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Executive Functioning: Part 2 – How to Strengthen It

Nuts + bolts; let’s get tactical. Now that we’ve baselined the three primary processes of executive functioning, let’s look at...

Ages
5-6,
6-7
Fine Motor + Gross Motor
Critical Thinking
Executive Functioning: Part 2 – How to Strengthen It
Ages
5-6,
6-7
Fine Motor + Gross Motor
Critical Thinking
On Impulse Control: Part 1 – What Is It?

It may feel like a number of impulsive behaviors are seemingly normal for children. But what is ‘normal’? In this...

Ages
5-6,
6-7
Critical Thinking
Fine Motor + Gross Motor
On Impulse Control: Part 1 – What Is It?
Ages
5-6,
6-7
Critical Thinking
Fine Motor + Gross Motor
Anger Management 101: Part 3 – What You Could Do and Say

Key strategies and tools to use before, during and after your child’s angry outbursts – all in a simple printable...

Ages
6-7,
7-8
Anger Management 101: Part 3 – What You Could Do and Say
Ages
6-7,
7-8
10 Ways to Teach Your Child Kindness

For many children, kindness needs to be explicitly taught. Parents and teachers only need a few prompts to help their...

Ages
5-6,
6-7
10 Ways to Teach Your Child Kindness
Ages
5-6,
6-7
For this Time of Year
How to Teach Your Child Coping Skills for Their Anxious Behavior

When your child begins having anxious thoughts, empower them with practical self-help strategies and coping skills so that they can...

Ages
6-7,
7-8
How to Teach Your Child Coping Skills for Their Anxious Behavior
Ages
6-7,
7-8
How to Teach Your Child to Fail

If you want to raise a child who grows up to be a resilient, problem-solving, persistent and adaptable adult, let...

Ages
5-6,
6-7
How to Teach Your Child to Fail
Ages
5-6,
6-7
Grow Your Brain – Apply a *Growth Mindset*

Let’s double-down on how to translate *growth mindset* into something tangible with your child. We’re focusing on how to teach...

Ages
4-5,
5-6
Grow Your Brain – Apply a *Growth Mindset*
Ages
4-5,
5-6
How to Build Your Child’s Independence

Foundational skills for teaching your child to be more independent and to be in charge of themself and their learning....

Ages
6-7,
7-8
How to Build Your Child’s Independence
Ages
6-7,
7-8
Raise an Upstander – Part 2: Guiding Principles

Core concepts your child should know when being an upstander and how to practice them at home among daily routines.

Ages
6-7,
7-8
Raise an Upstander – Part 2: Guiding Principles
Ages
6-7,
7-8
What to Do and Not Do When Your Child Lies

A simple sequence for what to do (and not to do) when your child lies, and strategies to lay the...

Ages
6-7,
7-8
What to Do and Not Do When Your Child Lies
Ages
6-7,
7-8
5 Foundational Practices to Implement Before Discipline

Make it easier to withstand your child’s behavioral storms – key foundational and behavioral practices you should implement before you...

Ages
6-7,
7-8
5 Foundational Practices to Implement Before Discipline
Ages
6-7,
7-8
How to Encourage Listening – A Simple Sequence to Follow

One of the most frequent questions we get from parents is, “How do I get my child to listen?” It’s...

Ages
3-4,
4-5
How to Encourage Listening – A Simple Sequence to Follow
Ages
3-4,
4-5
How to Read Aloud and Increase Your Child’s Comprehension

Learn specific tips from a teacher on how to read aloud to your child, listen to your child read aloud...

Ages
6-7,
7-8
Critical Thinking
Language + Literacy
How to Read Aloud and Increase Your Child’s Comprehension
Ages
6-7,
7-8
Critical Thinking
Language + Literacy
How to Encourage Your Child to Write (and Become a Better Speller)

A curated guide of creative and fun everyday activities your child can do to practice their spelling and writing. Great...

Ages
6-7,
7-8
Critical Thinking
Language + Literacy
How to Encourage Your Child to Write (and Become a Better Speller)
Ages
6-7,
7-8
Critical Thinking
Language + Literacy
On Spelling – Part 3: A Checklist to Strengthen Your Child’s Spelling and Writing Skills

A simple checklist for your child to know what to look for in their writing to strengthen their spelling skills...

