I’ve always had a passion for working with young children. The longer I am in the early childhood education field and the more I see our culture’s perspective on early education change, the more passionate I am becoming about treating children with respect. What does respecting a child mean? I think it can mean a [...]
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A few nights ago, my son came home from school in a really bad mood. He was overwhelmed with school work and wasn’t happy with how his friends were treating one another. While he’s ranting and raving about all of his stuff, I was trying to cook dinner, help my youngest with her math paper, [...]
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I just had the pleasure of spending some time at the beach with my kids. I truly enjoyed watching them run in and out of the waves, jump into the swimming pool and play games that needed nothing electronic! For the first day or two, I sat idly by watching their fun and listening to [...]
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I recently took my daughter to the zoo for an overnight field trip. My daughter, Maggie, is 9-years-old and in third grade. As I was leaving Maggie at the zoo in the care of her teacher and other parents, it struck me how this experience is just like what parents of young children go through [...]
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When faced with an epidemic, adults mobilize! We gather information, brainstorm possible solutions, confer with experts. We hear daily that there is an epidemic of obesity facing the United States, but what are we doing about it? The media tells us of the problems caused by overweight and obesity. Doctors tell us we need to [...]
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Do you know what ICE is? I’m not talking about what you put in your drink to keep it cool. ICE stands for In Case of Emergency. I have several contacts in my cell phone, namely my husband, my sister and my father, who are designated as ICE contacts if something were ever to happen [...]
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After writing my blog on the tourist approach to holidays in the classroom and reading the comments, I was inspired to have a conversation with 4C’s Debra Chin. She had enough to say on the subject to write a blog of her own… As a mom who is raising two American-born Taiwanese/Chinese children in the [...]
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As I was strolling through the grocery store this weekend I found “snack packs” of everything: pudding, crackers, apple slices and cookies. I overheard young children repeatedly asking their parent to buy the cookies because “they were on sale.” Now, I am guilty of buying snack packs for myself to include in my lunch or [...]
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Recently, I attended a “train-the-trainer” at the Louisville Science Center on science activities for young children called “Do Science Everywhere,” and that’s just what it was about: how to do science everywhere and how to show child care providers that many of the activities they are doing every day are opportunities to do science. During [...]
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