Parents often want to know what they can do to best help their child learn. The most meaningful learning activities are not flash cards or planned lessons, but experiences the parent and child can share and enjoy doing together. Most parents know this intuitively, but life has a way of getting so busy that we […]
Helping Children Cope with Scary News
So many tragic things have been in the news recently, and because they are so much on our hearts and minds, graphic discussion and pictures of these events are literally everywhere, to such an extent that as much as we might like to protect the children in our lives from the knowledge of such terrible […]
Kindness
As an antidote to the harshness and incivility that seem to be so prevalent in our society these days, we have declared February as Kindness Month at Front Street Playschool. As a school, we have been talking about what it means to be kind, and performing random acts of kindness. One of our classes took […]