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 …
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 …
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 …
How Much Screen Time Should Your Child Have This Summer?
Every parent feels the pull, especially with the long days of summer before us, to indulge our children in longer sessions of screen time. So, what does the research say? …
Parent’s Guide to Choosing the Best Preschool for their Child
Why Is A High-Quality Preschool Important? There are several items that will help you detect the level of quality a program offers. 1. Health and Safety o Proper equipment that …
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 …
Resilience
Harvard University’s Center on the Developing Child studies the character trait of Resilience in children, or why some children can overcome adversity and others are paralyzed by it. In this …
Summer Sun Safety: Beat the Heat!
The sun is shining… and it is hot! As you have family fun in the sun this summer, temperatures can soar, escalating the risk of dehydration or fatigue. Here are …
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 …
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 …
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 …
We posted last week about the method of Introducing New Foods to Your Preschoolers by Julie M. Martinez and Karla P. Shelnutt EDIS Dept UF, where variety is very important …
We posted last week about the method of Introducing New Foods to Your Preschoolers by Julie M. Martinez and Karla P. Shelnutt EDIS Dept UF, where variety is very important …
Need some more help introducing new foods? Here are some of our favorite tips to encourage children to try new foods: 1. Make them more available. Keep healthy foods in …
Here is a good way of Introducing New Foods to Your Preschoolers by Julie M. Martinez and Karla P. Shelnutt EDIS Dept UF: Variety is Key! The five food groups …
We asked our teachers to recommend some of their favorite books and here are some of their top picks! These books sound like they are great character building books! We …
Our newest school, Creative World Avalon Park (Orlando, FL), is set to open their doors for classes very soon! While we have been hard at work getting the school in …
We asked our teachers to recommend some of their favorite transportation books and here are some of their top picks! All of those books sound very exciting! We hope you …