We love our kids sometimes even more than we love ourselves. Our unwritten future is our kids. We love them even when understand that they are much different. Like chicken you can see on the photo who was sitting on the duck’s egg and truly believes they are her real children. And it doesn’t matter they are real or not. They are just different but she still loves them.

That’s the beauty of Life. All of us are different. It would be rather boring if we all were the exact copies like clones. Do you agree?

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It’s just right time to reveal your toddler summer theme because it’s really wonderful time of the year created to have fun and enjoy good weather.

I’ll tell you honestly – summer isn’t time to see the pictures and flesh cards and watch educational video. It’s time to experience the LIFE with all senses we have: to smell, to touch, to eat, to breathe and so on.

And I think that a wise parent will show flowers, insects, animals and many many other things having a walk together in the park or somewhere outdoors. That’s my point for the toddler summer theme. Just anything that came to your mind is better than books, videos and cards.

It’s not hard at all. You just need to be attentive to the things around and you’ll find a lot of things to show and to tell about. Of course you have to remember about interests of the child. Otherwise your effect will be minimal.

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Sometimes it’s happen that a toddler desn’t recognize one of the parents. It’s just happen sometimes. Without any reason. (It seems so but it always has some reason). Very often toddlers doesn’t recognize fathers. It was in our family and I know some families where was the same problem.

Knowing lots of toddlers and having the most stubborn one I can tell that nothing can help in this situation and but patience of “rejected” parent and the time spent together. When I see that relation between my daughter and husband start to become strained I leave them together. The father learns how find connection with daughter and daughter learns more about father. There is always some work to do and money to earn but we can’t make our children to love us in our absence. We can’t be an example for them without doing for them even something ordinary, commonplace and boring for us. Just spend time together showing you are really interested in their life and problems.

It’s very sad when because of speed of our stressful life and busy schedule fathers (sometime mothers too) lost that special ties that bind a family. We can’t leave wtihout money and we still have to earn them but toys and food can never replace a father or mother. It’s easy to start a family and give birth a child but to feel and to understand a child through life is like a gift given for hard work and selflessness, remembering what is the final goal.

Out time cost nothing but it’s the best what we can give to our children. We can earn lots of money but even all gold of the world won’t buy that first the most important years we should devote them. The lack of attention and time make them to reject us. And it can be too late…

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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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She was playing with her favorite flowers and suddenly said: “Please, turn on some good music. My flowers love to listen music.”

How does she know??

I’ve seen several films about researches that show a beneficial influence of music on flowers. But we never spoke about this with my daighter.

For me it’s only one more proof of children’s inborn intuition they use in their first years of life. That’s the proof that children don’t have enough experience and their logic isn’t developed well. Instead they use the native feeling of intuition that help to understand the objects around. That’s amazing!

We don’t use intuition because we think that logic can bring the truth.

And that’s why we fail. We fail in many things in our life only because we don’t listen to our hearts any more. We don’t know what we want. We forgot our dreams. We do what we should do because we are told that is the way the things should be. We are so sure about this that even don’t try to think about it.

Our children are born with the wisdom to the life the way it is and don’t listen to the other people who failed to keep this wisdom in the heart.

Let’s help our children to keep this wisdom and their hearts. It will help them to have the better life than we have. I didn’t tell that we can’t change our life. On the contrary. We should change it for better in order to show our children the way. We should be the change we want to see.

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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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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.
So don’t be too proud of yourself if the only education you can give your child is to send to some group and pay money for it.

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So you have preschool toddler? It’s great because it’s one of my favorite children’s stage. Every stage is special and interesting, but this age is amuzing!

Who is preschool toddler? That’s the question.

Surely a preschool toddler isn’t a baby. He can walk. He can speak. He knows what is potty. He has his own thoughts and view on the things. He has some experience about the life.

He isn’t as stubborn as he used to be before and tantrums happen not so often. Life becomes easier!
You’ve already signed with relief because sleepless nights are in the past. It’s easier with everything about preschool toddler.

Sometimes they seems to behave almost like grown ups. They ask about serious things and we wonder how clever they are indeed. They may ask about economical situation, discoveries in cosmos, God, love and many other deep things. And after this questions we very often we do a mistake.

