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The idea of cooking and baking with your child can feel stressful. The process is bound to be messier and longer than if you were just doing it yourself. While it’s not realistic for most parents to have their kids help with every meal, especially if you’re in a hurry, there are lots of educational benefits that come from taking a little time out of your day every so often to get in the kitchen with your kids. Read on to learn more about these benefits, as well as some library resources to get…
How did the Civil War, emancipation, and Reconstruction shape the masculinity of white Confederate veterans? As James J. Broomall shows, the crisis of the war forced a reconfiguration of the emotional worlds of the men who took up arms for the South. Raised in an antebellum culture that demanded restraint and shaped white men to embrace self-reliant masculinity, Confederate soldiers lived and fought within military units where they experienced the traumatic strain of combat and its privations…
Explore art and your creativity through these events that are presented at Bowman Library.
Second and fourth Fridays at 1:00 p.m.
Free! No registration required.
Bowman Library, Children's Room
Explore art and your creativity through these events that are presented at Bowman Library.
Second and fourth Fridays at 1:00 p.m.
Free! No registration required.
Bowman Library, Children's Room
Confidence starts with the caretaker. We are our young's first teacher and mentor. We model behavior and many other things to our children daily. Confidence can be hard even for adults, because of all the different situations we are exposed to--breastfeeding, conflict, new situations, work, etc. And although everyone can't always be confident all the time, we can try to assert ourselves consistently to lay boundaries and advocate for ourselves.
Although this sounds like a lot, modeling really…
Explore art and your creativity through these events that are presented at Bowman Library.
Second and fourth Fridays at 1:00 p.m.
Free! No registration required.
Bowman Library, Children's Room
Explore art and your creativity through these events that are presented at Bowman Library.
Second and fourth Fridays at 1:00 p.m.
Free! No registration required.
Bowman Library, Children's Room
Regulating our emotions can be a very daunting thing. Now imagine being a child and doing it. Our brains are not fully developed until about 25 years old, because our prefrontal cortex is still figuring our the decision making piece, and emotions are heavily tied into that. But much of that is started in the early years. You can help your kiddo figure things out by setting them up for success with emotional intelligence. Teach them about emotions…what do they feel like, how do we describe them…
Explore art and your creativity through these events that are presented at Bowman Library.
Second and fourth Fridays at 1:00 p.m.
Free! No registration required.
Bowman Library, Children's Room
Explore art and your creativity through these events that are presented at Bowman Library.
Second and fourth Fridays at 1:00 p.m.
Free! No registration required.
Bowman Library, Children's Room