The phone rang: "Hello. This is Alison's dad?" "Yes. "This is the master of Alison and Alison you need to wear shoes dry socks and pants at daycare. Alison had fun playing in the snow before the bell rang their boots and snow pants are wet and filled with snow. "Wow, what a great teacher. What an incredible school.

Abby and her older sister had a dilemma earlier this season. Should continue skating lessons or join the Junior Girls' ice hockey team? Clearly the only solution. . . do both.

In terms of health and increased brain power, these children and their parents are right. Playing in the snow, fighting obesity, builds strong muscles and organs in shape, and children outside air inside artificial light and stale and dry. When the sun shines, children have a healthy dose of vitamin D. And playing in the snow is very funny.

Once during a class, a loving but overprotective Mom asked me if I thought it was okay for her daughter to snow angels. I do not know what a snow angel. I answered "yes" to both. Mother was afraid her daughter might catch a cold if he was lying in the snow. Well, I guess maybe if he stayed motionless in the snow for an hour or two. But generations of children have been making snow angels without pneumonia.

So pack up. Then, get warm and dry when they come in, and they will be fine.

Things to do in the snow:

1. Pala. Get lighter blades with handles shorter for children and shoveling snow is now a family activity.

2. Making snowmen, snow women, families snow, animals, dragons, dinosaurs, cartoon figures, houses, forts, and igloos.

3. Throw snowballs at targets (If you have a ball snow, make sure that snow is soft and goes against the rules to throw a person's head.)

4. Inventing games. Start by making footprints in the snow, packing them enough to become "road" and then implementing rules are fast and-you-win games. A circle with radios and the first person to get to downtown Victoria, for example. A caller tells everyone to run around the circle. Then he says that "running toward the center." The child who is closest to the center and spoke comes first wins. Children quickly make their own variations of this game.

5. Take a walk

6. Snowshoes Use (do not want to buy? Many sporting goods stores will hire.)

7. Make a Lazy 8 in the snow. (It seems a sign of infinity, 8 on your side) Following the track around children cross from right to left, a move essential for reading and improving reading. Running around the track. Stomp around the track. Snowshoeing around the track. Make a game two jumps, two steps and then walk. The next child is another game. Lazy 8 used in the brain GYMA ® and other learning programs to help children with reading. Now playing in the snow becomes an educational activity.

8. Draw pictures of the snow and paint. (Get the picture of the snow in toys and craft stores.) Paint Lazy 8s. (See tip above).

9. Cross country skiing Do not have skis? Slide your feet in the snow instead of walking. Make a lazy 8-track big enough and broad enough that can cross-country ski on it.

10. Outside the sleds and saucers. Do not worry about the hill needed. Your children will realize how to build one. (No. sled head first.)

Playing in the snow requires moving. And moving lids on the list as a brain-based learning strategy. Tops the not listed as an alternative drug for ADHD. So find coats, gloves and hats. Pushing them out the door and into the snow.

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MaryJo Wagner, Ph.D. – The Learning Doctor, helping you help your kids learn quickly and easily every day in every subject.

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