TAG: tweens
16 Best Audiobooks for Family Road Trips
Posted in Explore and Discover, For You, kids, Teens on June 4, 2015 at 6:00 am
By Rachel Edmondson Whether you love them or hate them, family road trip season is just around the corner. I vividly remember road trips from when I was a kid. At the beginning everyone was filled with anticipation, halfway through we all started to get bored, and by the end all anyone could think was “Are we there […]
How to Throw an Awesome Tween Birthday Party
Posted in For You, kids on April 14, 2015 at 6:00 am
By Gwendolyn Haley Birthday season is right around the corner for our household. When our daughters were really little, it was easier to plan a fabulous party. All we had to do was invite a handful of their friends, serve some cake and ice cream, plan a simple craft or game, and the party was […]
Scratch That
Posted in kids on May 1, 2014 at 6:00 am
by Cindy U. Have you ever thought about being a computer programmer or computer animator? Check out Scratch and learn to make your own games, mini-movies, and interactive stories. Scratch is a free drag-and-drop programming language created by MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) especially for kids. No need to write complicated code, just f […]
Listen Up: Audiobooks for Learning
Posted in Parents and Teachers on April 30, 2014 at 6:00 am
by Cindy Ulrey I’ve always loved being read to. Some of my best memories are sharing picture books on my grandma’s lap and of my mom in the front seat reading Pippi Longstocking and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to my brother and I in the back while dad drove cross-country. These days families have […]
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