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July 13, 2017From the Director by Christine Wise

You can’t teach someone to swim when they are drowning

Eric Carle is a long-time favorite author and illustrator for both children and adults. One of my recent reads to my 2 ½ year old grandkids is a well-worn The Grouchy Ladybug. In it two ladybugs meet one early morning on a leaf covered with aphids. The one who arrived first invited the second one to partake, but the Grouchy Ladybug […]

May 24, 2017From the Director by Christine Wise

Goodbye for Now

When we visited our son, Jason, in Hawaii last December, we met a very special young woman who shared a family custom of hers when saying goodbye was difficult. She learned it from a favorite uncle and shared it with us because we were all having a hard time letting go after a wonderful two weeks. While there were […]

April 20, 2017From the Director by Christine Wise

What Makes Us Family

This week I’m writing about dictionaries and spatulas. We’ll circle back to that. I want to write about the stories and jokes that make the nuclear family ‘one.’ The March 2017 blog called “Grandma Says” centers on this topic and made me think about my family: Every family has a story. It is this story that unifies us, gives us […]

March 20, 2017From the Director exclusion, friends by Christine Wise

What to Do About Exclusion

It was my pleasure to attend several of the Group Meetings in February and at two of them, the topic of “exclusion of friends” came up. Hence my topic for this month. This behavior very often surfaces in preschool. It isn’t easy to watch especially with your own children, whether they are being excluded or the other way around. I […]

February 12, 2017From the Director from the director, Reading by Christine Wise

I Thought I Knew About the Power of Reading …

It is certainly no news to co-op parents that reading to your children must be a daily occurrence, but these two stories should be eye-opening for you. As a grandparent, my interaction with little children has changed from the other teaching stages in my life. No longer am I the primary parent, nor am I the teacher in the classroom. […]

January 4, 2017From the Director by Christine Wise

New Resolve … Focus!

“…and Mom and Dad can hardly wait for school to start again!” I used to hear this familiar line in the holiday song and ruefully think, “No kidding.” Now I smile in remembering that feeling and know that many of you are in that same boat this week. With a brand new year and perhaps new resolve, we all are […]

November 18, 2016From the Director by Christine Wise

Unintentional Messages from Loving Parents

Long ago and far away when I was a young girl, my parents often praised my sister as the “smart one” and me as the “pretty one,” or at least that was my perception. Early on, I had braces on my teeth. My pre-teen sister was given a choice to have her teeth straightened, but she didn’t think it was […]

October 30, 2016From the Director by Christine Wise

Patient Hands: A Positive Solution to Interrupting

Whether you are on the phone or computer, fixing dinner, or talking with another adult, children interrupting is not uncommon. By nature, children are impatient and when they want something, they want it immediately, which often translates into interrupting an adult conversation or activity. No doubt this is a frustrating occurrence and I wonder if you have you found yourself […]

October 5, 2016From the Director by Christine Wise

Parent or Friend to Your Child … or Both

My boys are in their late 30s and I am grateful every day that Bill and I have a close relationship with them…very different from the relationship we had with our own parents. We don’t share day-to-day occurrences other than the ubiquitous FB, but we treasure the many times we are together sharing a meal or an experience, laughing or […]

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