How to Help Children with Friendships
Friendship is a huge component of helping our children live a joyful life! Navigating friendships can be both beautiful and challenging. It is important that we, as parents, equip ourselves to guide our children and help foster healthy friendships.
Benefits of Seeing Live Performances
Living in the digital age, taking in live performances is becoming a lost art. There are many benefits to children in seeing live performances.
The Real Curriculum is the Extra Stuff
It’s the extra stuff we learned as children that we remember, not the textbooks and workbooks.
The About Me Book: A Favorite Back to School Tradition
I want my kids to have a play-back of memories and emotions from their childhood. The play back is a glimpse into who they were as children. It’s a non-tech snapshot of a moment in time - it might be the only one, since many kids do not keep diaries anymore. So, I make sure my kids have an About Me book to complete every year during the first week of school.
Minimal PrepTip 5 - Capturing the Now with a Time Capsule
If I had a time capsule when I was a kid, it would have contained roller skates, Chuck-e-Cheese tokens, my Swatch Watch, my New Kids on the Block t-shirt, a mixed tape of Whitney Houston’s greatest hits, and a scrunchie...and I’m super bummed I don’t have one to open. But my kids can, and so can yours!