Think back to when you were a kid. Did you like to get creative with paints, crayons, and markers? Most kids do! It can be so much fun to let your imagination run wild and create something beautiful. If you're looking for ways to help bring out the artist in your kids, look no further! In this article, we will give you six great ideas that will help them express themselves through art. Let's get started!Get The Right Art SuppliesIf your kids are going to be creating art, you'll need to make sure they have the right supplies. This means investing in high-quality paints, brushes, crayons, etc. that will allow them to create their masterpieces. Don't skimp on the quality...
Love it or hate it, remote work is here to stay. The old model of reporting to cubicles or corner offices from 9 to 5 is out. Collaborating with far-flung colleagues from the comfort of your bedroom is in. Chances are, if you work from home you love it. While some folks miss water cooler banter and lunch breaks with coworkers, poll after poll finds that people report being more productive at home. Job satisfaction is higher. Work-life balance is exponentially better. This forced social experiment has shown that the old office-centric way wasn’t necessarily the best (more conventional wisdom bites the dust). But that doesn’t mean there aren’t downsides to the new hybrid or work-from-home models either. Social isolation...
Some moments from childhood will always stay with you. A family vacation to Disneyworld, learning how to ride a bike and getting your first pet might be some of your most cherished memories. But along with the best moments from being a kid, our brains tend to hold onto the very worst moments as well. Particularly, the actions we are most ashamed of. Recently, Reddit user 21078 posed the question, “What’s a terrible thing you did as a child that you really feel bad about as an adult?” and got many people thinking back on their youth. From saying something awful to another kid to accidentally harming an innocent animal, we’ve gathered some of the most honest responses that people...
Sometimes YouTube gets a bad rap. Sure, there are countless videos of kids unboxing toys and grown men narrating Minecraft—but there’s also tons of educational content to keep your kids entertained and learning. From step-by-step drawing lessons to DIY science experiments, YouTube is teeming with amazing content you’ll feel good about sharing with your littles. Here are our recommendations for the best Youtube Channels for Kids.* *If you feel safer putting your kid on the more kid-filtered YouTube Kids, you can find select episodes of much of the below content via the YouTube Kids search bar. Photo by Dawn Armfield on Unsplash Science & Nature YouTube Channels for Kids Smithsonian - While the Smithsonian does have a paid portion of...
"Collecting data on human learning based on children's behavior in school I like collecting data on killer whales based on their behavior at Sea World." ~Carol Black, A Thousand Rivers Schools, as we conceive of them, are not the natural habitat for young children any more than Sea World is the natural habitat for killer whales. Any marine biologist knows that if they really want to understand orcas, they must find a way to study them in the wild. The same, it seems, would go for the study of how humans learn. The "natural habitat" for young child, as Dr. Naomi Fisher tells us at the upcoming Teacher Tom's Play Summit, is while they are at play.As she writes in...
