Summer is right around the corner! Summer is celebrated around the country with fun, leisure, and special activities. With some planning and intentionality, you can make this a summer to remember! The Key to a Fun Summer: Planning At the beginning of summer vacation, you feel like you have all the time in the world. […]
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When you have limited time with your children, you want to maximize your time with them. One of the best bonding activities you can do with your children is fun arts and crafts! Children need lots of quality time with their parents. You’ll find that when you work together with your child on the same
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If there’s one thing every parent can relate to, it’s getting your child to nap. Even if you consider your child a great sleeper, at some point, they will struggle to nap. When a child misses their nap, it can make them overtired, which only perpetuates the sleeping problem. So how can you make it
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Every parent can relate to the frustration of their child frequently asking for a snack. Sometimes, it seems like kids want snacks every few minutes! While it’s easy enough to provide packaged snacks or easy fruits like apples and bananas, this can get expensive quickly! Plus, the ingredients and additives in many packaged snacks can
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Children learn primarily through play. Playtime is their “job” that develops the skills they need later for their actual schooling and occupations. When you see playtime as education, then you’ll want to provide your child with toys that grow their brains, bodies, and language skills. What Toys Do Children Need? While it’s tempting to give
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Parents and teachers intuitively know that children benefit from being read to, but is regular storytime really that important? Studies have proven that reading to children benefits them immediately and in the future! Children who are read to have: Better language skills – Quality literature improves language understanding, grammar, and sentence structure Increased vocabulary – Quality
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If you want to tap into the benefits of reading to your child, then you may already know that not all books are created equally. Some books are worth reading over and over, and these are the books you want to collect for your bookshelves. Quality literature has countless benefits, like exposing them to new
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Most people assume that middle and high school ages are the hardest to parent. But if this is your guess, then you would be wrong! According to a survey conducted by OnePoll and sponsored by Mixbook, the majority of parents agree that age eight is the hardest year to parent. This might be hard for
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