This week you and your child will celebrate Thanksgiving!

Your child can learn:

Thanksgiving is a time to be thankful. Today many people celebrate it by eating a big dinner with friends and family.
Many families eat turkey, vegetables, and pumpkin pie.
Many years ago, the Pilgrims at Plymouth and the Wampanoag Indians celebrated a thanksgiving [...]

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Drop in to any parenting website, chat room, or pick up a magazine aimed toward parents of young children, and I can almost guarantee that you will find at least one discussion – and probably many more than one – on the fussy eater. It’s almost an epidemic! Many young children between the [...]

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Young children not only CAN help you clean up around the house, often times they even WANT to help! They love to be with us, and imitate us. A two or three year old doesn’t know that spending time with you wiping down the table or sorting silverware is supposed to be “work” [...]

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