by Jaimi Erickson | Feb 22, 2019 | activities
Post by Lisa Brown Preschool age children can learn to develop writing skills even before they know how to read and write. Preparing your preschooler to be a creative writer happens with pretend play, books, drawing, and expressive language. Following are...
by Jaimi Erickson | Jan 10, 2019 | activities
Sometimes learning new skills can be very difficult for children. Up until now my girls haven’t really struggled with anything in school. That all changed when my oldest daughter was learning multiplication and division. She was having a hard time memorizing the...
by Jaimi Erickson | Aug 9, 2013 | organization
When my children are little, I start introducing crayons and coloring. I like to save their little pieces of artwork and jot down their age at the time, so we can look back on their projects years down the road. It can be hard to decide how to store these activities...
by Jaimi Erickson | Nov 14, 2011 | motherhood, motivation, parenting
The line between what is the responsibility of teachers versus parents is blurred today. Children are being essentially raised by teachers. In child care the caregivers are called “teachers” and these are the adults a child, who is in daycare full-time,...