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Category archive: learning
08 Jun 09 | Comments: 44
It's the last week of school here in Portland. Is everyone as crazy there as they are here? According to my kids' teachers, everyone goes a tiny bit nuts during the last few weeks of school...all the expectations, activities, and...
Nightlight on a timer tells early risers when it's morning wakeup time01 Jun 09 | Comments: 8
Here's Marie's brilliant hack for teaching her early riser about a reasonable wakeup time. (Especially handy now that the sun's rising earlier.) My three year-old daughter was a very early riser and would wake me up repeatedly to ask if...
Post a cleaning agenda in each room29 May 09 | Comments: 9
Clancy's simple, visual housecleaning tip would work so well for me and my family: One hack I do that I like is this: I survey a room in my house and figure out all the cleaning tasks that need to...
Tape combination to padlock so it won't be forgotten over the summer26 May 09 | Comments: 5
Stu sent this to me a long time ago, and I've been hanging on to it till the end of the school year! Great tip for students, and for the rest of us who tend to throw padlocks into drawers...
Let toddlers finger paint inside a wading pool14 May 09 | Comments: 8
Before you fill the kiddie pool with water, here's another idea, from Isabel: My kid likes to paint himself and any nearby surface during finger painting (he's two). Indoor finger painting in the wading pool makes clean-up easy. I put...
Egg carton as seed-starting greenhouse07 May 09 | Comments: 6
Sara's tip for getting a head start on the garden: If you are looking to start a vegetable or flower garden with your kids, the plastic carton that eggs come in with the anti-crush internal lids make great greenhouses for...
Serve sugar in packets to control portions and increase kids' awareness02 Apr 09 | Comments: 13
Douglas shares a great tip for teaching kids about the relationship of sugar to sweetness while at the same time controlling how much sugar they dump on top of their cereal: (From an anonymous friend, paraphrased): We swore off sugar-based...
LeapFrog Dream & Learn helps kids get smarter while they sleep01 Apr 09 | Comments: 11
I'm always on the lookout for products that apply technology to parenting in a useful or interesting way. Well -- LeapFrog has come up with a gadget that promises to change how we think about learning: the Dream & Learn...
How to store children's art projects? Talk amongst yourselves.01 Apr 09 | Comments: 19
Kelly needs our help coming up with a storage solution for her kid's art projects: I'm a mom to a 3 year-old preschooler. Every day, the class does art projects and she brings them home. As you can imagine, after...
What's your favorite stuff to reuse in art projects? Talk amongst yourselves.30 Mar 09 | Comments: 18
Ms. Four is wondering what folks salvage from around the house to use in craft projects: I'd love some ideas on the best not-too-expensive art supplies to keep around the house. What am I throwing away that could be art?...
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