Celebrate Spring With Your Preschooler

preschooler celebrating spring outside in a field of wildflowers

Celebrate spring with your preschooler! The days are getting longer as the world tilts ever so slightly towards light. The air feels warmer too making it the perfect time to celebrate the beauty of this new season with your preschooler. As the flowers start to bloom and the trees grow new leaves, it’s a wonderful […]

The Benefits of Chores for Children

Chores for children being done by a preschooler washing windows.

“Laurie, come pack away your toys before bath time!” As a parent, you may have questions about assigning chores for children. Should children have responsibilities around the house or left to be carefree? Is it okay to expect a child to do work or is childhood just for play? Why assign my child to do […]

Sharing the Magic of Poetry for Preschoolers

A pretty mother with dark hair and a cropped hairstyle wearing a brown shirt is reading children's poetry to her two young children, son and daughter, in a public library.

Sharing the magic of poetry for preschoolers enhances four areas of their early childhood development: cultivates a love of language, fosters literary skills, supports social/emotional development and inspires imagination.

Celebrating Back to School

Back to school scene in a vintage classroom with wooden desks and chalkboard.

Before back to school arrives, the beauty of these last days of August are to be savored. Sun-kissed faces and little bodies are empowered by fresh air and long play days in the grass. Daylight hours are still filled with spontaneous curiosity and freedom. Back to school seemed weeks away, but with summer months coming […]

Your Child’s Greatest Teacher

mother and child at the seaside, you are your child's greatest teacher

From preschool on through their academic journey, your child will have a wonderful variety of capable teachers. However, you are your child’s greatest teacher. Here at Golden Days at Home, we believe in this phrase so fervently we adopted it as our motto. We take this belief to heart repeating and sharing its truth with […]

Create a Child’s Bedroom Sanctuary

two young children looking out of a curtained window together their mom decided to create a child's bedroom sanctuary

Cultivating a place for family to relax, unwind and feel safe is the essence of home. Taking this nurturing act one step further is to create a child’s bedroom sanctuary. Offering a space of refuge and comfort for your little one to retreat to when feeling sleepy, overwhelmed or simply needing time alone is looking […]

Deep Winter Joy at Home

A white double story home with a red brick chimney is enveloped in snow under a white, snowy sky exuding a feeling of shelter and deep winter joy at home.

When the trees are bare, the nights are long and the wind is whipping around the chimney, a fleeting, magical season of the year has arrived. It is deep winter and with its appearance the gift to embrace deep winter joy at home.  Some may look at this darkest portion of the year as challenging. […]

The Importance of Picture Books

A brunette mother and young girl are sitting on a bed and reading a blue picture book together.

Picture books are important for young children and preschoolers. Reading aloud is the best thing parents can do to encourage a love of books and reading.

Author and Creator Interview: Janet Nicole

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Janet Nicole, author and creator of Golden Days at Home recently received a request for an interview. A new publication with the goal of bringing more attention to the amazing small business owners, artists and creatives in the community approached Janet Nicole desiring to feature Golden Days at Home, LLC in an upcoming issue. We […]

Autumn Activities at Home

a mother and daughter are dressed in colorful coats walking hand in hand outside on a path. Golden autumn leaves cover the ground and trees with dark trunks line the path.

  Autumn is nature’s annual, bounteous gift offering a plethora of autumn activities at home. This gentler season of wind swept skies invites a time to rest as the carefree and high-spirited activities of summer come to a close. A more orderly lifestyle ensues and with it comfortable temperatures as well as the reassuring bounty […]