Perhaps 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 them from playdates to movies to day camps all day every day, at least not if I want to keep my house clean and maintain my sanity. So I’m going …
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
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
Education Apps: Tips for Making Learning-on-the-go FunMost experts will tell you that kids’ learning happens much more easily when it’s fun. Heck, most moms—the true experts—will testify that their kids enjoy learning more and retain knowledge better when the learning experience is fun. There are lots of ways …you can do that at home. However,
Bugs and Insects: How Moms Can Find Their Inner Bugdork!Kids all over the world speak bug. It’s a common language filled with shrieks and squeals that is accented with wonder at everything that crawls, wriggles and creeps. As people get older, however, their love of insects and spiders… can turn into an outright fear/hatred that is often passed
How to Encourage Girls to Enjoy Science and MathThroughout school, I had an unrealistic fear of math…. So much so that I decided to change my major in college from a Business Major to a Health Science Degree so I wouldn’t have to take the higher level math classes. I don’t regret getting my degree in
Safety: How to Keep Our Kids Safe from PredatorsDid you know there are simple ways to keep our children safe? No one really wants to think about child predators. It’s a yucky topic and we sure as heck don’t want to frighten our kids with scary stories or creepy examples. So what will help?
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Book Review: “Dad Rules” for How to be a Better ParentThere is a book—Dad Rules: A Simple Manual for a Complex Job—that consists of 81 rules that any father… worth his salt should know. They are rules like: “Cowboy up and help your wife with changing diapers” and “Take care of some of the night-time feedings.” While
Book Review: When Touching Hurts by Caffee WrightIt is a sad and unfortunate truth that, among the difficult conversations we must have with our kids, one of them should be about ways to guard against sexually inappropriate behavior. Recently, my husband and I had this conversation with our 8-year-old son as part of his Cub Scout… training.
Find a geocache with your kids.
Date: Wed., May 30
Time: 2-3 p.m. ET
Book: Dad Rules by Treion Miller
