A Quick Checklist
July 5, 2009 at 5:34 am | Posted in Anchored Safely, Appropriate Equipment, Different Equipment, Good Working Order, Packed Dirt, Packed Rocks, Present Supervision, Safety Equipment | Leave a commentTags: Adult Presence, Asphalt, Blacktop, Checklist, Clothing, Concrete, Dental Strangulation, Dirt, Equipment, Facilitate Play, Grass, Hardwood Fiber, Injuries, Intercede, Mulch, Observe, Pea Gravel, Playground, Playground Injuries, Potential Hazards, Preschoolers, Quick Reference, Rocks, Rope, Rubber Mats, Sand and Synthetic Materials, Strings, Supervision, Tiles, Working Order
The US Consumer Product Safety Commission and the US National Program for Playground Safety came up with the following checklist which may be placed in a prominent area of your home for quick reference. Before your children head out the door for the playground, check that:
1. Supervision is present, but strings and rope aren’t. Adult presence is a needed to watch for potential hazards, observe, intercede, and facilitate play when necessary. Strings on clothing or dental strangulation if caught on equipment.
2. All children play on age-appropriate equipment. Preschoolers, ages 2 to 5, and children, ages 5 to 12, are developmentally different and need different equipment located in separate areas to keep the playground safe and fun for all.
3. Fall to surface are cushioned. Nearly 70 percent of all playground injuries are related to fall to the surface. Acceptable surfaces include hardwood fiber or mulch, pea gravel, sand and synthetic materials such as poured-in-place, rubber mats, or tiles. Playground surface should not be concrete, asphalt, grass, blacktop, packed dirt, or rocks.
4. Equipment is safe. Check to make sure the equipment is anchored safely to the ground, all equipment pieces are in good working order, S-hooks are entirely closed, bolts are not protruding, there are no exposed footings, among the things.
Secure and loving relationship with parents tend to be smarter (1)
May 23, 2009 at 1:54 am | Posted in Constructive Pursuit of Things, Positive Thinking, Rich Environment, Younger Kids | Leave a commentTags: Brain, Brain Connections, Child Language Development, Complex Reasoning, Educational, Educational Storytelling, Environment, Fractions, Geometry, Group Singing, Language Development, Math Reasoning, Music, Preschoolers, Puzzles, Ratios, Rhymes, Singing, Songs, Spatial-temporal Reasoning, Stimulating Environment, Wordplay Games
Creating a stimulating environment
There are many ways parents can provide a rich environments that will stimulate their children mentally. Singing lullabies to your infant stimulates the development of brain connections, particularly during the first three years of life. Wordplay games in the form of rhymes or songs that you make up with your child encourage language development. So does using complex, multiclass sentences, such as “I’m going to the grocery store because we need cereal for breakfast.” As opposed to the simple, single-clause declaration “drink your milk.”
At least once a week, take your children to the library to read on their own or attend a storytelling allowances for shows that are positive and educational.
Introduce music and rhythm
Children should be given opportunities for the constructive pursuit of things they show an interest in. If music is one of these, encourage it. The younger your kids, the better. Research with preschoolers shows that enrolling them in keyboard and group-signing instruction enhances their spatial-temporal reasoning—a skill that helps with puzzles, geometry, fractions and ratios. Instruction in music also helps children develop in other areas, such as math and complex reasoning.
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