As a brand ambassador for Better Beginnings, I am being compensated for this post, but all thoughts are my own. Do your kids engage in small world play? What I mean by that is any kind of pretend play that uses little animals or people set up in an environment where your child’s imagination and […]
5 Tips for Helping Kids Transition to a New School
As a brand ambassador for Better Beginnings, I have been compensated for this post, but all thoughts are my own. The girl stayed home with me for almost the first two years of her life, and she was a pretty super clingy little one. That could be because she barely ever saw people outside of […]
Three Great “Toys” for Unstructured Play
As a blog ambassador for Better Beginnings, I am being compensated for this post, but all opinions and content are my own. Now that the holiday season is basically upon us, I know a lot of parents and family members of young kids are starting to think about holiday gifts. And while the temptation is […]
In Which My Thoughts About Talking are Completely Validated
As part of my brand ambassadorship with Better Beginnings, I was recently invited to attend part of the conference of the Arkansas Early Childhood Association, a group of educators and parents whose focus is giving kids the best start possible. It was wonderful in a lot of ways — and I’ll be writing a lot […]
How to Raise a Smart Kid, Part Two: Talk a Lot
As a brand ambassador for Better Beginnings, I am being compensated for this post, but all opinions are my own. I told you the story about the girl telling her teacher that a butterfly doesn’t come from a cocoon but a chrysalis. And that I said she’s so smart in part because we read a […]
How to Raise a Smart Kid, Part One: Read a Lot
As a brand ambassador for Better Beginnings, I am being compensated for this post, but all opinions are my own. My daughter started at her new school during the summer, and one day I walked in to pick her up and the teachers were kind of laughing. “She’s teaching me now,” one of the teachers […]
Better Beginnings: Your Arkansas Child Care Solution
I’ve been selected as an ambassador for Better Beginnings for the next year. About once a month I’ll write about early childhood education and other issues, which I’m super passionate about. This is a compensated post, but all opinions are my own. I work from home, and part of the idea when I started working […]