Kindness. It's something we value as a society but sometimes find ourselves struggling to engage in and initiate, but is actually quite important for children's physical and mental health, as well as their emotional awareness. According to the Random Acts of Kindness...
If you're a parent, you probably know the struggle of trying to maintain the ever growing mountain of toys in your home. With every holiday, birthday, and Happy Meal comes more and more toys to add to the pile. When kids are young, it's easy to cycle through toys and...
There is no doubt that being a parent is stressful. From the moment a baby is born, parents are in charge of everything from food to sleep to clothing and education. Plus, take into account that they are not only responsible for the health and safety of their...
During the ongoing quarantine, many people have turned toward practices of self-reflection, gratitude, meditation, and other forms of looking internally for emotional support and help with external decisions and relationships. While none of these traditionally Eastern...
The phrase "productive child" can be jarring. Not long ago, children were treated as adults and expected to have a productive output through work. In America, we've made child labor illegal but in a more abstract way, people are still striving to raise productive...
In the past year, the U.S. has seen the number of K-12 students engaging in online learning grow exponentially with 2.7 million students logging on for their school day. This is largely due to social distancing standards set by local, state, and federal governments,...
Even as an adult, it can be so difficult to take control of your life when it seems like your days are not dictated by you. Our plates get fuller and fuller, things get pushed back to the end of the to-dos, and we start to neglect the things that make us happy. We...
The ubuntu principles are part of a South African philosophy that people all over the world could use a little more of. Simply put, ubuntu is a Zulu or Xhosa word that means humanity. It's the belief that "I" cannot be made without "we" and that we are not in...
Wondering how to make your child more positive? Well, what if it was their homework assignment? That's exactly what one school in Ireland did. Given the rather un-empathetic, isolated nature of the world (even pre-pandemic) one Irish school wanted to show their...