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Fun Without Toys: No Apple a day for Steve Job's children
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Saturday, 14 February 2015. No Apple a day for Steve Job's children. An old article, but the title caught my attention. No Apple a day for Steve Jobs’ children - who were not even allowed iPads. While he persuaded millions that Apple’s chic but pricey gadgets were a must-buy, turning the company from a basket case to a global powerhouse, he prevented his own children from using iPads and limited their access to the internet generally.". I remember the most dramatic change was in a 6-year-old boy who coul...
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Fun Without Toys: The Best Gift a Mother Can Give Her Child
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Monday, 27 October 2014. The Best Gift a Mother Can Give Her Child. Nope, not breast milk. Not any new-fangled educational toy. Not expensive enrichment brain-boosting classes either. The Best Gift a Mother Can Give Her Child is. a Happy Mother. It sounds simple but it is incredibly hard to do. I learnt it the hard way. And like the last-in-class student, I keep having to re-learn it! Once again, I picked up my five-year-old copy of ' Screamfree Parenting. It seems counter-intuitive but I've come to see ...
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Fun Without Toys: Nature Table - Bringing the outdoors in
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Tuesday, 21 April 2015. Nature Table - Bringing the outdoors in. The nature table is a lovely and simple way to connect children to nature. The children love to do landscaping on their own gardens and sometimes I see them hard at work re-positioning the treasures or creating stories about the creatures in the garden. We have a few garden rules:. 1 We pick up treasures, not pluck them. Earlychildhoodnews.com - Nature Table. Moon Child - Waldorf Nature Table. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). 8 Ways to t...
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Fun Without Toys: Hemp milk (dairy-free, vegan, but creamy and yummy!)
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Thursday, 29 January 2015. Hemp milk (dairy-free, vegan, but creamy and yummy! Touted as the world's most nutritious seed, hemp seeds are the darling of the Superfoods. Packed with proteins, omega 3 and a long list of vitamins and minerals, it's a regular feature in our smoothies and salads. And now I've discovered another recipe! I made my first batch of hemp milk today. It was rich and creamy, nutty, and for someone who's been used to watery rice milk, heavenly! 3 cups of drinking water. A pinch of sal...
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Fun Without Toys: Beeswax vs Playdough
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Sunday, 8 March 2015. Once or twice a week, after story time. A story without illustrations) we get out the beeswax and start creating elements of the story that the have been stirred up in our imaginations. It could be the animals, flowers, the basket of berries carried by the little girl in the story, eggs, anything! It's also non-toxic, and when you finish molding it, it hardens and your creation becomes rigid and you can display it or play with it. Top Left: After a homeschool lesson. Bottom Left: La...
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Fun Without Toys: What to do while watching the children at the playground + DIY Toys: Dangling Leaf Butterfly
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Sunday, 10 May 2015. What to do while watching the children at the playground DIY Toys: Dangling Leaf Butterfly. Like it or not, children are learning from us all the time. They pick up how we speak to strangers, how we manage our anger, and what we do when we have free time. Do we relax, read a book, strike up a conversation, or slump on a bench and scroll through Facebook? Benefits of being productively occupied during outdoor play:. I get to do what I enjoy! So the Dangling Leaf Butterfly was born!
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Fun Without Toys: Building a House of Sticks (Who's afraid of the big bad wolf?)
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Wednesday, 28 January 2015. Building a House of Sticks (Who's afraid of the big bad wolf? Another $0 toy that lasts for days! 1 Pick a sheltered location, under a big tree, with roots on two sides to support the house structure. 2 Set up the house skeleton structure by driving five sticks into the soil (two sets of parallel upside-down "v" sticks with a long stick joining them on top). 3 Bind the connecting parts with long flexible vines, leaves or aerial roots. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Farm S...
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Fun Without Toys: A train-themed birthday party
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Monday, 29 September 2014. A train-themed birthday party. We had a Gruffalo-themed birthday dinner. Earlier this year. For the little boy's birthday, he requested a train-themed dinner! It was fun and easy to make using construction paper, a loo roll, 4 bottle caps and a full tissue box - so the tissues could be the smoke! Our tissue-box train pulled carriages of food, chugging over edamame train tracks and past vast banana leaf meadows. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Promote your Page too. Waldorf ...
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Fun Without Toys: Yummy desserts made of fruits!
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Wednesday, 31 December 2014. Yummy desserts made of fruits! We haven't been sick for a whole year! Ever since we started eating 50% raw food, we haven't had any medicine or seen any doctor. It's a far cry from how we were two years ago, all of us sick practically every month and having permanent runny noses and chesty coughs. Isn't that a little extreme, people ask? Just apples and bananas and salads? Doesn't that make you feel always hungry and cold? And how about cakes and desserts? We get our mangoes ...
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