Looking for a way to keep your kids happy and engaged while traveling? With vacation time approaching and here are some simple ideas for creating a travel bag for your next trip. We’ve found ourselves packing a lot of activities for travel bags for kids over the years. While traveling with my 3 children in between soccer games, restaurants, visits to a friend's home who don’t have kids, road trips, hotels, and airplane travel here in the US and also overseas we’ve discovered some items ... Read more...
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Teacher Appreciation Gift Ideas
A collection of teacher appreciation gift ideas your child can make to give a special thank you to their teacher. Explore these gift ideas for teaching your child to show kindness at school to their teacher with a special gift of thanks. Here's how... We were so thrilled when Lauren from Tutu's and Tea Parties invited us to host this week's Kids for Kindness Challenge on The Educators' Spin On It. Each week she shares ideas for ways to encourage your children to ... Read more...
Tips on Challenging Advanced Readers
Do you have a little reader at your home that you just can't seem to keep enough books around for? Over the years we've had a few readers like this in our homes and we thought it might be fun to sit and chat about ways we keep them challenged. Plus a few tips for what to do at school. Here's your chance to sit in on one of our continuing conversations about what we're doing with our 6-year-olds with reading. The best part is you can show up in your jammies, we'll never ... Read more...
Packing Your Bags for Labor and Delivery
When you are getting to be BIG pregnant And the nursery (or corner of your bedroom) is set up, and you begin to feel that the arrival of your little one is near, it is time to pack your bags! As this is my 3rd baby, I knew exactly what I wanted and needed. The first basket I packed was snacks for ME to have when I knew I was entering the stage of active labor. My first delivery was a Petocin-induced labor with an epidural, my 2nd was an emergency c-section, and I was determined ... Read more...
Screen Time and Motivating Boys: Snapshot of Parenting with Purpose
When I was at UC Berkeley for summer school a long time ago, I made a new friend, Annie. When her family went on vacation, Annie's parents and 5 siblings would leave the room for the day, as families normally do on vacation. Annie, however, would stay behind by herself and watch movies all day. Everyone was happy that way. Fast forward 30 years. Annie is now an Emmy award-winning writer for a popular daytime talk show. I think it was clear that the movies/entertainment industry was where she ... Read more...