independence
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How to Survive the “Family Sick Week” with Simple Play
When you have a sick child in the house, your daily or weekly schedule changes. It gets harder when the sickness stays in the house for a long time and every member of the family starts to get sick. Winter can be a hard time because children get sick more often. If a sick week…
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Give Your Child Confidence with a Wordless Book “Fly!”
Have you ever seen a wordless children book? It’s 100% pictures only. There are some good things about a wordless book. In the episode 83 of Teacher Gela Podcast, I use the book “Fly!” By Mark Teague and talk about how to use a wordless book to give your child more confidence. This book is…
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Quality Time with Simple Craft – for Low Energy Day
It’s been a while to give you an independent play idea. If you were waiting for one, I have a new idea especially for December. We are going to use the book that we read last week. -> “If You Take a Mouse to the Movies” by Laura Numeroff Bring the book again and talk…
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Independent Play – Colouring the Hidden Rainbow
It’s independent play time. I made new spring colouring pages for today’s independent play. They were made from the story of the book “The Hidden Rainbow” that I introduced in the last post. Look at the colouring pictures first. Independent play resources must be easy to understand. You can guess how children can use these,…
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For Your Sick Day – Mindful Sloth Colouring & Things To Talk About
Today, I came with some colouring pages. It’s a Sick Day Play time! It’s made for children’s independent play so that you can have a rest that you need. You can print it out and give it to your child with some colouring materials. My suggestion is coloured pencils if you want to know.🙂 If…
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Colouring with Positive Affirmations on Mommy’s Sick Day – Animals 1
I’ve been sick for more than a week now. There was a break. Last Sunday, I was almost recovered from a weeks-long cough and was feeling good, but I caught a virus on Monday from work. 🙁 Many children have been sick recently. I’ve lost my voice since last Tuesday and I’m still not in…
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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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Valentine’s Day Play for a Confident Child || Book “Mama, Do You Love Me?” by Barbara M. Joosse
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner! Are you excited? Hehe I’m asking because I’m excited. Well not as much excited as a few weeks ago though; I’m recovering from Covid and I’m not feeling comfortable going outside for anything right now (🥲). Valentine’s Day is my second favourite special day and I’m so excited…
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Play-dough play with Minimal Preparation
I’m starting the first post of the new year 2022 with 4 minimal-prep play ideas. The one main material we are gonna use is play-dough. Play-dough is always fun and so versatile. If you don’t have any at home, you should buy some and keep them at home for sure. I sometimes make homemade play-dough…
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[COOKING] Homemade Gummies
*Mini Class video coming at the end Do you like gummies? Gummies are my favourite kind of candy.😋 I love gummy bears and sour gummy worms. I saw many posts about homemade gummy bears online and wanted to try making one day. And, the last Friday was the day!😜 I decided to try and ordered…