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JUL
2024
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2024
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What community feels like to a toddler
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Fear of falling
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Behavior is how young children communicate
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When young children misbehave, it’s not because they want to act badly; it’s because they’re having a strong feeling of some kind, and don’t yet have the skill or vocabulary to express it in words.
In that context, rather than discipline or punishment, a helpful adult will work with the child to understand the feeling and find a better way to deal with it.
Here’s an excerpt from a webcast of Hanna Perkins Therapist Deborah Paris, LISW, BCD, on the important concept of ...
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17
JUL
2024
JUL
2024
Coaching and Modeling Good Behavior
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Cleveland Jewish News
June 6, 2024
By STEVE MARK
Of the multitude of established dynamics that help students develop early communication skills, two tend to stand out – repetition and socialization. The daily routines stressed in schools play a big part in learning, and there is stimuli in that dynamic that simply can’t be replicated elsewhere.
For more on how schools assist in the development of young children’s skills, Fatemeh Toossi, lead preschool teacher at Hanna Perkins School in Shaker Heights, shared ...
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10
JUN
2024
JUN
2024
Dear Friends of Hanna Perkins,
You may know that I have a daughter—an only child who never had childcare outside of our immediate family, who had medical trauma from infancy onward and whose pre-K was cut short by the pandemic. She didn’t have a full year of “normal” school until second grade, and now in third grade, she recently experienced the tragic loss of her classroom teacher.
She’s had physical pain, isolation, loneliness and grief…among other things. She missed much of the ...
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30
MAY
2024
MAY
2024
Cool dad not
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With his wife out of town, our fearless second-time-around dad tackles Day 4 of solo parenting:
I’m pushing Lightning Bug down the sidewalk in her rickety little stroller. Approaching us on the same sidewalk is a young woman pushing a baby in a larger nicer stroller.
Bug says, “There not going to be space.”
I say, “It’s a big enough sidewalk. And we’ll just move over to this side and she’ll move over to that side and we’ll have ...
10
MAY
2024
MAY
2024
Join us at Hanna Perkins Center from 2-4 pm on Sunday, April 21 for a fun-filled afternoon for families and community members at our beloved community garden.
The event will include light refreshments, a spring seed giveaway and more.
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