Bully Proof Your Children - 10 Powerful Strategies to Stop Bullies in Their Tracks
By Jeni Hooper

All parents want their children to be popular. We want them to be confident and relaxed in company and to be able to deal with a whole variety of people. We can't always be there with them to show them how to do it. Even when they are quite young and playing with friends, there will be times when children don't get on. How can you help your child to manage relationships with other people, some of whom may be actively hostile?

Sometimes things go wrong between children because of inexperience, while at other times a young person may be knowingly unkind. You do not want to frighten your child and make them anxious in company and you don't want them to believe that the world is full of scary people. However you do want your child to be able to recognize unacceptable behaviour and to know how to deal with it and if necessary seek adult support.
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I often find terrific toys. I'll post really good ones that I find. Join in! I am always on a lookout, so please comment!

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Music Toys

• Musical Instrument Bingo - I bought this toy during our last visit to Metropolitan Museum for $25. It has a collection of cards with different instruments from all over the world, a CD with 50 melodies played with these CDs and a leaflet matching music on CDs to the pictures of instruments, descriptions, musical work information and even composer photographs. There are some classical works, some anthems from around the world, some folk melodies from around the world. One of the greatest qualities of this game: the whole family could play, with every kid playing on his age level: my two year old loves finding pictures of the instruments playing, my 7 year old niece is already competitively keeping score and naming the name of the melody as well as the instruments, my 10 year old nephew found some sophisticated level that enticing his interest.

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Special thanks to Elina Aleynikov and Misha for sharing this wonderful list with us.
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• Home made sticker book - on one page place pictures of animals, objects, plants, etc., on the other - where they should go. As you are creating this book, discuss all the pictures and their associations.
• Before bed time finger game: fingers are a 10 little pigs that go to bed (2 fat ones, 2 smart ones, 2 tall ones, 2 funny ones, 2 small ones)
• "Who lives in this house" craft: draw a house, scotch tape two window shutters to it from colored paper so that you can open and close it. In the "window" - place a butterfly, doggy, baby, etc. Scotch tape the "house" to the wall.
• Home made coloring "connect numbers" pictures: place dots with numbers next to them (1-10, 1-20, 1-30). As the kid connects the dots, he should get a picture. As a result my Dianka (3) already realized how the numbers are formed and can count as far as she wants.
• Mail: make a letter, you can use real address labels for fun

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Whether you are planning to homeschool/unschool your kids or not, below you can find tons of excellent resources of educational things you can do with your kids at home
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Actually, I should rather call it a team effort. Even though I am greatly inspired by the amazing materials other moms and dads are creating and sharing with others, I should definitely list the most prominent sources:

First, a wonderful yahoo groups “TeachYourBabyToRead” and “PositiveDiscipline” that have tremendous amount of information and advice that I am hoping to make available for everyone through this website.
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