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SavvyPicks: What a Wonderful World This Is
We grown-ups have lost touch. We rush over paved sidewalks in our lug-soled shoes and dart through traffic in our air-conditioned vehicles. Kids still feel every pebble of the ground through their shoes. Their sharp eyes scan the sky for birds, real or jet-fueled. They go out of their way toward puddles, not around them. They think worms are cool. Let's be like them. And let's keep
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Five Facts and Figures to Make You Change Your Ways Today
1. Earth Day (today!) is the largest secular civic event in the world, celebrated by over 1 billion people across the globe . So if you haven't already, join the fun and the movement today! The Earth Day Network coordinates this planet-wide day of activism, and has many many ideas for how each and every one of us Earthlings, from the oldest to the youngest, can get involved. As they suggest,
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Thinking Green Thoughts About Eco-Friendly Toys
Another birthday's coming up. Some special occasion. Or your preschooler just seems to be outgrowing too many of his toys -- too fast! You walk into the toy store, full of excitement. What's more fun than choosing a toy for a child? You scan, scan, scan the displays. Thought bubble: Will this toy bring joy? Will my child learn from it? Will it last? Will it get lots of play time for a long
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Savvy Guest Post: Ten Easy Parent Hacks for "Greening" Everyday Life with Kids
There are few things we Savvy types love better than a smart shortcut, a wow-inducing way to do something, a brilliant basic -- a great Parent Hack, in other words. We are delighted to bring you this list of lifesavers from Asha Dornfest of Parent Hacks ! ******************************* Ten easy Parent Hacks for "greening" everyday life with kids I love that this month's theme, "It's Easy
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Little Hands and Faces
Before children learn how to draw figures, they love to fingerpaint, and especially to make handprints. If you let them, they'll spend hours slapping their paint covered hands down onto paper, filling pages and pages with smeary imprints of themselves. They never seem to tire of making their own mark. And once they get the hang of drawing faces, many of these little artists move into their
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Because a Great Book Has Beautiful Illustrations
Children learn to love books through the interplay of words and pictures. Beautiful illustrations draw them back again and again to the same books, and that is how the process of learning to read and learning to love reading begins. So today we celebrate a few of our most beloved illustrators: Beatrix Potter . She set the standard, reinvented the art, and gave us all of those naughty,
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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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