Gina Ogden

Help Our Kids Learn to Adapt to Changes

Let’s Help Our Kids Learn to Adapt to Changes

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It’s a New Year! The beginning of a New Year is a time that we all think about changes. As we consider what needs to change, we set new goals and resolutions, hoping that we can stick with these changes. And so, as we think about our own changes for this new year, let’s think about changes that we would like to help our kids make. Then, let’s look at how we can help our kids with these changes, and how that helps them learn to adapt to other changes they will face in their lives. We can use small …

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Choose a Focus for the Holiday Season

Choose a Focus for the Holiday Season

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Here we are at the holiday season again! It seems that as a society, we are especially excited to jump into our holiday celebrations this year. And why not? We could all use a reason to celebrate and enjoy our days a little more. So as we head into another holiday season, let’s look at a few things we could add to make it a little more special for our families. And then let’s choose one as a focus for the holiday season.   It’s always fun to add a little extra during the holiday season. However, with all there …

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Can We Teach Our Children to Be Truly Tolerant?

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November 16 is the International Day for Tolerance. While many adults would say that they are open and tolerant, our news reports and daily interactions often say the opposite. How often do you consider the validity of a different perspective than your own? On this International Day for Tolerance, let’s consider our own willingness to hear a different perspective, and let’s think about how we can teach our children to be truly tolerant too.   Tolerance is a hot word in our world, but what does it look like for regular people in our everyday lives? Here are 3 ways …

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Grow Your Family’s Reading Habits This Month

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November is known for beginning the holiday season with Thanksgiving. But did you know that November is also National Literacy Month? We all know that reading is a really important skill for our children. It’s also a really great way to keep our minds sharp as we grow older. So this is a great time to grow our family’s reading habits! Plus, My Signing Time has lots of beginning reading resources to help your kids. What is National Literacy Month? The point of National Literacy Month is to get families to enjoy reading together. There is a special emphasis on …

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Signs to Learn with Our Kids for Halloween

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The Halloween season is a perfect time to incorporate some new signs into your family’s vocabulary! With the changing weather, the fun costumes we’re planning, and the treats of the season, there are certainly plenty of words we can practice in American Sign Language. So let’s choose a few new signs to learn with our kids for Halloween. Halloween signs Firstly, over at My Signing Time, we have a short, free show to help you learn some typical Halloween signs. Head on over to My Signing Time to watch Signing Time Halloween Signs in our Watch Free section. In this …

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Ways to Teach our Kids Through Fall Fun

Ways to Teach Our Kids Through Fall Fun

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We are well into the fall season, and you may have already enjoyed some fall activities with your family. There are so many iconic fall activities like picking apples, jumping into leaf piles, and looking at beautiful foliage. So while we are enjoying these fun fall activities with our kids, let’s look for ways to pull in some teaching opportunities as well. Let’s look for ways to teach our kids through our fall fun times. Learn with Apples Apples are a standard fall food, and fall is the best time of year to eat apples. While you fill baskets with …

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Ways to Make Coloring More Exciting for Our Kids 

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Do your kids love to color? It’s a pretty standard activity for most children. And while coloring is an old standby kind of activity, it can also be easily forgotten. In my own home, there is a collection of coloring books that haven’t been used for ages. Or it could be that your kids color so often that it’s become boring. So how can we make coloring a little more engaging for our kids? It may be that we simply need to take out some crayons and paper and place them out to be used. But maybe we could find …

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3 Ways to Grow Your Intergenerational Circle

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September is Intergeneration Month! We’re usually pretty good at spending time with our own peer groups. With our own age groups, we tend to feel like we have more in common. But Intergeneration Month is all about helping different age groups to get to know each other and build valuable relationships. Why does this matter? There are surprising benefits to having sincere friendships with different generations, for both you and your children. Let’s look at 3 ways to grow your intergenerational circle. Do you and your kids tend to hang around only your own peer groups? It’s so easy to …

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3 Ways to Build Contentment in Our Kids

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We live in a world where there is a lot of wanting. Many of our wants are reasonable and fair, like the things we really need. Of course we want our families to be cared for, to have a place to live and food to eat. At the same time, most of us can honestly say that we want a lot more than we need. Again, not automatically a negative thing, but it is a thing that can take us over. And it’s no different for our kids. In fact, learning to regulate their wants is a part of maturing …

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Build Your Own Back-to-School Plan

Build Your Own Back-to-School Plan with Signing Time

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The calendar keeps speeding along, and now we’re in the thick of the back-to-school season. But many of us have little ones who are still at home and are not heading back to school. And many of our school-aged kids could use some extra help outside of school. And then there are the kids who are ready to start learning even though they are still too young for school. In each of these situations, My Signing Time can help. Check out our back-to-school resources, and see what tools you can use to build your own back-to-school plan. Are you looking …

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