My Connections to Play.

"Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand." Native American Saying

"Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets."
Leonardo da Vinci

These were one of my favorites and used it all the time, can remember lots of playtime with this sometimes want to be a kid again riding this car.

Another favorite is the Barbie Airplane

I can remember playing barbie with the airplane and having the dolls going different place around the world. 

Barbie camper was another one of my favorites, I would play for hours with that. Loved to go outside with this camper and play with all my dolls pretending they went camping with their friends.

Board game Payday, use to love playing this game when I was young with my sisters, we always had played this game many times.

When I was growing up, I never attended pre k or nursery school, I started going to school when I hit five years old. My aunts used to take care of me when growing up, lots of cousins, aunts, uncles always around and having weekend parties, or something that is family weekend with everyone. I can't remember not staying home. My parents always went out doing something. As for television, we never had a television and we, but growing up in my house back in the day it was fun, I know I had toys galore, and every type but mostly my favorites was the barbies with the campers and airplane, and the payday game. But the car was my truly favorite and didn't really pay any mind to the bicycle. The car was the one and use to think I was really driving.

Now play is so advanced, its not what it use to be, to much computers and staying in front of the screen at home. Children don't really use their gross motor skills to move more, everything is about xbox, wii, nabi  etc. I can understand it has its pros for the children when it comes to learning but our kids need to be more active away from the technology stuff and at least teach them about how to do things without it at times.

I like some of the toys today, but really love the ones in the past, nowadays when I look for something for my grandchildren its hard and they are very expensive. But I have bought vintage toys for my preschoolers  and cleaned them up and they play with it including my grandchildren. I think the best toys were the ones from the past. I had recently bought a couple of games like Parcheesi which is a classic and play with that with my kids in school and they love it.

Who says that children need new toys to learn, and technology. If you are creative enough and know how to put that creativeness into the child, the child will learn. 

Parents and relationships are important

Every parent has their own way that help support on another.  We have to value that every family has a way to have place in education and the manner in which we communicate with each other.  You can't expect every family member to be cooperative, but by reaching out with support and letting them know how their support gains your success.  We have to have this relationship in order to increase our children success in education, and good help is precious.

My husband and my family is my support its very valuable to me as for him helping me out no matter what, the school also helps a lot because we all work as a team to help the children be successful.