Ages
6-7,
7-8
Critical Thinking
Language + Literacy
On Spelling – Part 3: A Checklist to Strengthen Your Child’s Spelling and Writing Skills
Ages
6-7,
7-8
Critical Thinking
Language + Literacy
Essential Math Terms, Concepts + Tools for Your Child

Understand how to help your child with math skill development and learn common math terms and strategies that teachers use....

Ages
6-7,
7-8
Language + Literacy
Critical Thinking
Essential Math Terms, Concepts + Tools for Your Child
Ages
6-7,
7-8
Language + Literacy
Critical Thinking
Social Skills (Preschoolers)
How to Share – Part 1: Why Share?

Simply saying “Share!” holds little meaning for children. Young children are egocentric and concrete thinkers. Their experience of the world...

Ages
2-3,
3-4
How to Share – Part 1: Why Share?
Ages
2-3,
3-4
How to Share – Part 2: Some Helpful Rules

Conflict is natural for preschoolers who are just learning about peers and group settings – it is expected, healthy and...

Ages
2-3,
3-4
How to Share – Part 2: Some Helpful Rules
Ages
2-3,
3-4
When Your Preschooler Hits: Part 1 – What’s Going On?

By learning why young children hit – learning what is developmentally going on in their brains when they hit –...

Ages
2-3,
3-4
When Your Preschooler Hits: Part 1 – What’s Going On?
Ages
2-3,
3-4
When Your Preschooler Hits: Part 2 – What to Do and Say

Knowing why a child hits is the first step in handling a challenging ‘hitting’ situation. Next, how should you respond...

Ages
2-3,
3-4
When Your Preschooler Hits: Part 2 – What to Do and Say
Ages
2-3,
3-4
What to Say and Do When Your Child Interrupts

Learn why children interrupt, what to say in the moment, and strategies for modeling patterns of communication. (It is hard...

Ages
3-4,
4-5
What to Say and Do When Your Child Interrupts
Ages
3-4,
4-5
FAQs When Your Child Interrupts

Your questions, our answers. Learn how to handle common scenarios when a child interrupts. From raising hands, to when to...

Ages
3-4,
4-5
FAQs When Your Child Interrupts
Ages
3-4,
4-5
How to Teach 3 Key Social Skills

While some children inherently understand how to socially interact with others and are comfortable with basic social skills, others need more...

Ages
4-5,
5-6
How to Teach 3 Key Social Skills
Ages
4-5,
5-6
How to Teach Empathy

“Empathy is when you’re able to understand and care about how someone else is feeling.” -Mark Ruffalo, Sesame Street

Ages
3-4,
4-5
How to Teach Empathy
Ages
3-4,
4-5
If Your Child Has an Imaginary Friend

Getting to know your child’s imaginary friends is a fun perk of parenting and teaching. Those characters – whether invisible,...

Ages
3-4,
4-5
If Your Child Has an Imaginary Friend
Ages
3-4,
4-5
Social Success (School-Aged)
Social Exclusion and Inclusion – Part 1: Why It Happens

Watching a child turn to you crying for the first time because “A friend said ‘I can’t play’”, is a...

Ages
4-5,
5-6
Social Exclusion and Inclusion – Part 1: Why It Happens
Ages
4-5,
5-6
Social Exclusion and Inclusion – Part 2: Do Something About It

Social exclusion is a main theme in a child’s development and there are many reasons why it happens. Empower your child to...

Ages
4-5,
5-6
Social Exclusion and Inclusion – Part 2: Do Something About It
Ages
4-5,
5-6
10 Characteristics of a ‘Good’ Friend

Teach your child a strong Friend Skill Set that can help them establish healthy, happy friendships and that will support...

Ages
6-7,
7-8
10 Characteristics of a ‘Good’ Friend
Ages
6-7,
7-8
How to Teach Your Child to Be a ‘Good’ Friend

Strategies, tools and scripts for teaching your child how to practice being a ‘good’ friend.

Ages
6-7,
7-8
How to Teach Your Child to Be a ‘Good’ Friend
Ages
6-7,
7-8
10 Ways to Teach Your Child Kindness

For many children, kindness needs to be explicitly taught. Parents and teachers only need a few prompts to help their...

Ages
5-6,
6-7
10 Ways to Teach Your Child Kindness
Ages
5-6,
6-7
“I” Messages – A Helpful Technique for Conflict Resolution

Empower your child with a valuable life skill – teach them how to express their emotions and desires during conflict.

