Author Archives: Arvinder Kaur

March 17,2016

Taking Art and Math Outside

By Arvinder Kaur
Child Discipline / Classroom Management / exploration time / Kinderpillar / literacy / Multiple Intelligence / school readiness / science / Thinking
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“When we teach a child to draw, we teach him how to see.When we teach a child to play a musical instrument, we teach her how to listen.When we teach a child to dance, we teach him how to move through life with grace.When we nurture imagination, we create a better world, one child at […]

March 15,2016

STEAM “IT” Outside! Taking learning off the page and out the door

By Arvinder Kaur
Brain building / Child's wellbeing / exploration time / Kinderpillar / Multiple Intelligence / parenting / school readiness / science / Thinking
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“Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.”- Educator, Horace Mann The great outdoors is your child’s “other” classroom. Studies are showing that young children need to interact with natural materials in the real world around them to develop higher or

February 09,2016

Learning to Write with Purpose and Meaning

We all want our children to learn and to be successful. And writing is a huge part of the process of learning and schooling. We might think that workbooks and writing practice pages are the best way to learn to write. Guess what? It isn’t! Did you know that the best way for your child […]

November 28,2015

“A to Z” of Reading For Your Children

By Arvinder Kaur
literacy / school readiness / teaching alphabets
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“There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all.” –Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis There are thousand of wonderful ways to get your children to Reading. Some ways must be very common and obvious to you, while others may not. Let’s see how we can tea

July 24,2015

Emotional Abuse in Children

It is very easy, as an adult, to yell at our children at times. Often parents/ caretakers are found very angry at their kids. But the point to ponder upon is that when does this scolding or yelling cross the line into emotional abuse? When the adults constantly belittle a child and make her feel [&h

December 12,2014

Understand Your Child’s Emotions

By Arvinder Kaur
Child Discipline / Child's wellbeing / parenting / Thinking
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“To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man’s heart”. ~Francesco Guicciardini If you think all that hugs and kisses, cuddling and skin –to-skin touch during his infant stages or being a toddler is sufficient to built that emot

October 31,2014

How to keep Highly Active Children busy in winters

By Arvinder Kaur
Child's wellbeing / Kinderpillar Playdates / parenting
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“Facilitate opportunities for children to have active play inside or bundle them up and send them outside”- Shari Steelsmith Parents of highly active children face many challenges all year round. But specifically, when the weather gets cold, they feel that children must stay indoors. So, particu

October 01,2014

Playing with Puppets Builds Children’s Brains

By Arvinder Kaur
Brain building / exploration time / parenting / Thinking
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Have you ever had the wonderful experience of introducing a puppet to your child? Children as young as babies are enthralled by the magic and creativity of puppet play. They light up when they see and hear an adorable puppet actually talking to them! While we understand that puppet play is good for

August 06,2014

The Power of Praise for Children

By Arvinder Kaur
Child Discipline / Child's wellbeing / Classroom Management / parenting
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“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.” – The Dalai Lama We have all seen it. How children “bloom” with praise and “whither” with criticism. But how do we help guide children to have good behavior? One key is in praising the good behavior. There is the old adage that says,

June 17,2014

“How to Teach Children to Love Learning.”- Part 4 (Home Connection)

There are many ways to communicate the educational value of your early childhood classroom to parents. It is important for you to help families recognize your focus on teaching their child to love learning, so they can also value it as an essential part of their child’s development. The main mes