Leisure & Vacation, Parenting Skills Beyond Thanksgiving: How to Cultivate Gratitude in Our Families Thanksgiving presents families with wonderful opportunities to express gratitude. The traditional Thanksgiving meal offers a pause from... Continue Reading
Choosing Schools, Education, Toddlers Choosing the Best Early Childhood Education Program for Your Child and Family The results are in. Children who participate in quality preschool programs do better academically, professionally, and personally. A... Continue Reading
Parenting Skills Giving our Children an Important Part of Ourselves As parents, we want nothing more than to provide our children with everything possible. We seek to give them the best education, enroll... Continue Reading
Leisure & Vacation, Parenting Skills Create Meaningful Holidays and Minimize Stress: Suggestions and Tips Holidays, here they come. The plans, the lists, the guests, the travel, the gifts … how about some JOY? In general, holidays are... Continue Reading
Special Challenges Living with a Learning Difference: A Student and Resource Teacher’s Perspective During the nine years that I was a resource teacher, I worked with students with learning differences and those on the autism spectrum.... Continue Reading
Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips, Raising Boys, Raising Girls Mommy Fatigue What better day to write about “mommy fatigue” than this one? Last night, as I tiptoed in to check on my peacefully sleeping girls, I... Continue Reading
Leisure & Vacation, Occupational Therapy, Special Challenges Sensory Processing Disorder and Halloween It’s the time of year when there’s a chill in the air, the seasons are changing, and the color of orange is everywhere. It... Continue Reading
Temperaments Is This My Child? Parents Place Helps Parents Succeed “How can our son be so different from us?” asked Marsha, who describes herself and her husband, Ben, as bookish geeks. “Everyone in our... Continue Reading
Discipline & Behavior, Raising Boys, Raising Girls, Temperaments A Modest Proposal: A Preschool Satire* The Huffington Post recently reported that an unnamed preschool moved to ban superhero play because some children were getting hurt from... Continue Reading
Occupational Therapy, School Challenges, Special Challenges Helping Children with Sensory Processing Challenges Achieve Scholastic Success As summer vacation comes to an end and school begins, many children find it hard to return to their school routines. This task may be... Continue Reading
