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Help your child plan his week with a homemade calendar.
Nurture a spirit of inquisitiveness and curiosity in your child.
Establish routines and emphasize the importance of being prepared.
Help your child think about what friendship is and why she has chosen the friends she has.
Prepare your child for difficult real-life situations before they happen.
Allow your child to make some of the choices in his daily or weekly routine.
Encourage healthier diet choices by showing your child how destructive sugar can be to teeth.
Here’s a tip to help your child ease into morning if he tends to wake up grouchy.
Make chores more bearable by adding an element of chance to the responsibility.
Allowing your child to keep his own calendar will help develop critical time-management and organizational skills.
Help your child develop autonomy and sense of self.
Include your child in family discussions, and praise her when she uses her growing power of reason to help make decisions.
Have your child dream up family vacations to sharpen logic and reasoning skills.
Sharpen memory skills with this simple game.
Encouraging your child to ask questions will make her less apprehensive and more apt to ask for answers to things she does not understand.
Allow your child to realize that answers are not always simple or final.
Making simple meals and snacks for himself will allow him to feel accomplished.
Inspire your child’s active imagination to create new worlds with things around her room.
Use your child’s love of music to play the classic guessing game.
Bring technology with you on long trips for your child to preserve the travel experience.
Use the web to immerse your child in music. Your child can explore and experiment to find which instrument or music speaks to him.
Nurture logic and creativity in your child at the supermarket.
Teach biodiversity and patience while taking a bonding field trip.
Of course your child wants (NEEDS!) that high-fat, high-sodium kid's meal--it's got a toy! Here are two ways to teach your child a lesson about advertising.
Show your child that books and reading are important.
Pass time with your child by taking turns creating alliterative sentences for each letter of the alphabet.
When caught in traffic or waiting, pose a question and ask your child to answer it in rhyme.
Offer your child opportunities to practice writing and spelling.
Assist your child in learning weekly spelling words using this technique.
Cure boredom and strengthen spelling with the classic car game.
Playing this guessing game with your child might inspire her future.
Encourage your child to use descriptive language.
Encourage your child to keep a journal to express his feelings.
Show your child how reading and writing are useful in everyday life.
Encourage your child to develop his poetic sensibilities with this game of similes.
Help your child plan his week with a homemade calendar.
When dinner isn’t quite ready, use this activity that gives her writing practice and occupies her time while she waits to dig in.
Provide your child with plenty of opportunities to read to younger children.
Trade coins with your child to show equivalent values.
Use this activity when driving in the car or while on a walk to practice number recognition.
Use everyday opportunities, like planning a party, to practice division.
Help your child develop his inference skills with a number guessing game.
Use everyday opportunities to teach fractions to your child.
To learn to solve arithmetic facts, try the count on strategy with your child.
Learning arithmetic facts involves applying strategies to problem-solving, like the twin facts strategy.
At the grocery store, use the produce scale to create real-world problems for your child to solve.
Cooking is a great way for your child to become familiar with units of measure.
Help your child learn that math and numbers are useful in the real world.
Encourage budgeting by helping your child see where their money goes.
Your child may not be ready for a 401k, but this matching funds exercise can help her realize the value of saving for the future.
Give your child the chance to use her math skills and help you save money at the same time.
Use newspapers to engage your child in real-world math problems.
Add frozen peas to cool down hot soups and add nutrition.
Introduce a new perspective on vegetables, making them seem like an earned treat.
Teach biodiversity and patience while taking a bonding field trip.
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