Team Imhoff: {Office Clip + Phone Charger} Hope everyone is having a great Monday.
It's a little slow here ... I am trying to get everything back in working order after being gone all weekend. Here's to the start of SUMMER for me anyways :) This is just a little something that I have found useful. My husband calls it brilliant :) This is attached to my nightstand, so now I don't have to reach down and grab it every night.
Kids. 10 Surprising Brain Builders for Preschoolers. Ava is having a great time with her electronic animal sounds game.
When the computerized voice hee-haws, the two-year-old cries out, “dun-kee!” And presses the donkey picture on the touch pad. This gizmo also has games for identifying colours, number and shapes. Ava now knows two dozen animals and 30 colours, including obscure ones like magenta. Three-year-old Tyler and his dad are “camping” in the spare bedroom. Which of these activities does the most to help a child get ready to learn at school? There’s nothing wrong with Ava learning the names of animals and colours, but Tyler’s imaginary camping game is actually doing more to prepare him to be a good learner. Huh? When we think about brain power, we tend to think about intelligence and knowledge. The make believe camping game gives Tyler a chance to exercise most of these skills — more later about exactly how.
Sounds like a stretch? Diamond has been studying aspects of preschool executive function for many years. One word of caution. Home - Richard Louv. The Great Parenting Show. Amy McCready — Author of "If I Have to Tell You One More Time" Allowance, Age by Age. My Family. Sweet Potato Chronicles - THE NEVER ENDING STORY OF THE WELL-FED FAMILY… A Quick Bite With Sophie Dahl Way before Sophie Dahl was runway famous, I used to sometimes find her drinking tea at the kitchen table of my friend Cass' Notting Hill home.
I was intimidated by that insouciant cool that some girls just have. Plus, she was the wide-eyed Sophie from theBFG – the beloved book of all our childhoods. Fast forward to her modelling days, and overnight, she became a sensation. From Richard Avedon to Tim Walker to Steven Meisel, she was photographed by all the greats and landed on the cover of Vogue six-times. In 2003 Sophie launched her writing career with a beautifully illustrated novella, The Man with the Dancing Eyes. Read more Netflix & SPC: Get Crafty for Earth Month with our easy diorama Walking home from school the other day with Julian, I stopped suddenly when he gasped. Because Laura and I work with Netflix, we got a sneak peak at the titles they’ll be featuring for Earth Month. Pasta Week: One-Skillet Tomato Basil Chicken Pasta. Feisty Frugal & Fabulous. East Coast Mommy.
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