by Marilee Hartling | Jun 21, 2019 | Parenting, Toddler
There is no “right “ or “wrong” way or age to teach your child how or when to use the potty. On average children are fully day trained between the ages of 2 ½ and 4. Night training however is more variable, between ages 3 and 8. In our first blog entry on potty...
by Marilee Hartling | Jun 13, 2019 | Parenting, Preschool, Toddler
The theme for our Preschool Prep Groups during the month of May was “Celebrating Bugs, Insects, and our Mommies” as we prepared for Mother’s Day and also learned about all kinds of bugs. Children did marble painting and made Mother’s Day cards for their...
by Marilee Hartling | Jun 4, 2019 | Parenting, Preschool, Toddler
The brain of children under age 5 is not yet fully developed. For this reason, young children under the age of 5 have difficulties regulating themselves and their emotions. Young children also lack a sense of time, only knowing what they experience in the...
by Marilee Hartling | Jun 4, 2019 | Parenting, Toddler
Studies show that yelling is one of several discipline strategies that can actually make behavioral issues worse. Households with regular yelling incidents tend to have children with lower self-esteem and increased rates of depression. In addition, yelling loses...
by Marilee Hartling | May 22, 2019 | Parenting, Preschool, Toddler
According to research, kids who attend preschool have higher reading and math scores and are even found to have better paying jobs as adults. Preschool is an important time in your child’s life where for the first time he is learning to navigate the world...
by Marilee Hartling | May 17, 2019 | Parenting, Preschool, Toddler
Time-outs were originally designed in order to help a child reflect on his or her behavior in an effort to change his or her behavior. However, in recent years, brain imagining has shown that relational pain-like that caused by isolation during punishment, can look...
by Marilee Hartling | May 15, 2019 | Preschool, Toddler
Our theme for the month of April for our Preschool Prep program at ECDA was Spring and “GROWING!” – Growing Insects, Seeds, and Children. The children planted sunflower seeds in wet paper towels and ziploc bags and placed them in the sunlight in our...
by Marilee Hartling | May 15, 2019 | Parenting
Helicopter parenting came to rise in the 1980s and grew out of a fear of children’s safety. The helicopter parent would tend to be overprotective of their children playing in outdoor spaces alone. In the 1990s helicopter parenting evolved into intensive parenting...
by Marilee Hartling | Apr 12, 2019 | Parenting, Second Baby, Toddler
The term “good enough” comes from the work of Donald Winnicott who studied mothers and infants. He concluded that mothers don’t need to be perfect parents but “good enough”. We now incorporate dads as well and refer to “good enough” parents when we talk about...
by Marilee Hartling | Apr 3, 2019 | Parenting, Preschool, Toddler
While kids don’t share the same kinds of responsibilities that we have as adults, they do have their own share of daily demands to manage. If frustrations pile up, kids can get stressed. Below please find 5 ways to help your child manage worries and anxieties...
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