Inauguration Day Bingo for Kids!
There’s nothing like learning about history than being right in the middle of it. Inauguration Day is Monday, January 21. For kids, turn watching the Inauguration festivities into a fun game.
There’s nothing like learning about history than being right in the middle of it. Inauguration Day is Monday, January 21. For kids, turn watching the Inauguration festivities into a fun game.
Kids love setting up their own lemonade (or a watermelon in this case) stands during the summer. Here we discuss how our young active citizens donated their proceeds to a cause that’s been on their (and the nation’s) minds.
A mom is incredibly worried about the new presidential administration’s (coupled with an already conservative Congressional majority) proposed and expected actions on the day-to-day life of her family. What can she do to stem her anxiety?
A reader asks for help in coaching kids to speak out against racism and other issues at school in a succinct way.
Looking to teach your children Civics? The best mode of getting them involved is using their own voices. Some ideas and free postcards for them to write to their representatives.
A mom to a kindergartner is asking whether she needs to start talking to her kids about current events now that her child has started school?
I tried being quiet about politics, but I think I’ve reached the point of no return. Expect me to be plenty loud from here on out.
A reader asks how to handle a teen who buys into majority politics in what she sees as extreme state, but really, the issue is teaching both critical thinking and tolerance.
There’s nothing quite like a contentious election cycle to make you realize your kids are hearing and watching everything.
How are we, as parents, supposed to keep our kids believing they should do the right thing when they see how rewarded the bad things are?
I voted this morning, but perhaps more importantly, I’m trying to make sure my kids understand why it’s a big deal.
Ways to teach your kids to be respectful of people who have different political views than their own.
Alice looks into her crystal ball and sees HER Election Day 2008.
If you want to argue that gay marriage is unholy, go right ahead; if
you want to disallow same-sex unions in your church, you have that
right. I got married in front of a judge, so my marriage is pretty
unholy as well.
At this Presidential playdate-debate with Johnny and Barry, neither earns a cookie for
good behavior.
Instead of trying to show the experience and knowledge that she claimed to have, Palin and her coaches clearly decided that the best thing for her to do is just flirt with America. Just flirt, and hope no one notices that she’s completely and utterly out of her league. It was an insult to feminism, and to the intelligence of the American people.
I have to confess that whenever I consider writing about the presidential campaign, I get nervous. I’m worried that my ignorance will show itself, that I’ll get some detail terribly wrong and my readers will sniff, “Excuse me, Ms. Bradley, but if you read a…
The teen birth rate has risen for the first time in 14 years, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. On average the percentage jumped 3 percent from 2005 to 2006; the rise was highest in black teens—a whopping five percent. As…
By Isabel Kallman Parenting is important, work is important and support for children is important. —Marian Wright Edelman. I’ve had that quote pinned to my bulletin board for some time now, for inspiration and strength. Because, as I’m sure you’ve read, there’s a revolution brewing….