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Preschooler Learning
- Activities to do with your 2 year old
- Here are a few ideas on how to help your two year old grow and develop.
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- Activities to do with your 4 year old
- Here are a few activities for you to share with your four year old.
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- Baking with your preschooler
- For some families it is common for kids to help in the kitchen.
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- Block Play Constructs a Math Mind (ages 2-4)
- If you have a preschooler, you need a set of blocks. It is really that simple.
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- Books your 2-year-old will love
- Looking for an appropriate book for your child? Our experts have put together a selection of books any two-year-old will love.
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- Books your 3-year-old will love
- Looking for an appropriate book for your child? Our experts have put together a selection of books any three-year-old will love.
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- Books your 4-year-old will love
- Looking for an appropriate book for your child? Our experts have put together a selection of books any four-year-old will love.
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- Choosing appropriate viewing for your preschooler
- TV, DVD's and movies are a part of many young children's lives. Here are some tips for choosing appropriate viewing.
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- Choosing the right toy for your preschooler
- We, as parents, are not only our child’s first and best teacher, but we are also her first and best toy.
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- Computers and Preschoolers
- A guide to computer use and young children.
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- Cooking with kids (ages 2-4)
- Preschool children are eager to “help” you do just about anything in the kitchen.
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- Creating indoor play spaces for preschoolers
- Children are driven to play. Early childhood educators even say that play is a child’s work.
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- Creative play with blankets (ages 2-4)
- A common object like a blanket can become a source of fun and exploratory learning.
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- Creative play with cardboard tubes (ages 2-4)
- A young child’s eyes light up when he or she sees something common used in a new way. A common object like a cardboard tube can become a source of fun and exploratory learning.
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- Creative play with cotton balls (ages 2-4)
- Simple activities and crafts to do with cotton balls.
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- Developing a sense of humor
- Is developing your child’s sense of humor a luxury? As parents, we have to teach so much largely because we often end up teaching the same things over and over again.
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- Developing oral language skills in your preschooler
- Amazingly, a baby’s language development begins before he or she is born. Research shows that in the 7th prenatal month a baby shows signs of relaxation (a decrease in heart rate) at the sound her mother’s voice.
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- Developing written language skills in your preschooler
- Writing is a uniquely human activity; and therefore, a wonder to watch develop.
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- Encouraging creativity in preschoolers
- As parents, we are tempted to believe that our children’s thought development follows the same pattern as their physical development.
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- Explaining disasters to your preschooler
- Because our children are exposed to television and other media, it is important that we teach them how to cope with the news about disasters such as the Gulf Oil Spill or a local home burning down.
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- Fall craft for preschoolers
- We, as parents, often take the turning of the seasons for granted—after all it happens four times a year (for most of us).
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- Getting ready for school - language skills
- Children can develop language skills only if they have many opportunities to talk, listen and use language to solve problems and learn about the world.
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- Gifted children - Case study of a twice exceptional child
- A parent shares her story of her 'twice exceptional' son.
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- Gifted children - choosing a preschool program
- It seems as though before you even knew you were expecting a child, decisions about care for your child had to be made.
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- Gifted children - Parents share their story
- Parents share their stories of how and when they found out their child was gifted.
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- Gifted children - Signs your preschooler is gifted
- Raising and nurturing a gifted child can be an exciting yet daunting challenge. Unfortunately, these complicated little people do not come with instruction manuals.
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- Gifted children and global awareness
- Teamed with the advanced cognitive ability, many gifted children have traits that include global awareness, sensitivity to complex issues, and a tendency to worry about injustice and dangers that often are beyond a child’s control.
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- Halloween - extending the fun of the candy stash
- Your young child craves stimulation from you as much, maybe more, than sweets—really.
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- How boredom can foster creativity
- Do your children complain of being bored?
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- How to set limits with screen-time (age 2-4)
- Here are some practical tips for limiting screen time.
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- Inspiring an Emergent Writer (ages 2-4)
- While many parents are diligent about reading to their child daily, few parents put the same kind of energy and dedication into encouraging their children to write.
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- Learning more than one language (preschool)
- In an increasingly diversified and multilingual world, more and more young children find themselves in an environment where more than one language is used.
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- Literacy - Why you should “Read it again”
- Educators—teachers and librarians—skillfully stretch and expand what they read to children because books open almost unlimited topics for learning.
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- Media literacy (ages 2-4)
- What can you do to help your child become media literate?
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- More than rubber duckies - Bathtime fun for preschoolers
- Bathtime routines are an important part of providing your child loving care. However, standard activities can become tiresome and fraught with predictable conflicts.
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- Name writing for preschoolers
- Young children naturally want to hear, see, and write their own name.
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- Nursery rhymes (ages 2-4)
- Forgotten the words to the nursery rhymes you sang as a child? Here are a couple of favorites to share with your little one.
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- Outdoor play and learning opportunities (ages 2-4)
- The great outdoors are full of learning opportunities. Take advantage of your backyard and beyond to have fun and learn.
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- Playdough fun for preschoolers
- Playdough is a lot of fun for your child. This article includes a recipe for playdough and ideas on what you can do with it.
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- Promoting social-emotional development (ages 2-4)
- Here are a few suggestions for developing your preschoolers social/emotional development.
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- Science and nature walk with preschoolers
- Nature study gives your child an abiding love of the outdoors and, with guidance, can form the habits of scientific thinking.
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- Social and emotional preparation for school
- Children start school with different degrees of social and emotional maturity.
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- Talking to your child about death
- This can be such a delicate topic. It's important to help your child understand what it is so they can cope when it happens.
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- The benefits of reading to preschoolers
- A child can learn and benefit greatly from being read to right from the day they are born.
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- Toys for preschoolers
- Toys, toys, glorious toys! What to choose is always a challenge as your child is constantly growing and changing.
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