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Cooking Up Fun

1 kitchen + 1 grand + 1 grandchild (or more!) = a delicious recipe for learning

Warm weather, longer daylight hours, end of the school year, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day — these are all ingredients for cooking up some great fun with your grandkids. I mean, literally, cooking!

When children cook, they’re developing

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Spontaneous Outdoor Fun: Your Own Obstacle Course!

The days are getting warmer and longer. And the great outdoors is just waiting for you and your grands. 

 

Here’s a terrific ‘any time’ activity that can be  designed by your grandchildren, by you or a combination.  And, there are so many ways to enjoy it.  What is ‘it’?  Your very own obstacle [...]

What do tennis balls, aluminum foil, paper cups and socks have in common?

These are four of my favorite – yet unexpected – school readiness activities.  And, there are almost endless ways to use these common, everyday items to enjoy learning opportunities with your grands.  Best of all: These are perfect for indoor activity during the winter months or on rainy days year ’round.

How do I know?  [...]

Ohanarama – As grandparents let’s hop aboard this “play” train.

Sharon Couto – Grandmother blogger on momgenerations.com

As grandparents, lets’s hop aboard the technology “play” train with OHANARAMA.

When I was a child in the 50′s, I played with pull toys and chime pull toys (very technologically advanced!), toy soldiers and cowboys (I have 2 brothers) and dolls.

When I was 6 or 7, [...]

Wide-Eyed & Full of Wonder

Remy Agee

It’s almost spring. Soon nature will be alive again! Perfect time to recapture your own child-like sense of wonder and nurture it in your grandchildren! Inspire them to want to know more, explore more, experience more, and be “wowed” by learning through discovery and hands-on activities that abound this time of [...]

Fun Tunes for Kids: Winning Combination for School Readiness!

I’ve made a great discovery!

Spectacular visuals; charming, fun-to-sing lyrics; and toe-tapping music all packed into a children’s video.  Is this for real?  Yes! And you and your grands will watch them over and over and over again.

This is a departure for me.

Not something I usually promote, when writing about school readiness.  My [...]

TV and Movie Violence: How Grandparents Can Respond

Network news.  Daytime talk shows. Video games. Action movies. Even children’s cartoons, videos and TV shows. What do these have in common?

A growing trend towards a culture of violence: graphic displays of killings, fighting and emotional and physical abuse as ways to solve problems and conflicts.  3,000+ scientific studies over the past thirty years [...]