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When you read this, DO NOT GO TO A PLACE OF GUILT.⁠
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Should we say it louder for the people in the back? Do 👏 not 👏 go 👏 to 👏 a 👏 place 👏 of 👏 guilt 👏 Instead, know this, when your toddler is yelling, screaming suddenly totally wildly out of control? Like what happened to my kid and who has taken over his body?🌪.⁠

Do this:⁠
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Take 10 minutes to play something REALLY special with your little one today. 🚀 And tomorrow. And the next day. You read that right, just 10 minutes per day. 🤯⁠
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Make it really special, give it a name. “Special mama Skyler time.” No phones, no siblings. All 10 minutes. Your toddler chooses anything they want in the world to play. 🎉⁠
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Because when they’ve had a hard day, they can’t say “I’m sad” or “I need you.” Instead, they just need you to connect, and play ✨✨✨ This one’s a game changer.

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The 3 Rs - Reaching the Learning Brain.

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Why activity books are important

The MANY (12) Reasons why Activity Books Are KEY to Children’s Development
As wonderful as books can be for stimulating the imagination, youngsters need more than that. Children’s activity books are ideal for providing kids with more than just the reading experience that is essential to their later academic strength.

1. Improve Concentration
Children find it difficult at the best of times to sit still and concentrate – this can be helped by children’s activity books, which contain tasks simple yet entertaining enough to keep children absorbed for long enough to help increase the period for which they can focus on one thing.

2. Recognition of Colour, Shapes Etc
Activity books for Children are also are a fantastic way to reinforce colour, shape, number, and letter recognition. They also can introduce or reinforce word formation and basic addition and subtraction.

3. Fine Motor Development
Holding pens, pencils, crayons, and scissors correctly comes with practice – all the way through the primary years. One of the most entertaining ways in which children can gain that valuable practice is by completing activities in books - they help kids strengthen hand and finger muscles and improve their pen control too.

4. Hand-Eye Coordination
Activity books that require children to limit a particular technique to a specific area, such as colouring in a picture, can help improve hand and eye coordination. One of the most basic examples of this is how youngsters learn to colour within the lines, rather than just scribbling without any control.

5. Sense of Personal Accomplishment
The sense of pride and accomplishment that children feel when they complete an activity, such as seeing the image that forms when they join the dots, is important. It can help instil a sense of confidence in kids, which will enable them to tackle the challenges of school, sport, and home in a positive way. Children are more likely to succeed when they believe that they are capable.

6. Learning Through Fun
One of the most common gripes from children is that their schoolwork is boring. By completing fun activities, children learn without even realising it, helping them refine their skills without them feeling any pressure.

7. Expression of Self
Activity books are interactive and encourage children to draw, think, feel and express themselves on paper.

8. Quality Time with the Kids
In this fast-paced digital world, we sometimes get so caught up that we forget to sit down and just have a conversation with our kids. Activity books are a great time to become engaged with your child.

9. Something for Everyone
You can find almost any subject in any activity book format, from simple art, math, reading, and writing to manners and social skills, foreign languages and more. They come ready-made or you can create your own with free downloadable worksheets.

10. Boredom Buster (without technology )
Simple markers, pencils and pens along with activity pages offer hours of entertainment. As a busy parent, there’s something refreshing and guilt-free about bringing out tried-and-true workbooks.

11. Less Screen Time
Studies show that kids spend 4 hours a day passively watching a screen. And that amount almost doubles on days when weather prevents them from escaping into the outdoors. By encouraging your child to open an activity book, not only will they be far more engaged and focused, but also hugely satisfied after spending the day doing hands-on activities than they would staring at a lifeless screen. What’s more, they’ll be improving skills needed to succeed in school and life.

12. More Reading & Improved Comprehension Skills
Reading doesn’t have to be boring. In fact, by encouraging your children to read with fun activity books you’ll be helping them develop good reading habits and superior concentration skills. Children’s activity books help them to develop their reading ability while participating in a range of literacy and critical thinking activities. Their comprehension skills naturally improve as they puzzle out the different steps to complete an activity

Via Early Education Australia

Mommy Brains- the better version of you!

Yes, it is true that women during pregnancy face a reduction in gray matter – involve in social cognition, but it is not necessarily a bad thing. Let’s start with that! Instead of glorifying the inabilities of mommy brains, we should embrace it. Truth is some subtle parts of our memory are sacrificed only to enhance other areas of cognition, which is called evolving. And the last time I checked, evolving isn’t bad thing. It’s time for us to dip our toes into a guilt-free motherhood. As it is, women find it challenging to return to work after giving birth due to various reasons. One of them is being under-mined for being a mother. Yes, we often forget words from time to time in a conversation, but these troubles with verbal recall should not represent our competency at work. The upsides of having a mommy brain can include a heightened capacity to stay calm, focused during challenging times, the ability to interpret multiple tasks, and enhanced vigilance around stressful situations. A mother’s ability to keep track of multiple appointments, schedules, responsibility, time-management and other tasks that require executive functioning is not an inability, rather a special-skill called “super-power.” It’s time for us to stop lamenting it, but to reframe, relabel “mommy-brains” as a powerful tool that helps us to become the different and better version of us.

Written by: The Modmom

We have been cooking something new for our followers, and could not wait to share it with you all. We are really excited to announce our blog series called The ModMom, in collaboration with Tod-Learn. We will be sharing real day to day stories of modern mothers in a Bangladeshi context. It will be a total of 10 stories, maybe more.

If you feel you have a story to share that defines your motherhood, feel free to message us, you never know, the last story could be yours.

Love,
The Modmom