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 [...]

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 [...]

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. ————————————————————————————— “Yoghurt!” my son David shouted. He was not even one year old at the time. We were on our way to the beach, and [...]

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 of the [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]