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First Day Traditions to Start This School Year

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We are all well aware that August is Back to School Month! Whether your child is stepping into a classroom for the first time or heading into another school year, it’s the perfect opportunity to start some meaningful first-day-of-school traditions. Traditions bring some consistency to the newness of these first days. These small activities can help ease nerves, build excitement, and create memories for your kids to treasure. So let’s look at some simple first day traditions to start this school year. First Day Traditions to Try A Special Breakfast Kick off the day with a breakfast that feels extra …

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Celebrate National Family Fun

Celebrate National Family Fun Month

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August is National Family Fun Month! It’s an entire month dedicated to making memories and enjoying time together before the busy school year begins. With schools starting earlier and earlier, we may have missed the beginning of the school year. And with the rest of us scrambling to get ready for school to start, it might not feel like a good time to add in more activities. So let’s look at this within our own realities, and at the same time, remember that it is still summertime. Family fun doesn’t have to be about expensive trips or complicated plans. Often, …

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Celebrate Hooray for Kids Day

Celebrate Hooray for Kids Day with Us

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We firmly believe that every child is unique and valuable. Kids are known for their creativity, curiosity, and boundless energy. And we have a special day on the calendar to honor everything that makes our kids who they are. August 4 is Hooray for Kids Day, and it’s a wonderful reminder to pause and recognize all the things that make our kids amazing. Let’s not allow this to be just another one of those silly calendar days. Let’s make it a day to truly celebrate the children in our lives and the incredible value they bring to our families and …

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Understanding Big Feelings in Summertime

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While summer is filled with fun, sunshine, and the freedom to be more spontaneous, it can also be full of tantrums for parents of little ones. The longer days and hotter temperatures add pressure to their physical and mental systems. And summer naturally has less structure and routine, which puts pressure on them emotionally. These things sound really bad, but let’s look at them as opportunities to grow. Summer isn’t going away, so let’s help our kids work through these pressures and learn how to handle them. Tantrums can tend to increase in the summer.  In order to help them …

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Celebrate National Family Fun

Let’s Celebrate Our Little Ones on National Children’s Day

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Did you know there’s a day dedicated to celebrating the joy and wonder of childhood? The second Sunday in June is National Children’s Day, and it’s the perfect opportunity to make sure our little ones feel truly seen, loved, and celebrated. It’s similar to the idea of Mother’s Day or Father’s Day, but you don’t need expensive gifts or big plans. Remember, our kids really appreciate simple things and quality time. So it won’t take much to celebrate our little ones on National Children’s Day. Here are some simple and fun ways to celebrate National Children’s Day with your child. …

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Fun and Free Summer Activities for Our Little Ones

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As we near the end of May, we parents will be in full summer mode. Summertime opens up more opportunities and activities for our kids. And most kids see summer as a magical time. With all that it offers, summer can sometimes be a bit challenging for parents. If you have kids in preschool, it can be quite a job to keep them busy at home every day. And if your kids are home all the time, summer still brings a different rhythm. So, as we approach summertime, let’s have a few easy, fun and free summer activities ready to …

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A Meaningful Mother’s Day Gift Little Ones Can Make

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Mother’s Day is quickly approaching, and it’s the perfect time to teach our little ones to celebrate their moms. It makes sense for little kids to do homemade gifts. After all, they don’t have money of their own. Yet, homemade toddler and preschool gifts are often not things that end up in our treasured-memories stash. Are there things little ones can make that moms could really want and use? Let’s look at a few gifts that are meaningful and usable, but they still let our kids take part in the fun. Here are some ideas for a meaningful Mother’s Day …

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Have Some Spring Fun with Your Kids

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It’s spring! Spring is so exciting, especially if you’ve had a long, cold winter. With the brighter, warmer sunshine and the longer daylight hours, it’s natural to want to get outside. And if you have little ones, you may really want them to be able to get outside. Outdoor play is so good for our kids, and it helps us parents to get a few minutes in a quiet house. Since we’re officially into spring now, let’s think about some ways to have some spring fun with your kids!   Get outdoors Since getting outside is the most obvious spring …

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Spring Cleaning with Your Preschooler

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It’s hard to believe that spring is right in front of us already! When spring is approaching, we’re often motivated to do a big spring cleaning in our homes. Yet, when there are little ones around, our spring cleaning efforts can become really difficult. So how can we get our homes in springtime shape without losing our minds with littles underfoot? Let’s get them involved! Does that sound impossible? It’s actually pretty easy and fun. Our kids love to clean when they’re little. Now, they won’t clean perfectly or be able to do the big jobs. But there really are …

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Understanding and Managing Tantrums in Preschoolers

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Tantrums with our little ones are never fun. And they usually do not line up with our schedules in a convenient way. There is a lot of advice to parents about staying calm, working to understand our kids when they are upset, and normalizing children’s tantrums. And sure, there is a lot of wisdom in much of this advice. At the same time, tantrums just stink. They take us by surprise, and it can be a challenge to respond in just the right way. So can we work toward understanding and managing tantrums with our kids? Let’s look at these …

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