Education and parenting. Helping your child with reading, math, science and getting along with others.
I met with an Editorial Director at Charlesbridge Publishing a few weeks ago, and she invited me to submit my picture book manuscripts. I had gone to an author event at Charlesbridge last year with my son to learn about Paul Reynolds’ latest books with his brother, Ish! author and illustrator Peter H. Reynolds. I…
My girls fell in love with glass blowing after going to Dale Chihuly’s exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. They took glass blowing lessons to learn and now they are able to rent time at a glass studio to create glass art on their own. We recently visited the Chihuly Garden and…
Teaching kids is not an easy task as you have to ensure that you come up with fun ways to enable them to enjoy your teachings at any time of the day. One area that you must teach your kids about is the weather. They also need to know about the different weather changes that…
Need a craft to celebrate Chinese New Year 2018, The Year of the Dog? I made a cute puppy paper bag puppet that is also a game. Feed the puppy candies using chopsticks! Here’s how to make the puppy paper bag puppet. You will need:
Please welcome my guest blogger today, Gabriela Simmons, with her post on using books to teach kids another language. Even though I grew up speaking various languages at home, it has not been an easy ride trying to pass these languages to the kids. I have gained the utmost respect for parents making the effort…
My oldest daughter, Grasshopper and Sensei, loves design, particularly industrial design. I am frequently buying bottles full of unappetizing liquids that I am forced to drink because she loves the shape and design of the bottle. I think my daughter will apply her artistic skills towards social justice projects. I saw a glimpse of this…
This was my daughter’s first National Portfolio Day and we wanted to share tips that we learned the hard way: You do not need to pre-register for National Portfolio Day but we highly recommend it because there was a separate line for those who registered upon arrival and this line went after the pre-registered line….
We visited Emily Carr University of Art + Design at the weirdest possible time. They had closed their old campus on Grenville Island in preparation for their move to a new campus about a ten minute drive away. Their new campus, however, wasn’t quite done yet. We walked to the old campus and drove by…
Thank you to Zapzapmath for this giveaway and for partnering with me on this post! I covered Zapzapmath four months ago and because it was so popular with my readers, I am doing a follow up. Zapzapmath started off as a kindergarten math app with multiple games to keep kids’ interest. Now, there are over…