Ages
5-6,
6-7
“I” Messages – A Helpful Technique for Conflict Resolution
Ages
5-6,
6-7
*THINK* – Be Powerful with Your Words

Teach your child to *THINK* before they speak – to consider the impact of their words (vs. their intent). A helpful...

Ages
5-6,
6-7
*THINK* – Be Powerful with Your Words
Ages
5-6,
6-7
Raise an Upstander – Part 3: What Your Child Could Say In-The-Moment

Is your child able and ready to say/do the upstanding thing? Help your child know what to say in-the-moment when...

Ages
6-7,
7-8
Raise an Upstander – Part 3: What Your Child Could Say In-The-Moment
Ages
6-7,
7-8
On Big Feelings
Go-To Parenting Scripts – How to Respond to Your Child

Learn how to respond to your child’s challenging behavior or big emotions with empathy. Use our go-to parenting scripts for...

Ages
5-6,
6-7
Go-To Parenting Scripts – How to Respond to Your Child
Ages
5-6,
6-7
Tantrums – Part 1: What’s Going On?

Children experience emotions just like adults, but they need support and guidance to: 1) Understand their emotions; and 2) Make...

Ages
2-3,
3-4
Tantrums – Part 1: What’s Going On?
Ages
2-3,
3-4
Tantrums – Part 2: What You Could Do

Tantrums are hard to manage – for everyone. Here’s our checklist for what to do…in the first 5 minutes.

Ages
2-3,
3-4
Tantrums – Part 2: What You Could Do
Ages
2-3,
3-4
Tantrums – Part 3: What You Could Say

The reality is we have no control over when our child calms down. Parenting and teaching is not quick and...

Ages
2-3,
3-4
Tantrums – Part 3: What You Could Say
Ages
2-3,
3-4
Tantrums – Part 4: Before and After

It takes work and repetition, but indeed, there are things that can be done to pre-empt a tantrum and ways...

Ages
2-3,
3-4
Tantrums – Part 4: Before and After
Ages
2-3,
3-4
How to Teach Your Child to Identify Their Feelings and Emotions

Learn why it is important for your child to be able to identify their emotions, and help them build their...

Ages
3-4,
4-5
How to Teach Your Child to Identify Their Feelings and Emotions
Ages
3-4,
4-5
Self-Regulation – Part 1: Optimize Your Child’s Learning

Including your child in their own learning process about how to self-regulate is empowering and long-lasting. Here’s how everyday tools...

Ages
4-5,
5-6
Self-Regulation – Part 1: Optimize Your Child’s Learning
Ages
4-5,
5-6
Self-Regulation – Part 2: Body Engine Checker System

Here’s a practical tool and script to support your child’s self-regulation and emotional awareness – it provides a shared language to signal...

Ages
4-5,
5-6
Self-Regulation – Part 2: Body Engine Checker System
Ages
4-5,
5-6
Self-Regulation – Part 3: Recover from a Meltdown

Make a go-to place for your child to find comfort and safety when their internal engines feel out-of-sorts. Whether you...

Ages
4-5,
5-6
Self-Regulation – Part 3: Recover from a Meltdown
Ages
4-5,
5-6
How to Teach Your Child to Independently Calm Down

A go-to list of calming strategies that your child can independently use to get back on track when they feel...

Ages
5-6,
6-7
How to Teach Your Child to Independently Calm Down
Ages
5-6,
6-7
Anger Management 101: Part 1 – What’s Going On?

Discover how your child’s brain and body are emotionally and physically processing their anger, and strategies and tools to help...

Ages
6-7,
7-8
Anger Management 101: Part 1 – What’s Going On?
Ages
6-7,
7-8
Anger Management 101: Part 2 – What Does Anger Look Like?

Identify what anger looks like across different developmental ages and understand what is a typical anger expression and what is...

Ages
6-7,
7-8
Anger Management 101: Part 2 – What Does Anger Look Like?
Ages
6-7,
7-8
Anger Management 101: Part 3 – What You Could Do and Say

Key strategies and tools to use before, during and after your child’s angry outbursts – all in a simple printable...

Ages
6-7,
7-8
Anger Management 101: Part 3 – What You Could Do and Say
Ages
6-7,
7-8
Anger Management 101: Part 4 – Frequently Asked Questions

Answers to common questions about handling a child’s angry behaviors. From, “How do I know what is normal?” to “My...

