This year I am on a mission to rid my house of all the toxic cleaners we have been using. Growing up my mother used vinegar to clean many surfaces and I never thought much of it, until I became a mother myself. This year I will be slowly changing all my cleaning products to healthier, more natural homemade products. I will be doing this … Continue reading Crunchy Cleaning: Homemade Stain Remover
As we know April is National Autism Awareness Month, last week Karla Saval wrote a presentation of an overview of what Autism is. This week is an article of an Overview of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, originally posted in the Baltimore Child’s A Special Edition: Focus on Autism 2009. Please click on the link provided. For more information on Autism please contact: Karla M. Saval, … Continue reading National Autism Awareness Month: Guest Post
Fresh ideas for filling Easter Baskets: Peanut butter crackers Sugarless gum Slim jim Bubbles Nail polish Stick on earrings Baseball cards Pencils Crayons Chalk Stickers Gift Cards Make-up Our how about a family Easter Basket. Fill one easter basket for the whole family. Choose items for each person and place in one section of the basket! Do you have any other ideas to put into … Continue reading Easter Basket Ideas!
Puffy eggs from construction paper: Cut two sheets of paper in oval shapes. Design with crayons, pain or sparkles, staple together leaving small area open. Fill with tissue or cotton balls and staple closed. Decorating dyed eggs: using stickers allows little ones to be involved with eater preparations. Place rubber bands around the eggs and then dip them in the dye. Keep the rubber band in … Continue reading Kids Korner: Easter Egg Ideas
Start young. I let my 2 year old choose her clothes. I would put out 2 outfits on her bed to choose from. As she got a little older, she would pick out her own outfits. Some days I might say, “Ok. You can keep the top or the pants on.” Then she would run back to her room and change either the top or … Continue reading Teaching Children the Art of Making Decisions
Show some green around your house on St. Patrick’s day with very little effort. Make Green pancakes- just add green dye to the pancake batter Make Green Mashed potatoes- just add green dye to the potatoes (or better yet make mashed cauliflower) Sandwich shaped like a clover: use a cookie cutter to cut out the bread into the shape Have Green Milk: just add green … Continue reading Little Ways to add Green to St Patrick’s Day
So you have a little on on the way and you already have a couple of furbabies at home. There are a few things that you can do to help prepare them for the arrival of your baby. – Start with noises babies make. Youtube is great for this. Look up babies crying, screaming, laughing…. Play the video so that your furbabies can hear. Start with … Continue reading How to Prepare your Pets for Welcoming a New Baby
Does your child love to touch? Wiggle? Doodle? They may be kinesthetic! I LOVE to touch different textures. I walk through the fabric store running my hands over all the lovely materials. Touching is one of our main senses. Hard, soft, feathery, silky, rough, cool. Children learn by touching. Your child may be tactile learner. Tactile and kinesthetic children learn through the use of their … Continue reading Does your child love to touch? Wiggle? Doodle? They may be kinesthetic!
When my son looks up at me when I get home from work with a huge smile on his face! He lifts up his arms waiting for me to hug and kiss him hello. It is the first thing I do once my hands are free. When my son crawls to my feet and uses me to help him stand up to say hi. Hearing … Continue reading Heartwarmers
A child experiences stress in everyday situations and because he can not verbalize what he is feeling, he may “act-up”. Tantrums, fighting, and withdrawl may all be a child’s cry for relief from stress. The following lists some everyday stresses children may go throguh as well as some “do-able” solutions which can relieve the children’s tension and frustration. Habutually Being Late: Emotion: Embarrassment, Shyness when … Continue reading Childhood Stress
ART with Angela DiCicco, The Italian Grandmama's Guide 