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Why Moms Should Consider Exploring Online Learning Courses

Why Moms Should Consider Exploring Online Learning Courses

Finding ways to keep your brain challenged and growing as a stay at home mom is one thing I struggle with at times. I’ve been looking to find something that was provided immersive learning and helped to give me that brain boosting feeling I was missing from working full time. Plus available when I want and where I want with my busy schedule with the kids. This is a sponsored post by The Great Courses Plus #LearnWithTGCPlus #ShopShare We started The Educators’ Spin On It five years ago ... Read more...

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: online learning, Parenting with Purpose, Review, Technology

By Kim Vij

Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2017

multicultural children's book day

Join us in celebrating Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2017 (1/27/17) for its fourth year.  Co-founded by Valarie Budayr from Jump Into A Book and Mia Wenjen from PragmaticMom, the mission is to raise awareness on the ongoing need to include kid’s books that celebrate diversity in home and school bookshelves while also working diligently to get more of these types of books into the hands of young readers, parents and educators. Despite census data that shows 37% of the US population consists ... Read more...

Filed Under: Cultural Education, Reading Tagged With: Book Activities, Diversity, Multicultural Children's Book Day

By Kim Vij

Printable Lion Themed Thumbprint Valentine’s Day Card

Teaching Kindness with Kids Using Valentine's Day Thumbprint Card

This Valentine's day craft helps to teach children kindness and how to express to others. Create a Valentine's thumbprint card inspired by the book The Lion and the Mouse with your child. Let me show you how easy this Valentine's Day Card is to make with your child to express Kindness.  In this post I'll share with you an adorable way to encourage kindness as we approach this season of Valentine's Day. With this Valentine's day craft idea you can help to create a culture of ... Read more...

Filed Under: Arts, Reading Tagged With: Crafts, grade school, Preschool, Random Acts of Kindness, Valentine's Day, Virtual Book Club for Kids

By Kim Vij

Helping Kids Learn About Self Regulation with Feeling Buddies for Families

How to Trade Tantrums and Melt Downs for Healthy Self Regulation Skills with Your Child using Feeling Buddies for Families from Conscious Discipline

Are you done with the tantrums, tears and meltdowns? The Feeling Buddies© for Families Toolkit gives your kids healthy self regulation skills with the power to change everything. Let me share with you how it's changing the way we do things in our home. This post is sponsored by Conscious Discipline®, all opinions expressed are my own.     The house seems a lot quieter these days now that both of my girls are in elementary school. One child is in 5th grade and the other ... Read more...

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: Emotions, feeling buddies, grade school, Parenting, Parenting with Purpose, Preschool, Review, School Ages, Strong Willed Child, Toddler

By Kim Vij

January Books for Kids featured at the Virtual Book Club

Virtual Book Club for Kids featured book for January and February

A new year means new themed books to feature for our weekly Virtual Book Club for Kids.  Here's the January books list for the Virtual Book Club for Kids to make your plans to join us.  Plus we're sharing a sneak peek at February's Books List too. Let's kick of the new year together packed full of books and activities with our kids. We're featuring the following January Themed Books and February Themed Books with Activities from our cohosts this new year. ... Read more...

Filed Under: Reading Tagged With: February, grade school, January, Penguins, Preschool, Snow, Virtual Book Club for Kids, Winter

By Kim Vij

How Pinterest is Changing Christmas for Moms

Christmas Ideas for Moms on Pinterest

The holidays are such a fun time of year not just for the kids but for parents too.  So many special firsts happen and memories we look forward to making with our children. However, there is something that's new to consider when planning the holidays and that's Christmas Ideas on Pinterest. Are you using it to your full advantage?Is it making parents feel more pressure?Do you know all that you can do for the holidays on Pinterest? I'm a bit obsessed with this platform and would love to ... Read more...

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: Christmas, Gift Ideas, Party Ideas, Pinterest

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Learn Math with Holiday Advent Calendars

Learn Math with Holiday Advent Calendars

Advent Calendars, or count down calendars,  are used by parents and teachers as a way to count down the days, or count the days until Christmas (depending on how you use your holiday advent calendars) They are both FUN and educational for kids.  Here are some things that your child is learning when you use holiday advent calendars with some tips how to make them even more educational! Affiliate links. Learn Math with Holiday Advent Calendars Math learning objectives connect well ... Read more...

Filed Under: Math Tagged With: Amanda, Christmas, grade school, math, Preschool

By Kim Vij

How to Make a Colorful Star Garland With Your Child

Watercolor Star Garland with LED Lights for Bedtime

Create a colorful star themed night for bedtime with your child with this star garland. A creative way to decorate your child's room for bedtime and think of loved ones. Here's how to make Star Garland... SIGN UP HERE for our NEWSLETTER  This week at the Weekly Virtual Book Club for Kids  we're featuring a night theme.  During this time of year at times for preschoolers this can be the stage where night can bring some anxieties.  Talking about it ... Read more...

Filed Under: Reading Tagged With: grade school, night, Preschool, School Ages, stars, Virtual Book Club for Kids

By Kim Vij

FabKids Clothing Review

Fab Kids Clothing for Fall

FabKids provides age appropriate clothing that are fashionable and fun for your child. By mixing and matching pieces from the FabKids line you can create budget friendly outfits that look adorable and last. I’m sharing this as part of a sponsored series by FabKids. Shopping for Kids Clothes Having two daughters, a few years apart from each other, means that as a mom I spend more time than I’d like to admit to searching the store aisles for kids clothes for them to wear. The early ... Read more...

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: grade school, Kids Clothes, Preschool, Review, School Ages

By Kim Vij

Supporting Your Child’s Academic Success with TestingMom.com

Test Prep for Elementary School Ages from TestingMom.com

What does my child need to know for Kindergarten? How can I help them prepare? Two questions that I’m often asked by parents when they find out that I’m an early childhood teacher who taught in the Kindergarten classroom for nearly 10 years. The answers often surprise parents when they determine their child’s Kindergarten Readiness. This is a sponsored conversation about test prep on behalf of TestingMom.com and contains affiliate links to their program.  Testing is a ... Read more...

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: Gifted, Parenting, Review, Technology

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