Inside: Spread some kindness on your next road trip with these kindness road trip activities for kids that also fights boredom. Last Spring Break my family and I took a road trip. We drove the eight hours from our Chicago suburb to Nashville, Tennessee. And of course, as on all road trips, we had three […]
summer learning
How to Succeed with a Summer Slide Prevention
Inside: Summer learning loss, otherwise known as Summer Slide is detrimental to our kids’ learning progress. But it can succeed with a summer slide prevention by doing simple activities throughout the summer. And the best news is: even if you do only 1 activity to prevent Summer Slide, it will help your child. The easiest […]
Summer Kindness Bucket List to Fight Summer Boredom
Inside: Use this summer kindness bucket list to fight summer boredom and to help kids speak and act with more kindness this summer. We’re on countdown mode to the end of school. Summer is always a welcome reprieve after the long school year (and the craziness of May), the early morning rush to get to […]
How to Encourage Kindness with this Summer Kind Kids Challenge
Inside: If you’re looking for summer activities for kids, this summer kindness challenge is perfect. 4 Kindness activities for each month of summer to get kids to act with more kindness. The kids are almost home for the summer and there’s a most pressing question: What are we going to do all summer long? Since […]
How to Encourage Reluctant Readers with a Book-Movie Club
Inside: Help your reluctant readers want to read more with this book-movie club trick that’s also a perfect summer reading challenge. I have three kids and they all grew up in a home surrounded by books. We have books in bedrooms, in our living room, and even in our bathroom. We borrow books from the […]