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I am so excited to share my guest spot on Juliet Hahn’s podcast, Your Next Stop. I always love to tell the story of starting my art education business, Young Rembrandts, and my passion for helping the world understand the importance of leveraging the gifts of right-brain thinking.
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:
To honor the International Day of Charity on September 5th, our foundation donated lots of basic art supplies to elementary classrooms in California, South Carolina, Illinois and Georgia and more to classrooms that want to use art to enhance academic learning, with the help of DonorsChoose.org.
The fun of vacation and summer adventures are winding down and kids are back in school. This is good news in many ways – but this can also be a source of great frustration for our right-brain students. Sitting still and listening can be hard, especially for kids that need to see, touch and do in order to learn effectively.
Recently, I had the best time watching my grandson play cards. Solitaire. Sounds like a real nail biter doesn’t it!? But for real, it was such a treat. I didn’t know he knew how to play solitaire!
Early readers can benefit from time spent on apps. They can make the difference in your child’s reading and vocabulary development. With the help of CommonsenseMedia.org and some other resources, we’ve curated a brief list of apps for your early reader.
Getting the whole body involved is a great way to encourage right brain thinkers to continue learning while still having fun. We have found lots of STEAM activities to keep the kids engaged all summer.
I have an easy, fun activity you can do with your young reader to improve reading comprehension, story writing and handwriting. It’s a very simple reading, writing and drawing activity that’s easy to adapt for any reading level.
Now that we’ve decided to make it a summer of reading adventures, here are a few tips to finding books that fit their interest and reading levels. Sound hard? Trust me it isn’t… all you need are your eyes, ears and a little parental discernment.
Reading can be a grand adventure, even for our most resistant kids, and summer is the perfect time to make a change. With a little planning, you can turn reading from a chore into a creative way to play all through the summer.
