A few months ago, I posted about the idea of creating a Mother Goose on the Loose program for parents with premature babies, hospitalized in NICU units. I am proud to announce that with the assistance of Port Discovery Children’s…
Random Acts of Kindness
Last week, while all of Baltimore was battling a tremendous snow storm, I was in Florida presenting a “Transforming Preschool Storytime” workshop to an enthusiastic and receptive group of children’s librarians. I left feeling invigorated and delighted that our…
Radical Change
I am currently at the ALISE conference in Boston. This yearly event is for library school professors and doctoral students to share research and network with colleagues. The theme of this year’s conference is Radical Change, a theory coined by…
Happy New Year
Mother Goose on the Loose wishes wishes a happy, healthy, and peaceful New Year to all.
The Conversational Duet
Following up on the last article discussed on this blog is an article about the importance of parents speaking to their children from the Dallas News. Calling the ideal way to share words “the conversational duet,” Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and Roberta…
Mother Goose on the Loose Kickstarter Update!
Wow! This week has been progressing at a feverish pace for us, as I write this blog post our campaign has just gone live on kickstarter. Recently I have felt that Betsy and I are succeeding at taking the…
Good news about school libraries
On July 8, the U.S. Senate voted 98-0 in favor of an amendment that will make school library programs part of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. This is important because many schools have been trimming their budgets by eliminating…
MGOL for Preemies?
One morning this week, I joined my friend and fellow children’s librarian, Nancy, at the pool for water aerobics. During the class, another exerciser, Jen, pointed out that while the older exercise instructors often move TO the music and coordinate…
Reading and Using Books with Young Children Activates the Brain in Unique Ways
The American Academy of Pediatrics recently published information about a study that involved reading behaviors of low-income parents with preschoolers from ages 3-5. Scans of brain activity compared what happened when the preschoolers listened to recordings of books being read aloud with brain activity…
Tools of the Mind and the Civil War Museum
In the Mother Goose on the Loose April newsletter, I mentioned attending a conference for the Society for Research in Child Development and listening to Dr. Clancy Blair talk about his research on “Tools of the Mind.” Shortly after sending…