🌟 How to handle those post-Halloween nightmares
Taking your kid to the polls + STEM outside the classroom
🌟 TRENDING
The benefits of bringing your kid to the polls
Children are allowed at the voting booths in all 50 states. Model good citizenship and feed into their election curiosity by making your trip to the polls a family affair.
🌟 5 THINGS
5 ways to manage your little kid’s big fears
Little one still spooked by Halloween? Or maybe they recently discovered something else they’re afraid of? Help them through this uneasiness by validating their fear, even though it’s most likely irrational to you. These five tips can help too:
Support your kid’s big feelings
Help your kid identify what they’re scared of
Share something you’re afraid of too
Make a plan to work through their fear
Bring in an expert if need be
🌟 SCREEN/LIFE BALANCE
Celebrate National STEM Day 2024 with these fun and screen-free ideas
Foster your STEM-minded child’s love for science, math, and/or tech outside of the classroom. These activities inspired by National STEM DAY on November 8th (but they can be done every day, really) combine learning with fun.
🇺🇲 Election Section
We’re down to the wire, but it’s not too late to teach your kids election 101. We love this election 2024 glossary from TIME For Kids with definitions of key terms like candidate, ballot, poll, and electoral college.
You and your kids will both appreciate the message of 2023 children’s book “The Walk,” recently profiled in NPR, about a group of citizens who gather and walk together to the polls
Are you keeping who you’re voting for a secret from your kids? This writer/mom is, and she kinda has a point…
🌟 TLDR
Tween parents, you’re going to want to read — and bookmark — this handy dandy parents’ guide from The Atlantic on how to survive the middle school years
Could a little top 40 dance party cut the tension with your kid? One dad writes that music is a secret parenting tool you may not be using
When it comes to homework, is AI helping or cheating?
The “gummy bear mom” has entered the chat — and she’s the one bringing snacks
🌟 TELL US
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