Tag: early childhood education
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Teaching tips: Bilingual Children in your care
Over the years, I have come across a fair share of bilingual or even bilingual children in my care. I teach in Australia and this country is proud to have a diverse population. Here are few things that I observed and learned while working with multicultural families. “Learn a new language and you gain a…
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Erik Erikson’s theory of development
A few years ago, I finished Erik Erikson’s book Childhood and Society. As the mother of a school-age boy, I felt two things at once. On the one hand, I was disappointed that I hadn’t had this book in my library nine years earlier. There was so much important and essential in it. On the…
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Unschooling is a new trend?
Yesterday, I overheard a conversation between a parent and an educator. The parent casually said, “Oh, we’re doing a little bit of unschooling.” I paused for a second because it was the first time I had heard that term. Naturally, I asked a few more questions. UNSCHOOLING It turns out that unschooling is an educational…
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Raising and Teaching Boys
When I was pregnant, for some reason, I just knew who I was going to have. The ultrasound confirmed it: a boy. Over time, our home filled up with toy cars. We collected building sets and toy guns. We also gathered a whole bag of little mates. Child psychologist Kathy Walker says raising boys is…