In my experience, many fathers desire to be active participants in their children’s education but don’t know how to work with them. – When they use my project-based curriculums, they are able to facilitate their early learners’ education while having fun doing so! – You can help me equip parents to unlock the genius in…
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Smart Play My Way
👶🏽👧🏻👦🏾🧒🏼👧🏿Kids are born with the strongest learning tools ever called the five senses: 👅 taste, ✋🏽 touch, 👂🏽hearing, 👁 sight and 👃🏽smell. – 🧸With these tools young children engage in activities I refer to as “Smart Play My Way”. When children play by themselves and with others they make sense of their world and come to know who they are as people. This…
How to Encourage Learning during the Holidays
🍎🍇🍋🥬🌽🥕🍠During the holidays, children look forward to family, festivities, and FOOD! That is why cooking is such a great way to encourage learning at this time of year. – 🙇🏽♀️In addition to creating tasty things to eat, cooking experiences help your children learn the following: – 1. how to count 2. how to sequence 3….
Strong Foundations
🌎The world opens up to anyone who can read. – 📚This first has to be modeled for children in ways that demonstrate the power of the written word and encourages a love for books at the same time. – 💁🏽♀️ What are ways that you build a strong literacy foundation in your family?
Choose Joy
😀“The joy of the Lord is your strength.” Nehemiah 8:10 – 🙂As you go into this new week, choose to do so in the joy of the Lord. His joy will strengthen you from the inside out and empower you to accomplish all that must be done in the week ahead. – 😃Be encouraged, and…
Shoutout Saturday w/Community Soup
🌻 It’s Shoutout Saturday, and I have to tell you about one of my favorite books entitled Community Soup by @almajfullerton! – 😀 Alma does a great job of communicating and illustrating international communities and their experiences with mixed media art. – 💯 Community Soup is a fun read with early learners! I highly recommend this book to…
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👶🏻👦🏾👧🏻🧒🏽🧒🏼👧🏾Early childhood is the most important developmental period in a person’s life. _ 💁🏽♀️Would you consider helping me use my 40 years of experience as an early childhood professional to unlock the genius in every child? _ ✅ You can join my Patreon family by subscribing for as little as $3/month today! _ 📲Just click the…
Throwback Thursday With My Daughter
😊I’m pulling out another photo from my archives this throwback Thursday, and it is very special to me. _ 🤱🏽Here I am holding my firstborn child, my daughter and namesake @martacyoungblood! (…I’m also rocking a pretty sweet afro 😁.) _ 🥰Marta and I now have the privilege of working together, and that is a blessing from…
Where to Find Great Deals on Kids Books
QUICK TIP #10: Where to Find Great Deals on Kids Books _ 📖 Everyone loves a good book and a great deal! _ 💁🏽♀️ Did you know you can find both at @goodwillintl? You can find all kinds of great kids books for your home library there, even some vintage books that are out of print. It’s…
Literacy Matters
🌎 The world opens up to anyone who can read. _ 📚 This first has to be modeled for children in ways that demonstrate the power of the written word and encourages a love for books at the same time. _ 💁🏽♀️ What are ways that you build a strong literacy foundation in your family?
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🌻 Happy Monday! _ 🤗 Welcome to everyone who would like to help me unlock the genius in every child, and thank you to everyone who has joined me in my efforts thus far! _ 🌟 As of today, I am only $6 short of $100 in support of my Ask Dr. Marta Patreon goals! _ 💁🏽♀️ Would you…
Children Are Gifts
🎁👦🏾👧🏻🧒🏼👧🏿👦🏽👦🏻👧🏾🎁Each child is a gift from God and has a purpose in life. _ 🌟🌟🌟Let us as parents, grandparents, and educators inform them of and facilitate them in becoming all they are destined to be!