Education
on October 15, 2014 at 2:22 pm ×
Halloween is now only two weeks (plus a couple of days) away! Get your kids ready with this simple Halloween word mining activity on PBS Parents to keep their brains sharp ahead of the sugar buzz lurking like a ghoulish skeleton around the corner. My latest Adventures in Learning post […]
Frugal Fun For Kids
on July 30, 2014 at 1:36 pm ×
Not sure I’ve mentioned it here on OWTK yet, but I’d love for you to know that all summer long I’m over on PBS Parents sharing cool ideas to avoid the summer slide with unique math, writing and, today, engineering projects for your young kids. Check out my latest, the […]
OWTK Gaming / OWTK Kindie Album Reviews / OWTK Toy News & Reviews
on March 5, 2013 at 1:29 pm ×
Many parents would say that it’s a difficult task for educational music and media to ingratiate itself to full-family enjoyment. Whereas modern, non-lesson-centric children’s music, videos & books will often pull lovingly on the heartstrings of a parent while simultaneously bringing exuberant joy to a youngster, curriculum-based media tends to […]
Parenting Blog
on November 1, 2011 at 12:33 pm ×
I generated some Twitter chatter this weekend with the OWTK review of the Learning Resources Smart Snacks Counting Cookies board game. One tweet kinda bemoaned the NEED to teach young children – ages 2, 3, 4 – how to count. But really, it could’ve been an essay on the divide […]
OWTK Games + Apps
on September 9, 2011 at 11:45 am ×
Waaaaay back when I was gainfully employed, I worked at a corporation that had an in-house school. They actually call it, without the slightest bit of sarcasm, a University. I took a class there once called Learners, There Is A Difference. There may not have been that comma, but the […]
OWTK Giveaways / OWTK Toy News & Reviews
on May 27, 2011 at 9:07 am ×
INCHING ALONG from Educational Insights Not everything a kid sees, touches and hears needs to teach them something. Each fun action need not be met with an equal academic opportunity. But ain’t it grand when the two merge organically? Educational Insights strives for this natural equilibrium with their clever lineup […]
Parenting Blog
on January 6, 2011 at 10:09 am ×
I’m in the midst of the most exciting period in a young child’s life. There’s this moment sandwiched between the whiny baby years and the growing maturity & burgeoning independence of the grade school years. I call it the Transformation. It’s the stage of a child’s life when they begin […]