Explore Spring and Nature

Explore Spring and Nature this Month!

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Spring is the perfect season for our little ones to explore, wonder, and grow.  While playing outdoors is a great way to do this, books can fuel our kids’ minds as well as their outdoor play. And most kids can’t resist a new stack of picture books from the library. We know that reading with our kids strengthens their early literacy skills. But reading together about spring and nature can also spark their curiosity about the world outside. So, whether the story is about flowers blooming, bugs crawling, or rainy days turning into sunshine, it’s likely to capture the magic …

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Kids Participate in Earth Day

Simple Ways to Help our Kids Participate in Earth Day

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Earth Day is coming up on April 22! This is a great time to teach our kids about taking care of our world. The official 2025 theme is about sustainable energy. While we won’t be solving that issue with our preschoolers, we can still find simple ways to help kids participate in Earth Day. Signing Time has several resources that can help too! We’ve got some super easy ways to get your kids thinking about our world and how we can care for it. In our free coloring pages, there are pages about grass, flowers, the rainbow, clouds, rain, and …

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Celebrate National ASL Day with Signing Time!

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On April 15th, we celebrate National American Sign Language Day. This annual celebration day is meant to bring awareness to the importance of American Sign Language (ASL) as a mainstream language. Of course, this is a key initiative at Signing Time as well. Acknowledging ASL as a mainstream language is an important step in building more inclusion into our society. Our ASL shows and resources are meant to not only help children who have difficulty with verbal communication, but also to help all children become comfortable with ASL. Kids retain so much, and our goal is that they can carry …

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Have Some Spring Fun with Your Kids

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It’s spring! Spring is so exciting, especially if you’ve had a long, cold winter. With the brighter, warmer sunshine and the longer daylight hours, it’s natural to want to get outside. And if you have little ones, you may really want them to be able to get outside. Outdoor play is so good for our kids, and it helps us parents to get a few minutes in a quiet house. Since we’re officially into spring now, let’s think about some ways to have some spring fun with your kids!   Get outdoors Since getting outside is the most obvious spring …

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spring cleaning with your preschooler

Spring Cleaning with Your Preschooler

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It’s hard to believe that spring is right in front of us already! When spring is approaching, we’re often motivated to do a big spring cleaning in our homes. Yet, when there are little ones around, our spring cleaning efforts can become really difficult. So how can we get our homes in springtime shape without losing our minds with littles underfoot? Let’s get them involved! Does that sound impossible? It’s actually pretty easy and fun. Our kids love to clean when they’re little. Now, they won’t clean perfectly or be able to do the big jobs. But there really are …

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Keep our Kids’ Brains Healthy and Strong

Let’s Keep our Kids’ Brains Healthy and Strong

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Brain development is a key part of childhood, and we parents are often concerned with the mental and developmental health of our kids. So during this year’s Brain Awareness Week, let’s think about how we can nurture the mental development of our children. This doesn’t mean that we have to play classical music at all hours and keep our kids busy with intense educational activities. At the same time, there are so many tools and toys that make it easy to keep our kids’ brains growing and developing. So let’s think about some easy ways to keep our kids’ brains …

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Encourage our Kids’ Creativity

Let’s Encourage our Kids’ Creativity

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Do you have kids who love to create stuff? Creativity and art can take many forms. So whether it’s crayons, paint, beads, blocks, fabrics, sticks, or Legos, we can call it art. March is Youth Art Month, so it’s a great time to encourage our kids’ creativity. It’s easy to let these activities fall aside in the busy-ness of our days. And screens can be a big distraction to the other things our kids enjoy doing. So here are 3 ways to encourage our kids’ creativity this month. Most kids love creating. And while the mediums may vary, we can …

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Understanding and Managing Tantrums in Preschoolers

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Tantrums with our little ones are never fun. And they usually do not line up with our schedules in a convenient way. There is a lot of advice to parents about staying calm, working to understand our kids when they are upset, and normalizing children’s tantrums. And sure, there is a lot of wisdom in much of this advice. At the same time, tantrums just stink. They take us by surprise, and it can be a challenge to respond in just the right way. So can we work toward understanding and managing tantrums with our kids? Let’s look at these …

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ways to develop language skills with our kids

5 Ways to Develop Language Skills with our Kids

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February 21st is International Mother Language Day. We don’t often think about the languages we speak or use. Usually, we simply use the first word that our brains come up with. Our language, at least our first or mother language, just flows without our having to think about it at all. It’s a blessing to be able to express yourself with words, to be able to communicate and share your thoughts. So as we think about this International Mother Language Day, let’s think about a few ways to develop language skills with our kids and within our families. It’s so …

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Help Our Kids Expect Success

3 Ways to Help Our Kids Expect Success

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We know we have to work hard if we want to be successful. And we know that we have to teach our kids to work hard too. But did you know that the way we think about our efforts makes a difference? Positive thinking doesn’t bring about some miraculous outcome. But it does change the way we approach our work. It keeps our goals in view and helps us to be hopeful. And these mindsets really could change our outcomes. So let’s look at a few ways to help our kids expect success in their lives. It just might help …

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