Ages
6-7,
7-8
Anger Management 101: Part 4 – Frequently Asked Questions
Ages
6-7,
7-8
On Impulse Control: Part 1 – What Is It?

It may feel like a number of impulsive behaviors are seemingly normal for children. But what is ‘normal’? In this...

Ages
5-6,
6-7
Critical Thinking
Fine Motor + Gross Motor
On Impulse Control: Part 1 – What Is It?
Ages
5-6,
6-7
Critical Thinking
Fine Motor + Gross Motor
On Impulse Control: Part 2 – What You Could Do

Brain differences make it hard for a child to control their behavior. Understanding your child’s impulsive behaviors can help you...

Ages
5-6,
6-7
Critical Thinking
Fine Motor + Gross Motor
On Impulse Control: Part 2 – What You Could Do
Ages
5-6,
6-7
Critical Thinking
Fine Motor + Gross Motor
A Simple Exercise to Calm and Re-Center Your Child

A breathing exercise to help your child move through the rocky moments in their day. Easy to do and remember....

Ages
4-5,
5-6
A Simple Exercise to Calm and Re-Center Your Child
Ages
4-5,
5-6
*STOP!* An Easy Technique for Impulse Control

Empower your child to manage their emotions and regain control in heated situations with *STOP!*

Ages
5-6,
6-7
*STOP!* An Easy Technique for Impulse Control
Ages
5-6,
6-7
On Sibling Harmony
How to Handle Sibling Fights

Sibling fighting and rivalry is normal and, in most cases, healthy. Learn how to resolve sibling conflict in 5 simple...

Ages
4-5,
5-6
Language + Literacy
Fine Motor + Gross Motor
How to Handle Sibling Fights
Ages
4-5,
5-6
Language + Literacy
Fine Motor + Gross Motor
How to Handle Sibling Rivalry: Part 1 – What’s Going On?

Sibling rivalry and fighting are normal parts of family dynamics, but they can really disrupt a home’s harmony and stir...

Ages
6-7,
7-8
How to Handle Sibling Rivalry: Part 1 – What’s Going On?
Ages
6-7,
7-8
How to Handle Sibling Rivalry: Part 2 – What You Could Do and Say

Should parents force siblings to ‘get along’? What do you say when siblings are constantly competing with each other? What...

Ages
6-7,
7-8
How to Handle Sibling Rivalry: Part 2 – What You Could Do and Say
Ages
6-7,
7-8
3 Things to Say to Immediately Stop a (Sibling) Fight

Get flustered in the heat of the moment when your children fight? Use these three key phrases to stop sibling...

Ages
4-5,
5-6
Language + Literacy
Fine Motor + Gross Motor
3 Things to Say to Immediately Stop a (Sibling) Fight
Ages
4-5,
5-6
Language + Literacy
Fine Motor + Gross Motor
Sibling Love – Make It Happen with a Sibling Love Jar

We can’t end sibling fighting nor force our children to get along, but we can help them recall happy moments...

Ages
4-5,
5-6
Sibling Love – Make It Happen with a Sibling Love Jar
Ages
4-5,
5-6
Wheel of Choices – Resolve Social Conflict Independently

Help your child learn how to resolve a social conflict on their own with this framework – Wheel of Choices.

Ages
5-6,
6-7
Wheel of Choices – Resolve Social Conflict Independently
Ages
5-6,
6-7
“I” Messages – A Helpful Technique for Conflict Resolution

Empower your child with a valuable life skill – teach them how to express their emotions and desires during conflict.

Ages
5-6,
6-7
“I” Messages – A Helpful Technique for Conflict Resolution
Ages
5-6,
6-7
10 Activities to Encourage Sibling Bonding

Siblings fight – it is normal and expected, and you can handle it. But sometimes, stepping outside of the normal...

Ages
4-5,
5-6
10 Activities to Encourage Sibling Bonding
Ages
4-5,
5-6
Routines + Systems
How to Create Family Agreements

Try having ‘Family Agreements’ instead of having ‘rules’. Family Agreements can be powerful yet simple tools for encouraging baseline behavioral...

Ages
4-5,
5-6
How to Create Family Agreements
Ages
4-5,
5-6
Raise Responsible Children – Introduce Chores

We may have grand intentions when it comes to involving our kids in chores. But how do you know which...

