Here are a couple more things to keep in mind to help your child develop a healthy sense of themself.
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Tips For Helping Your Child Develop A Healthy Sense Of Self
Help your child develop a healthy sense of self.
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Tips For Helping Your Child Develop A Healthy Sense of Self
For anyone needing physicals and/or immunizations, you can call and schedule your appointment now!
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Greene County Health Department Back To School Physicals & Immunizations Flyer
Just a reminder for any one looking to return or join the NG Pre-K program next year! Join us on Monday evening!
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Pre-K Registration flyer
Reminder our End of the Year Picnic is this Friday! Come join in on the fun!
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End of the Year Picnic flyer
Talking with your child about their emotions and helping them describe their feelings are excellent ways to help them develop a healthy sense of self.
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Tips For Helping Your Child Develop A Healthy Sense of Self tip sheet from Illinois Early Learning Project.
There are many job openings right now! If you are looking for employment, consider checking out the job fair that will be downtown Jacksonville on June, 9th from 4-6PM!
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Job Fair on June 9th, 2022, downtown Jacksonville from 4-6PM. Promoting employment, training, and education.
This is a simple, yet great activity that your kids will love. It may even help keep them cool in this heat that we have been having!
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Learning At Home Activities: Sponge Play from Illinois Early Learning Project
This tip sheet from Illinois Early Learning Project is something to keep in mind. Reach out to your parent educator if you have any concerns with you or your child's mental health.
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Tip Sheet From Illinois Early Learning Project titled, Young Children's Mental Health: What Is Essential?
Here is a cute and fun activity to do with your kids. Go around the yard with your child and pick dandelions. Have your child use the dandelions as paint brushes to create you a beautiful piece of art work. If you want to take it a step further, before your child starts painting, put painters tape down on the canvas to spell out their name. After they are done painting and the paint is dry, help your child peel the tape up to reveal their name on their creation!
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Dandelion painting. Using dandelions as your paint brush.
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Try to talk about feelings with your little one. Are you feeling happy? Sad? Angry? You can also point out characters in story books and movies and talk about how they might be feeling. Point out good behavior and the feelings they may have felt throughout different parts of their day. For example, "I know you may have been disappointed to give Lucy a turn with the ball, but I am proud of you for sharing." Talking about your feelings and your child's feelings helps them understand that all feelings are ok and that it is good to talk about them.
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Feelings Are Fantastic tip sheet from Illinois Early Learning Project.
We have a family that is in need of a baby crib. Please let us know if you or someone you know, has one to donate.
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Baby sleeping.
Talk about the weather today with your child. Can they describe what it is like outside? Give them some options if they need it. For example as them if it is hot or cold out. Have them play outside, if the weather permits. They can jump in a mud puddle or drive match box cars threw the shallow water.
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Girl dressed in pink rain boots and a colorful raincoat. She is holding a colorful umbrella as she walks through a mud puddle.
Try this activity to work on language skills with your little one. (Original post is from Illinois Early Learning Project.) https://www.facebook.com/IllinoisEarlyLearn/photos/a.108484808321132
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Pictures two little girls holding hands while running outside.
Positive parenting does wonders for both the child and the parent. As a parent or caregiver find and embrace your strengths, take steps to work on the areas that could use improvement, and know that no one is a "perfect parent".
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Positive parenting describes a set of parental behaviors that foster a child's capacity to love, trust, explore and learn. The goal of positive parenting is to help parents guide their children's healthy development in the context of the family's culture. Key elements of positive parenting include the ability to understand or imagine the child's point of view, respond with interest and sensitivity, recognize that parenting can be stressful, recognize and celebrate the child's strengths,  provide consistent, age-appropriate guidelines, work toward a balance of meeting parental needs and child's needs. Positive parenting also includes participating in moments of connection with the child, recognizing and regulating their own feelings, and seeking help, support, or additional information on parenting when needed. www.zerotothree.com
Today is EARTH DAY!!! It is a beautiful day out today. Get out and celebrate the earth with a nature scavenger hunt. Point out one item to your child on the list and see if you guys can find it. Once you find an item, talk about it with them. Can you touch it? What does it feel like? Is it wet? Smooth? Bumpy? Is it alive? Is it up high or down low? What color is it? ...Move on to the next item on the list. How many items were you able to find?
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Nature Scavenger Hunt lists: flower, rocks, water, green leaf, tree, grass, spiderweb, bird, sand or dirt, cloud, bug, ant, brown leaf, tree bark, butterfly, and fern.
Here is a simple, yet fun activity to do on a rainy day. Save Kleenex boxes and let your child wear them around the house like shoes. They will have a lot of fun with this. You can even get creative and decorate the boxes to look like animal or monster feet.
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Child wearing Kleenex boxes on their feet like shoes. The boxes are decorated as if they are monster feet.
Earth Day is this this coming Friday. A simple activity to do with your little ones is to have them decorate a coffee filter with green and blue markers. Once they have the coffee filter colored, use a spray bottle to lightly dampen the coffee filter. If you do not have a spray bottle, with wet hands, flick water on to the filter. As the colors get wet and blend together, the filter looks more like the earth.
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Child's hands creating a coffee filter planet earth. Picture from aboutmom.com
Due to the weather, we are moving the Bright Future's Easter Egg Hunt up to tomorrow, Tuesday, April 12th. This event will still be at the Bright Future's office from 1-2pm. Please let your parent educator know if you will be able to make it. Sorry for the inconvenience, but hope to see you all there!
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Easter Egg Hunt DATE CHANGE Flyer
Today we are celebrating The Week of the Young Child with Family Friday. Family time is so special and important. Family time promotes social interaction, which involves practicing appropriate and positive interactions with others to support the child’s developing social skills. Check out the Family Fun Bingo Board below. Can you and your family complete the entire board? #WOY22
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Family Fun Bingo Board. Read a story together. Go on a walk together. Make a snack together.  Play a game together. Have a picnic together. Take silly pictures together. Have a dance party together. Have a device free day together. Sing songs together.