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Gardening is one of the healthier activities for your kid. It’s a creative way of teaching your little one about nature, healthy living, science plus more. It’s also a fantastic opportunity for you to bond with your young one. Again, if you are looking for a way to engage them ...

Winters holidays are the perfect time for children and parents to spend more time together. This period of the year has an additional festive note, because of Christmas and New Year. Parents should try and use this period of the year to get a deeper insight into their children’s thoughts ...

The Christmas holiday is just around the corner, which means I'm in prep mode! Most of my shopping is done, so now it's time to start the wrapping process. In chatting with my nieces about how they wrap their holiday gifts for friends and loved ones, the eldest, a ten-year-old, ...

Developing the habit of reading in children is one thing a lot of parents struggle with. Unlike playing which comes naturally, children have to learn how to read and they can only do this through the guidance of parents or anyone in a teaching capacity such as grandparents, uncles, aunties ...

The addition of certain wooden toys to a child’s toy box will never be regretted. They come in many forms and colours. They share a commonality of timeless simplicity, as well as a beauty that comes from being crafted from a beautiful, natural material. Often, parents and grandparents can say ...

When we think about some writing activities for kindergarten, for the children of the first grade or something similar, only one thing is essential. That is - to come up with some extraordinary and out of the box ideas. To make a child focus on some useful tasks like writing ...

Now, who wouldn't want to have their children grow up to become another Leonardo Da Vinci one day? In his book, How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day, Michael Gelb takes his readers into the mind of one of the 14th-century artist. He cites ...

Children love the winter holiday. Actually, children love any kind of holiday! During the winter holiday, there may be days when your child cannot go play outside. This would usually be because of the weather. You can take this time to give your child some activities which will encourage writing ...

Interested in finding out a way to become a comic and a poet at the same time? Get ready to write hilarious poetry by learning how to become a Clerihew Master. Think of a clerihew as a limerick’s cousin, except clerihews are shorter and have fewer rules, so they are ...

It was a beautiful mid-summer morning and I was in the forest picking blueberries. I was walking along and enjoying the fresh morning air but I hadn’t collected enough blueberries for breakfast yet. I decided to go a bit deeper into the forest to see if I could ...