How Can We Help Our Children Reach Normalization

If you, like me, read about normalization and wonder what you can do to help your child. Or if you have a child you would describe with some of the less-than-peaceful descriptions I shared in my last post introducing normalization, and have no faith in the idea of it, know you are definitely not alone.

However, there is so much we can do to help our children develop to the best of their ability, there is so much we can do to guide our children toward normalization.

Teaching Our Children To Be Productively Bored

The other day at the doctor's office, with all three kids, the doctor joked, what do you do in your spare time?

I just laughed his comment off, but it has had me thinking.

How to Make Independent Access to Art Materials Work For You (& Not Be A Disaster)

A few weeks back I shared on my Instagram that we give the boys free access to art materials.

Based on the comments I received, and on my own impression prior to setting this up in our home, I thought it would be helpful to share some of the ways we have made this work for us.

Without it being the complete and utter disaster you might expect it to be.

Honestly, both my two-year-old and my three-year-old have free access to almost all of our art materials (and we have a lot) and it isn't a disaster.

With this setup, they are more than likely to freely choose to create art at least once a day. Something they definitely did not do before. And I call that a huge win.

If you are ready to get your kids doing more creating independently, and don't want it to be a huge disaster, here are my three tips.