by Liisa Hale | Nov 22, 2017 | Holidays, Parents, Resources
One of the great pleasures of parenthood is sharing our holiday traditions with the next generation… but working parents today need to start with a dose of reality. Perhaps our own memories of those traditions came out of a very different family structure, or from...
by Claire Bainer and Liisa Hale | Nov 22, 2017 | Educators, Holidays, Parents, Resources
As we approach the holidays, buying gifts for young children often becomes part of the fun of the season. This article offers information about how and why children play, and what equipment facilitates the creative play process for children at different ages. Through...
by Liisa Hale | Nov 22, 2017 | Behavior, Educators, Holidays, Parents, Pedagogy, Resources
Parents and teachers are eager to share cultural traditions with children – sometimes so eager that children end up with lots of disassociated ideas floating in their heads which they try hard to assimilate into their construct of the world. I fondly remember a...
by Claire Bainer and Liisa Hale | Aug 26, 2017 | Banner, Parents, Snapshot
Janelle is 6 months old, doing just what a baby her age should be doing—pushing up, kicking, not quite mobile yet but definitely getting the idea. Today she is lying near a low round basket with a few balls in it; as she haphazardly bumps it with one hand it rocks and...
by Claire Bainer and Liisa Hale | Apr 1, 2017 | Art, Banner, Parents
A quality education, by definition, enriches and expands thought processes beyond predictable, concrete memorization and reasoning into the abstract, creative realms, thus expanding knowledge and enriching one’s overall life experience. For example, bilingual people...
by Claire Bainer and Liisa Hale | Feb 1, 2017 | Banner, Parents, Snapshot
Several Playroom children are bundled up and busy managing rainwater as it flows along the cement curb between the sand area and the walkway. Some children are seated out of the rain under the roof working on puzzles; another rocks in the pod swing watching the coming...