Education and parenting. Helping your child with reading, math, science and getting along with others.
Welcome to the Unforgotten Blog Tour! To celebrate the release of Unforgotten: The Wild Life of Dian Fossey and Her Relentless Quest to Save Mountain Gorillas by Anita Silvey on June 29th, blogs across the web are featuring original content from Anita, as well as 5 chances to win the complete trilogy: Unforgotten, Untamed, and Undaunted. Why…
Because of Covid-19, many of these internships are remote. If you have a rising high school student interested in STEM, be sure to have them check out this list from Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth. These are life-changing opportunities! Applying for internships can cause anxiety, especially if it does not result in obtaining then….
I wanted to do a round-up of resources for BIPOC/Minority pre-published KidLit authors and illustrators. It’s exciting that there are so many organizations, both new and long-established. Many of these organizations offer mentorship programs or programs to help get published. If you are going to attend one, just one, children’s book conference, I would recommend…
My daughter is a sophomore at Rhode Island School of Design and she pulled together a team of Industrial Design majors to compete in the BlueGreen Innovation challenge in Rhode Island. Along the way, she added an M.I.T. senior engineering student to her team. They successfully competed and made the finalist round. They are one…
Please welcome my guest author today, Jennifer Fischer. She’s a producer at Think Ten Media Group and blogs at Indie Jen Fischer on Medium. She has recommendations of how to teach kids Japanese using games. —– No doubt about it, kids love games: board games, card games and, of course, video games! We love our…
If you would like your kids to be excited about science and math, it is a great idea to introduce fun STEAM activities as young as possible. For most people, solving a Rubik’s cube is extremely intimidating. The algorithms can seem complex and technically complicated. Don’t be discouraged though: without knowledge of algorithms it took…
I was thrilled to be invited to join Nancy Tupper Ling‘s #AuthorAcrostic series. You may know Nancy from her children’s books. I have to be honest. I did not know exactly what an acrostic poem was when she asked me. I looked it up. It does not have to be rhyming but I found the…