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Summer Unplugged!
Summer Unplugged!
Remember summers when we were kids? No devices or electronics? Just fireflies and campfires? Here are some great ways to get your kids unplugged this summer! @Author Jodi Dee’s latest... Read more...
Managing Travel with a Mix of Screen Free Activities!
Managing Travel with a Mix of Screen Free Activities!
Keeping children entertained while travelling can be a challenge, especially as a conscious parent who prefers to limit screen time. Often irritability and crankiness is at an all-time high when... Read more...
Sensory Play Provides Year-Round Fun and Creative Learning
Sensory Play Provides Year-Round Fun and Creative Learning
Water play or water tables evoke thoughts of summer fun, but sensory tables can be used all year-round — outside or inside. Sensory tables enable exploration, discovery, and experimentation with... Read more...
Four Ways to Teach Children Emotional Maturity
Four Ways to Teach Children Emotional Maturity
Feelings aren’t right or wrong, they just are. What you do with them however, usually makes them right or wrong. With children this can be a challenge, because self-control is... Read more...
Kitchen play is hours of screen free fun!
Kitchen play is hours of screen free fun!
Food and food preparation is a large part of childhood (being fed to learning how to eat to watching food be prepared to going to restaurants). Playing with pretend food,... Read more...
How You Can Create a Home of Learning
How You Can Create a Home of Learning
Imagine giving a bicycle to an adult who has never seen or ridden one, and not showing them how or what to do. The adult may be able to figure... Read more...
A little bleach and water = new!
A little bleach and water = new!
Today’s find on the side of the road!  will turn this into new, plastics are very durable (and saved me @ $100). Different types of “houses” are a very important... Read more...
Different options = exploration!
Different options = exploration!
A room with different options provides children the opportunity to explore and find their interests! However, even if a child is drawn to a preference like dolls, it doesn’t mean... Read more...
Sensory tables are one of the best investments!
Sensory tables are one of the best investments!
Sensory tables are one of the best investments you will ever make (when used properly)! I had two, one for when they were really small $99 and another when my... Read more...
All Toys are NOT created equal!
All Toys are NOT created equal!
All Toys are NOT created equal! Open ended toys like manipulatives provide the greatest opportunity for learning. Manipulatives are things that can be “manipulated”, like legos, blocks, magnets. One of... Read more...
Free stuff on the side of the road…
Free stuff on the side of the road…
Don’t get me wrong, I am grateful that I have abundance and can buy whatever I want, but don’t think for a minute I won’t drive by and pick up... Read more...
My water table was one of the best $100 investments!
My water table was one of the best $100 investments!
Water play is such a wonderful sensory and stimulating activity for any age! Children love the water, any kind; rain, baths, sprinklers, lakes, oceans, snow, puddles. It is part of our world... Read more...