The links in this gifts for tweens post are affiliate links and I will receive a small commission if you make a purchase after clicking on a link. As a middle school teacher, I’m around tweens a lot. This age group wants to leave childhood far behind in favor of being grown up. They feel…
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6 Things You Can Do to Stop Asian Hate Right Now
I am Asian- Chinese, to be specific. The rise in violence, discrimination, and xenophobia against fellow Asians around the country over the past year has been terrible. This week’s Atlanta shooting by a domestic terrorist who “was fed up, at the end of his rope” and “had a bad day” is absolutely horrific. If you’ve…
2020 Gift Guide: Best Gifts for Teens That Aren’t Gift Cards
The links in this post are affiliate links and I will receive a small commission if you make a purchase after clicking on a link. As an 8th grade computer science teacher and mom of two teens, I spend a lot of time interacting with teens! Parenting and teaching teens definitely gives me an interesting…
How to Teach Young Kids to Think Like Engineers
There’s no one way to teach young kids to think like engineers because it comes naturally. Toddlers and preschoolers are fascinated with building things and taking things apart. Elementary ages use learning to build more complex things using different materials and methods. Fostering curiosity and natural problem-solving skills among the youngest ages helps to build…
2019 Gift Guide: Best STEM Gifts for Kids of All Ages
The links in this post are affiliate links and I will receive a small commission if you make a purchase after clicking on a link. Every year I say that my STEM Gifts for All Ages gift guide is the biggest one to date and this cone continues the trend. With the huge number of…
Virtual Field Trip: Learning About Dabbawala Lunch Delivery in Mumbai, India
This post is sponsored by Corning® Gorilla® Glass One of the best ways children can learn about the world is to step outside their homes and communities and travel. Whether you travel to a different part of your state, the country, or across the globe physically or through a virtual field trip, teaching kids about people…
Read Along with YouTube Kids Helps Kids Keep Reading This Summer
One of the hardest things about the summer is getting kids to practice the skills they’ve acquired during the school year so they don’t lose the knowledge learned. It’s true that kids’ knowledge slips when they don’t use their math and reading skills. To prevent the summer slide, it’s important to find age appropriate content…
How Parents Can Inspire Kids to Give on Giving Tuesday and Beyond
This post is sponsored by Heifer International but we will be donating the money back to this organization that we’ve supported for years. Years ago when Thomas and Emily were just a toddler and a preschooler, my mother in law sent us an envelope around the holidays. Inside was the Heifer International, two $20 bills, and…
2016 Gift Guide: Best Gifts for Tweens (ages 8-12)
Not quite kids but not exactly teenagers yet, tweens often feel stuck between cute and grown up but the truth is that they possess growing self-confidence, independence, and academic skills. They flip flop between wanting to be seen as kids but also wanting to be viewed as grown up and crave some autonomy to explore…
How The Passport Party Project Grows a New Generation of Global Citizens
I get a lot of emails but my favorites are the ones that I get from Destiny, an 11 year old girl who is part of the National Geographic award winning initiative called The Passport Party Project. Destiny is the youngest Teen Travel Ambassador for Phase 3 of The Passport Party Project and we’ve been…
