I have been busy re-cleaning the house before my son arrives.<\/p>\n
Today, I decided to clean a drawer full of broken accessories. I kept them thinking I\u00a0could be<\/em> a jewelry maker someday, but let’s face it, that’s just not my thing and I’ll probably never be one.<\/p>\n I know of Marie Kondo<\/a> and appreciate the wisdom she tries to impart, but on days like this, I am just really happy to be a basurera<\/em><\/strong> [a Filipino term that means “garbage” collector or\u00a0hoarder]<\/em>.\u00a0<\/strong>I just can’t seem to throw anything that I think I can recycle and reuse someday! To answer Marie Kondo’s wisdom, it would be this simple for me: keeping things gives me joy!<\/p>\n Believe me, I also dispose of a lot of things! But I guess I just have a lot of things, many of them I love too much to let go. Haha!<\/p>\n Anyway…with the help of scissors, pliers, and a cutting tool, I took out the chains and locks and sorted the beads, trinkets, pearls, and wooden accessories and packed them for future use with my son.<\/p>\n I believe children learn best when you present real things instead of plastic toys (that sometimes don’t even come close to looking\u00a0like the real thing!), so I am naturally drawn to the idea of using everyday things to introduce concepts to children!<\/p>\n I can use what I’ve gathered for color sorting<\/strong><\/a>, shape identification<\/strong><\/a>, indoor floral garden<\/a>, bead transfer<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(for practicing fine motor skills)<\/em>, jungle play<\/a>, nursery mobile display<\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong>and more! I’ll leave the rest to my child’s imagination – children never run out of it anyway!<\/p>\n Truly, today made me realize that my own trash is also my treasure! I can’t wait to try these out with my son!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have been busy re-cleaning the house before my son arrives. Today, I decided to clean a drawer full of broken accessories. I kept them thinking I\u00a0could be a jewelry maker someday, but let’s face it, that’s just not my thing and I’ll probably never be one. I know of Marie Kondo and appreciate the wisdom she tries to impart, but on days like this, I am just really happy to be a basurera [a Filipino term that means “garbage” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[665,22,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diy-crafts","category-finds","category-parenting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mamatheexplorer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mamatheexplorer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mamatheexplorer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mamatheexplorer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mamatheexplorer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mamatheexplorer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"https:\/\/www.mamatheexplorer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mamatheexplorer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mamatheexplorer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mamatheexplorer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mamatheexplorer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}