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We’re crossing our fingers, hoping for a white Christmas this year.  Looks like we may end up with rain instead.  (We may just have to head for the mountains!)  For those of you with plenty of the white stuff in your local forecast, you might want to try this fun recipe for ice cream.  The main… continue reading

This is an exciting time of year!  And sometimes that excitement, left unchanneled, can wreck havoc on your sanity.  If you’re finding that the nervous energy in your house is being directed into whining, fighting, or general destruction, consider ways you can redirect that energy in positive, productive ways.  To paraphrase from my e- book, it isn’t enough… continue reading

When you’re actively working to build a positive family culture, traditions can play a large role in establishing that culture. Traditions are another way of showing what you’re about as a family.  They are value statements in action.  Whether it’s a statement about how you work, how you worship, how you have fun together, or how… continue reading

Here’s the photo we’re sending out with our Christmas  um….New Year’s letters.  A great shot by Christianne Cox of Three Seas Photography, who also did all the photos in my ebook.  But I have to say I do love this shot taken just before… And this one shortly thereafter…  Just keepin’ it real.  Thank you so… continue reading

I consider January 1st as the birthday of this blog.  I’d been writing for a while before, but it was at this time last year that Karen at PreKinders listed me in her Top Ten Blogs for 2010.  It was then that I began to have an audience, and it was then that I felt this… continue reading

Ok, for those of you who get the emailed posts, I may have just sent a post out that wasn’t complete.  Well, it was complete on my screen, but what came into my own email box was part post, part work email….  So if your emailed post looks a little incongruent, check out the full… continue reading

As one year wound down and another got set to roll, it was fun for me to look over the stats for the year and see what the top posts were.  I think what I found gives a great sampling of what you typically find here at Not Just Cute: A Handful of Fun: Why… continue reading

Whether you’re doing formal teaching in a classroom, or taking part in the learning that is done around the kitchen table, the way you talk when you teach young children can make a big difference.   In fact, predictors of child language and cognition abilities are not only indicated by how much a child is spoken… continue reading

Numbers can be a pretty abstract concept for a preschooler to wrap her mind around.  But just as a storybook turns abstract letters into a meaningful story, the abstract concepts of numeracy, patterning, and comparison find real meaning in the objects they represent.  Putting these real objects into the small hands of young children makes the abstract concrete as… continue reading

Numbers can be a pretty abstract concept for a preschooler to wrap her mind around.  But just as a storybook turns abstract letters into a meaningful story, the abstract concepts of numeracy, patterning, and comparison find real meaning in the objects they represent.  Putting these real objects into the small hands of young children makes the abstract concrete as… continue reading