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Reset, Refresh, and Reimagine: Your Guide to a Thriving Preschool Space After the Holidays

Post-holiday chaos in your preschool space? Start fresh with Peake Academy’s simple, effective strategies. Clear out clutter, create designated zones, and rotate toys to keep the environment engaging. A well-organized space boosts creativity and focus, making every day a learning adventure. Ready to transform your space? Embrace a clutter-free environment that promotes focus and joy in learning. Let’s make this year thriving and inspiring for you and your preschooler!

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Preschool, Parents & Parenting Kelley Peake Preschool, Parents & Parenting Kelley Peake

Harness the Chaos: 5 Proven Tips for Crafting a Thriving Preschool Experience

Transform preschool chaos into a structured, joyful learning adventure! These five proven strategies help you craft comforting routines, create engaging learning spaces, integrate playful learning, stay organized, and foster meaningful connections. Embrace the unpredictability of preschool with confidence and make every moment a stepping stone to success. Start building a thriving preschool experience today!

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Positive Discipline and Child Guidance Tips

Guidance is what parents do before they have a problem. This is part of being a proactive parent. Guidance techniques will help prevent a problem with a child before the child loses self-control or makes a bad decision. While self-control will emerge during early childhood years, children depend on parents and preschool teachers to help them maintain control.

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Stages of the Preschool Toddler

Get ready for a parenting roller coaster ride! The next three years will be a thrill a minute for you and your baby or toddler.

Your newborn will go from seemingly helpless to talking, from unable to hold his or her head steady to a walking, running, hopping, and jumping preschool toddler!

As miraculous as this process seems, it follows three developmental rules.

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Appropriate Expectations For Older Toddlers

Every toddler experiences their own stages of development with manners, rule-following, and meeting the expectations of their parents. During this stage of parenting, you’ll find that your older toddler is demanding to be more independent and slowly learning that the world doesn’t revolve around them.

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Steps to Stop Toddler Biting in its Tracks

Biting is a common habit for toddlers to pick up during this stage in childhood. Whether your toddler is biting at daycare, biting at home, or just biting randomly, you can work to stop toddling biting in its tracks. As soon as you notice your toddler is biting, it’s time to use our parenting tips to stop this behavior.

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8 Super Easy and Fun Ways to Celebrate New Year’s Eve with Kids

Are your kids too young to make it to midnight? Pick 9PM vs midnight if it is easier for your little ones to stay awake and celebrate at that time. Set the clocks for the revised countdown. Have your decorations and noise makers ready to go! Then, have a relaxing round 2 celebration once the kids are off to bed.

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Helping Your Child with Anxiety or Depression

As parents, we want what is best for our children, no matter what. Sometimes, though, we are at a loss for what to do. When our children feel anxiety, depression, or any mental health challenges, we often feel the most frustration. Helping others with these difficulties is even harder when they are children because it is not always easy to articulate emotions. We want to focus on anxiety for this post, as it is the most common challenge we see with young children.

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8 Reasons Why Gratitude is Important for Kids

Gratitude and positivity are abstract skills that can be hard to teach children. As adults, these skills are equally difficult to practice and master. Toddlers tend to learn by copying what the adult in their lives are doing, so if you are a negative person, your child will be too, and vice versa. Positivity and gratitude are traits that will enable your child to be emotionally and mentally healthy when they grow up. So how do you teach your child how to be grateful and keep a positive attitude?

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