Tag: family
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Boosting Child Development Through Outdoor Play: Get OUTSIDE!
Winter is long and this Spring has been brutal! (imho). Weather conspires to keep teachers, parents, grandparents and caregivers indoors which, consequently extends to the kids. This is a problem! Disclaimer: No judgement, no particular child I work with in our preschool is inspiration for the comments that follow. I promise. I have previously written…
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Fostering Executive Function
I work with the under 5 set. Every day, me and my team (husband and co-teacher) nudge 2, 3 and 4 year olds as they play, argue, damage, pull, touch, hurt, create, discover, dump, clean, eat, dress, yell, sing, speak softly their way to their next developmental milestone. And we love (most!) every minute of…
Margaret Watkinson 