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Educational and Entertaining Activities for Kids

July 2nd, 2012 | Add a Comment

Tweet With the summer holidays arriving fast, you maybe beginning to feel those first few prickles of discomfort on the back of your neck as your children’s excitement levels dovetail with your own sense of impending doom. While the children are quite rightly counting down the days until school’s out for the summer in a state of giddy anticipation, for the parents it’s a different matter entirely. While the first few days of holiday are often spent in blissful peace where parent and child exist in a pleasantly symbiotic state of doing very little, it’s around the start of week 2 that the ‘B’ word rears its ugly head. Yep, boredom has kicked in, and you have another 5 weeks of irritable moaning to contend with. So how do you placate your little … Read entire article »

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Summer Learning For Kids

June 19th, 2012 | Add a Comment

Summer Learning For Kids

Tweet Now that summer is here, parents are reminded to help their children avoid the “summer slide” or “summer brain drain”. According to Nick Whitehead, co-founder and president of Oxford learning, children may lose a big chunk of the knowledge and skills they’ve learned when summer is done and school starts again. This happens if children do not engage in any learning activities when school is out. Tonya Perry, Ph.D., assistant professor of curriculum instruction in the … Read entire article »

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BBQing with Kids

June 12th, 2012 | Add a Comment

Tweet Summer’s here and that means one thing: BBQs. Well, if you’re lucky enough to live in a country where you get a summer then yes, BBQs are for you. Spending a lot of my time in London and within the UK, I don’t always get a chance to have as many BBQs as I would like. Still, such is life. Being a mother BBQs are an exciting time of year. Of course they can also be a potentially dangerous time and hence a very worrying one. I’ve always believed that rather than ban your children from something that’s dangerous such as a BBQ it’s better to involve them, but in a way that’s very, very partentally-guided. Marinading Every serious BBQer knows that it’s all in the marinade. A good marinade can make a … Read entire article »

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Summer Spelling Puzzles

June 11th, 2012 | Add a Comment

Summer Spelling Puzzles

Tweet Keep your children’s brain active this summer. Here are some fun puzzles to keep them spelling and writing. It doesn’t take a long time to do these. Have them practice their skills doing word search, decoding, word jumbles, mazes and more. This book has 190 pages and puzzle answer keys are included. Click here to take a peek inside the book.   … Read entire article »

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11 Summer Activities For Kids

June 5th, 2012 | Add a Comment

11 Summer Activities For Kids

Tweet The kids are out of school and they are driving you nuts! I totally understand. If you leave the kids to do whatever they want, you are in for trouble. You need a plan! I hear you. So, here are ideas for summer activities for your kids. 1. Check your local library. They usually have activities scheduled for children such as story-telling, puppet show, scavenger hunt, craft time and more. It is also common to find libraries … Read entire article »

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Tips To Keep Children Learning During Summer

June 4th, 2012 | Add a Comment

Tweet School may be out but that doesn’t mean learning has to stop. Yes, summer is a time to relax, play, vacation and enjoy life, but that doesn’t mean there is no place for learning to take place. As a parent, we should seek out ways to make learning pleasurable for our children. So, what are some ways to keep learning alive for our children during the summer days? Encourage an inquisitive attitude. Teach children to be observant and question the things they see and experience. As you indulge in ice cream on a hot day, ask your children if they ever wondered how ice cream is made? Take your kids to the farmer’s market, have them identify the food they see there. Maybe even ask the owner of the stalls where … Read entire article »

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