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Appreciating Children’s Art

November 14, 2008

Image by Hipnos Possum attends the local kindergarten, which luckily for me is just at the end of our street. The 4 year old program consists of two long days (9am-3pm) of traditional play based kinder and one half day session. Depending on what days that you choose, the half day program is taken by [...]

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10 Ways To Encourage Your Child

June 17, 2008

When The Thinker (now 9.5) was at his first year of preschool, his teacher pointed out to me how using empty praise on children often has the reverse effect of what we intended. I did some further reading on this issue and concluded that I would try and eliminate praise from my parenting vocabulary and [...]

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