Jordan Showalter teaches in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio. I met Jordan when I started working at a private preschool in the Fall of 2007. I instantly thought she was incredibly funny and very talented. Her love for her students was apparent and...
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I have always been employed within religious private schools, so Halloween ? activities were pretty much off limits. Not a big deal, but I still wanted to do things that were at least a little bit “creepy.” It worked to my advantage that we...
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BusyKids Play Town and Coffee Shop in Folsom, CA recently hosted a FREE Children’s ID Event to the community. Prior to seeing it being advertised in my Facebook feed, I had never heard of this local (to me) business and for whatever reason...
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NOTE In regards to any possible copyright infringement: I do not claim the following as my own. The information comes from a handout I was given many years ago at a center I worked at. There was no author cited. There are times when most parents...
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