Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 21, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press May Page 20 children dont need toys to stay amused in summer by Carreen Maloney special to the free press on glorious summer Lois Doans four Chil Dren can be found outdoors where the living is free and spurning Batter operated gizmos and there just As Happy Lawn Bowling with bleach bottles weighted with the East Kildonan whose kids Are two to eight years says simple activities Are Best for keep ing children occupied and out of watching a tadpole grow into a making homemade instruments for a marching and collecting bugs from under a Patio Stone give kids a Chance to use their imagination and be for Money int necessarily the answer to keeping her Chil Dren amused outside in the sum recommended ingredients instead include patience and summer brings a new wealth of activities for and experts suggest taking advantage of the warm move your indoor activities out says Bonnie director of the minis Kool daycare Centre on Scotland drawing paper take a Blanket and move the activity attach drawing paper to a Fence with clothes pegs instead of using an this keeps their interest Joy director of the sugar n spice kiddie Haven in old says a homemade wet banana is cheaper than those found in the and works just As Well for summer outside there Are lots of things you can do if you have the Money to do says but if the parents dont have the they can still play with their wet currently a hot kids toy being advertised on is easy to duplicate at Klas sen suggests parents place on the grass a strip of about three metres set the sprinkler up on one end and pour Bubble Bath Down the Middle so the plastic is More the kids then slide along the Diane director of the rain Bow Day Nursery in says parents should avoid Struc tured outdoor activities for Small children aged about two to it should be done just for fun9 do anything that Doest re strict them to an end says for if we give them colouring we stifle their Hale says these structured products can disappoint a child if they dont turn out As they were and Many experts suggest parents should also avoid Competition when planning activities for Small Chil very Young children dont understand winning and says it should be done just for no one should she suggests open ended such As pudding paint banging nails into a tree and drawing on the sidewalk with Doan says her children enjoy outdoor arts and but Are fascinated with nature in the sum she suggests lifting Patio stones to find insects and ant the kids kick them and we see How Long it takes them to build up their workplace prior says nature walks will Edu Cate they can explore the neighbor she kids can do Leaf Rock collecting and Rock keeping a Garden can allow a child to understand How things Doan suggests letting the child Plant a seed that develops very so the child can see the results right Heather director of the Little scholar College in says As children get older they need activities with Struc structured games have their own says children learn taking and the ability to this is important in their develop Kim a physical education teacher at Elwick says it is also important for parents to Inte grate physical activity into routines with their children to improve co ordination and artwork is but the physical aspect is very important says As a give them a variety of sports and physical activity to and when they get make the decision of which they want to soccer Ball Kozak says skipping and cycling provide Good physical relays with a soccer Ball and pylons and a circuit improve Coor Kozak says parents can work with children at Home to improve sports played at for exam you can practice catching and hitting a or passing and receiving a soccer Ball with your parents Handy with tools can build outdoor activity centres that will entertain children for hours at a Selkirk Mother Hedy Wereschyk has just finished building a Back Dave free press Doan plays outside with her Yard Centre Complete with Monkey a Sandbox and an old camper trailer with the top pulled off for her two parents can add an old mat Tress for children to practice gym including tumbling and i dream up the ideas and my husband puts them says even the moms and dads Are tempted by the were Schuss Centre is made of pipes and steel welded she says Wood takes time and Trou since it must be scraped and painted every Wereschyk also suggests that if tires Are holes should be drilled in them to Stop water from accumulating and attracting bees and sandboxes should also be kept co Vered to keep out cats and children enjoy and blankets clothes pegged to fences or Wood scraps allow children to use their imagination in the Doan says boxes Are also an Excel Lent building tool for if you see any neighbors with new go and Snag those boxes there Worth a parents can also take children to the or even on a parenting matches Childs problem to help solve it by Charles Schwarzbeck is a Bright and curious his parents enjoy him and Are constantly fascinated with his grow Ingup As we look closely at Matt and his we can see that they have ways of acting together that Are special for while there is certainly a lot of mom int so physical with there is an occasional hug or a tug on a but not a lot of its the same with Matt is a Strong willed but he has few conflicts with his children today rarely do his parents say no or try to Force him to do what they want to rather than what he wants to instead Patti and Dave stay one step ahead of their and they Are effective at keeping Matts alternatives fairly it All seems so easy but it want always this in Patti recalls that when Matt was five months i thought i would go during the first half of Matts first year of life he cried a lot and seemed to be constantly rarely did he sleep More than three hours without he awoke three or four times a demanding to be demanding to be and demanding to walk around with his Mother or father for extended Matt was medically Normal at but he had some special Fea Tures that his parents had to learn his major problem was that he had trouble when he reached a sleep state and there was a noise or he he could not keep his body at a sleep when Matt was six months his sleep deprived parents sought and Miami vice departs to with honorable sendoff vice from a child who helped them understand that their Little ones nighttime sleep was determined by How All 24 hours of the Day were they Learned that very regular routines before during and when waking As Well As the times that sleep was encouraged or discouraged throughout the Day were the routines they worked out helped take the Battle out of bed but several months Patti and Dave were struggling Over Matts Strong his parents Learned in their meet Ings with the child psychologist that Matt was helped a lot by getting previews about what he would be doing in the next few and by rooms being set up that allowed him All of which were More or less acceptable to his Par they also Learned that Matt had trouble if he was stimulated too and that he didst like to be held and kissed for extended Peri because of his High he does better with Long periods of Low to moderate All these traits Are part of Matts inborn Matts Case illustrates Why there is no single Correct Way to raise each is born with strengths and and each requires Spe Cial and different the most effective parenting in such cases does not depend on tech Nique it depends on recognizing what in the Childs temperament is causing the problem and then Matching parental response to solve write to Charles fourth Winnipeg free 300 Carlton r3c he is unable to answer each question scrip Showard news service new York a Abc is show ing some class this weekend giving Miami its no lukewarm but once sizzling detective an honorable sendoff in a special two hour conclusion the series that launched Don John sons career and a wave of fashion trends is leaving the air after five unlike which allowed its once ballyhooed moonlighting to whimper away in a Soso final Abc is giving vice the coveted sunday movie Slot 8 on the producers and the network have refused to prescreen or Dis cuss the episode in order to keep the aiding a but executive pro Ducer Michael Mann has a penchant for the he ended crime Story it turned out by incinerating his villains with no less than an atomic when Miami vice premiered in it amazed jaded to critics with its fresh charmingly seedy characters and Art Deco Miami land the show derived from a no fabled scribble of an idea by Abc entertainment president Brandon tar Trikoff mtg Anthony a producer writer on Hill Street created the characters and wrote the two hour which still stands As one of the Best cop shows the look came from Michael then a relatively obscure film director the Jericho thief who knew now to put film and Rock music together in a Way that made hair stand up on the Back of Thomas Carter Hill Street directed the first and american to entered a new Era of style Cool hot straight Roythe charts music wafted from television speakers in the Middle of prime in the vice viewers were As intrigued by the characters As the color Don Johnson was Vir Tual with a credit list of failed pilots and ignominious movie but he connected with Sonny a former football Star who lived on a boat guarded by an Alligator named another Philip Michael played Ricardo a Black cop from the new York streets who came to Miami looking for his Brothers City Slicker Tubbs and Goodo boy Crockett were the classic Odd couple and became vice might have impressed the but it was virtually ignored by the Hollywood it won Only a handful of technical emmy entertainment Kodak International newspaper photo contest the first place Winner in the color category for week 1 of the Winnipeg free press Kodak photo contest is Susan Manitoba a Black and White Winner was not chosen this week due to a limited number of those entries received will be entered in next weeks contest rules 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