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Dear friends,
“You have to come over here, right now!”
It was Bev calling from the preschool to insist that I come see what the kids had created at the art area. I dropped what I was doing and hustled over. Good thing I only live two minutes away because as I drove [...]

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Dear friends,
I wonder if this has ever happened to you?  You do something really great with the kids and after a while you “move on” looking for that next great thing.  This constant searching for that something different is what makes us good at what we do and it also keeps [...]

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Coping With Difficult Times

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Boys! Boys! Boys!

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The most important thing to remember about discipline for young children is that it needs to be kind, tender and humane. And so often it is not. Why are adults so afraid of being kind when disciplining? I think there are lots of reasons: one reason stems from how we were disciplined as [...]

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In all the years I’ve been teaching, I’ve never seen a time when there were more good children’s books available. I am especially encouraged by the diversity in today’s books, socially, culturally, and ethnically. I have a list of books that I have used as resource books with success and books that I [...]