Miss Kat: The Modern Mary Poppins

Yummy summer toddler treat: popsicles with green juice and $8 silicone ice pop molds from Amazon

Awesome resource I just came across!

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Trace your child’s hand and arm for the trunk of the tree. Then go on a nature walk around the neighborhood and collect some beautiful leaves!

Now all we need are some fairy lights inside!! Frosty the snow lantern

I don’t believe in hitting kids.
Not a smack, not a “little tap,” not even once.

If you wouldn’t hit your partner, your friend, or a stranger for “learning a lesson,” why is it suddenly acceptable to do it to a child someone smaller, more vulnerable, and completely dependent on you?

I’ve heard every excuse:
🗣 “It didn’t hurt me, I turned out fine.”
🗣 “Kids these days are too soft.”
🗣 “It’s just discipline.”

But let’s be honest violence is not discipline.
Fear is not respect.
And the only thing hitting teaches is that the people who love you can also hurt you.

Children deserve better than that.
Gentle parenting isn’t about being “soft” or “letting them get away with everything.”
It’s about teaching with love, respect, and consistency.

The controversial truth?
You can raise respectful, resilient, kind kids without ever laying a hand on them.

Practicing “go” and “stop” with our toy truck/car 🚛
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Sign for go - point both index fingers away from you in the direction you’re going!
Sign for stop - place pinky side of dominant hand atop non dominant palm; like placing a wall that stops something!
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When your toddler gets bored with all of his actual toys…you improvise 🤪 who knew toilet paper/paper towel rolls and fuzzy poms could be so fun. We’ve been at it for half an hour…
Used it as an opportunity to practice prepositions/“where” words: in, out, behind, up, down

I like to oat, oat, oat, oples and bononos!
Yes, this went everywhere, but it was worth it. He loved it!