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October 2008
Theme: “Nurturing Imagination”
Top Seven Ways to Make Your Halloween Night a Treat
We've been delighting in our wanderings through pretend play so far this month, and we've tried to keep a balance (as our kiddos do) between imagination for its own sake and, well, that kind of officially organized pretend play that we all know as Halloween. But at this point, there's no semblance of balance. We are all pumpkins, all costumes, all orange and black, all the time. All candy,
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One Week to Election Day! Are Your Preschoolers Ready for the Polls?
The kids are all about Halloween this week. Of course they are! But as we escort them on all of their trick-or-treat adventures, we can't help thinking ahead to next Tuesday. Many of us will be taking our little ones to the polls with us, and answering all of their inevitable questions. So here at Savvy we've been spending a bit of time talking politics with our preschoolers, just to get them
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Putting on Plays and Puppet Shows
From the dress-up and role play our little ones love, it's a just small step to the stage. What stage, you ask? The one right in your living room, in the playroom, on the patio or wherever fancy strikes. As their imaginative worlds become more complex and their understanding of story-telling evolves, many older preschoolers come to love putting on skits and puppet shows and other whimsical
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Nightmares: When Make-Believe Is Too Real For Peaceful Sleep
As adults, we often have to remind ourselves to let go, to suspend our disbelief and just go with all the wild impossibilities that pretend play posits. (Or maybe you are a clever one who already knew that fairies are real!) But for our kids, the line between real and imaginary is much fainter. The delight of a classic like Where the Wild Things Are depends on this ease of imagination, this
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Wise Words to Remind You How Real All This Made-Up Stuff Is
From a master of 20th century art, a reminder that distinctions between real and imaginary are more slippery than useful: "Everything you can imagine is real." -- Pablo Picasso
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Savvy Picks for December, 2008
Our top ten posts about the wonders of rituals and routines:
- A Season of Rituals
- Savvy Welcomes Betsy Brown Braun on Helping Keep the Fa-La-La in the Holidays with Your Children
- Savvy Picks: Best Children's Books of 2008
- Savvy Welcomes Lyn Colwell and Corey Colwell-Lipson on Greening the Holidays
- Teaching Your Child About Giving Instead of Getting at the Holidays
- Homemade Gifts to Make with Preschoolers
- How to Keep Rituals a Bit Flexible, a Little Lively, and a Lot Unexpected
- Savvy Welcomes Ginger Carlson on How to Give Experiences Not More Things
- Inspired Indoor Activities for the Shortest Day of the Year
- Holidays Are Delicious
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