Iris's mom and dad write about Mindful Parenting and RIE Parenting while maintaining a positive, optimistic, open-minded and mindful attitude.
Today, we played a lot of Pengoloo board game for kids, an award winning wooden skill building memory color recognition game we really enjoy and absolutely recommend. Pengoloo by Blue Orange enhances kids’ memory, color recognition, visualization and fine motor skills. The game also strengthens kids’ strategy and social skills.
Continue reading
I had to explain to my daughter how brainstorming works. To do this, II chose to use three main brainstorming techniques instead of the classical free writing. These are: listing, concept mapping (or mind mapping) and sketching. These three techniques are all very effective when trying to teach little children how to brainstorm.
Continue reading
There are days, just like this one, when we don’t do countless activities, but they are beautiful and relaxing because they represent quality time together.
Continue reading
We started our day playing a school role game and learnt to draw various objects. Of course, I was the teacher and our girl was the student. We used chalk on a blackboard. Afterwards we played a Guess Who game, this time using our Lego Minifigures.
Continue reading
I love reading and I used to read stories to my daughter since she was very little. Now, at 5yo, she won’t sleep until we read our bedtime story. At noon we read a lovely book which I also warmly recommend: The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss.
Continue reading
Daddy recently bought himself a Xiaomi Mi Robot Builder STEM Toy a few months ago. It has a 3-in-1 design that allows you to build a robot, a plane and a dinosaur. Although it’s a toy for ages 10 and up and the kids can learn how to program it through a series of tutorials on the Mi Robot Builder App, we thought it was a good idea to just use it as a building toy until our daughter gets older.
Continue reading
We started the day with a drawing, cutting and coloring activity. Our daughter asked me to draw a few cars inspired by our HotWheels car collection for her. She wanted to make a landscape with a road. We cut the drawn cars and our girl glued them on the road. The Hotwheels cars had to face the right direction.
Continue reading
Because our daughter got bored of all her board games – we thought about inventing a new, fun board game to play. We decided upon a board game with pawns and dice that includes fun tasks to solve. So, here goes today’s game…
Continue reading
Today we got up early. After our morning routine, we printed, cut and played a new game we found online: Catch a bug!. Later – because our daughter got bored of all her board games – we thought about inventing a new, fun board game to play.
Continue reading
To turn the actual situation into a nice experience for our daughter, we decided to invent and play a new game everyday. This, of course, among other things, like keeping a daily routine, sticking to an exercise program, learning interesting things about one subject a day, etc.
Continue reading