I received an opportunity to try out Sphero and I thought my son might like it since he’s learning how to program in Scratch and Processing (an object-oriented version of Java). What I didn’t realize was that Grasshopper and Sensei, a rising high school freshman, and PickyKidPix, a rising 7th grader, also wanted the Sphero, such that…
Author: Pragmatic Mom
24 Great Truck Picture Books
PickyKidPix‘s assistant soccer coach has a two-year-old son and he asked me for truck books because he is a little tired of reading Thomas the Train and Mater from Cars books. We both live in Newton, Massachusetts. One of our very favorite authors, Virginia Lee Burton, also lived here so I’ve added two of her books to this…
14 Asian American Picture Books About Food
Being Asian means that you are all about food. Did you know that the greeting in Chinese, 你吃了吗? {Ni (third tone) Chi (first tone) Le (first tone) Ma(third tone), means have you eaten yet?! The family-style serving platters set the tone; meals are meant to be eaten together! It’s no surprise that there are quite…
Teaching Inappropriate Touch to Kids Starting at Age 3
Please welcome my guest author, Selena Smith, who is covering the importance of body safety education for kids starting at age 3. Parents everywhere desperately want to keep their children safe. Children are told over and over not to play in the street, always wear seatbelts, don’t talk to strangers, say no to drugs, and…
Summer Reading Lists and Programs for Kids
Summer is starting soon and I need to get a summer reading plan for my kids! Usually, my kids are assigned an extensive summer reading project by the teachers in the next grade. One year it was five books AND a book review project! When my girls started middle school, the summer reading assignments ceased…
Credit Card Lessons for Kids
Please welcome my guest blogger, Barbara Stapleton, who teaches middle school students about personal finance. Today, she is going to be sharing her lessons on how to teach tweens about credit cards versus debit cards because this is not the kind of personal finance lesson you want your kids to learn the hard way! p.s. I have…
I Met Eoin Colfer (he’s hysterically funny!)
My son and I attended the Mega Awesome Book Event which starred Rick Riordan, but Eoin Colfer emerged as the star of the day. (Ridley Pearson was a rockstar too!) Boy is that guy funny and charming! If I could invite just one author to dinner, I would pick him. He’d have you in stitches…







