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via PickAnyTwo by Katie M. McLaughlin It’s that feeling you get when you leave the store lugging a shopping bag, an overstuffed diaper bag, and an infant in a car seat, and a stranger offers to help you carry it all to your car. Or when your partner knows you’re having a rough week and comes home bearing a bouquet in one hand and Ben & Jerry’s in the other. Or when you take a few minutes at … Read more
By Louise Baigelman via Understood Use these strategies to help make reading familiar and fun for your preschooler. These tips can also help kids who learn and think differently start to work on the basic skills they need to become readers. 1. Read stories to your child. Try to read together every day. Make this a special one-on-one time that your child can look forward to. Curl up together in a cozy chair or designate a … Read more
Toddlers don’t need fancy or expensive toys to have fun. Try these 10 common household items for playing with your toddler. By Kendra Moyses via Michigan State University Toddlers don’t need fancy or expensive toys to have fun. The most important thing for toddlers is to have positive interactions with the adults in their lives on a daily basis. Did you know when children are playing, they are learning? Children learn about the world around … Read more
Help foster your child’s creativity and imagination with these fun toy activities. by Michelle Anthony, PhD via Scholastic Open-ended toys: These are toys that can be played without an end goal in mind, encouraging creative problem solving and fostering imagination. Blocks: Foster thinking such as measurement, equality, balance, shape, spatial relationships, cause-and-effect, physical properties, gravity, etc. Think of many different kinds: wooden, bristle, Duplo®, etc. Magnetic and foam blocks are particularly good for younger infants, … Read more
7-year-old Molly Wright highlights the benefits of play on lifelong learning, behavior and well-being, and shares effective strategies to help all kids thrive by the age of five.
