Open house at my daughter’s preschool is always a fun experience. The kids create arts and crafts to decorate the classrooms for weeks in advance. During this preparation time, there is a drought of classwork coming home. So on open house day there’s a lot to see. Every surface except the [...]
Before our recent trip to Sacramento, the lovely and talented wife asked the kids to pack a small backpack with whatever they thought they would need for the trip. The girl packed several dolls in assorted sizes. The boy brought two toy cars and an old carnival ticket.
Not clean underwear. Not a [...]
Children have a hard time understanding things they can’t see and touch. Time is particularly tricky. Concepts like sequences of events (first A then B), causality (A causes B), the length of any particular unit of time (a minute, a day) are apparently quite abstract.
Children don’t seem to understand the word “then” until [...]
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