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Spark Your Child’s Imagination With Clifford
Foster your child's imaginative skills using tips and tricks from Clifford the Big Red Dog.
7 Ways for Kids to Learn Empathy Through Acting
Although acting may just seem like a fun game to your kids, it’s also giving them amazing practice at understanding emotions and developing empathy.
Your Child’s a Poet, and Here’s How to Show It
There’s a really easy way to spice up your child’s reading and writing routine: poetry! Sprinkling poems into your usual mix can keep reading time fresh while boosting literacy skills.
Unleashing Your Child’s Inner Artist
Making art doesn't have to be expensive! Here are some simple, low-cost ways to make art a part of your family’s everyday life.
How Important is Handwriting These Days?
Like any skill, writing takes practice. Here are seven simple tips for fun and effective handwriting practice at home.
Every Child Is a Journalist
If you think it’s crazy to say your tiny tyke is ready to take on a reporter job right now, consider the two key skills all newspeople need: investigating and storytelling.
Why You Should Experiment on Your Child
If you really want to get inside your kids’ heads, understand what they do and do not know and see how they are progressing in all areas of development, experiments are the only way to go!
Three Things All Parents Should Teach Their Kids About the Brain
Teaching kids about the brain can lead to lasting, lifelong advantages in areas like health and safety, motivation and work ethic, and socialization and interaction.
Guided Play: Maximizing Kids’ Learning AND Fun
Guided play simply means letting kids play as they naturally do, then engaging in that play with them by interjecting questions, comments and explanations to help them to get more out of play.
Inspiring Your Child’s Imagination
When you have a strong imagination, you’re able to think of a situation, and then transform it into something different — using only the power of your mind!
Fathers Know Better Than EVER
Dads are taking a more active role in parenting and they're finding fatherhood to be more fulfilling than ever.
Anatomy of the Perfect Toy
What are the five characteristics of the perfect toy?
