With a few smart ideas and careful planning you can give your child’s room a fresh look especially after the holiday’s with all those wonderful gifts you’ve so wonderfully accumulated. Easy room cures that offer a fabulous, eco-friendly, designed touch.
Here are some items that give you additional space.
Suggesting the new bedding, helps you refresh the living spaces.
The holiday season is a time for all of us to relax and take a break from the day to day, especially the little ones in our lives . Here’s some tips to help your children enjoy and find peace at home.
1. Try not to over schedule your children
Limit the activities that you are planning for your kids, try to avoid long outings and plan short shopping trips, these will be more memorable and fun.
2. Have activity-based celebrations
Let your kids be more creative such as, making holiday cards, creating their own holiday paper decorations (recycled paper to do this) or baking festive treats.
3. Have children stay physically active
Physical activity is one of the simplest and most effective for the kids to reduce stress and have good sleep at night. Limit your kids highly physical activities several hours to bedtime, it will rises the metabolic rate, which could make it difficult to sleep at night.
4. When possible, have your children play outdoors. Exposure to sunlight helps children to sleep better at night.
5. Teach your children relaxation skills
Relaxation techniques is another way for parents to let their kids sleep well during night time, like stretching, progressive relaxation, deep breathing and guided visualization. With doing these relaxation techniques it will relieve the stress and tension of mind and body, which make your kids more calm and healthy.
6. Banish bedtime fears
Your kids have a reality of their own, try to understand what your children fear the most and make sure they know you are on their side, safe and secure. Kids from two-four years old have an heightened sense of imagination, a dinosaur picture can become a monster during night time.
7. Make your home as sanctuary of quality time
Spending time with your kids at home has a great emotional impact. Share story telling, read holiday stories, singing or listening to holiday music, it relaxes their body and soul.
8. Maintain the bedtime routine
Bedtime routine is important for you and your kids, it will create a sense of security and rhythm, helping to your children prepare for bed will result in an easily time falling asleep with more confidence and safety.
9. Instill compassion and encourage generosity
As a parents, encourage your children to be helpful to others, encourage them to be more generous, gather toys, books and clothing they no longer use and drop them off at charitable organization Visit elders who needs companionship . This early foundation will teach your children to learn the fun in giving and sharing.
10. Instill appreciation and gratitude
Showing gratitude can be as easy as a hug, words of love, saying thank you, pointing out the sound of birds in the morning or beautiful snow. Gratitude can be a have a very centering effect.
Happy Holidays from Argington.
With Halloween less than two weeks away, children across the country are getting their costumes ready for the big day. For parents though, Halloween is a less-than-exciting prospect, as their children are even more tempted by sugary sweets than usual. Candy is almost literally thrown at their children while trick or treating, at school, and at friends’ houses. Here are some tips for ensuring that your children have a healthy Halloween.
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Bedtime Bliss – Tips for a Good Night’s Sleep
Chances are, if you have or had a baby, you are familiar with the problems of trying to get your baby to go to sleep. Here are some time-honored ways of getting your baby to go to sleep. All of these tips have been provided by mothers like you, who want their baby to get a good night’s sleep. After all, a good night’s sleep is an integral part to your baby’s health and development.
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Here at Argington we’re huge fans of Mem Fox, author of the book Tell Me About Your Day Today. You can check out our book review here. We recently had a brief interview with Ms. Fox and learned more about how and why she writes.
JA: What inspired you to write children’s books?
MF: I had to write a book as an assignment at college. It became Possum Magic, the best selling picture book ever, in Australia.
JA: What’s the hardest thing about being a writer?
MF: I find the hardest thing in creating a picture book text is to write a little. It’s so easy to write a lot of words but very difficult to write a few.
JA: Whose opinion do you value most?
MF: In writing, my editor’s opinion matters most. In life, my husband’s opinion matters most.
JA: Did you always know you want to be a writer?
MF: Yes. I wrote my first ‘book’ when I was ten. I got distracted and went to drama school thinking I wanted to be an actress. Madness! I’m so glad my life took a different course. I love being a writer.
JA: What is your favorite book?
MF: Charlotte’s Web.
JA: What’s your favorite dessert?
MF: Fresh fruit. Boring, I know, but I don’t have a sweet tooth.
If you would like to read more of Mem’s amazing books, check out her website!
We recently had an interview with Scott Menchin, the author of Harry Goes to Dog School. You can check out our review of that book here.
JA: What inspired you to write children’s books?
SM: I became a father and wanted to share my ideas with creatures similar to my daughter
JA: What’s the hardest thing about being a writer?
SM: Turning a good idea into a story that works.
JA: Whose opinion do you value most?
SM: Everyone’s but ultimately you have to trust your own opinion.
JA: Did you always know you want to be a writer?
SM: No. I started out an illustrator and wanted to control the whole show.
JA: What is your favorite book?
SM: The Conquerors by David McKee.
JA: What’s your favorite dessert?
SM: Dark chocolate gelato stuffed into a sliced fresh brioche.
To see more books by Scott, check out his website: www.scottmenchin.com/
Harry growls when he’s served breakfast, barks at a cat and licks his sister’s cheek when he’s told to kiss her good night. Yes, he would rather be a dog than a boy. His parents enroll him in the Pavlov Royal Academy where his classmates are dogs and he can sit, roll over, fetch and run all day long. Unfortunately, the food is not what he expected and his drawings and toys are not appreciated by his dog friends. After a naptime dream about what boys can do (that dogs cannot) Harry decides he’d like to be a boy again. Mission accomplished: dog school is for dogs!
A little boy’s bedtime ritual includes a story, a goodnight kiss from his mother, and whispered conversations with his beloved stuffed animals. Greedy Goose, Blue Horse and Fat Rabbit share their day: “ the what, the who, the why and the way…the whole wild thing…turned out okay.” Part wordless, Stringer’s luminous illustrations capture the delight of a child’s imagination. A peaceful and comforting story that is perfect for bedtime reading. Ages 5-6.
One of the best things about having a new baby is playing with them, watching them grow, explore the world with new senses, and learn new things. Baby playtime is about more than just fun, though. The earlier that you can start your child’s educational development, the better. Obviously newborn babies aren’t capable of much beyond sleeping and eating, but when they reach a few months old, their sight is good enough to start playing games using visual acuity as they are able to recognize people and things. Here are some fun ways that you can play with your little one.
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