School-age Children

3 Mind-Blowing Educational Documentaries That Will Fascinate Your Kids!

Settle back and enjoy these movies with your family, the kids will love these great learning experiences.

Documentaries That Will Fascinate Your Kids

50 Kid Fun things to do on Rainy Day

See how many of these kid fun things you can do before it stops raining

Rainy Day Kids Activities

Childrens' Valentine's Day Poems

Valentine's Day popms for your teacher, friends and family members

Valentine's Poems

School Age Child Development

Learn about the social, emotional, language, cognitive and physical milestones of school age childrn age 6 - 12 years.

Child Development, 6-12 yrs.

Meaningful Christmas Gifts for Teachers

Each year, many teachers receive thoughtful and heart-warming gifts from their students. Each gift is a token of appreciation, and is remembered fondly long after the holiday season ends. However, with families' budgets stretched tighter than ever before, it may be better this year to..

Teacher Gifts

Children's Self Esteem and Peer Pressure

One important tool that parents have is to encourage the positive in your child to help reinforce their daily battle to manage negative peer pressure.

Peer Pressure

Sailing through the first day of school

Stories all about pre-school and kindergarteners attending their first day of school

First Day of School

How Was School?

Does getting your kids to offer information about school seem more difficult than pulling teeth? Do you ever feel like a lawyer cross examining your child in an attempt to find out what's really happening at school?

How was school?

Why Teachers Should Call On Boys More in Class

Studies show that teachers are still calling on boys eight time more often than girls. This occurs mainly because boys are more likely to yell out answers. You might remember a classmate who was always waving his hand in the air and yelling out answers.

Boys in school

Back to School Tips

As the bells ring and the buses roll, teachers and students aren't the only ones who need to be ready for the opening day of school.

Back to school

School Ready

But are these things what your children really need in order to be ready for school? Perhaps getting your child school ready involves more that buying things. Maybe supplies are not what you need to supply for your child to get them off to a good start this school year. It just might be that the best getting ready for school strategies you can employ are not found at the mall or your local department store. Consider the following.

Are Your Kids School Ready?

Is Your Child Ready for Kindergarten

Kindergarten begins soon. Is your child ready for kindergarten? Specific Skills Needed to be Ready for Kindergarten:

Kindergarten Ready?

Grandparents Checklist for Back to School

It's that time of year again, back to school. so what can a grandparent do to help get the school year off to a great start?

Back to School

Easy Ways to Teach Kids to Be Active

Physical activity is one of the simplest and most effective ways to help reduce stress and ensure that a child gets a good night's sleep. It releases both physical and emotional tension and has a positive effect on the neurotransmitters in the brain that affect mood. Unfortunately, the rise in childhood obesity is a telltale sign that many of our children are not getting adequate exercise

How to Have Active Kids

How to Have a Successful Back to School Garage Sale

Is it not hard to put on a profitable back to school garage sale? No. It really does take some of your time, and also requires an awareness of a few marketing tactics.