Learning to write is a milestone in the childhood experience of almost all typically developing children. Still, it is achieved with great effort and struggle for many. Countless products sold in stores often complicate the task for parents by combining uppercase and lowercase letters and encouraging the printing of 112 letters in an alphabetical yet developmentally arbitrary fashion. This can...
Every year millions of parents and their children head to stores with a list of required supplies for the return back to school. Every year that list includes a composition notebook. Despite the wide range of ages, this book is a standard purchase and in my book the #1 Back-to-School Blunder for Kindergarteners.
Young children that are just learning...
Learning and drawing basic shapes are generally associated with common preschool protocol just as much as circle time and two-hour naps. Some people can recall a memory from that time in their lives but are hard-pressed to recollect specific details such a favorite shape. This is probably because in the minds of many a shape is a shape is a...