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Rethinking “The Playroom”
As expecting parents, we are ripe with wonderful dreams about what having a child will be like. We anticipate and prepare for our baby in every way possible. Then our babies arrive and we learn that...
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Toy Rotation: Step-by-Step Guide
A step-by-step guide explaining why and how to establish a toy rotation system in your home, written for every parent who has ever wondered what to do with their kid’s toys or why their kids seem bored...
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Activity Centers: Seeing play at home from a new perspective
Home is your child’s first and most important classroom and you, Mom and Dad, are your child’s first and most important teacher. Children learn throughout every moment of the day, not just at school....
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Art Centers: Organize and Display Supplies
Do your children ever beg you to let them paint, cut, use markers or chalk? My children do and sometimes (much of the time!), I have to turn them down for one simple reason– not enough time in the...
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Tour My Intelligent Nest
Come walk me with, room by room, through my home to see how I have organized, adapted, decorated and arranged my Intelligent Nest to make it a warm, attractive, fun, educational and livable place to...
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How to Persevere Through Toy Rotation Burnout
Have you been thinking about starting a toy rotation system, but are unsure if you want to commit to keeping it in place? Have you started rotating toys, but are feeling burnt out? Here are 5 tips to...
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Numbers, Counting and Basic Math in the Early Years: Activities and Theory
Help your child engage with mathematical concepts at home using the following activities and guide. Studies show that mathematical learning is best absorbed in the early years through play, routines...
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Toy Depots: Keeping Chaos at Bay
Intelligent Nest’s understand the importance of offering, rotating, displaying and maintaining toys for their children to engage with as they complete their daily work- learning through play. But the...
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Toy Rotation: Step-by-Step Guide (Updated & Revised)
A step-by-step guide explaining why and how to establish a toy rotation system in your home, written for every parent who has ever wondered what to do with their kid’s toys or why their kids seem bored...
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The Toy Recommendation Guide 2013
Toy Recommendations for Young Children Birth to 5 years of age Toys receive a recommendation by The Intelligent Nest if they are: - Tested, personally by me, and in many cases observed in use by...
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Toy Storage & Display in the Elementary Years
My babies have grown and, likewise, our toy storage and display needs at home have changed as well. Like many other Intelligent Nest families that have been rotating toys for years, we have noticed...
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“To Trash Old Toys or Not to Trash, That is the Question…”
“To trash old toys, or not to trash, that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous chaos, Or to take arms against a sea of random parts and pieces...
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The Myth of the Organized Bedroom & Closet
I have a secret to share, but I really don’t want to accept, admit or share my secret. My now four and six year old children’s bedrooms and closets are a disaster on a day-to-day basis. The mess...
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