During the holiday season, and honestly throughout the entire year, it can be very easy to spoil our children. It’s completely natural to want to give them all the latest and greatest toys and gadgets. However, keeping up with the Joneses is not always in their best interest. Before spending outrageous amounts of money to…
How to Make the Most of Your Child’s Before and After School Routine
Now that the kids are settled back in school, it’s time to get family time back on track. It is perfectly acceptable, not to mention beneficial for development, to not have every day booked solid with scheduled activities. And it’s important that our children have unstructured time to be just that, children. If you feel…
Got Montessori? Elementary Education that Really Works!
In determining where to send your child for elementary school, it is important to ask yourself several questions. What do I want my child to learn in elementary school? How do I want my child to feel about school? What do I remember about my elementary experience? The best choice you can make for your…
How to Help Your Child Achieve Balance in Today’s Digital World – Part 3
As Parents, What Can We Do? – Part 3 of a 3 part series Unplug! To start, remove screens from the bedroom. As shared in the first post of this series, lit up screens at bedtime have been linked to depression and poor sleep. Technology should be turned off and put away two hours before bedtime.…
How to Help Your Child Achieve Balance in Today’s Digital World – Part 2
The Drawbacks of Too Much Technology – Part 2 of a 3 part series Now that we know what our children need for optimal brain development, let’s take a look at what happens when they are not able to meet these needs as a result of spending too much time with technology. Sleep Problems – Reading…
How to Help Your Child Achieve Balance in Today’s Digital World
What Children Need for Optimal Brain Development – Part 1 of a 3 part series. For the first time in history we are preparing children for a future we cannot clearly describe. Technology is an integral part of their lives. Today’s students, otherwise known as digital natives, are the first generation to grow up completely surrounded…
How to Dress for Success: What Not to Wear – Early Childhood Edition
Your recently potty-trained child is very excited at their new found independence. She proudly declares, “I need to go potty!” and heads in the direction of the bathroom. You follow her, as all parents naturally do, to make sure she is all right on her own. Much to your dismay, she made it to the…
Trust the Process: 6 Life Traits Developed Through Process Oriented Work
After talking with your neighbor about all the work her child is bringing home from school you wonder why all your child brings home is little snips of paper he cut, or no work at all. You start to worry about whether or not your child is learning. He seems happy, he likes to go…
“I Don’t Want to Go!” Four Ways to Ease the Transition to Pre-school
The alarm is going off and already you are dreading the struggle of getting your child ready for school before you head to work. We have all been there as parents. We second guess whether or not our child is ready for school or we feel guilty that we need to send them to pre-school…
How to Stop Yelling by Doing Nothing
How to Stop Yelling by Doing Nothing By Chip DeLorenzo, M.Ed. This weekend I walked to the back of my house to get our garden hose to do some work on the front of the house. I wanted to wash down an entry way that had accumulated some spider webs and mildew. I had been…