When you look around the house, do you find old magazines lying around the corner?  Why not we use them to nurture our child’s recycling awareness this weekend?  The global warming issues are getting more serious these days.  We as adults can start educate our child at home about green living habits to create environmental [...]

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Most of the time punishment is used to nurture our child’s discipline.  An adult will use a rattan to beat a very “naughty” child because he thinks that beating can stop his naughty behavior and get him to become more discipline.  Before we proceed, it is important for the adults to understand the meaning of [...]

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One of the girls loves distracting the classmates during lesson plan is being carried out.  She would walk here and there in front of the group or talk/play with the child beside her when the teacher is explaining to the group.  Each time we have to call her name to get her to sit for [...]

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Lets nurture our child’s creative development with potatoes!  We can find potatoes easily at home.  They are very low cost materials for a craft too.  Before we begin any activity, lets talk about potatoes with our child.  Some children tasted potato chips, french fries and potato soup but never see a real whole potato before!  [...]

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We joined another class this afternoon for a big group time. waiting for the parents to fetch the children from school.  I saw a little girl who seemed a bit lost as she didn’t know where to be seated.  Therefore, I called her and started chatting with her.  She is just 3 years old and [...]

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Most of us do apply punishment when we are trying to nurture our child’s proper behavior.  Do you think punishment is effective in nurture our child’s behavior?  What type of punishment do you normally use when your child misbehaves?
Some parents love to apply physical punishment to their misbehaved child.  Physical punishment includes slapping, spanking, shaking, [...]

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One of the common issue in nurturing our child among the parents or teachers is that we find our child not listen to us!  “Son, clean up your room!”, an instruction given to your son early morning, but the room is still messy when you enter your son’s room at night.  In actual fact, you [...]

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It’s time to do another fun activity with our child to nurture their creativity as well as occupy their time during the free time at home or in school!
Materials

Water color or poster color - green, yelow, orange
Painting paper
green color paper
brown color paper
scissors
glue

Steps

Pre-cut some grass shapes using green color paper.  For older children who are able [...]

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I was with this little girl this afternoon while waiting for her mummy to pick her up.  We were playing with some animal models.  I asked her how do each animals make sounds.  These are the answers she gave me :
How does an octopus make sound?
“O..O..”
How does a lion make sound?
“Roar…Rrrrr…”
How does a frog make [...]

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I prepared some paints at the easel this morning so that children can do painting during their free choice time.  I love asking children what are they painting on their paper and most of the time they just quiet.  So, I always curious to find out what’s in their mind when they are painting.
One of [...]

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