Answer a few questions about your child and their favorite shoe and our team can determine exactly what size will be the perfect fit for your child in every brand or style. Our sizing team reviews your fit quiz answers, looks at the measurements of the specific shoe you purchased, and sends the correct size. Read More: jenzy.com
Below, the master multi-tasking mama to Zayan, 13, Kenza, 10, and Kaysan, 8, shares her top 5 distance learning tips for the road ahead!. Regardless of how much you and your child want to lean into the school’s plan of distance learning or apply your own homeschooling rigor, the more organized you are, the more independence and seamlessness you can expect as you begin a loosely structured routine. Read More: mothermag.com
Need a space to call your own? Weave weeds, grasses, sticks, flowers, and leaves into a loom tent for a private outdoor hideout. An easy way to start is to turn a low-hanging branch into a loom tent. Read More: storey.com
Expand your kid’s palates by adding more vegetables such as corn, spinach, and sweet potatoes into their meals. What’s the best way to show them that? Eat them yourselves, of course! If they see their parents or siblings eat vegetables on a daily basis, then they’ll think it’s the most natural thing in the world to do. Read More: redtri.com
So how can we help our children to experience the rewards of full engagement? 1. Your fourteen year old spends every spare moment practicing with his band, when you wish he would study more? Go ahead and uphold family standards but recognize how lucky you are that your son has found himself the passion of making music. Read More: ahaparenting.com
So what do parents need to know? Is there a right way to tickle our kids, and what are the dangers if we get it wrong? How do we tickle without violating boundaries? And should we be tickling at all?. In 1897, in what’s considered a classic paper on the subject, psychologists G. Stanley Hall and Arthur Allin split tickling into two categories: high-pressure, finger-in-the-ribs tickling that brings on laughter called gargalesis – that’s the kind Austrew and Crawshaw described. Read More: nytimes.com
I WAS A SCREEN TIME EXPERT. THEN THE CORONAVIRUS HAPPENED.: My point being: I have never, ever, spent this much time with my children, or anyone’s children, as I have over the past four months during shelter-in-place orders. A lot of popular video games and many children’s apps have bells and whistles that can make them very hard to stop playing and also can hurt our children’s developing attentiveness. Read More: nytimes.com
Throughout the pandemic, many child care centers have stayed open for the children of front-line workers – everyone from doctors to grocery store clerks. In a separate, unscientific survey of child care centers, Brown University economist Emily Oster found that, as of Tuesday afternoon, among 916 centers serving more than 20,000 children, just over 1% of staff and 0.16% of children were confirmed infected with the coronavirus. Read More: kunc.org
How do you get your baby to go to sleep and sleep through the night?. If you’d like to begin developing good sleep habits early, you’ll want to start by helping your baby learn to put himself back to sleep. Read More: ahaparenting.com
Here’s how to start digging yourself out of the screen trap to create a more sustainable way to occupy your kids, even while you’re working at home during pandemic lockdown. Any time you’re WITH your kids, such as mealtime, should be engagement time, not screen time. Read More: ahaparenting.com