Training parents about all things preschool and kids aged 18 months–5 years
A child’s early experience of being nurtured and developing a strong attachment with a caring adult affects all aspects of behavior and development. When parents and kids have strong, warm feelings for one another, children develop trust that their parents will provide what they need to thrive, including love, acceptance, positive guidance, and protection. Research…
Everyone knows the feeling, the flush of embarrassment, your blood pressure rising, a vague sensation of panic in your chest. All this because your kid is acting up. It starts slow, doesn’t it? He gets an idea of something he wants. He nags you a little, and you might not even notice. When that doesn’t work, he…
I was recently in a department store and I saw a toddler running about 30 paces in front of her mother. The mom shouted to the child to come back, but she kept running. As the mother quickened her pace, the child thought this was great fun and began to run faster. A few minutes later, I see…
You’ve invited your best friend and her three-year-old son over for a play date. Your own three-year-old is excited his friend is coming over to play. Five minutes into the play date it’s clear your friend’s son is on a seek and destroy mission. Talk about a disaster just waiting to happen. Do you wait…
As you know by now, I was a preschool teacher and the owner-director of an upscale private preschool in South Florida. I have wonderful memories of the ‘Aha’ moments when I saw the light shine in a child’s eye, when they got it! Just yesterday I was having a flashback to a not so great memory. …
It is the end of September in my two year old classroom. Everything is going along wonderfully. All the children have successfully separated from their parents. Children are at free play and I am thinking all is well, and then I hear Dadop, Dadop Dadop, Dadop, Dadop. In case you don’t recognize this tune, it…
