5 Smart Questions You Must Ask During Parent Teacher Conference
Parent teacher conference is an important part of education. It is an opportunity for parents to discuss the progress of their child and get useful advice on education. But in order to have the dialogue with the teachers to be more productive, it is also important to ask them the right questions. Let’s check out top 5 smart questions that every parent should ask during a parent teacher conference. How to Get in Touch With…
How to Handle Separation Anxiety Before School Starts
Going to school is a big step for many kids. The first few years of school are filled with new and sometimes frightening experiences, and it can be hard to adjust to school for many kids which can lead to separation anxiety school stress when not properly dealt with. Fortunately, there are a number of simple things parents can do to help their kids get ready for school. Preparation for school should begin over the…
How To Prepare Your Child For Kindergarten
Kindergarten is such a fun time for your child, and even as a parent. They will leave home for a good amount of the day, and begin their learning experience, develop independence, self-reliance and more. Below are some ways you can help get your child get ready for Kindergarten, by teaching them! These are skills that can help them transition easier to school. Your child may already know these skills, and if so that is…
Rainy Day Activities for Kids
Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links. It’s that time of year. The time of year that the weather can be unpredictable. One minute it can be sunny and beautiful, and the next it can be raining. If your children are getting a little stir crazy cooped up indoors, and you are feeling the same, there are a few things you can do to make rainy days more bearable and even fun. Visit the…
How to Help Kids Deal with School Stress
School has many obvious benefits for children, from developing social skills, to learning and achieving new academic goals that will help them secure a future career. However, like most things in life, it does have some disadvantages, one major example being school associated stress. We can all relate to the stresses of school, whether that be the pressure associated with exam revision or the peer pressure received from friends. In today’s high-stakes testing and competitive…
5 Ways to Avoid Heat Stroke this Summer
This summer has been a hot one. We have a fan built into our furnace but we don’t have air conditioning. Our house has reached room temperatures of 85 degrees +, and that’s not just hot it’s disgustingly hot. Obviously, this mama has had to find ways to make sure her family stay hydrated and avoid heat stroke. Keep your doors and blinds closed Unless there is a cool breeze, there’s really no point to…
How to Safely Remove Ticks
DISCLOSURE: THIS POST CONTAINS AFFILIATE LINKS. Ticks feed on many mammals and are widespread in the countryside. Paths and tracks used by wild animals often expose humans and their pets to ticks. How Ticks Find Their Host Ticks are very sensitive to carbon dioxide. They are able to follow gradients to reach the source – an animal breathing out! They are also able to detect body heat, so they can easily locate warm-blooded animals. Many…
FREE Canada Day Themed Preschool Printables Learning Activity Pages
It’s hard to believe that the end of the school year is near and the summer fun is about to begin including celebrations all over this wonderful country we call home, for Canada’s birthday; full of great company, delicious food and of course red & white everything! THIS POST DOES INCLUDE AFFILIATE LINKS If you’re staying home or entertaining any preschool or kindergarten aged children you’re going to want to have lots of boredom busters…
Superhero Reward Chart for Boys & Girls – FREE Printable
Being a parent IS hard…extremely fulfilling but still hard. It takes a lot of patience, persistence, praising and sometimes, a little punishing. I call it the 4 P’s of parenting and regardless of what “type of parent” you classify yourself as, at some point, we have all practiced it. Sometimes we are in fact so persistent in what we want our children to do that we may even come off as if we are nagging…
Spring Cleaning Bingo Printable + #LibmanGiveaway
If you’re like me, you’ve probably been putting off your spring cleaning chores for as long as you can. However, now that the weather is finally getting nicer it’s time to stop stalling. It’s time to open the windows, crank the music and get your clean on. Now moms, I know we like to take on the tasks ourselves but unless you’ve got an entire pitcher full of Strawberry Kiwi Sangria to take the pain…
