Fern Michonski / Fern’s Music Pre-School Music Education Expert: The Children’s Advocate for Love and Kindness, Inspiring Creativity and Joy.   October 30, 2013—Happy Halloween!   A woman from Fargo, North Dakota, decided that this Halloween she would hand out letters rather than candy to children that, in her opinion, were somewhat obese. The letter tells the recipient that the reason he/she is receiving a letter rather than candy is

Fern Michonski / Fern’s Music Pre-School Music Education Expert: The Children’s Advocate for Love and Kindness, Inspiring Creativity and Joy. September 11, 2013—The Anniversary of 9/11. Twelve years ago today the unthinkable happened. Innocent people lost their lives at the Twin Towers, the Pentagon and in a field in southeastern Pennsylvania. Everyone knows where they were and what they were doing on this terrible day in history. Many of us

Fern Michonski / Fern’s Music Pre-School Music Education Expert: The Children’s Advocate for Love and Kindness, Inspiring Creativity and Joy. July 24, 2013—Congratulations on the birth of the new little Prince!   As everyone knows, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have just welcomed their new little prince into the world. I am very happy for them on the birth of their new baby boy, but royal or not, this

Fern Michonski / Fern’s Music Pre-School Music Education Expert: The Children’s Advocate for Love and Kindness, Inspiring Creativity and Joy. June 20, 2013—Helping a Child through the Loss of a Pet   As I have written in the past, pets are tremendous assets to families, teaching children about nurturing, kindness, joy, love and death. Their love is unconditional and the lessons we learn from them are invaluable. This past Sunday

Fern Michonski / Fern’s Music Pre-School Music Education Expert: The Children’s Advocate for Love and Kindness, Inspiring Creativity and Joy. June 5, 2013—The Cicadas Are Coming! We’ve heard about it on the television and the radio and we’ve read it in the news—the cicadas are coming! Quite frankly, I am intrigued. I grew up in the Berkshires of Massachusetts and don’t recall ever seeing any cicadas. According to the experts,