Laughing & learning through teachable moments
My middle daughter enjoys reading, but we’re trying to nudge her to bookworm status. Her wonderful 2nd grade teacher is a huge inspiration to Ava in countless ways, but it was a recent class “snowball book blitz” that helped our daughter push herself to read chapter books. The class was divided into two teams and [...]
Let’s face it. We (parents of small kids) don’t go “out” enough. When we do we’re back in by 9:00, and its highly likely we ended up at the grocery store. If we did go out, we’re yawning by 8:00. We blame getting back for the babysitter, but really we’re just tired and want the [...]
It’s likely you’ve seen this brain game before, maybe even at a bridal or baby shower, but it’s worth mentioning. My kids have fun with this one in both playing and setting up the tray of random objects. Players have 1 minute to view the tray of items, then they write down all they can [...]
Family Game Night or Morning or Mid Afternoon…no matter when you play together, it’s one of the best things you can do with your kids…and other adults when the kids go to bed;) Here’s one of our new and top played games in our game hutch. I had never heard of multi- award winning Dixit or [...]
We sat down for dinner in early December after dragging out all our Christmas stuff, to include these plates. My 7 year old said, “Hey, the girls all have snowmen and the boys all have santas!” And, The Plate Game was born! Rules: Find ways the people using the matching plates are connected that is [...]
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