Inside: Gratitude can’t just be taught during Thanksgiving. We need to purposefully teach our kids to be grateful and we can use these meaningful year-round gratitude activities to do focus on it. I offered my daughter a cookie the other day and she immediately counteroffered. “Can I have two cookies?” she asked. I just stared […]
14 Ways to Entertain Kids in a Hotel Room
Inside: Kids can get easily bored during a hotel or motel stay. Here are 14 ways to entertain kids in a hotel room without screens. My husband and I were raised in families that loved to travel. And so we traveled as much as we could before we had children. And now we are instilling […]
How to Connect with Teens
Use these 10 tips to connect with teens which helps them feel safe and loved and more confident to go be their best selves in the world. I had said it one too many times, and I knew it. I had asked my teen daughter to stand up with her shoulders straight one too many […]
Kindness Zoo Bundle for SEL Curriculum
Inside: Use this Kindness Zoo Bundle with kindness emergent reader, and writing prompts to teach SEL Curriculum and connect to language arts skills at the same time. What’s your favorite animal? Chances are, it’s probably an animal you’ll find in a zoo. When I was young, I wrote a whole persuasive essay on why I […]
How to Show Your Kid’s Teacher Appreciation During Distance Learning
Inside: Teacher Appreciation during distance learning and the quarantine can still be meaningful with these social distancing- safe ideas. I joke that I’m a recovering elementary school teacher. Other teachers usually chuckle when they hear it because they know. Being a teacher is amazing, and uplifting, and rewarding. But it’s also exhausting and thankless (usually) […]