Beth Pinyerd Articles

The World Needs Grandparents

Mary Anne Bryant with Emaline Mackey and Myriah Elrod.  As the season of spring bursts forth with green “peek-a-boos,” I think of the special relationships young children have with grandparents and senior adults. We might be a biological grandparent, a foster...

Don’t Get Pinched on St. Patrick’s Day

I want to give my readers a heads-up: Wear green on Friday, March 17, so you won’t get pinched. St. Patrick’s Day rolls in among beautiful flowers, green clover and birds singing beautiful songs all day long. I love the way Opelika celebrates spring with the Azalea...

Children Love Newspapers

“Newspaper in Education Week” is this week, March 6 through 10. “The Observer” is “for local people, by local people” which includes children. Newspapers are truly a “golden egg” of resources and tools to be used in the early childhood classroom as well as by families...

Spring Begins To Tickle Our Senses

I love the way the seasons are defined and displayed in central Alabama. We enjoy autumn and winter, but spring begins to tickle our senses of sight, taste, touch, smell and hearing. What a truly beautiful way for you to engage your child as we embark into spring of...