Child Development – Escuela Viva

Understanding Childhood Behaviors: Hitting and Biting

schoolmaster May 23, 2013 Child Development, Class Blog Articles, Community, Educational Philosophies Tags: biting, child development, childhood aggression, hitting

Sharing the role of caregiver with your child’s teacher can be difficult at times. Early childhood teachers often get to experience many of those developmental firsts. During school days they are the ones who provide comfort when your child is hurt. Even more challenging, parents must rely on these same teachers to communicate, as much… continue reading »

Food For Thought

schoolmaster March 12, 2013 Child Development, Class Blog Articles, Parenting Tags: Food, healthy eating, Nutrition

The topic of healthy nutrition is just as personal as the topic of parenting and some times just as complicated and challenging. There are so many should’s one could get dizzy trying to sort through the plethora of information out there. My hope in writing this blog is to help sort through some of the… continue reading »

Value Judgements: Lessons in Right and Wrong

schoolmaster February 12, 2013 Child Development, Class Blog Articles, Community, Parenting Tags: judgement, learning, parenting

As a spectator at my son’s soccer game I chuckled inside when I noticed one of his team mates with his shoes on the “opposite” feet. Yes, that’s the way we say it in our house. I’ve intentionally steered away from saying “you’ve got your shoes on the wrong feet.” Who decided that anyway? Maybe… continue reading »

Worse Flu Season in Over A Decade

schoolmaster January 15, 2013 Angelitos Class, Cachorros Class, Child Development, Class Blog Articles, Community, Pumas Class, Sapitos Class, Tortuguitas Class

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Parenting: The Price of Shame

schoolmaster December 10, 2012 Child Development, Class Blog Articles, Community, Parenting

This next blog entry began as a series of notes, ideas and thoughts that I would write down as they came to me. It has been a work in progress over the last month and my hope is that this will spark an on-going dialogue. This topic, no matter how I tried to ignore it,… continue reading »

Parenting: Media Exposure

schoolmaster December 2, 2012 Child Development, Class Blog Articles, Parenting Tags: child development, early childhood, home school connections, media, obesity, type 2 diabetes, violent play

Understanding why limiting children’s exposure to media, especially violent media, is a topic well discussed among psychologists, researchers and educators. Why? To begin with, as is true with all developing brains, what children know about real vs. fiction is limited and the part of their brain that controls impulses is still largely developing. Regular exposure… continue reading »

Parenting: Home-School Connection

schoolmaster November 15, 2012 Child Development, Class Blog Articles, Community, Parenting, Uncategorized Tags: consistency in preschool, daycare, early childhood, home-school connection, learning, limit setting, love and logic, parenting, preschool

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Parenting: Trusting Ourselves Trusting Our Children

schoolmaster November 11, 2012 Child Development, Class Blog Articles, Parenting Tags: discipline, learning, love and logic, parenting

As I prepared to write this next parenting segment and thinking about how hard parenting can be sometimes, I was reminded of a lesson I learned when my daughter was just 2 years old. Her dad was bringing her home and I had had this one little project that I wanted to accomplish before she… continue reading »