Back-to-School Readiness: establishing routines, managing separation anxiety, and building excitement for learning.
Transitioning to a new school or classroom can be both exciting and nerve-wracking for kids and families alike. As a parent, there are several strategies you can employ to make …
10 Tips for Working at Home with Children
Over the coming months, there may be times when you will work from home with your children. We at Creative World recognize the challenges in meeting the needs of both …
Spring Has Sprung… Family Activities
The flowers are beginning to bloom and the world is starting to thaw! We are so refreshed and inspired by all of the beauty in the outside world. “What do …
Let Your Children Help
Creativity is a part of every day life, from making a bed to making dinner. These routines may seem trivial to us, but to children, they have the potential to …
More Positive Parenting with 3 Simple Phrases
Do you ever feel like you spend every moment with your child warning them (stop! You’ll get hurt!”), redirecting them (“let’s play with our OWN ball, not his…”), or saying …
Fall Sensory Fun!
Young children are eager to absorb information through each and every one of their senses! Fall is a wonderful time of year to transition the sights, sounds, and other stimuli …
How to React When Your Child Makes Mistakes
Every Child Makes Mistakes…. Whatever stage our children are in developmentally, making mistakes is an intrinsic element of growth. Thankfully, our general understanding of development – and some expert voices …
How Self Aware Can My Child Be?
How Self Aware Can My Child Be? We’ve all bumped shoulders in a crowded room, been cut off in traffic, or been touched by an act of kindness from a …
Family Game Night with Toddlers
10 family game night ideas that can be played with toddlers! With so many family games to pick from we thought it would be a great idea to narrow some …
How to Take Great Pics of Your Children This Summer!
You’re on family vacation; your littles are playing in the surf of the ocean. They find a shell and come running up to you… the light is perfect and their …
Executive Functioning: Developing Learning Skills
As we set young learners on a trajectory for success, it is important to monitor their development in quantifiable ways. One of the key skill sets we observe and encourage growth …
How Can Your Child Relate to Their Grandparents?
We are so fortunate to live in a time when our parents and grandparents may live to advanced ages. This also means that our children have the opportunity to know …
Enjoy Parenting
It’s easy, as parents, to let the endless pressure to create a “thriving child” derail us from truly enjoying our children. The advances of Early Education – and our improved …
Showing Your Child Love: Making the Right Tradeoffs
As the New Year has launched, we all stepped into it with high aspirations for self-improvement and growth. We are all eager to become better parents every day to our …
Teaching Your Children Kindness
We all want children who are gracious, patient with others, gentle, and kind. It turns out that sowing the seeds for kindness happen in many small ways each day, and …
“New Year, New You”… time to enjoy being a parent! A national parenting survey recently found that 60% of respondents cited “having more patience” as among their top 3 parenting …
Have you ever wondered if your child’s attention span is too short… or could be longer? Do you ever wish your child would just STOP and PAY ATTENTION to something …
Raising Charitable Children
As fall approaches, many opportunities to “give” as a family will arise. This provides a great opportunity to reflect on an important element of our parenting: Are we raising thoughtful, …
Whether you are an adult or a child, in an office or a school, it’s likely that the majority of your day is spent indoors. Some research suggests that this …
Our young students are grateful for their working parents! As Childcare Centers and Early Education Schools, we want to say on behalf of all of the littles entrusted to our …
Milestones and Traditions: Building Memories
Back to School can be a fist-pumping AND teary-eyed time as we celebrate our children’s growth. It’s always exciting to look at how far our little ones (and not so …
A 5-Item Toddler Entertainment Bag
Spontaneity is a joyful element of summer… “let’s go get ice cream!” “let’s go to the park at 6am!” And, for the most part, this is probably successful. The challenge …
Happy Mother’s Day to all of the wonderful women who love unconditionally, give sacrificially, and seize life with joy and wonder each day!
Every decision we make as parents can feel monumental… and our access to wide (and sometimes contradicting) information is ready and overwhelming! With a culture that increasingly values Early Education …
My 20 month old is discovering (and pointing out) colors everywhere we go! This new skill is thrilling to him as he points out the “big green truck” and the …
So, turns out you have a Tigger… a bright, bouncy, loud, lively child who just can’t have enough friends or fun! What do you do with this ball of energy? …
Because opposites attract, it’s likely that you and your child’s other parent may each fulfill a different role as the resident Extrovert and Introvert in your family system. Introvert: a …
Parenting a Terrible Two Year Old or Threenager sounds hilarious to those of us who aren’t doing it. We think it’s pretty wild that you could “live in constant fear …
“Every generation rediscovers and re-evaluates the meaning of infancy and childhood.” This quote is from psychologist Arnold Gesell, who was the pioneer of defining the early stages of childhood …
Letting a child freely explore is, well, very messy. The explosion of blocks, dolls, and books may leave you a bit overwhelmed. But, clean-up and other household activities are a …
Someone recently asked, “what have your 3 happiest moments been in life so far?” The easiest was immediately recalled: the birth of my (now 18 month old) son. Then I …
Friendships are your child’s first voluntary relationships. In early childhood, friendship is all about who your child “likes.” They may explain to you, “Leia is my friend.” And if you …
Whether you’re a Tom or an Angus, a Jenny or a Bellamy, your name is a unique and personal element of who you are! Just as your parents named you …
Overheard in one of our schools last week: “You have to hurry up and defeat Professor Parrot Pants so you can save 1,000 kittens in time to have dessert!” AND, this …
We all know that children DREAM BIG… but when does nighttime sleep translate into vivid, meaningful, or even frightening dreams? Studies indicate that for the first 2-3 years of …
“Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.” Kenny Ausubel Did you know …
Did you know that your child’s emotional health can be largely impacted by the way you guide them in key moments throughout their day? Affective Neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp explains that …
What’s Your Curiosity Quotient?
Do you care about the color of the sky, notice changes in the landscape or buildings around you, and have an insatiable thirst to know WHY or HOW? Are you …
We are so excited to feature Sketching this month in the Exploratorium™! Sketching is freehand drawing. Most often, sketching is done in a “dry” drawing medium, such as pencil or …
There’s nothing like cozy, lazy days with family. Keep everyone together and entertained with these fun, easy-to-prep family activities! The Family that Paints Together… Host a family art night (or …
The holiday season is full of “hustle and bustle,” which can be great or stressful… depending on how you enter in! The American Psychological Association explains that healthy families …
Fall is here and we are craving spiced apples and pumpkin lattes! Here are some great sensory experiences that you can do with your young child. Pumpkin Pie Play …
One of the many wonderful things about being a parent is witnessing your child’s curiosity at the world around them. As the leaves begin to turn and a crispness lingers …
German children receive a Schultüte, or a Back to School Cone full of treats! We love this tradition and using a simple gift to make the First Day of School extra special. …
You want to remember these precious moments forever… the moment when your littles take that first big step to go to school, preschool, or even childcare for the first time. …
This Father’s Day, we are so grateful for all of the dads, grandads, uncles, brothers, (single moms!), and men who are our fathers! Thanks for working so hard to make …