Adventure Academy is taking a summer break as I await the arrival of our family’s next lil’ adventurer. We will re open for child care and tutor time services next fall ~ and are currently enrolling tots to preteens (Discovery…
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Safe-Summer
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Over the river and through the woods
Some of our ADVENTURES this week: The last couple weeks have been LOUD at Adventure Academy. Transportation theme lessons have led to a center filled with kids honking and beeping. Not always music to my ears, but the sounds of happy children…
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Folktale Food & FUN
I use to run a program called “Snack-time Stories,” which is just what it sounds like. The best part of the program wasn’t the concept though, it was that the kids choose the stories and created snacks that went with the theme,…
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Proactive and Preventative Parenting
We’ve been dissecting each of the Mi-Resolutions 1by1. Have you been reading them? Taking the challenges? We are a fourth of the way through 2014 – are you reaching your goals? Our first resolution was to “Tell yourself that you…
Posted in Education, Family, Health, Meals, Motor Skills, Organization, Parents, Providers, Safety, Special Needs Tagged with: Education, exercise, family, Health, Meals, Organization, Parenting, Safety, Special Needs
SCHEDULING your chaos
It’s been a bit over a week since we did the whole “spring forward” time change, but I still hear parents talking about how it’s affecting their homes. Kids are having a hard time falling asleep and even a harder…
Posted in Behaviors, Child Development, Family, Health, Learning through Play, Michigan, Organization, Parents, Providers, Safety, Uncategorized Tagged with: Challenging Behaviors, Child Development, Health, routine, Safety, schedule, Sleep
Organized Chaos
Has your family made any changes based on using your senses to utilize space in your home? If you didn’t have the chance (or didn’t read our PREVIOUS BLOG) I suggest you go room to room and think by touching,…
Posted in Behaviors, Child Development, Chores/Housekeeping, Family, Organization, Parents, Safety, Sensory Tagged with: Challenging Behaviors, Child Development, Chores, Housekeeping, Organizing, Safety, Sensory
