Sundays are cooking days at our house. My husband loves to use the weekend as an excuse to simmer, roast or slow cook. With weeknight mealtimes often feeling a bit chaotic (serious understatement), we both relish the opportunity to slow down a bit. And mostly...
A recent article from Community Playthings entitled, “In Defense of Active Learning” describes how physical movement supports learning in all areas of development. Children are better able to understand new vocabulary words that they can act out through movement. They learn scientific and mathematical concepts...
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Parenting with firm rules, consistent and calm enforcement, limited negotiation, and plenty of warmth will help both our kids and our own mental health the most. -- Erin Walsh After the busyness of the holiday season, it can be a transition for both parents and children...
As a follow-up to our Especially for Parents article on cultivating empathy in your child, check out the video below from Sesame Street with Murray and Mark Ruffalo. Have you found effective ways of explaining or modeling empathy to your child? We'd love to hear...
The ParentFurther website offers resources on a variety of parenting topics. It also provides a list of meaningful children's books that tie to Search Institute’s research on family strengths and relationships. If you are looking for some new books for your family's library, this is...
Learn more about executive function in this video from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University: Get resources on how you can support executive function/self-regulation in your child here. ...
"Children may be born with the predisposition for learning how to have positive relationships with others. But if and how that predisposition is developed depends on their experience with others...
