Whole Child Development
Whether you’re doing formal teaching in a classroom, or taking part in the learning that is done around the kitchen table, the way you talk when you teach young children can make a big difference. In fact, predictors of child language and cognition abilities are not only indicated by how much a child is spoken to, but also the types of conversations they have.
As one year wound down and another got set to roll, it was fun for me to look over the stats for the year and see what the top posts were. I think what I found gives a great sampling of what you typically find here at Not Just Cute:
Ok, for those of you who get the emailed posts, I may have just sent a post out that wasn’t complete. Well, it was complete on my screen, but what came into my own email box was part post, part work email…. So if your emailed post looks a little incongruent, check out the full post at my blog. And if it didn’t look weird….well, let’s just all go on pretending I don’t make those kinds of mistakes! :0)
Happy New Year!
I consider January 1st as the birthday of this blog. I’d been writing for a while before, but it was at this time last year that Karen at PreKinders listed me in her Top Ten Blogs for 2010. It was then that I began to have an audience, and it was then that I felt this blog really began. So, in gratitude for Karen’s gesture, I’m listing some of my favorite preschool blogs here as well. (In addition to PreKinders.com, of course!)
Here’s the photo we’re sending out with our Christmas um….New Year’s letters. A great shot by Christianne Cox of Three Seas Photography, who also did all the photos in my ebook. But I have to say I do love this shot taken just before…
When you’re actively working to build a positive family culture, traditions can play a large role in establishing that culture.
This is an exciting time of year! And sometimes that excitement, left unchanneled, can wreck havoc on your sanity. If you’re finding that the nervous energy in your house is being directed into whining, fighting, or general destruction, consider ways you can redirect that energy in positive, productive ways. To paraphrase from my e- book, it isn’t enough to tell children to STOP what they’re doing. To be more effective, you need to give them things they CAN do. It’s like trying to stop water from running down a hill. You can’t just tell it to stop, or even try to force it to stop with a dam – it eventually runs over the top. But you can dig a ditch, a channel, to move it in a more constructive direction.
6 Simple Ways to Welcome Winter {Simple Kids} (I’m particularly excited to try these ice lanterns Amy links to!)
We’re crossing our fingers, hoping for a white Christmas this year. Looks like we may end up with rain instead. (We may just have to head for the mountains!) For those of you with plenty of the white stuff in your local forecast, you might want to try this fun recipe for ice cream. The main ingredient: Fresh, fluffy snow! (Taken from this post appearing last year.)
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