If you are a parent, you likely know how important education is to your child. When school lets out for the summer, education is often the farthest thing from your child's mind. While a break from school is needed, children are still encouraged to continue their education during the summer. If you want to keep the learning experience alive during the summer, you should consider incorporating education into your summer vacation. Five Fun Ways to Incorporate Learning into your Summer Vacation Many parents wonder if it is really possible to incorporate education into a vacation. Many vacations may be filled not only with learning but also with fun and excitement. If you are interested in scheduling an educational summer vacation for yourself and your family, you will have to decide on a summer vacation destination. When it comes to educational activities, you have a number of different options to choose from. Look at Summer Camps If you are looking for annual camps … [Read more...]
20 Ways to Help Calm Down Your Child – Calming Activities
If it is one thing we learned from a global pandemic it is the simple fact that it was very difficult for the kids - older kids especially. It was constantly on the news about how many people were infected and how many were dying. Everyone was worried about it. They had a hard time with the loss of "normal" activities, and even 1/3 of the kids in the US failed at distance learning. The stress of the disease spread all over the world since it wasn't just only one country that was affected by this disaster, although most countries were hit pretty hard. 20 Ways to Help Calm Down Your Child When added to the fact that we are all in quarantine, that constant barrage of rising numbers can become overwhelming. It was even worse for those who lost a loved one due to the pandemic or a related cause. This tough time led to a lot of anxiety and stress. If you noticed even your young children dealing with big emotions, having angry outbursts, and in general bad behavior? That … [Read more...]
Talking to Tweens about Self Confidence
The majority of teenagers today struggle with low self-confidence levels due to a diverse range of factors like changing bodies, peer pressure, and success in academics and/or sports. It is wrong to blame the tweens for their low self-confidence, as the teenagers of today are confronted with many tough issues that include how they look, their behavior in public, their performance in school, and who they choose as friends. Talking to Tweens about Self Confidence If you notice that your tween’s self confidence is going downhill, then, as a parent, you should help your child to be as successful as possible, especially when it boils down to self-confidence. Every parent wants his child to grow into a confident and responsible adult who will excel in all departments of life. But that is easier said than done. Many tweens struggle hard to get accepted - by themselves and by the society in which they live. Parents do play a vital role in talking to tweens about building … [Read more...]
Dollar Store Craft Stick Fall Bucket List
I have talked about Bucket Lists before, but this is a fun twist on it that you can make with the littles to help them take ownership of it all. Wooden Craft Sticks and some simple supplies from the Dollar Store transform into a Fall Bucket List of activities sure to keep your family busy! Dollar Store Craft Stick Fall Bucket List Supplies: Instructions: STEP ONE Base coat twelve wooden craft sticks with a variety of Fall inspired colors. Let dry and the apply a second coat, if necessary. Because these sticks will be seen from both sides, flip over and paint the backs of the craft sticks. STEP TWO Using a pencil and then a permanent black marker, write an activity on each of the twelve craft sticks. Get the kiddos involved to create your list! You can also use the back of each craft stick to add more activities. Here is a detailed photo of all twelve Fall Bucket List activites. STEP THREE Measure and cut a length of brown ribbon to wrap around … [Read more...]
Talking to Tweens without Being Preachy
Talking to Tweens without Being Preachy? Raising kids is one of the most important and less envied tasks for any parent. They quickly change and grow in a short period of time and sometimes we, the parents, become exasperated to keep up with these changes. They become tweens in the blink of an eye. Are we ready for these sudden changes? Talking to Tweens without Being Preachy Your child might come home from school every day and blurts out everything that happened here but one fine day you saw that after his return he is not his usual self. Not anything scary but didn’t exactly behave the way he used to. You get tense and asked him all that happened in the school and probably even asked him, “Why are you not telling me like before?” and he replied coldly “I dunno.” The changes are sudden and will strike you like lightning. This is the time when you speak to your tween on various issues but never sound preachy otherwise he will lose interest and speak less with you. It … [Read more...]
Talking to Tweens about Good Choices
The teenage years or the tween years are very important for any child, as this is the age when they learn to become decision-makers. We must understand that we are presented with choices every day, but the wisdom to choose correctly sets in from the tween years. As the kids mature over the years, so do the options open to them. They go past the stage when they need to choose between the different flavors of ice-creams; they now decide on the type of friends they want to have, which courses to take, and a lot of other good choices. The process of decision making is very crucial as the decisions taken by the children will dictate the path that their career or life will take. They need to judge the risks and rewards of the choices that they make in the short and long term. Talking to Tweens about Good Choices has never been more important than now! Why making a good choice is so difficult? Being a tween in today’s world is never easy. The advancements of technology mean that … [Read more...]
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