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January 12, 2010

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Inspiring Quotes
Toddlers Activities & Games
Easy Kids Recipe
Child Arts & Crafts Activities:
Positive Parenting Resources
Sponsored Resources
Editor’s Note / Humour / new free books

Inspiring Quotes:

QUOTES BY GREAT LADIES Inside every older person is a younger person -- wondering what the hell happened? - Cora Harvey Armstrong

Inside me lives a skinny woman crying to get out. But I can usually shut the bitch up with cookies. - Anonymous

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy. -Helen Hayes (at 73)

I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows. - Janette Barber

Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse. - Lily Tomlin

A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who never owned a car. - Carrie Snow

Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and you cry with your girlfriends. - Laurie Kuslansky

My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being, hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint. - Erma Bombeck

Old age ain't no place for sissies. - Bette Davis

A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't. - Ronda Hansome

The phrase "working mother" is redundant. - Jane Sellman

Every time I close the door on reality, it comes in through the windows. -Jennifer Unlimited

Whatever women must do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. - Charlotte Whitton

Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart. - Caryn Leschen

I try to take one day at a time -- but sometimes several days attack me at once. - Jennifer

Kids Activities:

Not only do kids of all ages love to play games, games are a creative and inexpensive way to entertain children. With a little imagination you will soon have them making up their own games!

Whether you're looking for birthday party games or just something to keep the little ones busy for a little while, I think you'll find these games easy to learn and fun for all ages.

Clown Capers

This inexpensive activity, will keep your active children occupied as well as improving eye and hand coordination while practicing their throwing skills.

Younger children will need some assistance. Its heaps of fun and laughter, mom and dad older sisters and brothers can also join in; this activity is a great family fun experience.

What You Will Need:

• A large cardboard box
• Masking Tape
• Felt pens
• Outdoor chair
• A brick or large book
• Scissors or Stanley knife
• Soft balls, small bean bag balls are also good
• Colored paints

What To Do:

Tape masking tape to all sides of the cardboard box. Draw a clowns face with a large mouth on one side, have your children color the clowns face with bright paints.

Using scissors or Stanley knife cut out the crowns mouth, and then place the box on the outdoor chair. Put the brick or heavy book on the inside of the box so the box is not able to fall.

Now its fun time, show your children to throw the ball or bean bag through the mouth of the clown. As your children’s aim improves have them stand a little further back each time, most children love a challenge.

Your children will love trying to feed the clown with the balls; it is a great family activity.

Have Fun!

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Easy Kids Recipe:

Fairy Cakes

Fairy Cakes are cupcakes that are decorated to look like fairies.

Ingredients

• 125 grams butter
• 3/4 cup caster sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla or lemon extract
• 2 eggs
• 2 cups self-raising flour
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1/2 cup jam
• 1/2 cup cream, whipped
• powdered sugar to dust with
Method

1. Beat the butter, sugar and vanilla or lemon extract until creamy.
2. Beat in the eggs one at a time.
3. Fold in the sifted flour alternately with the milk.
4. Three-quarters fill 18 well-greased paper patty cases or well-greased muffin tins.
5. Bake at 180°C for 12-15 minutes until well risen and golden. Cool on a cake rack.
6. Cut out a small circle in the top of each cake and cut each circle in half. Spoon a little jam in the centre hollow and top with whipped cream. Arrange the "wings" into the cream and dust with icing sugar before serving.

Child Arts & Crafts Activities:

Treasure Box

Things you need :

• Strong cardboard box with a lid ( shoe box is ideal for their first treasure box )

• Glue

• Paper

• Magazine

• Paint, crayons, felt pens

• Masking Tape

Starting your Treasure Box :

Help your children start decorating their first treasure box, have your children cut out some pictures from a magazine or use some of their favourite paintings and drawings.

Next, have your children paste their pictures, paintings or drawings on their treasure box. Another idea your child might like is to paint their treasure box after covering it with butcher paper, drawing their own design and colouring it in with crayons or felt pens.

Add masking tape to make a flip lid to the treasure box, tape the lid to one side of the box for easy access to open this amazing treasure box. Your children will start collecting their own special treasures in no time. You may even need to make it a bigger treasure box next time.

Have Fun!

Positive Parenting Resources:

AN ACTIVE PARTNERSHIP – PARENTS/KINDERGARTEN

Pre-school learning is an educative partner of the family. Here are some reasons that make kindergarten an extremely important educative factor:

- it creates an environment adequate for children and it puts them in contact helping them become social

- assure a good debut for primary school

- is an environment of protection and passing time with pleasure

- Form one kindergarten to the other there are differences regarding the closed and open space children dispose of, the didactic materials, the level of qualification of the teachers and their wish for doing the best they can. Any state or particular kindergarten that is authorized is obliged to offer a good learning process. From the managerial offer of the kindergarten or school, the parents have to find out what are the conditions of life and the environment of the unit, as well as the potential of the personnel.

Directly or indirectly, kindergarten teacher conduct the entire activity of the children. Part of the educative activity is done with the whole group of children, and part is done in stages, with one at a time or with little groups at a time.

The partnership between parents and teachers has to happen. The problems that can come up in such situations vary a lot. Children can come to the kindergarten and have trouble adapting, socially and intellectually both or esthetic and physical. The causes for these things can be discovered by the teachers and parents together. Both the parents of children with difficulties and the ones of children with a normal evolution must be contacted to settle educational programs that involve the family.

Parents can continue at home the educational games their children played in the kindergarten hours, so that the children gain confidence in their power and in the future they can have the initiative when giving answers or volunteering for a game.

The purpose of kindergarten is to make children become social persons, to prepare them for school and to allow them to have fun while they learn. They must be introduce to learning and classrooms at this age, or it will be harder for them be harder to adapt and maintain control once they start primary school.

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Editor’s notes & humour:

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from the mouths of babes...
SCHOOL: A little girl had just finished her first week of school. "I'm just wasting my time," she said to her mother. "I can't read, I can't write and they won't let me talk!"

OPINIONS: On the first day of school, a first-grader handed his teacher a note from his mother. The note read, "The opinions expressed by this child are not necessarily those of his parents."

BIBLE: A little boy opened the big family bible. He was fascinated as he fingered through the old pages. Suddenly, something fell out of the Bible. He picked up an old leaf that had been pressed in between the pages. "Mama, look what I found," the boy called out." "What have you got there, dear?" With astonishment in the young boy's voice, he answered, "I think it's Adam's underwear!"

DRESS-UP: A little girl was watching her parents dress for a party. When she saw her dad donning his tuxedo, she warned, "Daddy, you shouldn't wear that suit." "And why not, darling?" "You know that it always gives you a headache the next morning."

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