If you have kids, the terms chaos and disorder take on a whole new meaning. If you are experiencing these feelings within your family, it may be time to work on executive functioning skills with your children. Executive functioning skills are the fundamental habits of mind required for getting [...]Continue Reading
The Delight of Splashing – Best Water Table for Toddlers to Stay Playfully Busy on Your Patio
We continue this year’s gift guides with a toy that gets a ton of play and can last into the preschool years – here are the best water tables for toddlers! Toddlers absolutely love playing with water. They’re happy to spend an entire day near the pool or on the beach enjoying all sorts of [...]Continue Reading
Best Toy Kitchens for Toddlers – Gift Guide for Delicious Pretend Play!
One of my favorite toys when I was a toddler was my toy kitchen. I loved being able to mimic and pretend to bake like mom or grill like dad. My imagination ran wild with all the different foods I could make and eat. Thirty-five years later and kids still love playing with a pretend kitchen-which [...]Continue Reading
The Perfect STEM Gifts for Middle Schoolers
Science. Technology. Engineering. Math. It’s these four fields of study that give us STEM. However, one website describes STEM as, “so much more than four fields of study, though. It has become a short-form label that includes a diverse set of 21st century skills and characteristics - ways of [...]Continue Reading
Best Mittens and Gloves for Toddlers – top picks for each
Updated October 2019 If you're looking for toddler mittens or gloves that really work, you're in the right place. We've got a list of our favorites with reviews that detail the ease of putting on, likeliness to stay on, warmth and waterproofing. We'll start with our list of toddler mittens, [...]Continue Reading
The Great Pumpkin Took Our Candy…
...and left toys! Sugar is a major disruptive force for one of my children, making the week after Halloween miserable for everyone, and this post is about the year we tried out a new tradition to get rid of that candy. This was the year, for the first time, The Great Pumpkin came to our [...]Continue Reading
