We don’t force manners. I recently had a couple of incidents with acquaintances and family trying to force my kids to say please/thank you/sorry. They were met with little confused faces. What indeed is the magic word? Of course, I feel the pressure in public. No one wants to appear rude. No one wants people […]
Keeping an Ideas Book | Day 23 – 30DaysTYP
Keeping an ‘Ideas Book’ or Journal is so helpful for children’s learning and playful discovery. While their ideas book can be used to document daily activities and thoughts and feelings about those activities, this kind of journaling should be separate to diary keeping. Having an ideas book is brilliant for encouraging reluctant writers, and helping […]
Using Books to Enhance Materials | Day 18 – 30DaysTYP
contains affiliate links Books have the ability to transform play into a rich educational experience. If you’re anything like me, you have tons of lovely books but many get overlooked for bedtime story favourites and are only brought out if we deliberately seek out something we don’t know amidst our play. Thankfully, in the past […]