On Children and Parenting

Many years ago, children from birth to four or five years of age exercised natural preschool stress relief. Training in preschool stress relief was both unknown and unnecessary. Stay at home mothers never worried about trying to increase self-concept in their preschool children. They did not work to instill artificial coping skills and specialized anger management skills in pre-schoolers. Common sense dictated preschool stress relief efforts.

In the twenty-first century, however, many who themselves mismanage stress are seeking stress relief techniques for a preschool child or children. I have been appalled, both as teacher and principal, to see the negative, detrimental changes since I began my career. While we struggle to instill greater measures of preschool stress relief, we actually increase stress on young children.

From my viewpoint as career educator of more than 30 years, I would like to address the issue briefly. What are – or should be – appropriate

A surprise party for adults can be tricky.  Now imagine a surprise party for kids – - – you’re going to need some help.  With a few simple tips for invitations and some great surprise party ideas, you’ll be on your way to an excellent surprise for your birthday kid.

The surprise invitation

Most kids will have a real hard time trying to keep a secret – especially when it is something as good as a party.  You don’t want to risk a slip-up at school or on the playground.  Instead of sending surprise birthday invitations to the kids guests, send them to the parents.  This way, you’ll be able to make sure your children’s friends can come to the party and not risk blowing the surprise.  While you may have a theme for your child’s surprise party, you might want to keep this birthday invitation more subtle.  You don’t want