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Posted by Chip on January 22, 2010
Thanks to all the wonderful people at Responsive Classroom, you’re now seeing a new-year, new-decade look for my blog, Yardsticks4-14.com. You’ll find that it’s now easier to post and find comments from other readers on any topic of interest related to child development, parenting, teaching, school, and educational issues. It’s also now easier to be [...]
Categories: Developmental Needs, Managing Behavior, Positive Attributes, Uncategorized |
Tags: behavior challenges, children's positive attributes, children's strengths, understanding children, what's normal for my child | 
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Posted by Chip on January 19, 2010
I hope you’ll like the new look, and I also hope you’ll enjoy these new features:
A page where parents can ask questions about their child’s development
A place to post general comments and questions
If you’d like to subscribe so that you’ll get an email message each time I post, it’s easy. Just go to the top [...]
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Posted by Chip on June 8, 2009
Speaking of positive attributes, my wife and I, Nana and Papa, have been the recipients of all this fabulous four-year-old stage of development has to offer…from our granddaughter, Lily, now 4.9 years old.
Optimism isn’t a big enough word to hold the indomitable spirit of this child, but it communicates the idea. Every time we turn [...]
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Tags: children's positive attributes, children's strengths, developmental changes, four-year-olds, Positive Attributes | Post a Comment »
Posted by Chip on October 26, 2007
Because I was speaking to parents at a Boston Montessori School this week about developmental stages of growth, I re-read one of my favorite texts, Dr. Montessori’s own Handbook, first published in 1914. (Schocken Books, 1965) In the introduction to that volume, Nancy McCormick Rambusch of New York Foundling Hospital noted some of the key [...]
Categories: Developmental Education, Uncategorized |
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