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Aug 21 2008
It has been a while since I first wrote about Encouraging Reading in your infant and I thought it was about time that I get back to this series in case there were some of you waiting for me to get on with it.
As I mentioned in the previous post, I am a big fan [...]
Aug 07 2008
Mid-summer is a wonderful time of the year; the kids are still home, they are beginning to get bored and are constantly hounding your with questions like, “Mooommm, what can I doooo?”
Okay, maybe it isn’t quite that great but around here, the kids love this time of year. Not because they are bored or [...]
Aug 06 2008
Today we are again in for a treat from our guest blogger Tanja Cilia. Read her bio here or simply enjoy her work below.
Thanks again Tanja for joining us.
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“Yoghurt!” my son David shouted. He was not even one year old at the time.
We were on our way to the beach, and I assumed he [...]
Aug 04 2008
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 [...]
Jun 23 2008
I am a big fan of reading, huge, gigantic, enormous. I can add many adjectives to just how big of a fan I am but I think I may have already got my point across and one look at the boxes of books that I don’t have room for will confirm it.
For this reason, [...]
Jun 09 2008
As I have mentioned in earlier posts, my son and his dad are making a model together for a contest that is being put on by the local museum. The model that he chose to do was the Battle of Vimy Ridge and in particular Hill 145.
It has been an adventure and after 2 [...]
May 07 2008
I am ghostwriting a few chapters on child development right now and found that I needed to fact check a few of the points that I was writing this weekend. I have boxes upon boxes of reference materials as well as all my notebooks and textbooks from when I was in college. I was extremely [...]
Mar 31 2008
As the season quickly faded from fall to winter last year, my family had an unexpected visitor. She came to our window one afternoon and my son was overjoyed to run out with his dad and scoop her up into a clear container. It was a Praying Mantis, if you are wondering, and since I [...]
If you can remember far enough back, I wrote both part one and two of this series on Theorists of Child Development. My first post was about Freud and my second was aboutErikson. Today, I am going to take us closer to the end of this series and discuss Piaget. If you are not sure [...]
Today it was official, we took down the pool so it has to be the last day of summer. Okay, maybe the last day of summer is officially on September 21st and the last day of summer vacation isn’t until Monday but you can definitely feel the days winding down into a new schedule.
Already my [...]
It’s probably a little early to be dreaming about snow but with the muggy weather I had today, I’m almost ready for winter. Well, almost ready…okay, not really, but the thought of winter made me think that it would be an excellent time to share my recipe for Whipped Snow.
This is a fun little recipe [...]
Welcome to part two of buying a layette for your baby. If you have been with me for a while, you will probably remember the first post about buying a layette. I know that usually this is just one article but since I am writing a few points about every item, I decided to break [...]
It has been a while since I wrote a cheat sheet for That Parent Place so I figured it was time to do so again. Right now, I am the proud snail-sitter of about 10 snails. They will be going back into a nice spot in my yard very soon, not the garden where they [...]