Does Your Family Like to Complete Jigsaw Puzzles?
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Does Your Family Like to Complete Jigsaw Puzzles?

Speaking from personal experience as a special educator and a Montessori teacher, there are many ways to reach children who are not talking. By creating a relationship with all the students, you meet them where they are at. With selective mutism, you do not expect the child to respond, but rather build that connection in a nonverbal way. You give more instruction without words. At the three year old stage, as well as for older children, you prepare lots of practical life and sensorial opportunities. You do lots of my turn, your turn. Saying things like, “Watch me,” followed with, “Your turn.” You do not draw attention to the child’s lack of response.

When children are learning a new language they go about the environment speaking their native language. In fact, they often go through a silent period then start using the new language. During the silence Montessori educators accept the child’s current situation.
Selected mutism is silence for another reason, but Montessori educato

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Here are 3 Health Benefits That Come From Playing Board Games

Puzzles and board games have been around for well over two thousand years. In fact, the oldest known puzzle game was referenced by Archimedes around 250 B.C. Puzzles of all difficulty levels, be they easy puzzles, hard puzzles, or very tough puzzles, can all be mentally stimulating, but so can board games. There are numerous varieties of board games, from sports board games, to strategy games, to children’s board games. There are a number of health benefits that can be gained from playing board games on a regular basis and this article looks at a few of them.

  • Reduce Stress: As with any game or puzzle activity, board games provide the benefit of reducing stress. By focusing entirely on playing the game, like a sports board game where you have to remember all of the rules of the game, you’re going to forget about any stresses currently going on in your life and your brain will subco