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8 Books for Adventurous Kids Who Love to Travel

Kids of all ages can expand their horizons, wanderers or not, with a remarkable story. Here are eight books for kids who love to travel.

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Kid Made Recipe: Marshmallows

The recipe is not tricky, but it is sticky! Have fun and don’t worry, everything cleans up easily with soapy water!

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10 Beautiful Books for Armchair Adventurers

These books may inspire you and your little travel companions to your own summer adventures and spark the curiosity of the world near and far.

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Toddlers Who Lie Are Exploring New Intellectual Territory

When kids begin to lie, we know they are achieving developmental milestones.

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The Best Resources to Ignite a Creative Practice

If you keep a few fundamental strategies in mind, it will be easier to manage your time and create room in your schedule for using your imagination.

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Emotional Intelligence As Part of a School Curriculum Has Long Term Impact

SEL programs improve mental health, social skills, learning outcomes, and have an ongoing benefit for kids that can last many years to come.

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Lessons on Being in the Here and Now Often Come From Our Kids

It’s easy to cast ourselves as teachers, with our kids as the students, so it’s pretty humbling to realize that it’s a dialogue.

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5 Books to Teach Curious Kids About Coding

If your kids are showing interest in all things tech, teaching them the language of computers is a valuable investment. These books are a great start.

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When Saving for the Future, Don’t Forget the Cord Blood

What is cord blood and why is it important? Let's answer some of the most common questions about the potentially life-saving practice of cord blood banking.

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These 8 Books Can Help Your Teen Choose a Career

You can help guide your teen to a career path by exploring their interests and aptitudes with them. These books can supplement that as well.

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Kid Made Recipe: Picnic Spring Rolls

These fresh, colorful spring rolls with sweet and spicy dipping sauce are delicious, refreshing, fun to make and easy to transport.

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Could Your Struggling Kid Actually Be a Visual-Spatial Learner?

Visual-spatial learners tend to learn holistically or non-sequentially, a method that is at odds with a typical curriculum.

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7 Picture Books That Inspire Expression Through Writing

These seven books will encourage and inspire little ones to use the power of writing to express themselves and channel those wild imaginations onto paper.

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11 Things You Can Do This Summer to Get Your Child Ready for Kindergarten

Here are 11 readiness skills to work on this summer to make the transition from home to kindergarten as smooth as possible.

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12 Spectacular Kid’s Books That Encapsulate the Beauty of BigPicture Natural World Photography Winners

These 12 kid’s books accompany and capture the diversity and inspiration of the prized shots of the BigPicture Natural World Photography Competition.

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It's Okay for Your Graduate to Be Undecided

It's even more acceptable to start college “undecided” today than when I was there 30 years ago.

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5 Apps to Boost Math Skills over the Summer

Apps that make a game out of learning will fit right into your kid's summer schedule.

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Kid Made Recipe: Vegan Raspberry Brownies

Subscribe to Parent Co. on YouTube! Our kids love berries so much they eat them by the handful all summer long, but I always make sure to snag a few pints just for baking. Raspberries and chocol...

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In an Age of Epipen Price Gouging, the Story of That Band-Aid on Your Newborn’s Heel

The story behind Dr. Robert Guthrie's discovery is so distant from recent tales of pharmaceutical companies caring only about their bottom line.

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Teach Math Using Money and Your Kids Will Pay Attention

If handled strategically, math can be an easier sell than most other subjects. Try this: Math is money.

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Is Hearing Protection This Generation’s Bike Helmet?

Noise-induced hearing loss is 100 percent preventable and as parents, we could be doing more to protect our kids.

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Books That Build Self-Confidence in Kids

These are some of my favorite books for teaching little ones how to be confident in who they are and how to treat others who are not the same as you.

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6 Picture Books That Even a Middle-Schooler Will Love

In middle school, books change. No more pictures. Smaller words. Deeper, less apparent meaning. But they don't have to.

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Kid Made Recipe: Quick Pickled Veggies

When summer produce is at its peak, the time is right for pickling! We love them because they are so easy to make and ready to go in as little as 2 hours.