Ages
4-5,
5-6
Raise Responsible Children – Introduce Chores
Ages
4-5,
5-6
Transitions: Part 1 – Why Transitions Are So Hard

#1 daily challenge with children: How to get from A to Z without fighting, yelling or throwing a tantrum? Learn why...

Ages
2-3,
3-4
Transitions: Part 1 – Why Transitions Are So Hard
Ages
2-3,
3-4
Transitions: Part 2 – How to Get Through Peacefully

Knowing why transitions are difficult is half the puzzle. The other half is how to get through them. Teachers go...

Ages
2-3,
3-4
Transitions: Part 2 – How to Get Through Peacefully
Ages
2-3,
3-4
How to Ask Your Child About Their Day

Go beyond “How was your day?” Our Top 10 favorite conversation starters can give you insight into what matters to...

Ages
4-5,
5-6
How to Ask Your Child About Their Day
Ages
4-5,
5-6
Helpful Ways to Praise Your Child

A simple tip sheet for how to praise your child. Something more than “Good job” or just commenting on process and...

Ages
4-5,
5-6
Helpful Ways to Praise Your Child
Ages
4-5,
5-6
Bring Peace to Your Mornings – Make a Routine Chart

Power struggles and harried mornings for both parent and child are normal, and yet not a fun way to start...

Ages
2-3,
3-4
Language + Literacy
Critical Thinking
Bring Peace to Your Mornings – Make a Routine Chart
Ages
2-3,
3-4
Language + Literacy
Critical Thinking
An Awesome Approach to Allowance

Our Awesome Allowance System gives children practice in setting financial goals, making hard choices, and developing a sense for the...

Ages
5-6,
6-7
An Awesome Approach to Allowance
Ages
5-6,
6-7
*THINK* – Be Powerful with Your Words

Teach your child to *THINK* before they speak – to consider the impact of their words (vs. their intent). A helpful...

Ages
5-6,
6-7
*THINK* – Be Powerful with Your Words
Ages
5-6,
6-7
Wheel of Choices – Resolve Social Conflict Independently

Help your child learn how to resolve a social conflict on their own with this framework – Wheel of Choices.

Ages
5-6,
6-7
Wheel of Choices – Resolve Social Conflict Independently
Ages
5-6,
6-7
How to Teach Your Child to Move Through Boredom

The benefits of letting your child be bored and five ways to teach your child how to move through boredom....

Ages
6-7,
7-8
How to Teach Your Child to Move Through Boredom
Ages
6-7,
7-8
How to Teach Your Child Patience

Learn why patience is a learned skill and essential for character and academic development, and seven key strategies to teach...

Ages
5-6,
6-7
How to Teach Your Child Patience
Ages
5-6,
6-7
Kindergarten Readiness
Kindergarten Readiness 101

“Is my child ready for Kindergarten? What does that even mean?” Here’s my high-level perspective as a parent + teacher...

Ages
4-5,
5-6
Kindergarten Readiness 101
Ages
4-5,
5-6
Kindergarten Readiness: Part 1 – Social + Emotional Skills

“I think I have a sense for Kindergarten readiness, now how can I support my child to get there?” Keep...

Ages
4-5,
5-6
Kindergarten Readiness: Part 1 – Social + Emotional Skills
Ages
4-5,
5-6
Kindergarten Readiness: Part 2 – Pre-Academic Skills

ABCs, colors, numbers, sight words…parents have heard of the ‘push-down’ of academic skills – that Kindergarten has a lot of...

Ages
4-5,
5-6
Language + Literacy
Critical Thinking
Kindergarten Readiness: Part 2 – Pre-Academic Skills
Ages
4-5,
5-6
Language + Literacy
Critical Thinking
Kindergarten Readiness: Part 3 – Parent Readiness

Kindergarten is a meaningful adjustment – for parents too. We’ve got simple tips for parents for a not-so-simple transition –...

Ages
4-5,
5-6
Kindergarten Readiness: Part 3 – Parent Readiness
Ages
4-5,
5-6
Kindergarten Readiness: Bonus FAQs

It’s hard to know what you don’t know as your child embarks on their learning journey and enters Kindergarten. Sure,...

Ages
4-5,
5-6
Kindergarten Readiness: Bonus FAQs
Ages
4-5,
5-6
What’s Developmentally “Normal”?

