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Family Ideas for Manageable Mornings

Some days, it seems like a race against time to get everyone out the door with their stuff and your sanity intact. These family ideas for manageable mornings can help.

Virtual Field Trip Ideas: Around the World on a Flying Carpet

Can't afford a trip to your favorite exotic destination, but want to visit anyway? Here's the best way to travel - by imagination! Try these virtual field trip ideas.

Teaching Character: Encourage Patriotism in Your Kids

It's never too early to teach patriotism, especially when you can work the lessons into your everyday family home activities. Appreciating freedom helps with teaching character. Try these family ideas to reinforce values.

Achieving Your Dreams of Carefree Roadtrips

From stocking up on popular children's books to inventing fun family activities, here are tried-and-true roadtrip ideas for keeping your kids too entertained to ask, “Are we there yet?”

Family Ideas for a Smarter Summer: The Arts Advantage

Want to make your family's summer special? Fun family activities include visiting an art museum, putting on your own play and filling the refrigerator with products of your child's artistic genius.

Sideline Guidelines

If you asked your young athlete about how she'd like you to behave on the sidelines, this is what she'd probably say.

Parents' Issues Checklist: Teaching Character, Sportsmanship

Are you doing everything you can to help your child have a winning attitude, both on the field and off? Complete the following checklist and find out.

Family Ideas for Summer Learning

Summer is a great time to get creative with family home activities. Check out some family ideas you may not have thought of to keep your children's learning going through the hottest season.

Family Ideas: Build Your Child's Self-Esteem in Thirty Summer Days

Summer is the perfect time to focus on family home activities designed to pump up your child's self-esteem. Try several of these easy-to-do activities before school starts in the fall.

Family Ideas for Summer Reading

Want to encourage your children to read all summer long? Try these family ideas for keeping kids reading, like taking books and magazines to the pool, having a reading vacation and more.

Celebrate National Children's Book Week with Fun Adolescent Activities

Schools and families can host numerous adolescent activities to celebrate reading. Popular children's books and events that celebrate reading can make books fun for kids in all K12 grades.

Family Time Creates the Best Developmental Learning Environment

Spending time with your kids and engaging in meaningful family home activities will do more for teaching character than any amount of educational hardware. Here are some family ideas for spending time together.

Kids Project: Poetry Night

Choosing favorites from popular children's books to recite brings poems to life for little ones—in addition to getting them ready for preschool. Add this to your list of fun family activities as a gentle alternative to televi...

Parents' Issues: Making Time to Parent

Life is hectic. Sometimes we all need to take a step back and realize that spending just one minute can make a big difference to a child. Making time is one of the most critical of parents' issues.

Adolescent Parenting: From a Dad's Perspective

Men are putting a higher priority on their family. For kids, this has meant better relationships. For dads, adolescent parenting has become more important than how much money they can bring home.

Family Ideas for Grandparenting at a Distance

When grandparents are far away, it takes creativity to come up with fun family activities to keep close to the grandkids. Here are some family ideas that can help.

Family Ideas: One More Reason to Encourage Neatness

As you've always suspected, neatness really does count. Here are some family ideas that will encourage your child to clean up those toys and boost his or her education and future earnings.

Play Cards! Build Math Skills with Fun Family Activities

Card games are a great way to sneak in math lessons. They are such fun family activities, that kids don't notice they're getting an education after school. Try card games for preschoolers, elementary students, and teenagers.

Gender Behavior and Attitudes Begin at Home

Children learn about gender behavior and attitude from their parents. Are you teaching your kids about equality at home? Learn how to model good behavior and teach equality to your kids.

Preserve Parents' Stories in Diaries for Children

Diaries for children are great ways to preserve parents' stories about their kids. When they capture memories from all child development stages, the create a precious gift while connecting with their inner wisdom.

Twelve Fun Family Activities to Do This Year

Our lives are busy and filled with constant activity. So where do fun family ideas fit into our schedule? Plan for these monthly family home activities, and you will create memories to enjoy for a lifetime.

Family Ideas: Use Your Computer to Make Holiday Gifts

Need some family ideas for the holidays? Doesn't everyone love a homemade gift? Use your computer to make fun and meaningful holiday presents. It's one of the best family home activities.

From Teens to Toddlers: Games Are a Great Way to Learn

Games are fun family activities that can be used with all ages for teaching character, promoting developmental learning, and simply having fun with each other while building memories.

Bring on the Pets: Kids Learn from Animals in the Home

Pets have more benefits for their families than just the cuddles they give. Child development research shows that pets for kids are a great learning tool for academics and child social development.

Party Manners for Kids

How are your kids manners? Birthday parties are perfect opportunities for teaching manners. Children and parents alike have more fun when adopting these family ideas for party etiquette.

Grandparenting: From Toddler Games to Kitchen Learning

Want to be involved as a grandparent? Start with baby activities and toddler games and move on to kitchen learning. Both of you will benefit from these family home activities.

Sugar Cookies Bake Up Kitchen Learning

There are a wealth of toddler learning activities that can be found in your pantry cupboards. Add a dollop of kitchen learning to the day's toddler activities by trying this recipe for sugar cookies together.

The Joy of Rituals and Family Home Activities

Rituals and family home activities are very important. It's easy to start some of your own - think about your toddler and activities you can share and other fun family activities to enjoy together.

