Since I’ve had requests to share my family child care policy book I thought I’d post some of my policies now and then. I do request that out of professional courtesy and compliance to copyright laws you don’t copy any of my policies. However you are welcome to use them…
I’ve been working on my child care policies for weeks and my brain is so numb I can barely think. Every fall I update my policies before distributing them to the parents, but this year I accidentally ended up giving them a major overhaul. You’re probably wondering how something so…
For children, art has no boundaries, no rules, no should-be. Children see nothing wrong with painting a purple cow or birds and hearts flying together across a pink sky. One day a child may fill the paper with splashes of bright color, then use only black or brown the next…
I don’t remember the first time I saw tree blocks – it may have been on Pinterest, or at last year’s WECA Conference Yes, that is me on the far right in the first slide. or who knows where. In any case, I wanted some. The problem is that since…
“You’ve got to accentuate the positive, Eliminate the negative, Latch on to the affirmative, Don’t mess with Mister In-Between” Being a child is a difficult job. Children are busy learning new skills, testing their limits, and actively exploring their environment. Parenting is also a difficult job. Parents are busy teaching…
It recently occurred to me that I hadn’t written about the garden stones the children made for Father’s Day gifts this year. Oops! Obviously Father’s Day is long past, but since garden stones are a great gift for any occasion I decided to write about them anyway. But…
I hate to admit it, but fall is quickly approaching and that means back-to-school shopping. It’s not my favorite time of the year, but it’s inevitable when you’ve got kids. When I was a kid my parents hit back-to-school shopping with the “Full Frontal Assault”– buying new shoes, new clothes,…
One of the ongoing goals for my child care program is to provide extremely nutritious meals and snacks. Along with that goal came the challenge of finding foods that the children will eat; it doesn’t matter how healthy a food is if no-one eats it. Homemade chicken nuggets to the…
My friend Nicole’s son once told her that he likes the end pieces in a loaf of bread best because they don’t have crusts on them. Isn’t that cute? Unfortunately, none of my family members follow his example so I was always throwing away the end pieces and feeling guilty…
When I was young I thought getting older was the worst thing in the world. Watching my great-grandparents, I thought getting older seemed to be about slowly losing everything – eyesight and hearing, mobility and coordination, income and possessions, health and memory – until there was nothing left to lose…
