How do you play with a toddler? I have to tell you a secret about playing with my toddler- a few actually. First off, even though she's my third child sometimes it still feels awkward to sit and play with my current toddler. I have a hard time letting go of the million busy items I need to do [...]Continue Reading
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Board Games That Teach Executive Function – critical thinking skills and creativity for the win
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 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
How to Make the Best Paper Airplane
This is a paper airplane that will gain you respect and gratitude of action obsessed kids. It is the paper airplane that my boys ask me to make over and over again. This post contains instructions for folding this plane and affiliate links to recommended books so you can find more fun resources for [...]Continue Reading
Gluten Free Play Dough Recipe and Tips
Play Dough- the ultimate sensory activity for preschoolers and older kids alike. Play dough will take a bad afternoon and turn it around. All that mooshing and rolling seems to just sump up chaotic energy and transform it into blue cookies and oddly shaped car garages. Unfortunately traditional [...]Continue Reading
Dress Up Clothes for Boys
If you were stocking a dress-up box for boys, what would you put in it? Up until recently I have had an oldest son who really disliked dress-up. When he was four, for instance, he (James) went as "a James Boy" for Halloween (this is what he told me he was when he insisted on wearing his own [...]Continue Reading
