Category Archives: Children’s Development

Forrest Sargent – Hidden Light

There are those life altering moments - often few and far between - where you see something/read something/hear something that inspires you and changes you forever.

Making The Most Of Mis’takes’

You can convey different meanings with the same words depending on which part of the word you stress. One of my favorite example of this? The word Mistake.

Biz Kids – The Best of Educational Public TV

Biz Kids - The public TV series where kids teach kids about money and business. I LOVE this series, it is an entertaining and engaging tool for teaching your kids about money and entrepreneurship.

Pottery and Creative Parenting Parallels

Pottery and Parenting – at first glace two things that don't seem to be related. I have just finished my first set of Beginner's throwing classes and at every step parallels between pottery and parenting kept popping into my head it has made me look at both topics in a new light.

Helping Kids Deal With Stress

Stress stunts your creativity and makes all those things that children should be enjoying – sports, learning, developing into great human beings a chore. Children are not able to cope with the high levels of stress there seems to be today. Most adults are not so good at it either, we are letting stress negatively impact our lives and relationships, however, with a little creativity, understanding and patience we can all live with less stress.

Recipe for Great Affirmations

Teaching children how to create their own Affirmations is a great way for them to connect to themselves, explore their own hopes and dreams and to think about who they aspire to be.

Teaching Kids to Take Turns

Learning how to take turns is very important. Besides learning patience – which is in short supply these days – taking turns also teaches you how to listen, communication skills, even how to negotiate.

Defining Creativity

If you ask 100 different people “What is creativity?” You will likely get 100 different answers. I recently came across a great definition of Creativity that I thought we could look at and examine further.

Sir Ken Robinson – Creativity Expert

Sir Ken Robinson is a professor, author and expert on creativity. Sir? Yes, he has even been knighted for his efforts! Ken Robinson champions creativity and calls for a radical rethinking of our current school systems

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