Preschooler

Numbers Count!Your four year old knows what numbers are and hopefully is using them during every day play and living.   As your child starts sharing with friends, you...

LetAs kids enter the early childhood years, their gross motor development advances. They become surer of themselves and take more risks. The large muscles on their legs, trunk,...

Give Me Fair Warning, Then IBy understanding the development of your four year old you can shift your attention on seeing the world through her eyes.  Take a...

Humor DevelopmentYou can tell a lot about a child’s developmental level by the things he or she laughs about. Two-year-olds usually find random words like ‘lippity-loppity-lappity’ funny because...

Inside Outside Upside DownYour child’s language development has been growing at a rapid pace for the last few years.  Remember when your child was saying the words “more”...

You Read To Me, IWhen my daughter was four years old we had the board book, Go Dog Go (Eastman, 1961).  It was one of her favorite books...

This year we celebrate International Women’s month with the theme, “Balance for Better.” While the concept of gender-balance in different aspects of society and community may be too...

With the heat index soaring high in the past weeks, it kind of reminds me of the summer months I had when I was younger. It was indeed...

I Can Do It Myself! Let Me Try!Your four year old child probably wants to do everything herself these days, right?  She is not “little” anymore, in...

Music AppreciationFor some, music is food for the soul. Young as they are, children can already enjoy and interpret music they encounter any day. Music often makes an...