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10 Summer Outdoor Activities You Can Enjoy With Your Kids

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Games? Hurray! Your kids will respond like that when it comes to enjoying their summer itchy days with a few fun games. In this post, we have mentioned some activities from our Montessori City of Industry, CA , school specialists that will help you to enjoy yourself with your kids. So, let’s play the outdoor games with your little kiddos. Your backyard has never been more fun like that. Let’s hang on; Tug of War Game for the Neighborhood Put on a tug-of-war match for the community. Because tug of war is not only a fun outdoor game but also a science activity, we reveal some of the tactics for winning! Play a game of Bingo While looking for items in nature like flowers and butterflies, try the Bitz & Giggles bingo game. Ice Block Treasure Hunt Your kids will enjoy this ice block treasure hunt, and when they are finished, they will get a delightful surprise! Yard Dice Game With your children, have you ever played Yahtzee? We adore that even younger children can pick u...

Some Winter Specific Medical Conditions and Health Tips for Kids

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Winter is the time when you can take your kids outside, play, explore and have fun. But this is also the time when kids tend to fall sick. So, you need to be very careful and main certain ways to help keep your kids healthy during the winter. So, what are the most common winter-specific medical condition for kids? Here,  Child care  experts have shared the most common health issues, that kids may suffer during the months of winter. Asthma –  Winter months often trigger asthma attacks; so make sure you have refilled their asthma relief medicines before the weather changes. If your kids are already suffering from asthma and it gets worse during the winter months, please start asthma prevention medicine before the winter. You can also consult your pediatrician and keep your asthma management plan ready in case your little ones start coughing or showing other symptoms of an asthma attack.  Chronic coughing – If your kids catch cold and cough easily and that conti...

Effective Ways to Develop Self-Discipline in Kids

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Teaching self-discipline to kids is important as it helps them delay gratification, control temptations, and adjust to the discomforts required to reach their long-term goals. From choosing to turn off the video game to concentrate on the home assignments, or not eating an extra cookie when mom is not seeing to keeping toys in their place, self-discipline is very important to help kids grow as responsible human beings. According to the  Montessori  experts, parents and teachers should give kids the skills that they need to develop self-discipline as well as enough opportunities to practice making wise choices. Provide structure: Create a timetable that your kids will follow every day and eventually will get accustomed to it. If they know what they are expected to do, they will be less likely to get distracted with other activities. For example, a good morning routine helps kids know when they have to eat breakfast and get ready for school. Try to keep your child’s daily ...

How Gardening Helps Children to Have a Healthy Development

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Outdoors is an important place for kids to have a healthy development. Participating in different outdoor activities improves their health and supports their overall development. They learn to explore the world around them by observing, exploring, and interacting with its various natural elements.  Daycare  teachers encourage children to participate in outdoor learning engagements as during this time they may engage in complex imaginative play and much-needed physical activities. As parents, you should provide your kids with opportunities where they can build connections with nature and the outdoor world. You can carefully plan some outdoor activities which can lead children to engage in various meaningful tasks and projects.  You would be surprised to know that a garden can be an interactive playground for kids that can engage all of their senses. It is something where they will be able to touch and feel the fruits of their hard work, appreciate the brightly colored ...

How To Protect Children’s Skin And Hair During Hot And Humid Season

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  During the summer and rainy season in most parts of the US, people experience a humid, warm, and damp climate. Because of this hot and humid climate, caregivers of a  preschool  in  walnut, CA  has observed that preschoolers often suffer from various skin and hair problems. Causes of these problems are mainly due to bacterial, fungal, or viral infection. Since children have delicate skin; they are vulnerable to these problems.   Most of the times children bring these skin and hair infections from school.  Preschool  caregivers in a kindergarten in  Walnut, CA,  say that many parents do not know how to tackle these problems. He has given some practical tips to parents on how to prevent and treat common rashes that affect children the most.   Heat rash is the most common summer skin problem in preschoolers. It causes small red bumps on the skin. It appears most often on the neck, buttocks, and skin folds. Heat rash is caused...

Why You Should Send Your Children To Montessori

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Montessori is the best form of education that we can offer to a child. The excellent education system is still running proudly and successfully from the time of Italian physician cum educator Maria Montessori started her first school in Italy. The Montessori education system emphasis on independence, freedom within limits, and respect for a child’s natural, psychological, social development. This method of education is based on self-directed activity, hands-on learning, and collaborative play.  The Montessori   education system helps your children develop independence, a sense of empathy and social justice, and a lifelong love of learning.   A Montessori education system helps to bloom your children into their full potential. It helps them to engage in a friendly environment and helps them to be responsible, respectful, and competent. This system allows children to acquire knowledge at their own pace. Forcing children for anything is completely prohibited in this syst...