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Double Duty Kid Activities
by Brenda Nixon You can have special memories with your tots by doing projects together. Kids love spending uninterrupted time with Mom or Dad and your activity can serve a duel purpose – supporting growth and development. When learning is like play, kids don’t even realize you’re making the activity educational. Try these fun, easy, […]
Celebrate Dr. Seuss With Fun
We have all grown up on Dr. Seuss books and now have raised our kids reading them. So why not have a little fun and celebrate Dr. Seuss day with a bit of fun. Here are some simple ideas we found to help create a simple celebration: Activity Sheets – Print fun activity sheets to […]
The Shot I Want For My Kid
We all dream of our kids getting a Shot at being accepted for who they are in life. I stumbled across this video for the 2nd time now and once again was brought to tears. Tears because I saw my own child in this video, my own puzzle boy who day in and day out […]
Teacher Conferences: My Love and Hate Relationship
I will be completely honest I have a love hate relationship with teacher conferences, report cards coming home and IEP (individualized education plan) meetings. Being the mom to what we call a puzzle child never makes these events ones I look forward to. What mother wants to hear the shortcomings of their child whether it […]
Safe Online Shopping
Are you an online shopper? During the Christmas season I tend to shop online more than I do the rest of the year for 2 main reasons –1. Time – I save time not driving from store to store looking for the needed item. With online shopping I can easily search many sites in minutes […]
Boggle your kids brains just for fun
My sister Tami sent this to me in an email and I still can not believe it. Try this little experiment with your kids tonight at the dinner table. This will boggle your mind and it will keep you trying over and over again to see if you canoutsmart your foot, but, you can’t. It’s […]
Fun Money Math
Teaching Money Math is fun when you use simple game kids love to play. And when I went searching for some new ideas, I found some simple ones your kids will enjoy. From : http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/Math/mathhome.html · Coin clues. Ask your child to gather some change in his or her hand without showing what it is. […]
Making Sense of Money For Kids – All While Having Fun
Money makes the world go round, yet the best things in life are free. A penny saved is a penny earned, but you get what you pay for. Kids get conflicting messages about money – and as the current economic situations proves, they’re not the only ones left baffled. Now’s a great time to teach […]
5 Simple DIY (do it yourself) Math Games
Create DIY ( do it yourself) Math games out of your everyday games at home to teach your kids their math facts. Go Fish – (addition) Use flash cards from 0-10 (3 sets of each number) as your deck of cards. Play “Go Fish” to add numbers up to 10. (Ex: Tim has the number […]