A week full of activities to teach your young child about Thanksgiving. Free lesson plans. Includes art, music, dramatic play, blocks, science, nature, and more.

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Children Don’t Always Like the Foods that are Good For Them 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. [...]

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Little Children Often Want to Help, If Only to Be With Us 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 [...]

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