Clorox has teamed up with Heidi Murkhoff, author of the What to Expect book series, to provide a guide for families entitled What To Expect Guide To A Healthy Home. It gives practical advice on keeping your home clean and healthy. And, it is provided free of charge from clorox.com. To order your own copy, go to www.clorox.com and follow the link.
As always, visit the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s website for additional details and more recalls. You can subscribe to the CSPC’s site, and they will email you with recalls as they are released. Read more…
A few weeks ago, my son’s school had a “Parent Training Night”. The entire idea of it got me chuckling, but it ended up being a great resource for helping me and my fellow kindergarten parents how to supplement our child’s education at home. They covered a broad range of topics, but the one that I found most interesting was an overview of the Spalding method. Now I understand why my son looked at me awhile back, obviously very proud of himself, and said “Ahh, Ay, Aah” while moving his hand around! Read more…
This time of year always makes me nostalgic for my childhood; building snowmen (okay, one year we got to build snowmen around Christmas - I live in Texas…it is a rarity), getting together with family, doing little things with my mom and dad, making lists, shopping, wrapping gifts, and on and on. Holidays of any kind tend to do that to us - they bring us back in touch with our past, and we should use that nudge as more than simply a nudge. Consider it a shove.
If you have children - of any age - there is no better time than the present to create memories and traditions of your own. Years from now, your children will reflect upon the corniness, the hilarity and most likely the sentimentality of it all and realize that moments such as these are what bind us together. Read more…
We’ve got Goodnight Moon memorized. I can recite Go Dog Go from the front seat while waiting in the carpool line. And, there’s only so much of Put Me In The Zoo that I can take, you know? So, I’ve been honing my skills as a story inventor and I’m hear to tell you, it isn’t all that difficult! Read more…
Picasso is not my maiden name. Nor is Renoir. Or Michelangelo. I am a great copier, but I am a horrible creator. It just isn’t in me. Give me a calculus equation and I’m all over that, but throw a bunch of open-ended ideas at me to run with and, well, you’ll get the same thing over and over.
However, I did an activity with my preschool class this past week that is sure to be fun for you and your children. Read more…
As a preschool teacher, I spend a great deal of my time testing stuff out on my kids at home. My poor boys are subjected to bad playdough recipes, craft projects gone bad and leftover broken crayons. They also get the benefit of the good stuff, too. We spend a lot of time talking about science and history, reading a variety of books, and playing with every kind of math manipulative known in the Northern Hemisphere. Read more…
I hear it a thousand times a day: “Mommy! Can you read this book to me?”
As a teacher, I am thrilled that my children have an infinite love for the written word. Most days, they would rather read a story than turn on the TV. It is a passion they definitely acquired from me, and I know that reading will be a life-long love of theirs.
As a parent, it wears me down. It takes patience, creativity and a well-rested body to read and read and read some more. There are days when I beg to hear my kids ask for PBS or Disney Channel just to give myself a break. But, I am grateful that my children are as interested in books as they are, and I know that it is one of the most important activities I can do with them each day. Read more…
