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Montessori At Home Series: Promoting Independence with your Child
Here are steps, using Maria Montessori's expertise, to easily implement independence with your young children at home.
Julia Kallmes
Mar 33 min read
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Setting Up a Play Space at Home
Want to promote engaged, independent play? Want to reduce chaos and mess? Here are some tips from experienced early childhood educators....
Julia Kallmes
Dec 10, 20243 min read
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Brain Development Lesson, Kids' Style
Add this brain science lesson to your parent resources as it teaches a complicated subject in an accessible way to children!
Julia Kallmes
Oct 4, 20243 min read
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Preparing for Your Child's First School Experience
How can parents help their child traverse the wide gap from home and school?
Julia Kallmes
Jan 29, 20244 min read
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Navigating Power Struggles
A power struggle, where two people or groups are competing with each other for control of a situation, can be difficult in any context....
Laura Fritz
Jul 18, 20234 min read
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Screen Time Series Part I: Daily Screen Time by the Numbers
The Family Resource Center recently held a Symposium featuring Dr. Sarah Jerstad, a pediatric psychologist at Children’s Minnesota, about...
Julia Kallmes
Apr 12, 20233 min read
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Taking Walks With Young Children
Over the last month we have experienced everything from beautiful, warm, sunny days to snow flurries and chillier temperatures to mud and...
Laura Fritz
Apr 4, 20233 min read
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Encourage Independence with These Six Items from our Library
Last week, the Kaleidoscope Learning blog featured a post written by Laura Fritz, M.Ed., which describes how to encourage independence...
Kaleidoscope Learning
Feb 7, 20234 min read
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We're Going There: Let's Talk About Toy Clutter
Ugh!--toy clutter seems to be the bane of every parent's existence. Even before your child was born, you were probably slammed with gifts...
Kaleidoscope Learning
Nov 3, 20225 min read
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Have a few LOLs with these parenting and early childhood education memes!
Start off your Sunday morning with a nice cup of coffee and a good laugh. Our social media team creates mostly cute, family centric...
Kaleidoscope Learning
Oct 16, 20221 min read
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Your Baby and House Cats: It Works!
Millennials and younger people are choosing to have kids later in life and want to be established financially before having kids. So, in...
Nick O'Leary
Sep 22, 20224 min read
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Questions to Ask on a School Tour
The time has arrived for your young one to venture outside the home for childcare. This transition can elicit complicated emotions for...
Julia Kallmes
Aug 30, 20223 min read
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Is Preschool Beneficial?
According to the research, it depends on the educational practices of the preschool. Background: For many decades, educators, policy...
Julia Kallmes
Aug 23, 20224 min read
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How to Choose Children's Books
1. Fill Your Home with Books I encourage you to dispense with a Marie Kondo-esque minimalist bookshelf (though her guidance did wonders...
Julia Kallmes
Aug 16, 20222 min read
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Promoting Independent Play at Home
Sometimes, parenting can feel overwhelming. We want to give our child our attention, but we need to tend to dinner, vacuum, call our...
Julia Kallmes
Aug 9, 20223 min read
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Friendliness With Error
How to reframe mistakes for ourselves and for our children This past weekend, I read that Shawn Mendes (a musical artist) postponed a...
Julia Kallmes
Aug 2, 20222 min read
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Offering Grace to Families as a Childless Millennial
Well before Julia and I started Kaleidoscope Learning, I worked at a medium-size law firm in Northeast Minneapolis. Almost all the...
Kaleidoscope Learning
Jul 28, 20223 min read
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Nick's Top 10 Must-Haves For The Diaper Bag
In my short year of being the primary care giver to my son, I wanted to share with my readers my top ten parenting items I like to make...
Nick O'Leary
Jul 25, 20225 min read
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5 Benefits of Participating in the Educational Materials Library
Kaleidoscope Learning was founded on creating opportunities for families that enrich the lives of young learners while simultaneously...
Kaleidoscope Learning
Jul 21, 20225 min read
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Making the Change to a Stay-At-Home Dad
By: Nick O'Leary Making decisions on where to work in my career was less stressful than the process of deciding to become a stay-at-home...
Kaleidoscope Learning
Jul 7, 20225 min read
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