Cooking and baking with your child is a great way to teach them about about math, help improve fine motor skills and increase confidence. This is a life-long skill that you can start early with your toddler or preschooler.
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Toughing Out Tummy Time? Try These Solutions!
Tummy time is one of the best ways to support your infant’s early development—and it does more than most parents and caregivers realize.
Discover the ways this simple activity can help your child and get some tips to help you make your child’s tummy time successful.
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Create Your Spring Bucket List
Spring is finally here! The weather is beginning to warm up, flowers are blooming and the little ones are playing outside more. Not only are children ready to feel the warmth of the sun on their skin and the breeze in their hair, but parents are also eager to get outside.
This is a great time of year for your family to create a bucket list of all the fun-filled crafts, recipes and outdoor adventures you want to do. Here’s some ideas to help you come up with your family’s spring-time bucket list.
The Power of Play
We have more sunlight and temperatures are getting warmer. That means families have more time to get outside and play!
Play isn’t just fun. It helps encourage healthy development in children of any age. As an adult, it can be hard to come up with new and exciting ways to entertain and engage children. That’s why 4C for Children’s Learn Through Play calendars are a great resource to find developmentally appropriate activities that you and your child can do together.
Use these ideas to tap into the many benefits of play.
Play the Day Away!
Building a castle of blocks, dreaming up a dramatic plot for dolls or running a pretend restaurant with plastic food. These are all great ways to play—and learn!
Play is essential for early childhood development, which spans ages zero to eight. It serves as a powerful channel for young children to explore, learn and make sense of the world around them.
Creating a Summer Bucket List
The warmer, longer days of summer are here. That means a more relaxed pace—and no school! Now is the perfect time to start planning how your family can make the best of the fast-moving days.
An easy and fun way to get the entire family involved in your summer fun is to create a Bucket List together. Creating a written list of your plans will help you to be more mindful and intentional about how you spend your time.