This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Miracle-Gro Gro-ables for IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine. This year on the first day of spring in Boston, it snowed. The day after that, it hailed. Spring comes slowly to Boston. Last year, I started my first vegetable garden with my kids. I…
One of my New Year’s resolutions was to take a children’s book writing class so I signed up for one through my local community education program: Children’s Book Writing with Margo Lemieux. She teaches art at Lasell College but has also written children’s books. Interestingly, she has not yet illustrated her picture books. I found…
It’s not uncommon to see my entire family including myself on a screen while waiting for our food at a restaurant. While it keeps everyone quiet, it annoys my husband to see us all on screens. He’s devised a series of restaurant games designed to get everyone off screens. Restaurant Games to Get Kids…
Before Dr. Seuss was famous, he drew racist political cartoons during the 1920s through the 1940s. Was Dr. Seuss himself a racist, or did he just draw these cartoon for a paycheck? He was a racist. Geisel himself was vocally anti-Japanese during the war and had no trouble with rounding up an entire population of…
I covered my Japanese Daimyo family history and my husband’s Chosun Dynasty family history on his father’s side, so I thought I’d cover my Chinese family history today. My father immigrated from China before the Communist Revolution to attend UCLA for a PhD in mathematics. He was asked to return to China right as the war began, but…
I showed my son this video below on how to make an easy Pop-Up card. He watched it once and said that he “got it,” and then went off-road, making two cards of his own. It’s a fun and easy way to introduce STEM (or really this is more STEAM – Science Technology Engineering Art…
Middle school science doesn’t have to be dry and boring. Here are 9 Cell Science Projects Using Cake and Candy, including my daughter’s 7th grade project in which baked a cake to depict a model of a cell. The model of a cell cake is a popular science project for 7th grade. My daughter says that anyone…