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Helping Your Kids Develop a Love of Learning
Helping your kids develop a love of learning is one of the most important things you can do as a parent. What better way to do it ...
How I Found a Way to Play and Thrive With My Kids
I do not qualify as the “mom who likes to play.” For some reason, that is hard for me to admit, because in my mind, a good mom is ...
Why Playing Does Not Mean Cleaning
Play Lego with me mom.
It was Caleb, my 7-year-old asking me again to play Legos with him. I had a list of things to do. Make t...
Dear Kids
It is just a random Tuesday, so today is as good as any to tell you all my dreams for your life. I don’t want to wait until your g...
Strange Matter: Dry Ice Sensory Play
I love this activity, and it’s been field-tested by many museum-going school-aged and adult children alike. It’s so much fun to wa...
Learning to Play
One of my new things (of which there are many these days—I feel sort of adolescent, changing and growing and trying new things fas...
Wired for Success: Navigating Your Kids’ Screen Time
I vividly remember the day I sat with my toddler in a doctor’s office and committed the act I vowed that I as a counselor who know...
Let’s Play
“Mama, when are you going to play with me?”
Her fingers reach out like thin cords, pulling me upstairs to her pink hideaway con...
8 Ways to Make “Special Time” With Young Children More Meaningful
In the hustle bustle of stressful family life, it can be great to spend special one-on-one time with each child. Kids adore the at...
Making Time for the 24-Hour Getaway
When the grocery lists, laundry piles, work emails and family parties fill up our days, it’s hard to get to romance, kisses and un...