Three years old! How much I can tell about every day of this long but at the same time short period of OUR life.
I said “OUR” because we still can’t imagine to be apart.

According to all modern researches and many scientists the most important part of our development is behind. What I can tell? I think it’s true. I feel it and I see it.

She was like a sponge and absorb all kind of information she met. Now she needs some motivation to learn something absolutely new. It doesn’t mean she has problem with learning. But it’s obvious that she is in other stage. I don’t think it’s bad. It’s just different.

She still likes all kinds of activities she used to enjoy before. No problems with letters, reading, writing, drawing, learning poems and songs and counting. Now I feel how wise it was to start learning all that things when she was just a baby:) I’m confident that no matter what field of science she choose she will easily become successful.

But still it’s too early to celebrate. Regressions happens with all kids and mine isn’t exception. It’s normal. I take them as a reminds to be more attentive to her.

There is one more good news. We happily left all the tantrums in the past. We worked out this situations and even when we have some “hot” situation we both behave better. If I were more tolerant we could pass this stage earlier. It’s only my fault and I wasn’t the best mother while she was having a tantrum. But I’m happy that now I’m better.

I’m sure that 3 years old toddler are all cute and adorable. It’s unmeasurable pleasure to spend time with them. They can feel with you, care for you, help you, joke with you, show how much they love you.

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Boris Nikitin and his wife Elena are striking parents and amazing teachers, founders of new early childhood development method, creator of different developing toys and exercises. They dreamed about their own school but they had no possibility to open it because ot the peculiarities of Sovet system. Instead they created amazing family – outstanding example for parents of all the world how to make the children healthy and happy.

It’s hard to underestimate his role in the history of Russian pedagogics. He was the same for Russia, like Maria Montessori for Italy, Glenn Doman for USA, Masaru Ibuka for Japan. Perhaps he isn’t so famous in USA but I’m sure that it would be interesting to know about him for parents who do care about their children development.

The Nikitin’s family is well-known family in Russia and in all territory of former Soviet Union. By the example of their own family they showed how to help a child to become independent creative and harmonious developed person. Surely Boris and Elena Nikitiny were outstanding parents and teachers.

The first they were spoken about at 50th of XX century. In the small village Bolshevo people were shocked by their seven healthy talented and well developed children, who can walk on the snow with bare feet and do astounding gymnastic exercises. Till the 3 years children were able to read and solve simple mathematical problems. Everyone had a great desire to test children to know for sure of all rumours are true. But the school teachers held children up as an example for other students and all doctors said children were asolutely healthy.

The main principles of the early childhood development by Nikitin.

1. There are two extremes harmful for children development. First is too much attention, when parents don’t give enough time and space for being alone. Too much care, too many games are played, all day long the child is entertained and get use for the role of spectator.
The second is neglect. Communication with the child is only when he need to be fed up or washed, time go to bed or something else. This attitude cause emotional starvation and finally to the mental backwardness.

2. Freedom of choice. Children should choose what they like to do and how long to be busy with the activity. Children are never pressed to do something because the parents want it. Nikitin was against any artificial routine. Parents don’t choose but help to solve some difficult life problems for children. Parents advance the children and at the same time give them a push to development giving rich environment to explore and talking over everything around.

3. Attentive attitude of the parents. Children shouldn’t be left to themselves. Parents take part in all the activities.

4. The aim is not to teach children something earlier than other parents but to give all the objects kids are interested in to stimulate their further development.

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Here in Ukraine we buy Christmas tree before New Year because we celebrate Christmas on 7th of January.

But what should little toddler do when it’s so long till New Year but Christmas tree is wanted so much?

Of course decorate some other tree (or plant), for example, Aloe.

You can sing your favorite Christmas songs with toddler while decorating Aloe:)

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A child isn’t a bottle you have to feel, it’s a star you have to light.
Old wisdom

Sesil Lupan is a person I’m really impressed with. She is a mother who cares about her children development and doesn’t want to trust the most precious years of her children childhood to someone else. Usually the parent are so tired of parenting that they gladly give children to some educational center to have some lazy free time. I remember one saying. Weariness exist only in our mind. It’s really true.

I do think that early development should be conducted by the people who love a child very much – the parents. No one feel your child better than you do.

Sesil Lupan doesn’t follow blindly to any methods. She took only the best in different early child education methods which suits her children best of all. You’ll never find a center where the same will be done for your children.

No matter where you’ll go you’ll be proposed to follow already prepared program, but how do they know what is the best for your toddler.

Though all toddler’s have a lot in common they are all different. It’s natural. They have different interests and desires. Early education can be based only on that interests and desires.

