Happy New Year! This time last year, we challenged you to create a reading routine. Hopefully over the past year, you’ve had ample opportunity to find time to read together. For 2022, we want to offer some ideas to shake up that routine to keep your reading fresh and exciting. While reading never gets old, Read More
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Ways to Nurture Generosity
What does it take to raise a generous child? There are many ways! Here are some ideas you can use to foster generosity and social emotional growth by engaging your family in these activities: Ways to Foster Generosity Collect food for your local food pantry/food bank Give toiletries to your local shelter Volunteer with a Read More
Activities that Foster Generosity
Generosity is rooted in sharing with and caring for others. These social emotional activities will help you teach your child, no matter how young, to be sensitive and considerate. Love and Trust Building (Birth-6 months) Mirror, Mirror on the Wall (6-12 months) Cooperative Play (12-18 months) Initiating My Own Play (18-24 months) Care for the Read More
Generosity
With so many holidays in December, it’s a perfect time to introduce your child to the idea of generosity. And this time of year presents so many opportunities to do it! For children, learning to be generous starts with lessons about sharing, kindness, and understanding that their actions affect others. These skills set the stage Read More
Books About Subsistence
Fry Bread: a Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard (Toddler, Preschool) Fry bread can be more than just food. Fry bread is a shared tradition that many different and diverse indigenous peoples have in common and have adapted over time. Don’t forget to look over the author’s notes in the back to help Read More
Activities for Sharing Subsistence
Passing down the knowledge of subsistence life teaches an appreciation for Alaska Native cultural knowledge. No matter the language you use, talking about how food gets to our table is the perfect opportunity to share a bounty of knowledge. Sharing stories Share memories from your family about hunting and gathering Read/listen to traditional stories Read More
Ways to Talk About Subsistence
Talk with your child about what you’re going to hunt/gather before you go to do it. Even if your child won’t be with you, you can still teach them the basics and include them in the preparation. Where you will go? How you will prepare? What tools do you need? What will the weather be? Read More
Alaska Native Heritage Month
It’s Native American/Alaska Native Heritage Month: a time to celebrate the rich cultural past, present, and future of the first peoples of Alaska. This month we are excited to share ideas to honor Alaska Native subsistence. Hunting, fishing, gathering, and eating together supports a connection to the land and each other as well as lifelong Read More
Ways to Support Healthy Brain Development
Supporting your child’s brain development is not hard. Like many other things, it’s making the conscious effort to do what you can when you can. Being a loving and patient caregiver is the biggest thing that will aid your child’s development. Remember that you are a guide for your child. Every day interactions are the Read More
Healthy Brain Development
Expecting parents usually talk about how they hope their child is born healthy and happy. There are so many pieces that make children healthy, and for Children’s Health month we are going to focus on early brain development. Believe it or not, our brains develop the most between birth and age three. By the time Read More
