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February 13,2013

How To Read To Your Child- Part 2

By Arvinder Kaur
Kinderpillar / literacy / parenting / school readiness
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reading with children

“Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.”— Marilyn Jager Adams Family plays a vital role in child’s reading success. Reading to a small child as soon as poss

January 11,2013

How to Read to Your Child- Part 1

By Arvinder Kaur
Child's wellbeing / parenting / school readiness
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“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” ― Albert Einstein Reading to a child in her early years influences the most in achieving the primary grades learning goals. This could be perhaps the best

December 11,2012

Make the Most of Your Child’s Playtime

“It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.” Leo F. Buscaglia Parents are the child’s first and favorite playmates. Child is close to you from the beginning and he/she i

November 21,2012

Transitions and emotional development in young children

By Arvinder Kaur
Child's wellbeing / Kinderpillar / parenting / school readiness
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When a young child moves from one stage to another many changes take place in regards to his emotional and physical development. These changes are called as Transitions. These transitions are very individual and are an essential part of growing up. It is very important to understand a child on socio

November 01,2012

Establishing Healthy Food Choices for Young Children

By Arvinder Kaur
Child's wellbeing / Healthy Eating / Kinderpillar / parenting
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eating habits, healthy eating, parenting

The early years of childhood are the critical ones for developing life long eating habits and food preferences. During the age group 2 to 6 years, Children become very responsive to the external exposures like media advertisements of food items, fancy displays of candies and junk food in the markets

October 31,2012

Tattletale – Child’s Behaviour

The child obtains certain skills during the first years of his/her life. When grown up to a preschooler, your kid becomes more and more independent in daily routine activities like eating, going to washroom, doing basic cleaning up. The child is able to make a choice of the things he/she plays

October 26,2012

Types of Children – Lazy Children

By Arvinder Kaur
Child Discipline / Child's wellbeing / parenting / Uncategorized
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child's psychology, Lazy children

The lazy children are not the same as uninterested children. Judy H. Wright, a parent educator and PBS consultant, says that there appear to be many factors which influence child’s activeness. The laziness of a child can be caused by stage of growth, hormones, hunger, motivation, lack of cle

October 17,2012

Types of Children – Sensitive Children

Do you get upset when the things don’t go the way you want them to? Do you feel sad when your relations with the people around are not being developed in a proper way? Your answers will be “Yes, I do”. Though being an adult you already know that life consists of ups and downs, [&he

October 16,2012

The Benefits of Imaginative Play

By Arvinder Kaur
exploration time / Kinderpillar / parenting
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blocks, play time, pretend play

“Imagination is more important than knowledge generally. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” – Albert Einstein How much do you play every day? Yes, you….! Ofte

October 10,2012

Types of Children – Violent Children

Preschoolers, as had been noticed in the previous articles related to the child’s psychology, have their own ways of understanding the events and reacting upon them. The young children are too small to determine the right and the wrong, so they may react violently in the situations involving s