To help you make a good investment in choosing toys for your child, keep in mind the importance and benefits of play that a carefully selected toy can improve. Toys are tools to play, and when you provide your child with the best tools to play, their play experience will fuel essential skills. Many toys […]
What is “media literacy?” The word literacy connotes a high degree of competency and usually means that a person knows how to read and write. A literate person, on the other hand, is well read, using and applying high level thinking skills across a broad range of topics. Computer literacy means the capacity to use […]
Are you interested in the crafts of baby food jars? There are many ideas for recycling those baby food jars. This should be my all-time favorite use of those baby food jars. I have shared this idea with many of my friends and they also said it was a complete hit with their baby. It’s […]
Landfill households Janisse Ray’s book Ecology of a Cracker Childhood shows the life of a young girl growing up with her family who owns a landfill in Appling County, Georgia. Many experiences may have been different for her, but she still lives as many children do; with rules and playing outdoors with her imagination. The […]
One of Disney’s most classic tales of Princess Cinderella has a lot in common with the newest of Disney princesses. Princess Tiana from the new film, The Princess and the Frog, takes aspects of Princess Cinderella’s exceptional story and gives it a refreshingly modern twist. Both stories start with hardworking young women. Cinderella is overworked, […]
