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Running Around Like Crazy! It’s Ok!
Who remembers hearing their dad say, “You kids should go outside and run around and let off some steam?" This statement couldn’t be truer today than it was 20-40 years ago. Even if you live in town and don’t have direct access to nature, go visit a playground or park and spend time outdoors in a natural environment.
All Kids and Adults Need To Play and Let Loose!
Movement and unstructured activity help increase memory, perception, attention, emotion and basic decision making. Incorporate play into your daily routine to improve your health while making memories with your kids!
Ages and Stages of Youth Development
Fact sheet on the ages and stages of youth development.
Importance of Sensory Play for Kids
What is sensory play and what does it do? Let’s explore some easy and affordable ways to incorporate sensory activities into your child’s day.
Cleaning Out Your Closets: Donate to kids to help build creativity
If you have things you are unsure what to do with and don’t want to just throw them away, think about contacting daycares, preschools, or churches to see if they could use some of the items for their play areas or to make toys/projects for their kids.
Make Reading Aloud Fun And Routine
Reading aloud is one of the most important things parents and teachers can do with children.
Getting Kids Into Healthy Sleep Habits
It is important for children to get their recommended hours of sleep each night, but good sleep quality is also essential.
Helping Children Learn Responsibility
Teaching children responsibility should start at a young age but is something that you have to keep working on throughout childhood. I am working with my 10-and-5-year-old girls to become more responsible for their school work and daily tasks throughout the day so I don’t need to be a broken record each day.
Let Them Play During Christmas Break
As we are quickly approaching Christmas break and kids will have time off and will be acquiring new toys and activities during this Christmas season, I want to encourage parents and providers to let children play.
Playing With Blocks
Who remembers building glorious structures and towers with wooden blocks? And then having a sibling knock them down and having to rebuild it over again? There are so many learning experiences with building and making mistakes in block play.