By Erin McNeill Science for your young child doesn’t have to be technical, require complicated ingredients, or even take more than 15 minutes. Science should be an activity that explores cause and effect, encourages questions and researching answers, and fun! Here are a few activities to get your started with your child! Baking soda and vinegar [...]
If you have kids then you most likely have a pile of alphabet and number magnets to go with them to assist in the beginning stages of learning their letters, numbers and practice their spelling, But where do you store them and allow your kids to use them? Here is a fun idea we discovered [...]
Becoming a parent is an exciting moment in your life, but it also a hectic one. There are so many questions to answer that entire sections of bookstores are dedicated to the demystification of pregnancy and early childhood; still, it’s not always easy to understand every aspect of parenting a newborn. Your baby’s first well [...]
By Kellie Geres Admit it … if you have or care for children, you’ll ultimately have a growing collection of artwork, school projects, rainy day activities and more. As much as you may want to exhibit all of your budding Picasso’s works of art, after a while it’s just not feasible to keep everything on display. [...]
Inspire your kids to read all Summer with one of these Free Summer reading programs – kids can earn free books and prizes. Scholastic 2013 Summer Reading Challenge Kids ages birth – 12 years old can enter their reading minutes in Scholastic’s Read for the World Record challenge. Kids can record their reading minutes [...]
The word concussion is something that instills fear in any parent because they know concussions are closely associated with many youth contact sports. However, there are a few preventative measures every parent can take to help keep their children in the game and out of the doctor’s office. Erin and Lee Hanson, created the Guardian [...]
Create a fresh smelling playdough for spring with this DIY Lemon Playdough recipe that your kids can even join in and help you to make and best of all it takes only 5 minutes Click here for full recipe from Train Up A Child.
Having dinner together as a family is a great way to build strong family connections. There are tons of studies showing that kids who regularly dine with their families have been associated with a lower risk of smoking, drinking, and using drugs. These children also have lower incidence of depressive symptoms as well as suicidal [...]
Get ready car seat requirements and recommendations are changing again. According to the recent USA Today article Parents of many children ages 3 and up who should still be in child-safety seats will be warned not to use a federally required child-seat attachment system when a new rule takes effect in early 2014. The rule [...]
The perfect shirt for when dad arrives home tired after a long day of work and the kids are begging for his attention. Dad wears shirt kids spend time massaging and tickling dads back. A win-win answer. Now you can create dad this great shirt for hours of family fun with the step by step [...]
