Author Archives: Arvinder Kaur

July 25,2013

Showing Respect to Your Children

By Arvinder Kaur
Child's wellbeing / parenting / Uncategorized
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Many parents worry about whether their children respect them, but do not think about whether they are showing respect to their children. To gain respect from children, we must also show children respect. Kids naturally learn from and copy the behavior of their parents. If parents show their chil

July 15,2013

Encouraging Preschoolers to Try New Foods

By Arvinder Kaur
Child's wellbeing / Healthy Eating / parenting
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Young children are naturally picky eaters. But children can overcome their picky eating habits with the help of teachers and caregivers when they allow them to explore and taste new foods. Keeping in mind the rise in childhood overweight or bad eating issues, it is important to establish healthy eat

July 04,2013

Actively Listening to Your Child

An important way for parents to establish trust with their children is to listen to them. Not just listen, but actively listen. This means paying attention to tone and body language, not just content. Active listening also means not judging what your child is saying, not interrupting your chil

June 27,2013

Letting Kids Make Mistakes

There are so many dangers in this world for children. As parents, we try to protect our children so nothing bad happens to them. What if someone is cruel to them? What if they need help and no one is there to help? Germs, health, education, and an infinite number of concerns are constantly t

June 20,2013

Emotional Abuse in Children

In the heat and frustration of the moment, it is easy to yell at children. Often, parents find themselves getting very angry at their kids. When does this yelling cross the line into emotional abuse? When parents consistently belittle a child and make the child feel bad, this behavior has crosse

June 17,2013

Music and Movement–Summer Camp 2013

I had a great time working with the kids for the Music and Movement part of the summer camp. For the majority of time, I allowed to the children to dance freely to various types of music. Because children are accustomed to constantly being told what to do by adults, I wanted to give the [&hellip

June 14,2013

It’s Summer: Time to Read Books and Build Literacy Skills! – Ellen Booth Church

“Children are made readers on the laps of their Parents.”- Emilie Buchwald Your young child is at a stage of development where she is exploring the world around her with all of her senses. This is a good thing because those senses are essential for building the literacy skills she will

May 30,2013

Early Childhood Environment – Quiet Area

The children seem to always be so active. They never get tired of running, jumping, dancing, hopping, they are always ready to participate in loud activities like music making, sound creation, clapping, stomping and so on. It is considered to be good when a child has energy for all of those and h

May 29,2013

How to Help Children Become Self-Sufficient

Many times without realizing it, parents do tasks for their children when the child is perfectly capable of doing it himself. Often, parents do not think their child is capable of a task or they do not have the patience for the child to complete it. However, children are almost always more capab

May 28,2013

“Time-out” -To Address the Challenging Behaviour of Preschool Children

By Arvinder Kaur
Child Discipline / Child's wellbeing / Classroom Management / parenting
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One of the most effective forms of discipline in reducing challenging behaviour in young children is “Time-out”. This term is taken from “time out from positive reinforcement”. It works on a simple strategy of selectively ignoring the disruptive behaviour. In this process, children are remov