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	10 Tips for Developing a Love for Literature Creating a love for reading takes effort. Here's how to help your children run to the bookshelf in anticipation of their next adventure.
	Labeled Disabled For years there has been a separation between those with and without disabilities. And while some of the distinctions have been positive, others have not been.
	Hatch a Natural Writer Here are some fun and helpful tips and ideas to encourage and develop your child's love for writing throughout their childhood.
	Climb, Swing & Snuggle: Reading Readiness Involves the Whole Body Allowing reading to develop naturally or teaching it later tends to create eager, lifelong readers. In contrast, teaching children to read early is often stressful.
	The Circumference of O When the plan to have Olivia spend a year in a mainstream French classroom got derailed, we found ourselves creators of a mash-up curriculum, neither French- nor California-branded.
	Learning While We Cook: How Preparing Meals Educates Children As they snip, read, and converse with us, our kids are learning physical, mental, and social skills. Here’s how cooking can be educational for them.
	For the Love of Words We grew up chanting nursery rhymes, hand slaps, jump-rope ditties. We punned, learning early that the bun is the lowest form of wheat, and the limerick the lowest form of verse.
	Informal Education: A Resource List A brief list of resources to help your family on their educational journey.
	Mothering Radio: Greening Education In this episode, Mothering Radio looks at greening our schools. Julie Grant interviews Jeremy Adam Smith who wrote "Greening Education," in Mothering's July-August '10 issue.
	Secrets of Montessori My sister had received an extraordinary education at a Montessori school from 1974 through 1980; however, I wasn't sure it would be right for my daughter.
	How Jerome Learned to Read: Fostering Children's Unique Intelligence Parents and schools are meant to serve the gifts our children bring, to name them, bless them, help aim them.
	No Time for Teaching: Spontaneous Learning at Home The most effective way for children to learn is the natural relationship between a mom and child.
	R-E-S-P-E-C-T: What Children Get in Democratic Schools An exciting new movement is stirring the world of education.
	Homegrown Summer Camp Ours is a small-scale, homegrown, child-centered creation of the families of the four campers themselves.
	Creation Stories Our bedroom is littered with stacks of lined paper, wire-bound edges curling across the top. Many of them say, "To: Mom", and each is emblazoned with "Caila" along the bottom corner.
	Asset-Focused Parenting Here are just a few ways you can continue to help your children's forward movement so that they can develop relationships of trust with their own minds.
	Chess is Child’s Play If you want your children to improve their memory and verbal skills, teach them one of the world's oldest board games.
	Speaking in Tongues This documentary follows four diverse kids on a journey to become bilingual. This charming story will challenge you to rethink the skills that Americans need in the 21st century.
	Teaching My Son to Read Using Manicure Scissors When my son Matt was barely three and asked, "What does that word say, Mom?" I knew it was time to get out the manicure scissors and teach him to read.
	An Ode to Joy: Listening to Music May Not Make Children Smarter But it Will Make Them Dance Learning to appreciate and play music enriches life enormously.
	Fun Behavioral Learning How can we maintain our children's interest by making behavioral learning more enjoyable. Role-playing provides an enjoyable, shame-free method of learning.
	Boredom: The Cauldron of Creativity In the summers my mother would push us out the back door into a seemingly dull landscape of wheat fields and irrigation ditches. "Find something to do!" she would order.
	Crazy for Calculating! Making Math Fun Surely there must be a way of learning without resorting to workbooks and flash cards.
	The Pleasure of Rhythmic Rhyme: A Passel of Poems for Children Here are books that place the best words in the best possible order: some poetry, some books in rhyme. We begin with those for the very young and travel upward.
	My Saturday Job Every complaint in my mind vanishes whenever I think of my kids. It never fails to lighten my mood or stop my homesickness.

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