Blog posts related to children 6 & up.
Christmas break has begun! As wonderful as it is to spend extra time as a family over the holidays, we have to remember that for our kiddos, Christmas break also brings with it a break in the routine, structure and predictability that goes along with the regular school day and that many of our kids […]
I am so pleased to introduce you to a brand new book by Elizabeth A. Sautter, author of Whole Body Listening Larry at School, and Whole Body Listening Larry at Home. I am a big fan of the Whole Body Listening books so I was very excited to hear of Sautter’s newest addition, Make Social […]
It may come as a surprise to some, but although I may be totally passionate about working with kids in the school system, working with my own kids in a home school type set-up is not something that I thought I’d ever want to do. The fact is, school is very structured, and kids go […]
Today our family embarks on a journey, a trek that we make annually that takes a lot of mental preparation on my part, and a long nap when it’s all said and done. Today we are going to the fair. It is a jam-packed, high-energy day that inevitably ends in meltdowns or, as was the […]
It was in the summer of 2012 that I first learned about Social thinking when I attended a Michelle Garcia-Winner conference put on by ACT. I immediately fell in love with Winner’s concepts and have been expanding my knowledge and using her curriculum ever since. Winner coined the term “social thinking“. As described on her […]