{"id":475,"date":"2015-02-14T21:50:26","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T21:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crawfordchildcare.ie\/blog\/?p=475"},"modified":"2015-02-13T09:50:55","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T09:50:55","slug":"valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crawfordchildcare.ie\/blog\/valentines-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentine’s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Love is in the air as we all celebrated Valentine\u2019s Day. Here in Crawford<\/a> we are exploring the emotion that is love. Teaching children all about love will help them develop positive attitudes towards themselves, friends and family. You can show a child how to love by showing affection with hugs, kisses and kind words. It\u2019s important to praise your children regularly it is not just for succeeding, but for who they are and what they are doing (efforts and attempts). Even if your toddler doesn\u2019t manage to do exactly what they set out to do, saying things such as \u201cThe way you tried hard to put those bricks together was great\u201d will encourage them to have another go. This help builds a child\u2019s self-love and self esteem.
\nYour opinion means a lot to your child. If you believe your child can succeed, they will believe they can as well. It is also important to build their independence by giving them responsibilities as soon as they can handle them. Most importantly show love by saying \u201cI love you\u201d.
\nThis week we made our Valentines hearts. Robyn, Daniel and Mia put glue on their heart shapes and then stuck on red crepe paper. Daniel did his best to keep his hands free, while Robyn enjoyed the feel of the glue on her hands and saying \u201cit\u2019s all sticky\u201d. Tess Seamus, Aine and James coloured their hearts in red first, before adding the glitter. Everyone enjoyed shaking the glitter all over their hearts. Aine said \u201cit\u2019s all shiny and sparkly\u201d.<\/p>\n

Barney\u2019s Song – the most famous love song of all!
\nI love you, you love me We\u2019re a happy family
\nWith a great big hug and a kiss from me to you.
\nWon’t you say you love me too?
\nI love you, You love me We\u2019re best friends like friends should be
\nWith a great big hug and a kiss from me to you.
\nWon’t you say you love me too?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Love is in the air as we all celebrated Valentine\u2019s Day. Here in Crawford we are exploring the emotion that is love. Teaching children all about love will help them develop positive attitudes towards themselves, friends and family. You can show a child how to love by showing affection with hugs, kisses and kind words. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,35],"tags":[78,79],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crawfordchildcare.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crawfordchildcare.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crawfordchildcare.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawfordchildcare.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawfordchildcare.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crawfordchildcare.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477,"href":"https:\/\/crawfordchildcare.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crawfordchildcare.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawfordchildcare.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawfordchildcare.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}