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The following post from Well Parents offers tips for managing parental anxiety. Well Parents provides resources to support you in parenting by encouraging you to focus on your physical and emotional well-being. Links to more Well Parents articles are listed at the end of this post. Guest article provided by:  wellparents.com Parental Currents: Detecting the Undercurrents of Your Anxiety In the journey of parenting, one often navigates through a complex maze of emotions and responsibilities. Amidst this intricate dance, a vital aspect frequently remains unaddressed: the impact of a parent's anxiety on their children. This Wolfe Stew article delves into understanding this influence and offers practical strategies to mitigate it, ensuring a healthy emotional environment for both parent and child. Subtle Indicators: Deciphering Anxiety in the Young Children, with their unfiltered expressiveness, often mirror the emotional climate of their homes. Noticeable shifts in their behavior,...

Leaders, please join me in welcoming back Well Parents   with tips for staying sane while parenting toddlers and working from home. After reading the article, be sure to leave a comment with a tip or two that worked well for you. Everyone benefits where peace resides ! If you could benefit from more parental support, be sure to drop by Well Parents .  They offer exercise ideas , healthy eating tips , stress-busters , helpful resources , and more ! Also, be sure to check out their other Wolfe Stew featured articles including home business opportunities and  organization tips .   And now, let's reclaim our peace with these tips for staying sane and productive from Well Parents . Image via Pexels Staying Sane and Productive as a Working Parent of Toddlers and Babies   Balancing parenting with working from home can be challenging for any parent, but it’s especially difficult for parents of toddlers and babies. With their endless curiosity and need for attention, i...

(Updated 8/4/2022)  Welcome, leaders, to Wolfe Stew . We are SO glad you’re here. Since the last post, we have been stewing on activities for you to use with your preschool to sixth grade learners for every day of August’s third (Yikes!) week. We chose daily holidays and paired them with learning ideas from around the ‘net in an effort to bring engagement into your learning day. Check out the chosen holidays along with a brief description of practiced skills for the week spanning August 16 th to 22 nd . (Click the link to go directly to the described day.) Tell a Joke Day (August 16th Annually) -  Resources and tips for leaders and learners I Love My Feet Day (August 17th Annually) -  Health science (personal hygiene, foot anatomy); Art (painting, following directions, planning, imagining, making connections) Mail Order Catalog Day (August 18th Annually)  - Research Skills, Writing (opinion and persuasive) Potato Day (August 19th Annually) - Science (plants...

(Updated 7/19/2022) Welcome, leaders! We’re glad you’re here! You’re looking for engaging activities to excite and intrigue your leaners and we want to help! We’re pairing daily holidays with learning opportunities for your learner, and we try to only choose the ones we find intriguing. Here are this week’s featured holidays with a brief description of skills covered. Book Lover’s Day (August 9th Annually) - Join Goodreads! Smithsonian Day  ( August 10th Annually) – Explore artists, read nonfiction leveled articles, discover history, join live science webinars or browse the archives (earth, life, paleontology and social studies), play online STEM games. Global Kinetic Sand Day   (August 11th Annually)  – Sensory play, following directions, reverse engineering STEM challenge, earth science, engineering, life science, creativity. Sewing Machine Day   (August 12th Annually) – History, nonfiction text, diagram, fine motor skills, sewing, hand stitching, creativit...