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10 Dr. Seuss Books You’ve Never Heard Of

Make room on the bookshelf.

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Why My Son is a Pre-K Dropout

There's plenty of time for falling in line later.

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Sunturds Plantable Diapers - Sprouting Up Today

Tired of littering Mother Earth with wasteful disposable diapers? Us, too. So we paired up with American Meadows to bring you the world's first ecologically friendly answer. www.sunturds.com

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Kid Made Recipe: Peanut Butter Banana Waffles

Go bananas for breakfast with these super hearty waffles! the recipe is gluten free and vegan, but there's no compromise in deliciousness.

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Celebrate Poetry Month With These Captivating Reads

How can we continue to explore rhythm, rhyme, and language with kids as they grow? These poetry anthologies and picture books are a great place to start.

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6 Ways To Foster Creativity, Right From Birth

When we see creative people, we usually think they’re just lucky. But that's not totally true.

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Learning to Stand Up

With only two chances to practice each year, my progress towards ‘cool and collected’ was slow.

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Kid Made Recipe: Cheddar Garlic Monkey Bread

Everyone will love this crisp on the outside, warm and buttery on the inside addition to the table. These are seriously addictive!

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How Can I Use TV and Movies to Teach My Kids Media Literacy?

Teaching kids to pause and think -- and not just accept things at face value -- is teaching them a valuable skill.

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10 Montessori Quotes to Help Adopt a Holistic Approach to Parenting

The one thing I learned about the Montessori program as a PhD student exploring holistic education was that the program has almost as many critics as it has fans. Indeed, the Montessori method has ...

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The Importance of Fostering Emotional Intelligence in Girls

Why the focus on girls? Because, statistics.

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Mending a Teen's Bad Relationship With Literacy

There’s no saying, “It’s too late.”

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What Sending Your Kid to Kindergarten Can Teach You

And yes, there IS a song for everything.

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Kid Made Recipe: Super Granola

Crunchy, sweet and slightly salty homemade granola! This version is nut free but go ahead and add up to 1/2 cup of any chopped nuts if that's your thing.

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Helping Girls Find Their Voice Through Teaching Communication Skills

How can we help our girls to find their voice and develop the vital communication skills they’ll need to approach conflict and confusion?

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Why Learning Is A New Procrastination

Learning has become a major trend of the 21st century. Sadly, it has also become a new form of procrastination.

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Piano Lessons Are Good for More Than Just Math

When my daughter started the first grade, the beginning of the school year brought more than a new teacher and new room at her elementary school. It also brought the start of piano lessons, very mu...

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Kid Made Recipe: Magic Brownies

What IS in them, you ask? Magic. And black beans. Try these with your kiddos and you may never go back to “regular” brownies again, really.

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How to Spot Fake News (and Teach Kids to Be Media Savvy)

What's real? What's fake? What's satire? Now that anyone with access to a phone or computer can publish information online, it's getting harder to tell.

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5 Simple, Daily Habits That Will Boost Your Child’s Brain

If you want to embrace the power of simple daily habits to benefit your child’s brain development, here’s what you need to do, according to science.