Category: Little Kids

My favorite activity for young children is doing what they are doing and solving another goal. For example, when they help you sort the laundry […]

Sensory activities are a great way for young children to explore and learn, and I’m a big fan of finding ways to create these activities […]

Kakashi is funny when you’re five. Okay, I know people of all ages will love a good fart joke. But sometimes, you can get tired […]

Parents have many reasons to fight traditional gender stereotypes. We want our girls to pursue careers in STEM, we want our boys to feel comfortable […]

Babies: they are just like us. They love snacking on cookies and puff cheese and eating sweet smoothies – hey, who doesn’t? But toddler snacks […]

When my son was young, we went through a very large phase of “sensory activity”. Any new texture he could crush or dazzle (and incorporate […]

Precisely and thoroughly rubbing the buttocks is a skill that every child – who can – must master before becoming an adult (even better before […]

Despite our best efforts not to scare our children at an early age, our children have friends. And these friends have older siblings or YouTube, […]

When my first adopted son lived with us for a year, he was my constant shadow. This sweet boy followed me wherever I went, especially […]

It likely started out as an occasional treat at a birthday party or restaurant. But as soon as your little one tasted this sweet, sweet […]

When my son was four years old, my husband and I took him and his two-year-old sister to spend the day on a Florida beach. […]

Your child has been mumbling to himself for the past five minutes while doing his math homework; finally, he drops the pencil in sheer frustration. […]

There are so many small life skills that we adults have learned over the years. How to put on a jacket. How to tie your […]

We know what we should do in preschool. Leave them at the door (don’t enter class!), Say goodbye quickly and cheerfully (“Have a good time! […]

You cannot read your child’s mind. If you could, you would know that his new favorite color is turquoise, even if you just bought him […]

One thing I don’t like about homework for young children is that after they’ve spent a whole day sitting at their desks at school, we […]

Every time we go to the house of my friend Anna, she puts a plate of fruit for the children. Plums, Asian pears, melons. My […]

Want your child’s drawings to disappear from the page? Invite them to try this scientific experiment by Sergei Urban, aka TheDadLab . He shares this […]