Fern Michonski / Fern’s Music Pre-School Music Education Expert: The Children’s Advocate for Love and Kindness, Inspiring Creativity and Joy. Anyone who knows me knows I enjoy children and music.  Another hobby of mine is the weather.  My children love to tease me and say, “Of course!  Mom is watching The Weather Channel!”  My fascination with the weather probably came from my grandparents, who were farmers. I find it to

Fern’s Michonski / Fern’s Music Pre-School Music Education Expert: The Children’s Advocate for Love and Kindness, Inspiring Creativity and Joy. May 23, 2012—Happy Memorial Day! Many people think of Memorial Day Weekend as the “kick-off” to summer.  Indeed it is.  Pools open up, parks welcome families for picnics and parades can be found everywhere.  I am full of memories from my childhood of all the various parades I walked in,

Fern Michonski / Fern’s Music Pre-School Music Education Expert: The Children’s Advocate for Love and Kindness, Inspiring Creativity and Joy. May 16, 2012—Time for Bed. Any parent in the world knows that bedtime can be tricky. There are challenges at every stage of raising children. I’ve always been intrigued by the fact that when kids are little, we cannot keep them in bed in the morning, yet once they grow

Fern Michonski / Fern’s Music Pre-School Music Education Expert:  The Children’s Advocate for Love and Kindness, Inspiring Creativity and Joy. May 9, 2012—National Wildflower Week! I thoroughly enjoy flowers and I’m sure everyone else on the planet does too.  I just spent this past weekend planting all of my lovely new lavender impatience in my front garden, spreading out the mulch, putting out my variety of hanging plants, and generally

Fern Michonski / Fern’s Music Pre-School Music Education Expert: The Children’s Advocate for Love and Kindness, Inspiring Creativity and Joy. May 2, 2012—Children & Pacifiers—the positive and the negative. Should very young children use pacifiers or not?  I’m sure many parents wonder about that question, including myself.  My middle son was born sucking his thumb.  He never stopped!  By the time he was 5 years old I was quite concerned.