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Mindfulness Play with Song “She Sells Sea Shells”
Are you excited about that we entered into June? I am excited! Finally the warm weather is settling here and I can get lots of sun. I don’t know if I can actually go to a beach this summer but thinking about it is always good. Do you want to have a calm play time…
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Rainy Day Fun || Book “Singing In The Rain”
This post is being uploaded a little late. I wanted to post this earlier in May when it was raining a lot. Now it’s mid-May and we are getting less rain……. 😂 But, I know this post is gonna live here forever(?) and serve you in many other rainy seasons. Hehe. I’m introducing this book…
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Cultivate Empathy || Book “A Sick Day for Amos Mcgee”
Have you ever seriously thought about teaching empathy to your young child? Empathy is “the ability to understand and share the feelings of another” (from Oxford Languages) and this skill is needed in more situations than you think. Yes, even for our young toddlers and preschoolers. Let me tell you an example of where empathy…
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Mindfulness with Lemon Squeezing Play || Book “The Red Lemon”
This week I want to talk about mindfulness. And we start with this book! Book “The Red Lemon” by Bob Staake Lessons → GROWTH MINDSET After reading this book, you can suggest your child to do the lemon squeezing play with you. You can describe the scene of squeezing a lemon with a hand. “Squeeze,…
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Widen Your Child’s Perspective || Book “There Was an Old Astronaut who Swallowed the Moon” by Lucille Colandro
How often do you lift your head up and look at the sky? How often do we get to see or think about a bigger world? When we look at a bigger space, our perspective is broaden. There can be many ways that we can help our children to have a broaden perspective. But what’s…
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What Does Love Feel Like? || Book “A Box of Butterflies” by Jo Rooks
I found a good children book to teach feelings and emotions. Feelings/emotions is one of my favourite topics to teach so I couldn’t skip introducing this book on my blog. Book “A Box of Butterflies” by Jo Rooks It doesn’t seem like an emotion book, does it? It also doesn’t seem like a science book…
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Being Okay with Being Alone
“Being okay with being alone” is not just a lesson for adults. Young children also experience moments when they feel different and alone in their social world. It’s more likely if your child is attending daycare or school. The moment that we feel different and avoided can be hurtful and it can decrease our self-esteem.…
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Are You Being a Nice (Always-there) Mom or Helicopter Parenting?
Do you know the word “helicopter parenting”? “Helicopter parenting” is a parenting style where the parent pays extremely close attention to her/his child’s experiences, over-protecting, over-controlling and being overly involved. I had some situations recently that made me think about helicopter parenting and I’m sharing my thoughts about it in this week’s podcast episode. I…
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Unicorn Croissants || Book “Never Let a Unicorn Wear a Tutu!” By Diane Alber
Have you ever seen the beautifully decorated croissants? I saw croissants half covered in pink chocolate on the internet the other day and I wanted to have them! Since I didn’t know where to buy them in my area, I decided to try making them by myself. How are they? Haha. They are not as…
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Book “Little Pea” by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
A few days ago, I found a little cute book and I wanted to share it with you. So for this week, I’m not here with growth mindset strategies but with some resources about the book. This is “Little Pea” by Amy Krouse Rosenthal. Watch the video to learn about the story of the book…