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The Joys of Sand and Water Play
Playing at the water's edge is just about every small child's idea of heaven. The wet sand and mud and muck and pebbles and rocks and shells and creatures and seaweed and plants and twigs and whatever other water-logged debris they find there are the best playthings on the planet. And heaven for the kids is heaven for their parents too. Because -- and isn't it something to behold! -- at the
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Going to the Beach? Don't Leave Home Without....
Packing and unpacking aren't exactly top of our list of favorite ways to spend our days. Except of course if we're headed to the beach. Say "beach" and we are dragging out that old beat-up bag and shoving stuff into with glee! (We're still not so thrilled with unpacking it at the end of the outing, especially as the sand spills everywhere, but by then we're all so sun-tired and cheery that we
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Wise Words from e.e. cummings
e.e. cummings is a master of mood in his poems, and we are especially captivated by this one. It so delightfully captures the feeling of a day at the beach with your friends, both human and the ones carried in by the tide. And something about the punctuation and the almost breathless rush of names and details in the storytelling reminds us so much of the tales that tumble from a preschooler's
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Who Lives Under the Sea? A Marine Biology Primer for Preschoolers
It is no small part of the giant wonders of the sea that it's just so, well, giant. Vast. Deep. Full to the point of teeming. And how on earth are we to make sense of any of this for our little preschoolers, who may or may not have ever seen or splashed in an ocean or two but almost certainly don't have any sense of its size. A map of the world , of course, helps. And then once you've
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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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