Signing Time Your Way: Integrating Signing with Homeschooling
Colleen Brunetti, M.Ed. Originally Published March 5, 2013. Updated to reflect current information. Families who homeschool their children have a wonderful opportunity to choose curriculum and activities tailored exactly to their child’s needs and interests. Let’s look at some of the ways that signing with...
Teaching Children to Be Grateful
Teaching children to be grateful is an abstract skill. Being Grateful, also know as Gratitude, is a warm feeling of appreciation or thankfulness towards specific items, individuals, actions, etc. Learning how to say thank you is the foundation of showing gratitude. It is also an...
How to Stop Your Child from Whining
Why do children whine? Children typically start whining as they develop verbal language. It's often the only way toddlers express themselves when they are hungry, tired, uncomfortable or don't want to do something. While whining is very common in toddlers, but by age 3-4, children...
Using Sign Language to Enhance Learning
Updated November 1, 2019 I am absolutely passionate about American Sign Language and the benefits it can have with all children. This is why I am an instructor in the Signing Time Academy; it's why I teach my own children; it's why I work with...
Halloween Safety & Fun
Halloween can have mixed emotions for many children with costumes and decorations varying from playful to scary. As parents it can be difficult to help children understand that Halloween is all pretend. Knowing the facts can help you teach your children and make it fun....
How do I help my child love reading?
Did you know October is National Book Fair Month? In 2003, The National Book Foundation, which sponsors the annual National Book Awards, is embracing October as National Book Month as part of a national effort to raise the profile of reading in American culture. In…
How Do I Teach My Child About Being Safe?
Think about the warnings you were given as child. They often invoked fear and stress. You may have been taught things like "Stranger Danger", "You will get hit by a car", "You will get burned", and other similar messages in an effort to teach safety....
How Do I Teach My Children to Want Healthy Meals and Snacks
Healthy from the Start By 4 to 6 months, most infants are ready to be introduced to solid foods along with breast-feeding or formula-feeding. Since most infants don't have teeth at this stage they use their tongue to move the food in the mouth so...
Active Learning – Understanding Your Child’s Learning Style
Use Active Learning to Make Learning Fun Active learning places the opportunity of learning on the student in ways to help everyone engage based on the 4 different learning style. Active learning can take many forms. Commonly, students will engage in small or large activities...
The Back to School Game
Are your children excited, anxious, or a little bit of both as they head back to school? Each child experiences different emotions when it comes to school. Making school fun and exciting can help them work through their emotions and be more prepared for the…
