by Ellen Cogan | Oct 26, 2023 | Children and families
Now that nearly all children are at home, there are hundreds of pages of worksheets for parents to download. Many are for teachers to assign. They do keep the kids busy for a while and it looks like the kids are learning something. But most of the...
by Ellen Cogan | Oct 26, 2023 | Children and families
When my 4 kids were young, there were weeks at a time when we were stuck in the house together because of various illnesses including chicken pox (What a horrid winter!) There was no internet then, and appropriate TV was very limited. So I learned new...
by Ellen Cogan | Oct 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
I have heard parents say, “He ALWAYS gets up early. Winter and summer, he’s up at 6 AM.” The same parents who say this in despair have successfully changed their child’s internal clock twice in the previous year. How do I know? Because twice a year, OUR...
by Ellen Cogan | Oct 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
I wrote this a few years ago. I’m proud to be presenting this year (2020) at the Region IV Head Start Association (Feb), the NYS AEYC conference (April), and the NAEYC Annual Conference (Nov). This content is still accurate. Check the Wizard Gallery...
by Ellen Cogan | Oct 26, 2023 | Teaching and Learning
Sometimes, I ask questions and get strange answers. In a recent workshop series I asked what I thought was a simple question. Some didn’t answer and others told me things that seemed unrelated to my question. The problem, as it usually is when the answer...
