Raising kind kids with parenting that empowers
In case you haven’t heard, but you probably have, there will be a total solar eclipse on August 21, 2017. They’re fairly rare to happen over the same city, but they do happen regularly in different parts of the world every few years. This year, it will be tracking right across the United States from […]
For many, December is all about Santa and the North Pole, which gets all the attention of the holidays. But beyond Christmas and into the winter months there are so many fun winter-themed projects. The Snow Must Go On by Molly Wigand that inspired me to create a cardboard South Pole. I have done it before: […]
I admit, I threw my hands up in the air and walked away after 13 times my daughter declared that West was actually South. What the heck had I gotten myself into? How did I think I could teach my own child, especially abstract concepts? I knew good and well she was just as stubborn […]
Sitting in a local ice cream shop, my kindergartener refused to share her ice cream. She refused to give up even a single bite of her precious treat to her sister. “But she’s a baby. She doesn’t eat sugar yet.” Those words. She was just repeating what she had heard me say far too often […]
My oldest is a hands-on girl. Many time she needs to be working with a concept in her hands in order for her mind to fully grasp it. It’s how she’s wired, so when we tackled basic graphing skills, of course, the obvious choice was to make it something that worked her fine motor skills […]
Elections are coming, elections are coming! And it’s an exciting time we live in. We have had our first African American president and now we have the first woman to run for president from a major political party. Plagued with ads on television, on the highway, and everywhere we turn, it’s apparent even to young […]
