Bike rides are a great activity for the family and a great form of exercise. Be sure to keep your kids safe while riding by taking these necessary precautions.
How to Keep Safe While Riding Bikes
Make sure your kids have a helmet that fits snug around their head. Not too big or too small. Make sure the strap is always buckled and pulled tight so it can’t fly off.
Make …
Gardening: How to Teach Kids About Seeds and GardeningGardening with your family is a great way to involve children. What kid doesn’t like to play in the dirt? There is something carefree and fun about getting dirty, especially when it’s okay with mom and dad. Gardening… together can teach family values like working together, following directions and patience.
Summer Learning: Tips for Summer Learning ActivitiesPerhaps boredom is inevitable for all young kids during the summer…. Try as I might, I always hear “I’m bored” at some point, no matter how many activities I provide. I’m beginning to think it’s not humanly possible to prevent their boredom, since there’s no way I can drive
Influential People: How to Be an Example of Positive InfluenceI read that Time just released its 100 Most Influential People in the World list. I read through the list and realized that the world’s view of influential is somewhat different than my own expectations of someone I would consider influential in my life. Now don’t get me wrong, I…
School: How to Find the Right School for Your KidsWe all do the best we can to make informed decisions about choosing our children’s school, and the first step is educating ourselves… about the choices available. This was a huge learning curve for me as I grew up in England and had to learn a lot about American
Parenting: How to Monitor Your Teenager’s Online ActivitiesOne of the hardest tasks of parenthood, perhaps, is to ward your children against the myriad negative influences and possible harms that may come to them. There are bullies, drugs, and child predators…, to name a few. And protecting our kids is not the same task it was
Go Green: How To Go Green and Save Over $1,000Most of us want to become environmentally friendly… and make the right choices for ourselves and our families. But sometimes it’s hard to know exactly what to do, or where to find the time to do it! Sometimes we need an extra nudge to change our eco-habits. So we roamed
Technology for Children: Bringing Businesses and Children TogetherWhat does a CEO of a global E-learning corporation and a six year-old have in common? Plenty. The CEO has a product and the six year-old is their future customer.
Recently, I facilitated a focus group of kids for a global corporation…. The company was interested in asking
Kids Apps: Review of Two Educational and Health Centered AppsThis past January, Apple announced that it would be introducing a new iPad textbook experience and iBooks authoring tool that would present many opportunities to use this technology in the classroom. They started selling textbooks… from McGraw-Hill, Pearson and Houghton Mifflin at prices comparable to the print, or as I
Parenting: Preventing SIDS and Infant Sleep SafetyAmidst the sheer bliss of becoming a new parent…, every new mommy or daddy has at least a twinge of constant, over-protective fear that one’s newborn is in harm’s way. In the first several weeks, parents gingerly handle the new bundle of joy with extra caution and care. They
Find a geocache with your kids.
Date: Wed., May 30
Time: 2-3 p.m. ET
Book: Dad Rules by Treion Miller
