Child Development

Joyful Parenting
Four Ways to Teach Young Children Fairness
That’s How You Play Three children were sitting around a table playing Candy Land.  After a few rounds, Naomi, age 5, picked up the...
July 31st, 2017 · 3 min read
Child Development
Loose Parts
Four-year-old, Ethan, was huddled over a pile of rocks he had collected from around the playground.  As I walked over to him, he told...
July 18th, 2017 · 3 min read
Joyful Parenting
Nurturing the Development of Responsibility
Just after my daughter turned two, she moved into Ms. Alisa’s classroom at one of our Stepping Stone School locations. My daughter had a...
June 26th, 2017 · 3 min read
Child Development
The Power of Touch
Over nine months of waiting for that moment when I would finally hold my child for the first time.  It is one thing to...
June 13th, 2017 · 4 min read
Child Development
Learning Through Play
Children across generations no matter their race, culture, or gender participate in play: enjoying games, inventing stories, imagining and creating worlds within their world....
May 22nd, 2017 · 3 min read
Joyful Parenting
Teaching Ownership
In early elementary school, I started playing The Blame Game. My parents would confront me about a situation and I would blame someone else...
May 1st, 2017 · 2 min read
Child Development
Block Play for Essential Early Development
It is a widely-held belief that block play is an essential part of early childhood development, but why? What do these seemingly simple toys...
April 17th, 2017 · 2 min read
Joyful Parenting
Journaling with Children
Most of us think of writing in a journal as a “diary” kept locked away or something we wrote in when we were teenagers....
April 10th, 2017 · 3 min read
Joyful Parenting
Three Stars and a Wish
The world we live in is hyper connected and technology driven, but in this fast-paced society we may have forgotten how to be present...
March 20th, 2017 · 3 min read