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This is my second time on the fifth grade end-of-the-year field trip on Boston’s Freedom Trail. This year’s trip is slightly different as the Boston Tea Party ship was under repair and only just recently back in port. It booked up before we could get a slot so the children acted out a trial for…
In this increasingly self-absorbed world where people can spend more time staring at a screen than they can communicate with each other face to face, it’s getting more and more important to teach children the importance of doing good in the world. As well, with the growing number of natural disasters, terrorist attacks, and other…
Most of us swoon at the mention of picture books The Dot or Ish, making Peter H. Reynolds a household name among those of us who love children’s books. But did you know his twin brother, Paul Reynolds? Together, they are the co-founders of Fablevision and they also write books together. For any child who doubts…
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Tyson Foods, Inc. All opinions are entirely my own. Now that school is starting soon, I find that hot breakfasts are harder to pull off. We are always rushing in the morning due to the fact that two of kids — the youngest and…
PickyKidPix joined her brother at computer camp this summer. This was her first introduction to the computer camp that he had been going to for the past three years. They picked 3D Printing this year which struck me as the perfect partnership of ART in STEM or STEAM. PickyKidPix, now 14 years old, would be…
It probably won’t surprise you that my two daughters refused to do the easy thing for their parents: go to the same sleepaway camp. No, they chose YMCA sleepaway camps on the other side of the state. My oldest, Grasshopper and Sensei, went to the Berkshires at Chimney Corners where the camp culture emphasizes being…
My son was obsessed with Pokémon when he was four years old. For two years, I read nothing but Pokémon books to him. The books he liked were Find and Seek or Pokémon directories. Neither types of books have much plot. I also bought him tiny Pokémon plastic figures off eBay that I would carry around in a plastic baggy…