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My Top 5: Preschooler Shows That Teach Literacy
Literacy-themed television shows are designed to introduce your children to important literacy skills such as letter recognition, phonics, vocabulary, listening comprehension, and early reading. Through engaging characters, colorful visuals, storytelling and interactive activities, these programs can play a valuable supporting role in early learning and development in preschoolers and early elementary aged children. Additionally, these… Read more
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Life Skills: How to Successfully Integrate Chores Into Your Child’s Daily Life
Life is busy. Between work, school, after-school activities, dinner, cleaning, and trying to keep active, the days seem to fly by. Everyone is busy doing their own things. We as adults tend to take on most, if not all, of the cleaning tasks as that seems the easiest or fastest way to tackle them. Not… Read more
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Life Skills: Age-Appropriate Chore Guide for Each Age Group
When we think about household tasks and asking our kids to help out, we initially only think of asking our older children or teens. And most of the household chores we, as the adults, usually do ourselves; mostly because it tends to be faster and easier that way. However, toddlers as young as 2 –… Read more
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Life Skills: Benefits of Chores for Kids
Chores. The age-old debate in many households; should your kids be given chores. There are a variety of arguments against children being given extra responsibilities these days since they have a full day of school, a wide range of after-school activities, and a line of daily homework. Many kids do not get home until 5… Read more
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Creative Lesson: One More and One Less
Teaching Counting Concepts Teaching young children the concepts of “one more” and “one less” is an important foundation in early mathematics. These skills help your early elementary children develop number sense, understand patterns, and prepare for addition and subtraction. Because young learners think best through hands-on experiences, you should try to include engaging activities, visual… Read more
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Cooking with Kids: Fresh Chicken Spring Rolls
Spring Rolls vs Egg Rolls The terms “spring rolls” and “egg rolls” are commonly confused or used intermittently, especially in the United States. However, the two are different, mainly in wrapper, texture, and origin. Spring rolls have thin, smooth, crispy, flaky wrappers made of flour and water and can be either fried or served fresh… Read more