Sesil Lupan took a lot from Doman but her way of thinking is a little bit different. She doesn’t agree that a child should be “stuffed” with information like Glenn Doman propose to do. You can’t teach everything with only a cards.

I know that Doman method is working because I’ve tried it with my daughter and I’m very happy with results we have. But I’ve also seen that a toddler doesn’t need so strict schedule of cards slide show. We stop when we want and make long brakes but it still work. If I show cards to my toddler I do it only one time a day.

My toddler loves to read the old cards too but according to Doman it’s not a good idea. Sometimes we add more cards than Doman advised and sometimes we don’t add any cards at all. I make my choice according to mood and desire of my toddler. Sometimes she doesn’t want to read and we don’t read. Sometimes she likes to be busy with painting all week. And I don’t even propose to read. Sometimes we read all the evening.
The same we do with other activities.
Like Sesil Lupan I choose the most interesting from different early development methods. Doman advise you activities according to the age or stage of development. Sesil Lupan’s activities only based on interests. I don’t copy her but I’m very close to her thoughts about the way early education should be conducted.

I’m sure every parent will find a lot of interesting while reading Sesil Lupan’s books.

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I decided that we don’t need new furniture for our daughter and for ourselves. We’ll use our lego sets to build some new design masterpieces and make our home more creative.

Some days ago we built a nice chair for Sophie.

By the way, this furniture is a very nice place to sit and think about life.

Now I’m thinking about some furniture for kitchen. Just need to buy some more sets of lego to be ready to start building our new kitchen.

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We often cook together.
It can’t be different because we are mother and daughter.
I noticed that she likes to play with toy food and I made up my mind to buy her some toy food set.
But than I thought that toy food set isn’t worth it’s price. It’s very expensive because it’s very big sum of money for a toy wich won’t teach my toddler to be creative.
So I decided to buy wax plasticine and made some veggies and fruits together.
It was very good idea and my daughter loved it so much. Here you can see our first wax plasticine food set .

Here you can see apple, pear, cabbage, banana. potato, orange, lemon and eggplant.

I think that such food sets are very userful for toddler development because

1. we make it together
2. it’s very good  fine motor skills activity
3. it teachs to create the toys not to wait for some ready answer
4. if toddler becomes bored with it you can transform it into something different
5. toddler can easily cut it and all toddlers enjoy cutting
6. you can choose your favorite size for toy kitchen utensils you’ve already have
7. just beacuse it’s fun

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One more Christmas activity for toddler’s who love all about Christmas tree and can’t wait to start decorate it.

We were ill and that’s why had some brake in our super developmental activities for our toddler.

But Christmas is very close and we have to so many things to be prepared well.

Colorful paper lantern is easy to make but also it harmless if it’s broken:))

You need only some sheets of colored paper and glue.

Though the lantern looks very simple my daughter loves them and pretend to light to dark room in the evening with her paper lanterns:)

Different games with the paper are very good for sensory feelings development. The more new sensory feelings a child receive the more information is sent to the brain. The more information brain receives the bounds it create. The more bounds your child has the clever he is.

This activity is good for December but also it’s interesting during the whole year.

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This art project is dedicated to leaves and preschool toddlers.

This is our best November art project. Season activities are always interesting for all children.
Just look at our masterpieces and I’m sure you’ll agree that every toddler would be happy to join this interesting autumn activity.
The main work is done by my little artist. By the idea for the masterpieces is mine. Both of us are creative:)
All characters of this art project are easy and interesting for toddlers. They are only little hints about things, which can be done by the same way.

Funny Animal

Fish

Bird with seads

Autumn Flower

Lion

Flower

Forest with trees, mushrooms and hedgehogs

Autumn Impression

Fairy tale tree

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It’s good to educate your child in super mind unleashing groups of modern leaders in the field of early education but…

cards can’t tell all about life

cards can’t develop sensory feelings and give the joy to feel nature, touch it

cards, videos, songs and poetry can’t tell how it’s to hold in hands newborn fluffy chick

cards and all other activities can’t teach how to take care of alive creatures

cards can’t tell about softness of the rose and its wonderful smell

Only lesson of nature can educate, teach, develop. Without such lessons mind of the cutest and smartest genius will be flat.

The best method is to show all this things in real life but not on the screen of TV or sets of flesh cards.
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A toddler’s hunger for something new and desire to explore the world is amazing! Sometimes I am ran out of ideas, sometimes lucky to invent something or guess what to show.

We tried to play billiard and she enjoy it very much. By the way big billiard she likes more:)

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