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Crayons and Tantrums

Mar 25, 2020

Ep 13: Our family routines and everyday schedules have been disrupted.  It feels like the family structure has crumbled.  So what do you do to get through each day with children running around while you try to work, cook, clean and just survive?  Monica called on her good friend Marlene Spence, Creator of Reward’um...


Mar 18, 2020

We are presently living in very uncertain times right now.  And if you’re overwhelmed with the Coronavirus scare going on, I absolutely feel you.  Entire communities are being quarantined and masses of people are flooding supermarkets to purchase everyday essentials such as water and toilet tissue.  Raising young...


Mar 18, 2020

Children are oh so lovely, but they can be handful sometimes, especially when the entire family is stuck at home together for an extended period of time.  The funny memes that have circulated social media, once school districts started closing one by one across the country, were never ending.  Many of them read, "how...


Mar 11, 2020

Ep 10: One thing we know, which we established in episode 9, is that young children are naturally curious.  This natural curiosity helps them to learn about the world.  But wait, there’s something else that helps with encourage this curiosity and turn it into skill building and learning.  Playing with toys!  That’s...


Mar 4, 2020

Ep: 9 Play is a Child’s Work + Interview with Child Development Expert Dr. Sandra J. Stone.

Have you heard?  Play is a child’s work and we can not underestimate its importance in the development and growth of young children.  One of my favorite hashtags to use is #PlayAndLearn, because those two things go hand in...