St. Patrick’s Day Traditions
St. Patrick’s Day traditions are fun for families to create and share. Traditions including food, games, surprises and more bring a family together and make lasting memories.
Author: Janet
St. Valentine’s Day
*download FREE Golden Days at Home Valentines below St. Valentine’s Day will soon be here. Your child may be seeing and hearing signs of this sweet, pink and red-bedecked holiday and pose the question, “What is Valentine’s Day?” The best way to teach your child the meaning of Valentine’s Day is to emphasize the meaning […]
Colors of the World
At a young age, while drawing a rudimentary self-portrait stick figure, I would search for the right skin color amongst the choice of crayons inside the Crayola box of 64. The distinct color named flesh was a choice, but I didn’t connect to its peachy-pink hue. I would give it a miss and choose instead […]
Little Golden Books at Christmas
Which timeless children’s gift under the tree or stocking stuffer has made its welcomed appearance for generations? It’s the book with the familiar gold spine, a Little Golden Book. For many consecutive Christmas mornings, our family’s Little Golden Book library grew and reading from the collection of Little Golden Books for Christmas soon made its […]
Saint Lucia Day: A Celebration of Light
December 13th, Saint Lucia Day is a celebration of light. A beautiful way to honor the spirit of Christmas, a season of love, peace and tolerance, is to introduce children to festivities taking place in different cultures around the world. Learning of histories and stories, tasting festive foods, and honoring foreign traditions opens hearts and […]
Celebrating Martinmas
The eleventh of November is the traditional date of a festival celebrating Martinmas. To some, this may not be a familiar observance as this old European celebration comes from long, long ago, in the Middle Ages. As the legend goes, a young soldier named Martin passed under an archway in the French city of Amiens […]
Cultivating Goodness Within Our Children
A Child’s Longing ‘To Know’ As parents, we have a sincere desire in cultivating goodness within our children. Each child is unique from the start, as every parent knows. Some of my babies couldn’t get enough coddling, attention, and fussing over. Another desired only to be fed, bathed, dressed then given space as she had […]
Best at Home Preschool Curriculum
My desire is for this blog space to be a useful resource for you as a parent, grandparent, or caregiver of young children. Please feel free to comment and communicate what is of value to you. We will visit topics pertinent to your family, subjects of interest to you as a nurturer, provide gems of […]