Posts tagged ‘teaching’


Thursday: The Importance of the Arts—Raising Cultured Children

Raising Cultured Children By Kathy Bishop & Julia Whitehead, authors of The City Parent Handbook Early grade school is the sweet spot for broadening your kids’ cultural horizons. Why? Well, kids of this age are often as much into learning as they’ll ever be. Their attention spans have lengthened, so slightly more sophisticated fare isn’t […]

Friday: Play!-Teaching Geography

Friday, April 11th, 2008 in Friday: Play!, Children Product Reviews

Teaching Geography Colin Powell : “To solve most of the major problems facing our county today – from wiping out terrorism, to minimizing global environmental problems, to eliminating the scourge of AIDS –will require every young person to learn more about other regions, cultures, and languages.” My Idea for Toddlers: A few months ago I […]

Tuesday:Weekly Book Review—Maisy Big, Maisy Small:A Book of Maisy Opposites by Gina Chen

Maisy Big, Maisy Small: A Book of Maisy Opposites by Gina Chen I found this book on a teacher’s recommendation list for teaching opposites. The illustrations are bold, simple, colorful and will catch your child’s eye. Maisy is square/round, tall/short, messy/clean, together/along, many/nothing. My two year old has grasped onto opposites and has some new […]

Monday: Family Activity—Teaching Your Children the Importance of Saftey Around Dogs

Teaching Your Children the Importance of Saftey Around Dogs Here are a couple quick videos of my daughter with our dogs, we have been teaching her from day one how to treat them, and they love her so much. My husband is a dog trainer (Ty Brown http://www.communicanine.netand http://www.dogbehavioronline.com/) and one of his pet peeves […]

Friday: Play!—Reading with your Toddler & Infant

Reading with your Toddler or/and Infant Reading has to be the number one thing I love doing with my children, we spend a good hour every day spending time together reading all different sorts of stories.   The first thing we must do at my house is get comfortable. We get out our long purple reading […]

Wednesday: Mid Week Ramblings—Family and Colors

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 in Wednesday: Mid Week Ramblings, Parenting Tips

Teaching Colors This was the first thing I felt like I really sat down and taught my daughter and it was very exciting when she learned them all. I felt very proud 🙂 I used pipe cleaners, I would spread them out like a deck of cards and she got to tell me what color […]