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January 2009
This Month's Theme: “Resolutions and Reflections”
Savvy Welcomes Jacque Grillo's 10 New Year's Resolutions for Parents
TEN PARENT RESOLUTIONS FOR THE NEW YEAR Resolve that one day each week will be a day without television, videos, computers, and electronics of any sort. Shut the things off. Reclaim your homes. Resist the pressure to become your child's day planner, social secretary and entertainment organizer. Allow for days where nothing is planned. Celebrate boredom! Don't protect your child from a
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The Big Picture: Five Things We Do as Parents that Really Matter (and Some that Really Don't!)
Call us conflicted. We tend to cast a jaundiced eye at the "new year, new you" promises we hear this time of year. And, yet, we place real faith in any opportunity for reflection that offers a bit of perspective, a perch from which we can look at ourselves, see what we like, wince a little at what we don't, and resolve to tip the balance a bit going forward. We especially like the chance for a
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A Reading List for the New Year, Preschool-Style
So many (and so many wonderful) books for preschoolers are about bedtime , closing down after a day, quieting down and putting an end to things for at least a stretch. But starting a new year is like waking up from a winter's nap, and what about books about getting going, making a start of it, looking ahead? Well, there's A Great Day for Up , which we truly adore both for its energy and for
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Wise Words from T.S. Eliot on New Beginnings
New Year's festivities, it seems, are a way of celebrating new beginnings for their own sake. Something must be left behind, but something exciting, if not entirely known, is ahead. And so we come together to toast and rejoice. Those of us raising small children are immersed in new beginnings. We can't escape them if we try. Indeed, if we really think back to what our little ones were
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Resolutions and Reflections: Getting the New Year Started Off Right
Ah, the new year. A clean slate, a fresh start. White, crisp sheets of paper ready for the next chapter of your family's story. A time of possibility, predictions, and promises. Resolutions and reflections. Do you have rituals to start the year off? Good luck charms like black-eyed peas or grapes or long, slurpy noodles to eat? A book you always leaf through -- perhaps an album of
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Savvy Picks for December, 2008
Our top ten posts about the wonders of rituals and routines:
- A Season of Rituals
- Savvy Welcomes Betsy Brown Braun on Helping Keep the Fa-La-La in the Holidays with Your Children
- Savvy Picks: Best Children's Books of 2008
- Savvy Welcomes Lyn Colwell and Corey Colwell-Lipson on Greening the Holidays
- Teaching Your Child About Giving Instead of Getting at the Holidays
- Homemade Gifts to Make with Preschoolers
- How to Keep Rituals a Bit Flexible, a Little Lively, and a Lot Unexpected
- Savvy Welcomes Ginger Carlson on How to Give Experiences Not More Things
- Inspired Indoor Activities for the Shortest Day of the Year
- Holidays Are Delicious
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