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Cooking With Kids: 5 Reasons You Should Be Doing It
There are many reasons to teach your kids to cook. Children are more likely to eat foods they don’t want to otherwise if they help you make it.
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41 Family Rituals That Teach Responsibility, Kindness, and Compassion
While your children are still young is the best time to create bonding time with rituals that are designed not just to keep families close, but to foster those qualities that parents want to instill in their children.
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Reading for Kids: 17 Reasons Why It’s Important and Where to Start
One of the most common traits that all successful people have claimed to have in life is their ability to read.
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This Neuroscientist Explains Why Today’s Kids Have Different Brains
Kids today have measurable, significant physiological differences from those of kids from a generation ago because of how drastically technology has changed the way everyone, including kids, finds and receives information.
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6 surprisingly easy ways to raise a generous child
Although it might sometimes be hard to believe, generosity is hardwired into human beings, and so teaching it to children is often surprisingly easy. The most basic way is to model sharing behavior in front […]
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Want to Keep Your Best Teachers? Here Are Some Ideas.
Retaining your best teachers is one of the most crucial — and difficult — aspects of running a school. There are many strategies for this, but it’s important, above all, to remember to treat all […]
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8 Reasons Why Teachers Love to Laminate
If you know one teacher, then you know someone who loves to laminate. Teachers thrive on laminating classroom materials because students are rough on stuff and laminating job charts, hall passes, and calendars helps to preserve them
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Childhood Obesity in the United States: A Growing Concern
In the United States, one out of every six children suffers from obesity. This statistic is especially distressing as the prevalence of obesity continues to rise, despite being a preventable condition. Childhood obesity has serious […]
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5 grants to address digital inequities and fund classrooms
Although schools would love to utilize the latest programs and technology, the costs and ever decreasing budgets usually stand in the way. After all, many teachers use their own money to stock essential supplies for […]
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3 Practical Resources to Help Teachers Integrate SEL and Academics
New research is pointing to how the incorporation of social-emotional learning (SEL) within a classroom’s curriculum has the ability to boost the rates in which students are academically successful. SEL skills can revolve around taking […]