Archive for January, 2010
Getting Kids Interested In Art
Image via Wikipedia Children can really benefit from the skills and teachings of art and while many may wonder how you can get your child interesting in creating. Art in general can promote creative thinking and problem solving, it can also help with ‘normal skills’ such as math and many other things.
Beware Work at Home Scams
Image via Wikipedia Many new moms want to earn some money from home- unfortunately there are a lot of bad apples out there. While true, not all of the below are scams- you more than likely won’t earn a penny doing any of them.
School Bans Various Dance Moves
Image via Wikipedia The Smoking Gun has a report up about a school trying to avoid hormonal moments between the kids at a school dance, by banning various ‘dance moves’ and more. While admittedly, my own first though was the movie Footloose, the rules really are a bit strange.
Split Chores, Get More Sleep?
Image via Wikipedia It seems that while progressive parenting is on the rise, not many homes share the parenting and household chores. Apparently, at least according to a few pieces of recent research, many homes see one parent or the other taking up the entirety of the responsibility.
Parents Paying More Attention to What Kids Eat
Maybe it’s due to the constant stories in the news about the obesity epidemic, or the natural concern as parents we feel for out children. Whatever the reasons, a study is showing that parents have been paying attention to what their kids are eating when they are looking at the menu.
