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Tips for Flying with Kids
Visiting relatives can add joy to holiday celebrations, though hours spent in airports and on long flights can tax the patience of even the most travel-savvy parents. Dennis Kutwal, 42, of Long Island,...
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How to Collect Marbles
Marble collecting isn’t just for kids. The nostalgic toy can take adults back in time to childhood games. Their distinctive and colorful materials and styles also can help collectors of all ages...
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Healthy Resolutions for Kids
Hailey Reed and her parents usher in each new year the same way: by sitting down together to share their resolutions. The 15-year-old from Seffner, Fla. (pop. 7,579), says her recent resolutions have...
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Time-Saving Tips for Busy Moms
When Julie Piazza was a new mom, she worked hard to keep up with the Joneses. She enrolled her kids in the “right” activities, dressed them in the “right” clothing, and kept her home immaculate. “I...
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Test-Taking Tips for Kids
Every student faces the occasional challenge of preparing for an important examination, but tests don’t have to cause feelings of apprehension. Help your child avoid anxiety before and during a test by...
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Five Good Reasons to Go Fly a Kite
Thom Shanken, 56, of Seneca Falls, N.Y. (pop. 9,040), doesn’t know exactly how many kites he owns, but he enjoys every one for the pleasure they bring on a breezy day. “There are so many ways to enjoy...
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How to Fly a Kite
Flying a kite is as easy as 1-2-3: 1. Pick your place. “Look for a big, open space without obstacles such as power lines, trees, buildings and roadways,” says David Gomberg, owner of Gomberg Kite...
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Expert Guide: Best Climbing Trees for Kids
Master tree-climbing instructor Tim Kovar vividly remembers climbing his first tree while growing up in Fremont, Neb. Once up his neighbor’s apple tree, the 5-year-old boy couldn’t get back down and...
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Kids’ Birthday Party Ideas
A child’s birthday often is one of the most anticipated days of the year. Kids’ birthday parties offer an opportunity to share a child’s special day with friends and family. A theme helps determine...
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Beverly Cleary: Inspiring Children For Generations
While her stories amuse today’s young readers, it was in 1950 that Beverly Cleary, a librarian-turned-children’s author, began introducing the world to Beezus, Ramona, Henry Huggins, Ellen Tebbits and...
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Fashion Conscious
Stella Ehrhart, 9, awakens with no particular plan about what she’ll wear today to school in Omaha, Neb. She eats breakfast, peeks in her mother’s closet, and spies a beaded turquoise dress—a style of...
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Teaching Children How to Clean
Teaching children how to clean is a challenge worth undertaking. Children who are thoughtfully and patiently taught how to clean feel they are important, valuable and helpful. These life skills will...
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5 Projects to Keep Kids Busy After School
As a mother of three children, Amanda Morin of Bangor, Maine (pop. 32,817), understands the challenges of keeping kids occupied after school. An author and editor, Morin says it was tempting to plant...
View ArticleLittle Shutterbugs
Do your kids fill up your smart phone with 500 photos of stuffed animals or “selfies” of silly faces? Today, with cameras so ubiquitous, kids are more eager than ever to capture their world through a...
View ArticleSummer Games
In the not-so-distant past, it was nearly impossible to drag kids away from a good old-fashioned game of kickball, tug-o-war or capture the flag. But today’s children, whom experts agree spend far less...
View ArticleCute and Creative Teacher Gifts
Update the centuries-old tradition of placing a fresh, juicy apple on the teacher’s desk with handpicked gift ideas that are sure to bring a smile to your child’s teacher’s face. Lisa Cannon, a...
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Nine Ways to Make School Lunch Cool Again
Kids might thinK reading, writing and ‘rithmetic are tough. But the three Rs are nothing compared with moms’ biggest back-to-school challenge: packing a noontime meal kids will actually eat. Make...
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Kids Battle Bullying with Kindness Club
At a harvest festival last fall at her children’s school, Rio del Mar Elementary in Aptos, Calif., Justina Bryant spotted two boys teasing a fourth-grader with a squirt gun. He was crying and begging...
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Five Ways to Make Math Fun
As kids head back to school, the thought of math may send shivers down their spines. But it doesn’t have to be that way. “Kids should love math like they love dessert,” says Laura Overdeck, a Short...
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