Each child is an individual, to be sure. As such, each one learns a little differently, but at the same time, there are some common threads in effective learning that most educators realize. As a parent, you are your child’s best support system, so it’s helpful for you to know a little bit about the learning process too. In Part 1, we looked at how kids progress through the three stages of learning — and how you can compensate for whatever part or parts are lacking in the classroom.As we looked …
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The worst thing you can do for your child’s education is to leave it to the school system. Even if it’s a great system. Even if you send your child to a private school. While you don’t have to be a professional educator, you’ll do well to understand a little bit about the learning process, starting with how all people learn and then moving on to, well, just about everything.Understanding Three Stages of LearningWhile different systems use various terms to describe these three stages of learning, …
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Your child spends between one third to one half of each 24-hour day in his or her bedroom, so it’s important to make sure that room offers a healthy environment. Three major allergens that may be sneaking into your child’s bedroom are dust mites, mold, and mildew. The good news is that by controlling the environment, you can greatly reduce the risk of your child’s bedroom hosting these and other allergens that may prove hazardous to your child’s health.Avoid Housing Dust MitesWe’ve written about …
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The perfect time to purchase new bedroom furniture is just as you’re planning for colder months when your child will be spending more time indoors. While there are many options and ideas you can view on our website or in our Long Island showroom, this post is going to focus more on the actual experience of buying new furniture for your child’s bedroom and how to maximize its effectiveness in communicating love to your child.The Lead UpDepending on the age and personality of your child, you could …
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Extravagance can be a way to show your children love, but it can also keep you from being in-the-moment and keeping the peace, both throughout the month of December and beyond. When we strap ourselves financially, extend past natural limitations of finances, energy, and time, we’re more likely to be short on love and long on longing for another stage of life, another life altogether. If parenting through the holiday season fills you with anxiety and a desire to just skip them or escape altogethe …
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Okay, now that we’ve realized the problem with treating books like veggies, we may need to remind ourselves of the dangers of the system we’ve set up, by which books are the veggies that must be eaten in order to “earn” dessert. The illustration is quite appropriate, considering that similar to the negative effects of too much refined sugar, the downsides of screen time include the kinds of things absolutely none of us want for those we love: increased issues with anger, depression, and lack of …
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The issue boils down to a culture that’s obsessed with screens and constant busy-ness. In such a world, books may seem outdated. By definition, though, truly recreational activities produce a positive effect on the individual, and books can certainly do that.It’s Okay To Add a Little HoneyRemember, books aren’t vegetables, so we don’t want to treat them as if they were; they are the good stuff. But just like there’s nothing wrong with drizzling some honey on an apple, it’s okay to offer a little …
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In a word: YESPerhaps screens are overtaking paper books by leaps and bounds in the homes and lives of your family members, friends, and neighbors, but the digital-versus-paper-book debate is not just an old-folks-versus-modern-people thing. Physicians, psychiatrists, parents, and others are seeing real addictions stemming from too much screen time – sometimes even likening the effects to that of drugs!Tangible Books & Toys Beat Digital OnesIf your child is already addicted to screens, detox can …
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Now that we have you convinced that, yes, your modern child does need a bookshelf — it’s time to start filling it up! What books are “must haves,” and how can you choose from the gazillions of books out there?! Well, there are almost as many lists out there, but what we want to offer you is more of a guide in selecting and adding to your child’s book collection.Keep the Goals in ViewBy providing your child with a print-rich environment, you’ll be doing even more than encouraging your child’s lit …
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What do most well-meaning parents do with vegetables? We require our kids to eat them, get them into our kids in any way we can, and generally bribe our kids with unhealthy, sugary desserts, in an effort to get them to eat their veggies! After all, they need those nutrients, right? Well, I’m not a nutritionist, and I’m not going to critique your child’s dietary issues, whatever they may be. But with that image in view of how we treat vegetables, I’d like to invite you to consider whether you tre …
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