How do you know if your child is experiencing a developmental “bump”? How do you know if it is time...

Ages
3-4,
4-5
Language + Literacy
Critical Thinking
What’s Developmentally “Normal”?
Ages
3-4,
4-5
Language + Literacy
Critical Thinking
Self-Regulation – Part 1: Optimize Your Child’s Learning

Including your child in their own learning process about how to self-regulate is empowering and long-lasting. Here’s how everyday tools...

Ages
4-5,
5-6
Self-Regulation – Part 1: Optimize Your Child’s Learning
Ages
4-5,
5-6
Self-Regulation – Part 2: Body Engine Checker System

Here’s a practical tool and script to support your child’s self-regulation and emotional awareness – it provides a shared language to signal...

Ages
4-5,
5-6
Self-Regulation – Part 2: Body Engine Checker System
Ages
4-5,
5-6
Wheel of Choices – Resolve Social Conflict Independently

Help your child learn how to resolve a social conflict on their own with this framework – Wheel of Choices.

Ages
5-6,
6-7
Wheel of Choices – Resolve Social Conflict Independently
Ages
5-6,
6-7
How to Teach Empathy

“Empathy is when you’re able to understand and care about how someone else is feeling.” -Mark Ruffalo, Sesame Street

Ages
3-4,
4-5
How to Teach Empathy
Ages
3-4,
4-5
How to Teach Your Child About Personal Safety

Keep your child safe from danger and empower them to be safe. Teach your child to protect themselves with important...

Ages
4-5,
5-6
How to Teach Your Child About Personal Safety
Ages
4-5,
5-6
How to Teach Your Child to Identify Their Feelings and Emotions

Learn why it is important for your child to be able to identify their emotions, and help them build their...

Ages
3-4,
4-5
How to Teach Your Child to Identify Their Feelings and Emotions
Ages
3-4,
4-5
Explore Topics
If Your Child Has an Imaginary Friend

Getting to know your child’s imaginary friends is a fun perk of parenting and teaching. Those characters – whether invisible,...

Ages
3-4,
4-5
If Your Child Has an Imaginary Friend
Ages
3-4,
4-5
Gun Play – Understand the Myths and Realities

As parents and teachers of young children, we encounter ‘power play’ in a variety of ways – some children like...

Ages
4-5,
5-6
Gun Play – Understand the Myths and Realities
Ages
4-5,
5-6
Tattling vs. Telling

Tattling is very common but it can be shaped by our responses to their tattling. Teach your child this simple rhyme to work...

Ages
4-5,
5-6
Critical Thinking
Language + Literacy
Tattling vs. Telling
Ages
4-5,
5-6
Critical Thinking
Language + Literacy
How to Talk to Your Child About Someone Who is Sick

There are times when it becomes necessary to speak to children about people in their lives who are very sick....

Ages
4-5,
5-6
How to Talk to Your Child About Someone Who is Sick
Ages
4-5,
5-6
A Montessori Approach to Learning Language

Learn the Montessori approach to learning language and how to apply it every day.

Ages
2-3,
3-4
Critical Thinking
Language + Literacy
A Montessori Approach to Learning Language
Ages
2-3,
3-4
Critical Thinking
Language + Literacy
What Anxiety Looks Like and How to Support Your Child

Learn how to help your child handle the expected feelings related to anxiety, and how to identify when anxiety moves...

Ages
6-7,
7-8
What Anxiety Looks Like and How to Support Your Child
Ages
6-7,
7-8
10 Activities to Encourage Sibling Bonding

Siblings fight – it is normal and expected, and you can handle it. But sometimes, stepping outside of the normal...

Ages
4-5,
5-6
10 Activities to Encourage Sibling Bonding
Ages
4-5,
5-6
Bring Peace to Your Mornings – Make a Routine Chart

Power struggles and harried mornings for both parent and child are normal, and yet not a fun way to start...

Ages
2-3,
3-4
Language + Literacy
Critical Thinking
Bring Peace to Your Mornings – Make a Routine Chart
Ages
2-3,
3-4
Language + Literacy
Critical Thinking
Language / Tone of Voice – Part 2: Stop, Think, Re-Do!

It’s normal to hear your child experimenting with dramatic language at around age 4 (e.g., talking back, harsh tones of...

