Joan E. LeFebvre, Family Living Agent, serving Vilas, Forest, and Florence Counties,
University of Wisconsin-Extension

The Parenting the Preschooler newsletter is designed for parents and caregivers of preschool age children.

Goals are to:

• Enhance the parent/caregiver-child relationship
• Increase parent/caregiver confidence
• Reduce parent/caregiver stress

Permission is given to print, photocopy, and distribute Parenting the Preschooler in the form found on the web. To communicate about Parenting the Preschooler, e-mail Joan LeFebvre.

All newsletters are in pdf format (2 pages). 

This month's topic is:

Explore Nature with Your Preschooler

Bonus topic (available in English only):

What's Your Parenting Style?

En Español

Current News Release

Previous Newsletters:

Discipline

• Children: Guidance & Discipline
• Focus on DO Instead of DON'T
• How Much Is Enough?
• Misbehaving or Missing Sleep?
• Setting Limits with Young Children
• The I Can Problem Solve Discipline Ladder
• What's Your Parenting Style?

Feeding & Nutrition

• A Look at the new MyPyramid for Kids
• Beverages for Your Preschooler
• Breakfast Benefits Preschoolers
• Cooking with Your Preschooler
• Keep Family Food Safe
• Keep Your Child Active!
• Mealtime Conversations
• Your Child's Weight

Financial

• Helping Children Save to Spend
• Reduce Stress: Save Money

Health & Safety

• Choking Prevention for Preschoolers
• Choosing Safe Toys
• Dressing Your Preschooler for Winter
• Head Lice
• Insect Repellents and West Nile Virus Infection
• Prevent Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
• Secondhand Smoke

Nurturing & Love

• Become Your Child's Calming Coach
• Children and Grief
• Fathers Matter to Children
• Feelings
• Humor and Laughter
• Importance of Touch
• Is Your Child Left-Handed?
• Praise or Encouragement?
• Relationship Bank Account
• Sticks and Stones and Hurtful Words

Parent Support

• Family Meetings
• Over Scheduled Kids
• Parent Self-Care
• Support Services for Health & Nutrition
• The Relaxation Response

Personality Styles

• Extravert or Introvert?
• Sensing or Intuiting? How Does Your Child Come to Know
• Supporting Children with a Feeling Preference
• Supporting Children with a Thinking Preference
• Supporting Your Child's Preference for Sensing or Intuition
• Supporting Your Extraverted Child
• Supporting Your Introverted Child
• Supporting Your Judging Preference Child
• Supporting Your Perceiving Preference Child
• Thinking or Feeling? How Does Your Child Make Choices
• Your Child's Outer Life: Judging or Perceiving

Play Activities

• Board Games for Preschoolers
• Finger Plays for Fun and Learning
• Gardening with Your Preschooler
• Play Dough: The Best Recipe for Fun and Learning
• Preschooler Fitness: Balance
• Take a Field Trip
• Toy Selection Tips

School Readiness

• Boost Kid's Brain Power
• Rhyme and Alliteration

Social Interactions

• Creating a Family Tree
• Kids Need a Happy Home
• Moving to a New Home
• Responding to Scary Events: Teaching Children Through Our Own Actions
• Routine: Things Your Child Can Count On
• Teaching Politeness