Kids4Community, a 501c3 non profit, raised thousands of dollars to help detained children while cleaning up the oceanfront. Hundreds of volunteers joined Kids4Community over the past weekend, to help kids separated by their families, while doing community work. For every pound of trash collected, the organization donated $50 for kids that are affected by immigration…
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Six Simple Ways to Use Storytelling as Teaching Tools
Stories are spectacularly successful learning tools. Many studies show that children whose parents tell and/or read stories to them from an early age turn out to be better readers and students later on. Furthermore, you are twenty times more likely to remember information if you learn it in a story than if you learn it…
What Every Family Needs To Do Before They Move In To a Home with a Pool
Nearly 300-children under the age of five drown in pools and spas every year. The number one way to prevent drownings is through proactive parent supervision, but most drownings occur when a child was thought to be in the house but slipped outside without anyone knowing. This year alone, at least two children drowned days…
5 Fun Ways To Teach Your Kids About Money: Part 2
Experian put together a list of five fun ways to teach kids about money, which will help them with financial literacy—and help parents so the kids aren’t living with us forever. Here is part 2 of this 3 part series. Board Games By keeping these around your house, your kids can play games with the family…
Top 10 Summer Activities for Students
The final weeks of school can be so hectic that planning the following three months often comes as an afterthought. With assignments, tests and early bus rides behind them, students are left to wonder, “What should I do this summer?” MyKlovr, the virtual counselor for college bound students, has the answer. Here’s a list of…
Compounding (dis)Interest: Don’t Let the Summer Reading Slide Stall Your Child’s Literacy
Like most kids, I couldn’t wait for summer vacation when I was young. As a dyslexic student, school was my greatest stressor, and that fact only made my longing for summer break more intense. During my carefree summer months, I rode my bike, climbed trees, went swimming, played ball with friends, went exploring constantly, fished,…
5 Fun Ways to Teach Your Kids About Money: Part 1
Experian put together a list of five fun ways to teach kids about money, which will help them with financial literacy—and help parents so the kids aren’t living with us forever. Here is part 1 of this 3 part series. Toys You can start very young teaching basics with toys such like these: Piggy Bank As…
Tips for Enjoying the Outdoors Over the Holiday Weekend
NEEF Presents Activities to Help Parents, Teachers and Camp Counselors Make Sun Safety Fun As the upcoming holiday weekend ushers in the summer season, the National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF) is joining the National Council on Skin Cancer Prevention to promote Don’t Fry Day, a national effort to encourage sun safety awareness. NEEF is marking…
Five Things Parents Should Know About End-Of-Year Testing
Every spring, schools across the nation give students millions of standardized tests. Students sit for hours, filling in answer bubbles with their number two pencils for an exam that may span days. They’re told the tests are “important”, they need to “do their best”, and that they have “one chance” to show what they’ve learned….
STEM…Motherhood…Programming: 5 Ways to Build Your Child’s Confidence with Programming
In our last blog post we focused on building your child’s self-esteem through programming. Today’s #CODEplayground objective is to build your child’s self-confidence. Self-confidence, often interchangeable with self-esteem, is the feeling of trust in one’s abilities and qualities. It is important to build both self-esteem and self-confidence in your child to ensure complete emotional health….