Ages
4-5,
5-6
Language / Tone of Voice – Part 2: Stop, Think, Re-Do!
Ages
4-5,
5-6
How to Talk to Your Child About Microaggressions

Teasing, name-calling, social exclusion or any other general unkindness that specifically relates to race, gender, religion or any aspects of...

Ages
5-6,
6-7
How to Talk to Your Child About Microaggressions
Ages
5-6,
6-7
How to Teach Reading – Part 2: Read *With* Your Child

Book selection is key in helping your child learn to read. Parents of emergent and early readers are often tempted...

Ages
3-4,
4-5
Creativity + Imagination
Language + Literacy
How to Teach Reading – Part 2: Read *With* Your Child
Ages
3-4,
4-5
Creativity + Imagination
Language + Literacy
Reinforce Positive Behavior – Make a Marble Jar

Acknowledge and promote positive behavior….*Plinkit* with a Marble Jar! You’ll be amazed at the twinkle in your child’s eye each...

Ages
3-4,
4-5
Reinforce Positive Behavior – Make a Marble Jar
Ages
3-4,
4-5
Learning Toys
Spooner Board

Improve core strength, balance and coordination. An essential in many classrooms. Equally fabulous at free play as it is for...

Ages
3-4,
4-5
Critical Thinking
Fine Motor + Gross Motor
Spooner Board
Ages
3-4,
4-5
Critical Thinking
Fine Motor + Gross Motor
Cookie Decorating Kit

A gem of a toy. The decorative accents build focus and fine motor skills; the recipe cards develop matching skills,...

Ages
3-4,
4-5
Creativity + Imagination
Fine Motor + Gross Motor
Cookie Decorating Kit
Ages
3-4,
4-5
Creativity + Imagination
Fine Motor + Gross Motor
Pop Snap Beads

The ‘pop’ and ‘snap’ of these beads are excellent for strengthening pincer grasps, hand control and finger precision – all...

Ages
3-4,
4-5
Creativity + Imagination
Fine Motor + Gross Motor
Pop Snap Beads
Ages
3-4,
4-5
Creativity + Imagination
Fine Motor + Gross Motor
Wrap & Slice Sushi

A very grown-up dining experience; bonus points for building fine motor skills.

Ages
3-4,
4-5
Wrap & Slice Sushi
Ages
3-4,
4-5
Global Kids Activity Cards

Innovative activity cards with 50+ crafts, food, games, festivals and community service activities from around the world. Excellent for rainy...

Ages
4-5,
5-6
Critical Thinking
Language + Literacy
Global Kids Activity Cards
Ages
4-5,
5-6
Critical Thinking
Language + Literacy
Royal Family Puppets

Work through big feelings with this character set. Or try modeling behavior with Jolly Helpers.

Ages
2-3,
3-4
Royal Family Puppets
Ages
2-3,
3-4
Le Petit Chef Knife Set

The only knife set owned by all of us at Plinkit for our kids, by French manufacturer Opinel. Cooking together...

Ages
4-5,
5-6
Le Petit Chef Knife Set
Ages
4-5,
5-6
Goobi Juniors Construction Set

An essential for any STEAM curriculum. But these have an undeniable coolness factor. P.S. – STEAM = Science, technology, engineering, arts,...

Ages
2-3,
3-4
Creativity + Imagination
Critical Thinking
Goobi Juniors Construction Set
Ages
2-3,
3-4
Creativity + Imagination
Critical Thinking
Road Trip Auto Bingo

Hours of retro fun! A must-have for long car rides. Nifty shutter slides (no little bits mess!) makes this game...

Ages
3-4,
4-5
Road Trip Auto Bingo
Ages
3-4,
4-5
Multi-Way Tug-of-War

New twist on the classic tug-of-war that will have the whole family laughing and active. Add a dose of healthy...

Ages
4-5,
5-6
Multi-Way Tug-of-War
Ages
4-5,
5-6
Sign Language Blocks

A truly universal gift. Bilingualism of any language (whether signed or spoken) enhances cognitive processes – like higher executive function,...

Ages
2-3,
3-4
Critical Thinking
Language + Literacy
Sign Language Blocks
Ages
2-3,
3-4
Critical Thinking
Language + Literacy
Made with Love: Pancakes!

A book that’s uniquely shaped like a pile of pancakes – very awesome! The descriptive words (fluffy, dollop, drizzle, crunchy...

Ages
2-3,
3-4
Made with Love: Pancakes!
Ages
2-3,
3-4

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