what that letter is, he has mastered letter recognition. This is the cornerstone of being able to read and write ... More About: Reading , Writing , How To , Home , Teaching
Social Skills and the Homeschooled Preschooler
2007-06-09 14:22:00 There is a myth which is widely associated with the homeschooled student and that myth is that he is going to have difficulty developing normal social skills. It’s true that children learn social skills primarily in the school environment, but this doesn’t have to be the only ... More About: Social , Skills , Kill
Choosing a Preschool Curriculum
2007-06-07 04:40:00 Choosing a preschool curriculum can be an overwhelming endeavor. You want to make sure that you’re child is on track to learn what he or she needs to learn in order to be caught up with the other kids when kindergarten time comes around. However, you also ... More About: Reading , How To , Home , Curriculum , Math
Should You Have A Schedule For Preschool Homeschooling?
2007-06-05 08:11:00 Children, especially young children, learn best when their learning is incorporated into all of their other daily activities. This is one of the many reasons why homeschooling can be a better option than public school for many children; children don’t see learning as something that they do ... More About: Reading , Homeschooling , Home , Schedule
Recognize Opportunities To Practice Your Child?s Number Recognition
2007-06-03 22:59:00 Number recognition is an important skill which your child is going to need to learn and make use of throughout the rest of her life. And you can begin teaching this skill to her when she is just a toddler. Children can learn to recognize numbers at a fairly ... More About: How To , Home , Practice , Math , Numbers
How To Choose A Preschool
2007-06-02 23:30:00 You’ve decided to send your child to preschool but now your decision-making skills seem to be at a standstill. You want to make sure that the preschool that you choose is the right one for your child and there are just too many questions that come up ... More About: How To , Choose
Key Phrases That Teach Children Manners
More articles from this author:2007-05-31 02:52:00 Manners are something that we all want our kids to have and something which can be very elusive to teach. We all know a well-mannered child when we see one but it can be difficult to identify exactly what it means for a child to have good manners, especially ... More About: Children , That , Anne , Phrases , Manner 1, 2, 3, 4 |




