The brain drain of summer is coming to an end. Soon, the kids will be back in school, flexing their young minds to begin learning again. How about giving your children a head start on the school year by getting them back into the reading habit with a free publication called Kidsville News!, the nation’s fastest growing…
As I wrote yesterday, I just got back from a trip to Afghanistan that was absolutely fascinating. While I was there for just a short time and would never claim to be an expert, I did see a few things that I thought were interesting about the beautiful children we were around. Maybe these thoughts…
Monica Singh Haley knows a bit about keeping people happy. She ran the 60-person animation department on the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. And she’s a mother of two. Released yesterday, Haley’s new company, Happy Apps (www.thehappyapps.com), uses Eastern knowledge to assist us frenetic Westerners. Her father, a native of India, helped influence her interest…
If King Charlemagne were alive today, he’d be happy. One of his dreams was to connect Amsterdam with the Black Sea via the river-ways. He would have had to wait a while. The river systems were finally all connected in 1999. From that, a new way to travel has risen in popularity – river cruising….
Picking up your room, feeding the dog, washing dishes – teaching kids how to be helpful is the purpose of best-selling author and Christian minister Max Lucado in his new book “One Hand, Two Hands – Oh, the ways we can help with our hands,” out this month from Thomas Nelson Publishers (978-1-4003-1649-6, $16.99). But…
Does it really matter to you how annoyed your friend is when she posts on Facebook how loud the person next to her is at the coffee shop? Or how your friend feels after staying out too late? But if you have a funny story about what your kid did, don’t you want to share it? And…
– This post was written by guest contributor Josh Shipp You may have thought the transition from elementary to middle school was the most difficult that you and your kids would ever have to make. Not only did the kids have to contend with a new, bigger school, locker combinations and being the baby among…
As parents get everyone ready to go back to school, one routine that may need to get back to normal is their kids’ sleep patterns. Evening activities outside and no regular start time in the morning may have led to later and irregular bedtimes during summer that need to be adjusted now that school is…
You tuck your Kindle or Reader into your backpack, or you download the newest books to your iPad so you can take your books along with you. Now you can encourage your children to read electronically too. Disney Digital Books was created for this purpose – it’s like reading a book, only it’s on the screen…
Your child spends hours on the computer in his room – what’s he doing? Maybe your daughter likes chatting online – who’s she really talking to? Do you pay for a monitoring service that sends you alerts about online activity? Do you ever worry about your own privacy and safety when you’re on-line? Did you…