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Be Out There!

March 9th, 2010 · No Comments · Children, Website of the Week

It’s National Wildlife Week!  Take you and your children outdoors!  Here, in New England, the weather is turning springlike and there’s no excuse!!  Please take the time to read this important information about your child and nature.
Be Out There Campaign

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DC through the eyes of a 3 year old

November 23rd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Children, photo of the week

Yes, she did take these photos.  She has a great eye for it!
Lions in front of the Concoran Museum.
And lions at the zoo!
The Lincoln memorial  (she loved the echo inside, although we had to ask her not to try it out too many times.)   And she thought that the statute of Mr. Lincoln was the [...]

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Picture books, play and Halloween

October 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Books, Children, Musings

” What does Halloween have to do with children’s play, and picture books?”
Did you know about this other blog I write for?  It’s a great resource with thoughts, book suggestions, tips and more for bringing drama to the early childhood classroom.  PictureBook Plays is more than taking the three popular well-behaved kids in the class, [...]

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Where the Wild Things Are

October 18th, 2009 · No Comments · Books, Children, Musings, family

Many years ago when I was the mother of a two-year-old child whose temper tantrums alongside moments of brilliant cognitive insights just about did me in, a fellow mom whose children were in their teens said to me:  “Remember this day, a day when you’re sure you could eat them alive.  But they get older, [...]

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Health care for children is a right

September 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Children, Musings

not a privilege.   Although I’m not a fan of celebrity statements on political issues, I do appreciate when they use their ability to have media coverage, and they are well researched to make a statement.
Today I found a blog entry by one of the actresses of Desparate Housewives talking about the need for all children [...]

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Mother Memory

September 2nd, 2009 · 4 Comments · Children, Musings, family, travel

I had a delightful visit with my daughter this past weekend; just the two of us with a little time at the end spent with the grandbaby when she came home from a trip with her father.    Each visit reminds me of how time passes, and yet how important it is to enjoy the present [...]

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Senator Edward Kennedy and young children

August 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Children, Important People, My Goals

As the media is covering from every angle, we have reason to be mourning a very important man today.   There is much much coverage, and many many articles.  I would like to steer you to just one that will remind us of the champion this man was to the children of America: the children, the [...]

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Book Ramblings: Me, You, Us: Social-Emotional Learning in Preschool

June 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Books, Children, Musings

     Me, You, Us: Social-Emotional Learning in Preschool written by Ann S. Epstien, PhD with a foreword by Lillian G. Katz – published by HighScope and NAEYC
“….children progress from a focus on themselves (me), to an awareness of others (you), to the formation of reciprocal relatinoships (us.) (p 13)”
This book does a really thorough, and [...]

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Accidents Happen – Take action for children’s health care

June 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Children

Please check out Children’s defense fund new video about this vital matter and write your legislators!  Take action please!
In a country where many live large lifes of wealth and comfort, too many of our children and their families cannot afford decent health care.   If you aren’t ashamed of this, you should be.

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How old will you be this weekend?

December 12th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Children, Important People, Musings, Uncategorized

A rare moment is about to happen in my house: I’m not going to win the lottery, and as far as I know it won’t be 90 degrees tomorrow, nor will I wake up 25 years old. Or maybe I will. Tomorrow my two children and grandchild come to visit for a short [...]

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