7 Family Time and Learning Tips for the Holidays
The holiday season is here! Like most families, my household is already in a flurry of activity—decorating, purchasing gifts, preparing for guests and baking…
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Kid-Friendly Cooking for Thanksgiving
Perhaps the most special thing about cooking is the way that skills and traditions are passed down within families from generation to generation. Holidays—particularly…
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Understanding What Transgender Means
Imagine you are a child assigned as a male at birth, but by age three you feel certain you are a girl. You reject…
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Kid-Friendly Family Dinner Recipes
For the health and well-being of your family, there is perhaps no better habit to adopt (or reignite!) than regularly cooking and eating together….
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Help Your Child Develop Good Study Habits
As parents we know the evening homework and study drill. Whether we sit with our young students to help them complete their assignments, or…
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Master the Parent-Teacher Conference
It’s almost time for the first parent-teacher conferences of the year. For parents, this meeting can cause anxiety because it is an evaluation of…
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How to Build Your Child’s Empathy Muscles
Empathy is a skill—one that we can cultivate and strengthen with practice. It requires us to imagine how someone else is feeling and then respond…
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10 Tips to Get Your Child to Love Reading
It’s clear that when families are engaged in education, everyone wins—schools, families and students! Creating daily family reading experiences helps your children to develop…
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Make the Olympics a Learning Opportunity
The Olympic Games can be such an inspiring and exciting time to watch TV as a family. But beyond the fantastic feats, breathtaking speed,…
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The Importance of Family Reading
Reading gives us two gifts—the gift of understanding and the gift of feeling understood. Every new book you read shows you another life, another…
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