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My blog is designed to assist parents of children who are about to enter preschool or kindergarten. My blog outlines fun, low-cost ways to educate your child from home.
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Preparing Your Child for Preschool: A Fun Preschool Activity
Hat DayDo you have a lot of hats in your home? You may. If so, gather all of the hats in your home, including baseball caps, sun hats, rain hats, cowboy hats, or whatever else you may have. Next, have your family sit down and try each hat on. You...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Teaching Them About Money – Part 4
Another great way to teach your child about money is by taking them shopping with you. If you pay for cash and if there isn’t a long line behind you, let your child pay the cashier.This is an important lesson to teach your child. The first time m...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Teaching Them About Money – Part 3
In my last post, I outlined how giving your child a small amount of money (like .50 cents) for doing a small task can teach them about how money is earned. The next step involves teaching your child about how money is saved. This can be done with t...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Teaching Them About Money – Part 2
In addition to showing your child money, it is important to teach them valuable lessons about it. You can start with how money is earned. Many parents like giving their preschoolers a weekly allowance. Even if you don’t want to do so, reward you...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Teaching Them About Money – Part 1
If you are interested in preparing your child for preschool or kindergarten at home, one lesson that you will want to teach your child is about money. The good news is all of the options that you have for doing so. For starters, show your child mon...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Teaching Your Child Their Address and Phone Number
This is definitely something that we should have started doing before, but since my daughter is preparing for pre-k this coming year, I thought it was important to really step up the process of getting her to remember her address.In the past few week...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Free Potty Training DVD from Huggies
In my last post, I talked about how most preschools require children to be able to use the bathroom themselves. Since not all children are on the same schedule, you may still be working on getting your child to this point. If you are, this free ite...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Potty Training
Whether you are preparing your child for preschool or kindergarten, it is important that they are potty trained. Is your child?Although most children can go to the bathroom by themselves when they enter into preschool, some children need a little pu...
Personal Post: Big Day!
Today we got the papers to get my daughter registered for Pre-K. This is a bid day for us. Unfortunately, our school district is small and only has a limited number of spots. I really hope that my daughter gets in. If she doesn’t, we intend to ...
