Parenting Strategies on the Go

About the Book

In 2008, life blessed my husband, Sean, and me with two healthy babies. We have an engaging and magnetic tale of parenting with unique learning strategies on the go that all parents can benefit from; however, this book is far more than that. As a professional educator, I saw how both everyday events like planning food and clothing and planning special trips like a visit to Disney World were gateways to introducing children to life skills and to nurturing cognitive development through learning strategies. With minimal planning time, any parent can use these strategies to inspire their children to learn, and the best part is that the planning and the execution of the plans are fun and exciting. Each chapter is devoted to exposing children to diverse learning strategies: strategies to elicit proper behavior in public events, strategies for choosing souvenirs as teaching tools, and strategies to journal your children’s precious life events. The concluding chapter is a strategy unit guide for learning during a special trip—in this case, New York City—and we got to test that guide in June 2013.

About the Author

Haven Caylor has an educational doctorate in instructional leadership. He is a husband and the father of twins Carter and Ammon. He has taught for over twenty-six years from kindergarten to graduate school. His other degrees include education specialist in curriculum and instruction, a master of education in social studies education, and bachelor of arts degree in social studies education. He has been educating his children these past six years, and he is now their elementary schoolteacher. He has a blog dedicated to parenting called Parenting with Pride (www.parentingwithpride.net). Carter, Ammon, and Haven are featured in Pyle and Karinch’s Find Out Anything from Anyone, Anytime (Career 2014) for his parenting strategies in questioning children for information, and he is also featured in Scenic Scenes: A Collection of Chattanooga’s Arts and Literature (Over the Counter Productions 2013) with two short stories about parenting. Haven is also the author of Christmas Hawk (Xlibris 2015), a delightful story about a red-tailed hawk and the special role she plays during the yuletide season.