Recommended Workbooks to Help Kids Excel at Math
Help your children succeed throughout the school year by supplementing their curriculum lessons. Math practice and repetition is essential for strengthening a fundamental understanding and memory of math facts. These top workbooks engage kids with easy-to-follow lessons, colorful illustrations, [...]
Introduce Kids to the Arts in Boston
Exposing kids to art in age appropriate ways fosters social skills, imagination, creativity and literacy. Kids engaged in fine arts, theater, music and dance develop their cognitive abilities, language skills, motor skills, and cultural awareness. There are many opportunities [...]
Math Competitions
Mathematics competitions are aimed primarily at advanced students in middle and high school. The contests are designed to promote problem-solving and analytics skills. Although generally held in-person at local schools, there are certain online contests as well as exams [...]
How to React if Your Child Dislikes the Teacher
It's a difficult time when you realize your child has been upset at school. And it can be tough to find out what really happened. Children have limited vocabularies and often make generic statements like "the teacher wasn't nice." [...]
Teach Kids How to Make Decisions
Parents manage countless daily household and family responsibilities, which often includes doing everything on behalf of their children. It's important, however, to remember that decision making is a critical trait for a successful future. Children are capable of making [...]
Media and the Well-Being of Children
This book is a compilation of work from multiple contributors. It focuses on the media’s effects and benefits on youth development. The research is centered around the importance of media content, context and the characteristics of children. Content Matters [...]
Samsung’s Citizenship Programs Guides Students To Become Leaders
This post summarizes various STEM-based opportunities for kids, organized and offered by Samsung. The company's Global Corporate Social Responsibility programs help guide students to become future innovators and leaders for improving societal issues. The Solve for Tomorrow program highlighted [...]
What Happens to the Brain When a Child Learns to Read
As infants, children hear and start to learn sounds. Preschoolers begin to manipulate sounds into spoken words and, as they get older apply and match those sounds to written letters and written words. Young students must then learn vocabulary [...]
Recommended Summer Reading for Grades 6 – 8
Fiction Chasing Vermeer Blue Balliett Summary. Petra and Calder find themselves at the center of an art scandal. Everyone seems to be a suspect and Petra and Calder draw on their powers of [...]
Summer Camps in Boston
Boston has amazing camps for kids of all ages. There are so many options from which to choose. From traditional day camps to specialty sports, arts, and STEAM options, your kids will stay busy all summer long. Summer Camps [...]
Developmental Characteristics of 4 Year Olds
Children Go Through Multiple Stages of Development All children go through developmental stages. As with physical characteristics such as height and weight, children have stages of social and cognitive development. This includes their interest in playing alone or with friends. [...]
For Parents of Tweens & Teens
Many parents would agree it can be difficult to understand kids as they near adolescence. But it's not impossible to recognize and then understand what tweens and teens are experiencing. They have increased academic challenges, physical changes, new schools [...]
A Short List of Recommended Books to Help Kids Develop Social Skills
Children develop social skills through listening, talking, reading, and interacting with others. Parents are responsible for providing the guidance and activities to ensure kids experience these interactions. The books included in this list are great resources to support parents [...]
Help Children Prepare for Their First Year in School
Young children may feel nervous and uncertain about starting school. Families can help their children make a successful transition to their new life as a student. We have compiled and abbreviated recommendations by early education programs to help our [...]