Looking for Engaging Audiobooks for the Whole Family on Road Trips?
For visual children who enjoy using their imagination, audiobooks can provide a calming focus and an enjoyable distraction, making it easier for them to relax and enjoy the ride.
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Get Your Hands Dirty Learning this Summer!
Summer is a great time for kids to relax and recharge, but it’s important to keep their minds engaged to prevent learning loss. Here are some ideas to make learning fun and exciting for both you and your creative right-brain kids:
Thinking with Your Left Brain
While we use both sides of our brains for almost every task we do, each side of our brain has its area of specialty, which in turn influences the way we think. Our left brain handles the parts of our lives that require a computer, calculator, calendar and clock.
Is Your Child Right-Brain Dominant?
The right side of the mind was designed as a perfect compliment to the left. Take our quiz to see which side is your child’s dominant side.
A Step in the Right Direction: What It Means to Be a Right Brain Thinker
Right brain creative kids and adults are enormously valuable thinkers, with boundless gifts and abilities, but are highly misunderstood, undervalued and often made to feel like we are less than.To increase understanding on who we are as thinkers and students, I’m doing a 6-month series on what it means to be a right brain thinker.
Put Some STEAM Under Your Tree
Craft kits are perfect for keeping hands busy, especially ones that include some science, technology, engineering, ART and math, STEAM! This list is full of STEAM ideas for kids of all ages.
Give the Gift of Crafting to Your Big Kids
Arts and craft kits make great gifts. They’re colorful, engaging, multisensory and come with directions! To help with your shopping I’ve curated a few shopping lists, based by age. This list is for your older elementary and middle school aged kids.
Crafty Gift Ideas for Little Hands
When I shop for kids’ gifts, I look for things that will keep their hands busy. To help with your shopping I’ve curated a few shopping lists, based by age. This list is for your preschool and early elementary aged kids.
Visual Thinking by Temple Grandin
Temple Grandin introduced us to the world of visual thinking as it relates to Autism Spectrum Disorders and other forms of neurodivergence in her first book, Thinking in Pictures. It was also made into a movie that does a great job illustrating what it’s like to be a visual thinker. So, I was so excited to hear that she has just released a new book, Visual Thinking.
5 Ways to Connect with Your Grandkids Today
As grandparents there’s a lot we can do to support our kids as parents, but we are also in position to bring so much to the kids and relationships. Here are a few ways my hubby and I connect with our boys:
