Posts in “Parenting”
Ideation and the case for unstructured play/toys
Ideation is described as the first stage of motor planning. It is the ability to generate an idea of how one might interact with an object or the environment. The "what am I going to do?". Children with poor ideation skills generally have very limited play skills and are often dependent on adult…
The Importance of Play & Self-Regulation
Please read this article!! It may make a significant impact on how you structure your child's time. And how they spend their time has a profound impact on their future success.
On Friday morning, NPR aired a program entitled "Old-Fashioned Play Builds Serious Skills" in which the over…
Fourteen ways to say I love you to your kids…
I hope all of you had a wonderful Valentine's Day! I came across this list of 14 Ways to Show Your Children that You Love Them from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and wanted to share it with you. It is all too easy in today's world for children's lives to be filled with things that…