Activities

I was in a daycare room with ten kids last Tuesday. I had no new materials and no new ideas. The paint had run out. …

It usually happens at the worst time. You finally settle down to work, answer a message, or just take a break for five minutes. And…

There is rain. The youngsters can’t go outside. Someone just mentioned, “I’m bored,” for the fourth time in ten minutes.  You don’t want to give…

Every summer begins the same way. You say this year will be different. Less time in front of a screen. More fresh air. More “core…

My preschooler asked for the tablet before breakfast yesterday. Once more. I hadn’t even had coffee yet, yet I could already feel that little bit…

Last spring, I decided we were done with the fights over screens. The sun was shining the bird were singing and my kids were still…

Last week, I saw a mom in the park looking at her phone while her kid poured sand for the eighth time. She groaned and…

You plop your preschooler down with a box of crayons, and before you know it, they’re either done, upset, or begging to move on.  Scissors…

If your little one seems like a perpetual motion machine constantly colliding with furniture or transforming your home into a makeshift playground. You might be…

You’re home with a two-year-old, and let’s be honest, they’re a little dynamo. You’ve swapped out the toys, tidied up three different disasters. And promised…