Invite: Connect with your family, create family memories, and build up your family identity with these gifts to create more quality family time. This afternoon, after screens were turned off and after work was done for the day, my family was circling the house, trying to figure out what to do until dinner. I’d already […]
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Thanksgiving Kindness Role Playing Cards for Kids to Practice Kindness
Inside: Use these Thanksgiving Kindness Role Playing Cards with kids to practice how to be kind towards others on Thanksgiving. While there is no one way to be kind, there are many ways to be unkind. And when kids are around family they haven’t seen in a while or are expected to sit still through […]
Gifts for Kind Kids to Inspire Them to Be Even Kinder
Want to raise kind kids? Pick out something from this Gifts for Kind Kids list that will encourage your kids to be kinder every day. My daughter came home from school today wearing her older brother’s long sleeve shirt. “What are you wearing,” I asked her? She nonchalantly told me that since she was cold at […]
Best Sensory Toys and Gifts for Kids Who Need Sensory Input
Inside: Use this list of the 35+ best sensory toys and gifts perfect for kids who are sensory seeking or need to fidget in order to concentrate. When my eldest daughter was a toddler and a preschooler she probably would have been diagnosed with sensory processing issues due to her low vision skills. She is […]
Gift Ideas to Foster Creativity: Art, Music, Dramatic Play, Building
Inside: Have kids on your shopping list and you don’t know what to buy them for the holidays? Here are more than 50 holiday gift ideas to foster creativity that will inspire kids to be more creative and use their imaginations in building, dramatic play, art and music. Ouch. I stepped on another lego. And […]