Jj is for Jottings 166. Motor Skills and Screen Time in Preschoolers, Part 2.
As promised in the previous article on motor skills and screen time, in this article we will cover suggestions for both gross and fine motor activities, providing both fun and skill development for your preschoolers. And these suggestions are easy to set up, and many are portable. Continue reading
Jj is for Jottings 165. Motor Skills and Screen Time in Preschoolers.
We will now look at the topic of motor skills and screen time in preschoolers in some detail. In Creativity in Children, Part 1 I noted a deterioration in young children’s fine motor skills over the last few years. I suggested that creative activities involving fine motor skills may have been partly or completely replaced by screen time. It is not just fine motor skills which suffer from replacement by screen time, but gross motor skills as well. Continue reading
Jj is for Jottings 159. Creativity in Children, Part 1.
Walk into any preschool/kindergarten and you see that they provide many opportunities for creativity in children. Why is that? Because arts and crafts are one of the most important ways to help children develop and grow between ages 3-8. Here is a chart of communication milestones as a point of reference. Creativity isn’t just about art and crafts, but they are major avenues for growth and development at these ages. Continue reading
Jj is for Jottings 62. Raising a Reader Part 2. Toddlers.
Continuing from the previous article (here), you cannot overestimate the importance of reading with a child at the toddler stage – for intellectual, social and emotional development. They take in everything: vocabulary and language structure, numbers and math concepts, colours, shapes, opposites and many other language concepts, animals, manners and all kinds of useful information about how the world works. What’s more, when you read out loud, Continue reading
Art meets photography in Glenda Cornell’s Whistle Stop Studio Gallery.
Jj is for Jottings: 8. Effects of Screens on Children – My Observations, Part 2.
Here is the list of some of the changes I have seen in children and families, partly as a result of technological growth: Continue reading