Parent's Stories: The Outdoors Cures a World of Ills

It's almost magic the way the outdoors can soothe a fussy baby and focus a rambunctious toddler. A dad talks about his son's toddler games and the infant activities that can be found in the great outdoors.

Fun Family Activities for Independence Day

Young kids love doing projects at home, especially when there's a theme. These fun family activities that feature Independence Day are great for kids and parents to do together.

Family Ideas for Low-cost Outings

Short day trips are extremely enjoyable for kids and parents alike—and they don't have to break the bank. Here are some low-cost and no-cost ideas from a mother who keeps a careful eye on the budget.

Moving: How to Reduce Stress in Children When Making a Transition

On the list of life's most stressful events, moving is right up there near the top. Read one mom's advice on how to help kids deal with the emotions and the logistics of a cross-country move.

Family Ideas for Learning on the Go

As home educators, we take advantage of our ability to take school on the road—to the tune of 5,000 miles a year. Check out our tips for reducing parent stress while keeping travel fun for all.

Help Your Kids Transition Through Child Development Stages

Adolescent parenting can be a challenge when children struggle with transitions. The Three T's of Transition can ease stress in children while providing them guidance through child development stages.

Picking Toys for All Child Development Stages

If you're looking for great gifts to promote toddler learning activities, take heart. It doesn't have to break your budget, or even cost anything at all. Create developmental learning activities with simple toys.

Family Ideas to Shape Young Scientists

Kids are natural scientists, asking questions and trying to discover the world around them. Parents can answer their questions and offer family ideas for learning.

Family Ideas: Appreciating the Arts at Home

Art and music add immeasurable benefits to any family. This article introduces many family ideas that that will help you and your children learn to appreciate art and music more than ever before.

Bedtime Rituals Are Great Family Ideas

Getting your little ones to bed for the night can be challenging. The key to success is establishing a routine. Some of the best family ideas for getting kids ready for sleep involve bedtime rituals.

Positive Adolescent Parenting: Are You Ready to Take the Challenge?

Don't deflate your compliments with "but." These tips offer some great family ideas on how to change your language for more successful adolescent parenting. See what three simple letters can do for your family.

Fun Family Activities That Encourage Creative Thinking

Take time to nurture your child's creativity through fun family activities. Why not try some of the family ideas in this article! You'll have fun with your child as you encourage creative thinking.

Parents' Stories: A Conversation with Michigan's Governor Jennifer Granholm

Michigan's Governor, Jennifer Granholm, is intimately familiar with child development research on childhood brain development. She shares how she uses that knowledge with her own family.

Family Ideas for Expressing Love to Your Child

How can you show love for your child in ways that you will enjoy and he or she will appreciate? Here are ten family ideas for showing love for your child. Why not give any or all of them a try.

Select Toys to Encourage Developmental Learning

The toys you buy can make a difference in adolescent child development. Find out which toys can be both fun family activities and ways to promote childhood brain development and learning.

Parents' Issues: Choosing a Guardian is Essential

One of the parents' issues that no one likes thinking about is the task of choosing a guardian. Finding the perfect family for kids is uncomfortable, but a necessary and critical part of adolescent parenting.

You've Got Snail Mail! Family Ideas to Encourage Early Literacy

Toddler learning has a special level of fun and excitement when they get special notes in the mail. Encourage toddler language development by hand writing letters with pictures to your child and putting them in the mailbox.

Family Ideas: Learning Activities Online

Want to find some great learning activity ideas in a hurry? The Web is packed with family ideas and activities. Check these Web sites for some of EduGuide's favorite online learning activities.

Grandparents Offer Extended Family for Kids

Grandparents don't need to buy educational toys for grandkids. Providing an extended family for kids in which family home activities teach lessons with love, is a gift.

Family Ideas: Fun Math Games

Want lots of fun family ideas for math? Great games for preschoolers and kids of all ages. Teach your children and have fun at the same time! If you are running low on family ideas, read on!

Family Ideas for Limiting Television Time

If you want to encourage personal health and wellness for your child, then you'll need to turn off the television. Recent research shows television contributes to children becoming overweight.

Let Nature Sooth Stress in Children

It's an age-old tactic: Turn to nature to relieve stress in children and to create fun family activities. Everyone needs nature and child development research shows nature offers kids better focus and self-discipline.

Toddler Activities for the Outdoors

Want your children to spend more time outdoors? Learn how you can encourage toddler learning with inexpensive field trips for kids. These toddler activities are sure to be a hit.

Tried and True Games for Learning After School

There are some games for preschoolers that never go out of style. Read about some old-time classics that promote learning after school while still being fun family activities that everyone likes to play.

Meaningful Family Ideas to Spend the Summer Days

The summer can provide bountiful time for fun family activities that promote play, togetherness, travel for kids, and healthy fitness. These family ideas can add zest to your summer.

Rainy Day Activities for Preschoolers

Bad weather doesn't mean the end of family fun activities. Check out these rainy day recipes using household items. Whether you want toddler crafts or activities for preschoolers, there's fun for all.

Toys for Your Child's Development Stage

A good toy is safe, durable, and suited to your child’s age, stage of development, personality, and interests.

Free Family Home Activities To Increase Developmental Learning

Interested in increasing your child's developmental learning? Here are some great family home activities that are free and fun. There are activities for preschoolers and older children.

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