by Marilee Hartling | May 22, 2019 | Parenting, Preschool, Toddler
According to research, kids who attend preschool have higher reading and math scores and are even found to have better paying jobs as adults. Preschool is an important time in your child’s life where for the first time he is learning to navigate the world...
by Marilee Hartling | May 17, 2019 | Parenting, Preschool, Toddler
Time-outs were originally designed in order to help a child reflect on his or her behavior in an effort to change his or her behavior. However, in recent years, brain imagining has shown that relational pain-like that caused by isolation during punishment, can look...
by Marilee Hartling | May 15, 2019 | Preschool, Toddler
Our theme for the month of April for our Preschool Prep program at ECDA was Spring and “GROWING!” – Growing Insects, Seeds, and Children. The children planted sunflower seeds in wet paper towels and ziploc bags and placed them in the sunlight in our...
by Marilee Hartling | May 15, 2019 | Parenting
Helicopter parenting came to rise in the 1980s and grew out of a fear of children’s safety. The helicopter parent would tend to be overprotective of their children playing in outdoor spaces alone. In the 1990s helicopter parenting evolved into intensive parenting...
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