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Looking for ways to approach sensitive topics? How art activities can help you talk about racism with young children. Yes, even during a pandemic.

Looking for ways to approach sensitive topics? How art activities can help you talk about racism with young children. Yes, even during a pandemic.

In less than one month it will be 12 months…  …that the Wild One has been doing some-type-of-learning distance learning. And even though there were a couple of months when children were finally allowed to go out again, and the Wild One got to spend some time with her buddies, it still seemed as if we were stuck in a perpetual lockdown. But we have been one of the lucky ones throughout this pandemic. We never got sick. Nobody in…

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I’m not a girl. Please don’t me call that…

I’m not a girl. Please don’t me call that…

I am an adult—therefore, I am a woman. This is something that really annoys me, but in the past I’ve also been guilty of referring to women as girls. But I’ve made a conscious effort to stop, because language matters. In the video, Mayim Bialik explains why we all need to stop referring to adult females as girls. And she backs it with science (Yay for Science!). The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis is the theory that language one uses influences the way…

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Encouraging young children to engage in non-traditional play encourages positive development

Encouraging young children to engage in non-traditional play encourages positive development

“Now you look like a boy.” “So, I look like a boy because I have short hair?” “Yep.” My heart sank a little. I’d been chatting with two young sisters about differences for my uni assignment. In my years of working with young children, I’ve learned that conversations need to be organic and that you just have to follow their lead. And thus, how we landed on the subject of the differences between boys and girls, specifically hairstyles. When I…

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