It’s undeniable that a child’s reading skills are important to their success in school, work, and life in general. And it is very possible to help ensure your child’s success by reading to them starti...
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2025
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Jul
2025
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Turn these awesome board games into handwriting games to increase interest and entice reluctant writers! We all know kids who hate handwriting with a passion. The minute those pencils and paper come ...
Jul
2025
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Discover what the 100 languages of children means, where it came from and why it is an important element of any child-centered education program. In this blog post you’ll find how you can use the hund...
Nov
2015
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Exert your talents, distinguish yourself, and don’t think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. -Samuel Johnson A 20-year retrospective study, funded by the ...
Nov
2015
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Michael Grose For many years under-parenting was perhaps the biggest problem facing children. Recently there has emerged another type of parenting that, whilst never as harmful as under-parenting, can...
Nov
2015
23
Dr. Elisa Medhus Do we want our kids to use their noggins wisely and independently, or do we want them to be little ventriloquist dummies parroting the thoughts of the pop culture and their peers? Not...
Nov
2015
11
Elsie Calitz Teachers can tell hair raising as well as extremely funny stories about biting. One teacher related how one little boy bit another one in a place where no little boy wants to be bitten. T...
Nov
2015
10
Lilian G. Katz and Sylvia C. Chard The municipal preprimary schools in the northern Italian city of Reggio Emilia have been attracting worldwide attention for more than a decade. The reasons are many ...
Nov
2015
10
New research shows that teaching kids more and more, at ever-younger ages, may backfire. By Alison Gopnik| Ours is an age of pedagogy. Anxious parents instruct their children more and more, at younger...
Nov
2015
10
Relating Lovingly to Babies The best laid plans o’ mice and men gang aft aglay. Robert Burns (To A Mouse) In her Exchange article, “Being with Babies” (September/October 2011), Anna ...
