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Create a Student Homework Box

Creating a student homework box can your kids improve grades and boost elementary study skills. Here are some tips for what to include for each grade level.

Fill Your Family's Days with Adolescent Books at the Library

When you're planning out fun family activities for bored kids, boost the library to the top of your list. Participate in a library reading program or just browse among popular children's books.

Family Ideas for Promoting Media Literacy

Commercialism can drown the unwary child. This article contains family ideas about how to use adolescent articles and television commercials to promote media literacy. Try some of these family home activities today.

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.

Family Ideas for Museum Visits

Museums offer many fun family activities that are also great learning opportunities. With a few simple family ideas and strategies, along with careful planning, your museum visit can be educational fun.

Museum Web Sites from Around the World

You don't need to plan a trip around the world to see historical and artistic wonders. Fun family activities can be created around these interactive museum web sites.

Family Ideas for National Park Visits

Visiting our national parks can be a fun learning experience for the whole family. With family ideas and careful planning, you can make the most of your visit to the great outdoors together.

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?”

A Coach's Letter to Parents: Make Sure Sports Are Fun Family Activities

In children's sports, your role as a parent is just as important as the coach's role. This article suggests ways you can work with your coach to make sure that sports are fun family activities for your child.

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.

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.

Confident Kids Are Successful Learners

One way to help kids become strong students is to help them become confident learners. This begins at home with fun family activities and other valuable lessons to work on daily.

Family Ideas: Search for ET

Looking for a kids' project that's out of this world? Check out the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence—a fun way to nurture your child's imagination, contribute to scientific inquiry, and learn a whole lot about the uni...

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: 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 to Ensure Online Safety

The Web is an exciting but potentially dangerous place for kids. What can parents do to protect their children? Read this detailed list of family ideas that can help make the Web a safe place for kids.

Sports is Much More than Healthy Fitness

If it weren't for the discipline kids get from sports, it might be tempting for parents to give up. But when sports contribute to adolescent child development, we realize it is about more than healthy fitness.

Family Trees: Learn More about Your Family for Kids

Want to teach your child about research, math and history? Dig into your family's roots. Learn more about your family for kids. It can teach important elementary study skills and help you bond.

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.

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.

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.

Forty Ways to Help Your Child Be Successful

You want to raise your child to encourage personal health and wellness, not to mention happiness and productivity. Consider these external and internal assets that can help your child be successful.

Family Ideas: A New Way to Help Kids Take Responsibility

Rich Schalter applies business smarts to parenting. He encourages kids to develop their own "brand" and take more personal responsibility. Learn family ideas to help your kids do the same.

Real Life Story: Webster's Mother

A large vocabulary is great, but what would you do if your son mispronounced many of the new words he used? Learn one mom’s approach to vocabulary word games and the results she achieved.

Real Life Story: Getting Our Hands Dirty

Going by the book hasn’t helped this mom get her kids gardening cheerfully with her. Learn what worked to convince her boys to participate in this fun family activity (fun for her, anyway).

Real Life Story: The Endless Chore Game

There are no winners in the Endless Chore Game. But does the game make kids’ chores any easier to endure? This mom stays optimistic about chore lists. She may even win the Endless Chore Game one day!

Real Life Story: Walking the Dog

One mom’s story about how the word “chore” was a four-letter word and when it came to chores for kids, caring for pets was not considered one – but instead it was a privilege.

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