There are two mistakes we can make while parenting preschool toddler.

1. We still think that they are babies.

For all parents their children are always small no matter what is their real age. But our children grow up and change. And we have to understand it. Babies rely on us in everything. We plan their days for them. We decide when to sleep and what to eat, what to wear and with what toys to play, what music to listen.
Toddlers and especially preschool toddlers know very well what they like in and what they don’t. They choose food, toys, activities and even when it’s more suitable for them to have a walk or sleep. And it’s really good, because those simple choices can help them to understand themselves and become independent. It’s development of personal freedom. Of course if to gave them the full freedom you’ll discover soon that you are under the reign of tyrant has no desire to share his power. Here the best way out is to keep a golden middle. Really important and necessary things are obligatory, but in other cases the Freedom.
Let our kids express themselves in their own desires.

2. We think they are already big enough to behave like grown up in all situations.

I often do this mistakes. I forget that my daughter is still a child and she is only 2 years old. In fact she most people think she is older because of that many things she knows too many things for her age. She can understand so complicated explanations about life. The thought is not to be so demanding. Emotionally preschool toddlers are small children and need attention, love and caress even more and more with each day.

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Ideally this question should be answered when you are pregnant. But even if your child is 12 month you have still enough time to start early childhood education.

So, what early develoment education methods to choose?

Today we can hear so many arguments about different methods of children early development. Montessori, Glenn Doman (the author of well-known books “How To Teach Your Baby To Read”, “How To Teach Your Baby Math”, “How To Teach Your Baby To Be Physically Superb”, “How To Give Your Baby Encyclopedic Knowledge”), Sesil Lupan, Zajtsev and Nikitiny, Rudolf Steiner are the most famous founders of early development methods.

Every method has its weak and strong sides.
There is no universal method suitable to all children.
Zajtsev methods can boast with great variety of educational material.
Glenn Doman is great but I don’t like idea that child is passive object in the process.
Intellectual games of Nikitin’s are very good but they lack aesthetic side.

Montessori methods and Waldorf education have a lot in common and they are the most popular in the world. They have almost the same aims of education and development but of course have disagreement.

The role of arts is the leading in the Waldorf education. Montessori didn’t think that arts are very important because they divert one’s attention away from real life. Rudolf Steiner thinks that emotional world of a child is very important and when we don’t pay attention to it we make imagination very poor.

Montessori proposes you to give kids developmental toys already made by teacher. If you are following Waldorf education you have to make toys together with child.

Every early education method is like the live creature. I can also develop according to needs of time and kid’s desires. But what ever you choose don’t be too dedicated to any methods if you see that you child isn’t very happy about it. Let your kids choose themselves what methods they like most of all.

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Toddlers are really special creatures. They never stop surprise us with lots of things every day.

Here is a list of my observations about toddler’s vision of the world.

• Every thing can teach us something

They are in a process of exploring and remembering every minute when they are not sleeping. Becoming adult we become too lazy to learn so quickly like toddlers do.

• All objects can be toys

Everything, everything, everything can be used as a toy. Stones, boxes, water, sand, leaves, sticks, keys. It looks like we don’t need to buy toys made by people:)

• Mess is the right order for everything


They can’t stand the room in the perfect order. It looks unnatural and strange for them. Maybe they are right?

• Life is for play, not for work

Everything they do with passion. To do something boring and uninteresting is impossible. Adults are more likely to believe that they have to do the things they don’t like because of some reasons.

• Freedom is the necessary part of happiness

They don’t want to be slaves of circumstances. They always fight for their rights. Especially when it comes to eating and sleeping:)

• Nature is our mother

They are very close to nature. They love every part of it: trees, ground, sand, animals, grass, sun and even rain. We often forget how much we loved all that things in the childhood.

• Born with intuition

Having no experience they use their intuition. Adult believe to experience and often makes horrible mistakes because of this.

• Find beauty in very simple things

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• Sleep and sitting on one place is waste of time

Adults like to sleep because sleep helps to escape from life they don’t like. Happy people sleep less. They don’t want to sleep a lot because they have a lot thing they enjoy to do.

• Free to express emotions everywhere

Adults don’t think it’s good to cry in the crowd, or sing in a bus or dance in the street when you remember some good music.

• Parents are almighty

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