Beautiful. Handmade by Balinese artists in collaboration with a Brooklyn design firm. A fun way of building hand-eye coordination, motor...
Electrifying! Winner of multiple toy awards. Take it up a notch with light, sound + motion.
Clever new take on a traditional game. Fun fact: 3D spatial skills are foundational for engineering and design. Just as...
Spot the notches in these wooden blocks? They inspire little hands to build bigger, taller and more complex creations. Playing...
The ultimate app-enabled invention toolbox. Designed by MIT graduate and TED Senior Fellow Ayah Bdeir; featured at the MOMA and...
There’s a hero in all of us. Outstanding details in this playset. Or, go (almost) larger than life with this...
Create fanciful games, spread neighborhood cheer with kind messages or get blissfully lost in large-scale drawings. Did you know that...
Make learning facial vocabulary fun. Great for self-awareness, self-control and self-expression. Another classroom favorite for all mixed feelings.
A social and screen-free way of learning letter identification, including phonological awareness and concepts of print. Get moving!
Cute! A magical home for your child’s imagination. The moveable door adds a sweet element of childhood surprise and is...
Simple is sometimes best. Beloved in many classrooms, children love to measure everything. Develop your child’s numerical literacy by having...
Yes, yes, yes!! Finally richly pigmented crayons that celebrate the beauty of all skin tones. A reminder that they’re not...
“Empathy is when you’re able to understand and care about how someone else is feeling.” -Mark Ruffalo, Sesame Street
Learning to count may seem simple, but it is critical to learning well. Here’s how to do it playfully. The...
Increase critical thinking and curiosity when you read aloud. Take story time to a new level.
Tattling is very common but it can be shaped by our responses to their tattling. Teach your child this simple rhyme to work...
Answers to our most popular questions on a heavy subject. From “How do I explain…” to “How do I teach…”...
“Is my child ready for Kindergarten? What does that even mean?” Here’s my high-level perspective as a parent + teacher...
Are you in the midst of visiting preschools and trying to decipher what to look for in a classroom and...
Watching a child turn to you crying for the first time because “A friend said ‘I can’t play’”, is a...
“The way we talk to children becomes their inner voice.” -Peggy O’Mara
Power struggles and harried mornings for both parent and child are normal, and yet not a fun way to start...
Learn the strategies, tools and what to say to manage a healthy separation process between you and your child, especially...
The reality is we have no control over when our child calms down. Parenting and teaching is not quick and...