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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

 I get it.  It’s hard to shop with kids.  I’ll be the first to admit I do a lot of my shopping at night and on weekends because I’ve discovered that taking three little boys with me takes about 30 extra minutes and costs about seven extra dollars.  But a trip to the grocery store… continue reading

 I get it.  It’s hard to shop with kids.  I’ll be the first to admit I do a lot of my shopping at night and on weekends because I’ve discovered that taking three little boys with me takes about 30 extra minutes and costs about seven extra dollars.  But a trip to the grocery store… continue reading

An argument is brewing in the preschool scene.  In one corner, you have those arguing for more academics to give children that head start that might correct the troubles of high-school drop-outs and low test scores.  They claim that children rise to the occasion and show that they are capable of more than we’ve been asking.  In the other… continue reading