Thanksgiving Luncheon A Great Success

November 29, 2010

We just had our 36th Thanksgiving luncheon. Put on by the children and enjoyed by the parents. The children help prepare the food over 2 days. Lot s of mixing and chopping goes into making stuffing, pies, potatoes, cranberry sauce etc. Then there are the decorations to make so we can decorate the table where [...]

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Community at Children’s Country House

January 28, 2010

Everyone needs to have a feeling of belonging. We belong to our families and then to our community. At Children’s Country House one of our goals is to foster a sense of community. One way we try to do that is to have get-togethers. It fosters a wonderful feeling of family and is gives us [...]

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Raising the Happy Child

July 6, 2009

Happiness is as warm puppy, that phrase captures our imagination. Puppies do generate good feelings. But happiness needs to be more than fleeting moments of cuteness. It needs to be at the core of a person. So that a person has a positive outlook on life and feels that success is assured with effort and [...]

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Violence in Children’s Literature

January 30, 2008

Should children be exposed to any violence in literature? It was suggested to me that it is inappropriate for children to experience any kind of violence in books. Excepting graphic and gratuitous violence as unacceptable at any age, classic tales do contain violent elements at time which lend to the story. When there are witches [...]

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Early Childhood and the Environment

November 13, 2007

Because of all the recent news coverage, everyone’s awareness is heightened about global warming. Many of us understand that we all need to participate in whatever ways we can to help the environment. I named my preschool Children’s COUNTRY House. Why? I have ALWAYS felt, from the very first time I thought about creating a [...]

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Developing Creativity in Children

October 22, 2007

Many of the behaviors and attitudes that you want your child to develop are not easily quantifiable. The real Einstein put it this way. “Many of the things you can count, don’t count. Many of the things you can’t count, really count.” One such behavior is imaginative creativity. It is not so much that your [...]

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Want to Raise a Bright Child?

October 6, 2007

Parent’s want to raise bright and intelligent children. So often both parents are working and dealing with the resulting busy schedules. It’s no wonder parents are tempted to seek out and turn t turned to “quick” fixes like the Baby Einstein tapes, etc. But the problem that remains with such a tempting time saving solution [...]

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