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Laugh and Play Today
http://www.laughandplaytoday.com
The two goals of this blog are to promote the importance of play in the healthy development of children, and to provide helpful ideas for adding more play, joy and laughter to your home.
- Added on: Apr 12th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Rebecca Heimlich
- Listed in: Parenting Mom & Family
- Tags: children fun development play playtime overscheduled
Recent Posts
Remember Schoolhouse Rock?
I loved Schoolhouse Rock videos when I was a child. They played between cartoons on Saturday mornings, and were short, fun videos with catchy tunes that taught kids about things like planets, nouns, laws, and the Preamble to the United States Constit...
Model unstructured time for children
Scholastic.com has a helpful article for parents about unstructured playtime for children. It talks about why such time is valuable and how to make sure your children get enough of it. One of the experts relied on in the article is Kathy Hirsh-Pasek,...
Imaginative play helps children learn self-control
National Public Radio reports that imaginative play helps children learn self-control. According to the report, children today are not learning the self-regulation skills they used to, because imaginative play is being squeezed out by television, vi...
Two Great Children's Books for a Rainy Day... Or Any Day
On a rainy day like today, my children and I like to curl up on the couch and read a whole stack of books! They pick the books and I read. Two books in particular always seem to make it into the stack. They have such fun with these book, I wanted to ...
Is Your Child Overscheduled?
According to an article on Parent & Child Magazine's website, the following 12 questions can be used in assessing whether your child may be overscheduled:"• Does he act grouchy, mopey, or irritable? • Can she fall asleep at bedtime? • Are h...
Taking Indoor Play Outdoors
A teacher in Kansas has a great idea for making indoor activities more fun and enriching for children... take the activities outdoors. The Fort Scott Tribune reported that during the National Association for the Education of Young Children's 2009 Wee...
