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.

Fern Michonski / Fern’s Music Pre-School Music Education Expert: The Children’s Advocate for Love and Kindness, Inspiring Creativity and Joy. April 25, 2012—Angels Watch Over By now I’m sure you all know I love both children and animals very much.  I work with them, live with them, write about them and am inspired by them every day.  My friend and teacher, Cari Cole recently shared a story on her Facebook

Fern Michonski / Fern’s Music Pre-School Music Education Expert: The Children’s Advocate for Love and Kindness, Inspiring Creativity and Joy. April 18, 2012—Wild Animals, Nature and Children In my February 15, 2012 blog, I wrote about pets and kids, putting forth the opinion that I feel the two go hand-in-glove, and encouraging people to bring a pet into their home.  I was recently reading some information from the National Wildlife