I love to make jokes with my pre-school grandchildren. I love to read picture books to them. In fact, when they laugh, that’s when I know that what I had said is really funny. Kids know humor and they get it. Kid jokes are different than grownup’s jokes from the media… Read More
Here’s my question for you today and I want you to be very honest: Seriously, were you ever embarrassed by your parents? Your mom? Were you one of those kids who told your mom to drop you off a block away from school, because you didn’t want your friends to… Read More
I noticed an interesting phenomenon with kindergarten arts and crafts. All teachers do the same things with their charges. I mean, why else would two Sukkah decorations which were made by two different children (albeit first cousins of each other) living on opposite sides of the U.S., look identical? Well,… Read More
When my kids were about 2 or 3 and were developing their language day by day (hour by hour!), I loved when they mispronounced words. In fact, I would refrain from correcting them, because it was music to my ears to hear the way they chose to form the words…. Read More
My grandson loves math. He especially loves when we, the grownups play math games with him and ask him “how much is x plus y?” And then he gets to say the answer, so proudly. No, it’s not algebra yet — -I just used x and y as examples of… Read More
