28 Mar Three Special Words- Song & Activity
Today's activity for 5-to 7-year olds starts with the song "Three Special Words"....
24 Mar Friendship Is Coming – Song & Activity
What do you look for in a friend? ...
13 Mar Let Me In – Song & Activity
Why is it so hard for new kids in school to make new friends?...
02 Mar Life’s IEP
Those of us who work with children too often see the emotional impact current life circumstances have on our students. The typical “helping response” is to label, test, or separate in order to manage the unhealthy behaviors which we encounter. A young person’s painful experiences...
26 Feb The Rest Step
In an essay for NPR’s segment This I Believe, Phil Powers the executive director of the American Alpine Club described some wisdom that was shared with him by an “old mountain Climber named Paul Petzholdt” who advised Phil to “rest in the middle of each...
25 Feb Try This: Two-Person Jobs
I once heard a talk by the late H. Stephen Glenn, co-author of Raising Self-Reliant Children in a Self-Indulgent World, in which he told a story of how he and his 6-year-old son worked together welding a tie rod on their tractor. When they...