Category Archives: Language

Language development, baby sign language, and bilingualism

• Wordless Wednesday: Signing

  This week we asked you to share signing with us. Read more about responding with sensitivity on our resource page. Link up!  MORE

• Handmade Holidays: Gifts for Babies and Children

  Easy on your pocket book, these Handmade Holiday gift tutorial ideas will delight children of all ages. Be sure to enter the two giveaways, too!  MORE

• Respecting My Toddler’s “No”

  If you’ve ever had a toddler, then you know the word “no.” Not only because as a parent you may find yourself saying it more in this season of parenthood than any other, but it’s also a familiar word because of how often your toddler says it to you.  MORE

• How to Raise Global Learners

  Living on a farm, we don’t have the time or the means to travel. But we want our children to be global citizens. We want them to truly understand how fully they are linked to their fellow beings on this beautiful blue green planet. When they were small we read stories, ate the foods, played the games and celebrated festivals …  MORE

• Get More Out of Life With Baby Signs

  Right now, my son communicates with his hands. Baz is eighteen months old, and at last count has 4 spoken words and roughly 20 signs — and they have proven worth the effort in our daily life.  MORE

• “Strewing Their Paths”: The Art of Scattering for Exploration and Play

  Strewing means to leave interesting objects, materials, or combinations of things out as a quiet invitation to your child to notice it, touch it, explore it, use it and most importantly, have fun in the process. Kristin offers a ton of ways to invite your children to play using strewing.  MORE

• Toddlers and the “F” Word

  A reader asks our NPN Mentors how to approach a toddler who’s swearing.  MORE

• Armed Only With a Clipboard

  Ideas for activities and projects your children can do outside with few materials.  MORE

• Climb, Swing & Snuggle: Reading Readiness Involves the Whole Body

  Today’s children sit more than ever. Babies spend countless hours confined in car seats and carriers rather than crawling, toddling, or being carried. As they get older, their days are often heavily scheduled between educational activities and organized events. Most children today have 25 percent less time for free play than they did a generation ago, and that’s before factoring …  MORE

• Unschooling preschool

  Try these fun ideas for doing preschool at home without a curriculum.  MORE

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