Comments on: Looking for Some Progressive Parents! http://outside-the-toybox.com/looking-for-some-progressive-parents/2007/08/21/ Anyone else find childhood a little stifling these days? Fri, 18 May 2012 05:12:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: C'tina http://outside-the-toybox.com/looking-for-some-progressive-parents/2007/08/21/#comment-638 C'tina Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:20:47 +0000 http://outside-the-toybox.com/looking-for-some-progressive-parents/2007/08/21/#comment-638 We love papier mache!! http://www.papiermache.co.uk/tutorials/getting-started-with-papier-mache/ home made play doh is always fun...so warm and smooshy....good therapy http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-Playdough-Play-doh/ We love papier mache!! http://www.papiermache.co.uk/tutorials/getting-started-with-papier-mache/ home made play doh is always fun…so warm and smooshy….good therapy http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-Playdough-Play-doh/

]]> By: subarctic mama http://outside-the-toybox.com/looking-for-some-progressive-parents/2007/08/21/#comment-29 subarctic mama Fri, 14 Sep 2007 05:29:15 +0000 http://outside-the-toybox.com/looking-for-some-progressive-parents/2007/08/21/#comment-29 I'm damn glad I found you through your comment on my blog. I've been clicking through some posts and wishing you were my neighbor. Want to move to Alaska? Our solution to the rampant child manipulating consumerism has been to ban all television. It's never been on here, so they don't know what they're missing. So books--it's hard. We read a lot of real (not the Disney crapified Winnie the Pooh). We do a lot of art. We have "parades" constantly in the living room. We play a lot of music (dad's in a band) and dance. Cooking is a big hobby. I set the girls up in tall enough chairs across the counter and they mix and knead whatever I'm making. They like to play with spilled flour on the counter. Glitter play dough was the favorite today. We make it so we can mix our own colors. Gardening in the summer and snowshoeing in the winter are good too. I try to make them involved in whatever I'm doing (so I can try to get something done too). I’m damn glad I found you through your comment on my blog. I’ve been clicking through some posts and wishing you were my neighbor. Want to move to Alaska?

Our solution to the rampant child manipulating consumerism has been to ban all television. It’s never been on here, so they don’t know what they’re missing. So books–it’s hard. We read a lot of real (not the Disney crapified Winnie the Pooh).

We do a lot of art. We have “parades” constantly in the living room. We play a lot of music (dad’s in a band) and dance.

Cooking is a big hobby. I set the girls up in tall enough chairs across the counter and they mix and knead whatever I’m making. They like to play with spilled flour on the counter. Glitter play dough was the favorite today. We make it so we can mix our own colors.

Gardening in the summer and snowshoeing in the winter are good too. I try to make them involved in whatever I’m doing (so I can try to get something done too).

]]> By: wwwmama http://outside-the-toybox.com/looking-for-some-progressive-parents/2007/08/21/#comment-11 wwwmama Sat, 25 Aug 2007 01:23:25 +0000 http://outside-the-toybox.com/looking-for-some-progressive-parents/2007/08/21/#comment-11 All I can think of are ideas that I feel like everyone must know about, but I'll share them anyway. Ages 1-3 will love painting with water (just give 'em sponges or brushes, a bucket of water, and a sidewalk) Ages 3-4 enjoy story time. You start them off with a standard beginning and ask them a question to help them take their turn. ("And then what happened to the blue train, Johnny?") Add lots of oohs and aahs and questions to keep momentum flowing. It really only takes a couple of times for them to pick up how it works and get into it. Even if they're repeating formulaic pieces from stories you've told them, they're learning about how narratives work and about how to perform. Toddlers generally enjoy anything that you set up and sell to them with enthusiasm. "OK, who's ready to dance? First, let's clean up the floor, and then we'll turn the music on. YAY!" More later... All I can think of are ideas that I feel like everyone must know about, but I’ll share them anyway. Ages 1-3 will love painting with water (just give ‘em sponges or brushes, a bucket of water, and a sidewalk)

Ages 3-4 enjoy story time. You start them off with a standard beginning and ask them a question to help them take their turn. (”And then what happened to the blue train, Johnny?”) Add lots of oohs and aahs and questions to keep momentum flowing. It really only takes a couple of times for them to pick up how it works and get into it. Even if they’re repeating formulaic pieces from stories you’ve told them, they’re learning about how narratives work and about how to perform.

Toddlers generally enjoy anything that you set up and sell to them with enthusiasm. “OK, who’s ready to dance? First, let’s clean up the floor, and then we’ll turn the music on. YAY!”

More later…

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