By Angela Barton Read Time: 5 minutes Teachers Are Quitting, Students Are Crying, and Parents Are Frustrated—Welcome to Kindergarten Kindergarten teachers are seeing the joy of kindergarten being zapped by standards-based curriculum that doesn't include free play. Let's fight back. Read More
By Ashley Jones Read Time: 5 minutes The Magical Power of Family Reunions Family reunions bring families together. Even if you come from different backgrounds, kids know how to get together and play. Read More
By Michele Hollow Read Time: 5 minutes Should You Teach Your Special Needs Child How to Handle a Knife, Turn on the Stove, and Perform Other Kitchen Duties? Do your special needs kids have kitchen skills? Learn how to support special needs in the kitchen to encourage independent kids. Read More
By Lenore Skenazy Read Time: 4 minutes Life 360 Should Be Called “Life Sentence 360” We need to stop normalizing child monitoring and surveillance. Let's show our kids and teens that we actually have some trust in them. Read More
By Stacy Tornio Read Time: 3 minutes Jonah Larson Is Showing the World That Boys Can—and Should—Crochet Jonah Larson is a crochet prodigy. Learn how this boy taught himself how to crochet at only 5 and how he's making his own YouTube tutorials now. Read More
By Sara Read Time: 4 minutes If Your Child Has Sleep Anxiety at Sleepovers, Empower Them with Independence If you think your child gets sleep anxiety when it comes to sleepovers, then there are things you can do to help them feel better. Take a look. Read More
By Mariko Zapf Read Time: 6 minutes Don’t Give Up—How to Get Your Kids to Do Chores You might have the best intentions for chores, but then reality sets in. Learn how to get kids to do chores even if they've fallen out of practice. Read More
By Kate Sundquist Read Time: 6 minutes Let’s Stop Telling Our Kids to Be Careful All the Time This is probably a phrase you say on a regular basis without even realizing it, but it doesn't support raising confident kids. Are you guilty? Read More
By Lenore Skenazy Read Time: 2 minutes Wisconsin Town Set to Decriminalize Snowball Fights After a Ban of 50+ Years This Wisconsin town has had a ban on snowballs for more than 50 years, but this could all change. Take a look at this epic town snowfall fight. Read More
By Holly Read Time: 4 minutes School Recess Keeps Shrinking, and Our Kids Deserve Better Learn about LiiNK, the school recess program that is reshaping the way some schools view recess and unstructured play for the better. Read More
By Sara Read Time: 4 minutes It’s Not Enough to Teach Kids How to Be Independent If We Don’t Let Them Put it into Practice Yes, we can teach our kids how to be independent. But then we have to actually step back and let them put it into practice. Read More
By Michele Hollow Read Time: 5 minutes Independence Should Be Part of Special Needs Parenting Learn how to encourage independence and give kids more freedom in special needs parenting. Read More
