Often, when we look at the development of children, or watch our own children develop, we are often mystified as to how something occurred. One minute our child was laying on the floor and the next, he was flipped over. We tend to forget the practice involved in the whole experience, the weeks [...]

I am always amazed at the leaps and strides in development that children have over the first five years of their life. There is so much going on and before you know it, you have a person with a complex personality that can be almost mind boggling. Not only do they have distinct [...]

If you remember a few weeks ago, I started a post on the Theorists of Child Development and by the end of a pretty long post, I had only covered Freud and some of his theories. I did hint that I was going to move on to Erik Erikson in a few weeks and [...]

If you remember, I have already posted about the development of artistic skill already. If you haven’t read it yet or need a refresher, you can read it here.
Just to recap a few things, when I talk about any type of development, I am really looking at a “range of normalcy.” I know [...]

When I talk about child development and all the things you can do to encourage it, the foundations of all my theories and practices are attributed to several theorists.  I know that in the day to day, most parents could really care less about who invented this or what the thread of thought was on [...]

The preschool age is a wonderful age during childhood and I really enjoyed teaching children in this age group.  They are interested in learning about any topic from bugs to space and have countless questions for you to answer.  Developmentally, they should be at a level to really express their needs and some of them [...]

You may not think that history is a very important subject to teach your young child but you are completely wrong.  History is just another way to broaden your child’s horizons and to give to them world’s that seem completely unimaginable. 
When my oldest became focused on Egypt, he couldn’t believe how different the world had [...]

When my sister’s beautiful baby became a difficult and argumentative child, I thought to myself, “Well, that’s karma,” since my sister had been pretty difficult and argumentative as a child herself. I didn’t worry about that karma coming and biting me since I hadn’t been nearly as argumentative as she had, although I definitely wasn’t the [...]

Welcome to the final post that I will be making on the topic of morals and family values.  I’m sure you are more than ready to move onto a new topic and tomorrow I will have a great recipe for you to use at home.
But back to our topic on teaching morals and family values.  [...]

If you remember, yesterday I talked about things that we are teaching our children without even realizing it.  You can read that post here.
I guess I should say that I was actually ranting but you’ll forgive me my flaws.  I am after all human and as both a human and a parent I am allowed [...]