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Encouraging Your Child to Garden: How to Inspire Kids to Love Gardening
Gardening is a wonderful activity that can also be educational and rewarding for children. Prerna Malik gives 5 ways to inspire your kids to fall in love with gardening Read More »
April 25th is Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day
April 25th, 2013 is Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day (also known as Take Your Children to Work Day), as employees all across the world are encouraged to take their children to work with them in order to ... Read More »
My Son Turns 19 Years Old Today: Cheers, Jeers, and Tears!
On this day, just 19 years ago, I gave birth to a chubby baby boy with beautiful brown eyes, dimples, and head full of black curls. As soon as my eyes laid on his, it was immediate earth shattering love. ... Read More »
Top 5 Tips For Choosing the Best Summer Day Camp for Your Kids
TheCubicleChick.com Parenting Contributor Prerna Malik gives five important tips that will help you select the best summer camp for your child Read More »
April is Financial Literacy Month: 7 Money Tips For Kids and Teens
Financial literacy, in my opinion, should begin at childhood. Money and finances are such an important part of life, and as a parent, I've made strides to teach both of my children the value of a dollar. I don't want ... Read More »
Spring Clean: 5 Simple Ways to Get Kids to Clean with You
This year, get the family on board and involve the kids in spring-cleaning with you. Help them see how a cleaner home is a nicer place to be in and how they can take part in creating it Read More »
March Is National Nutrition Month: Get Kids Excited About Eating Healthy
March is National Nutrition Month and is a great time to review our kids’ eating habits and help them get excited about nutrition and healthy eating Read More »
Noodle.org Offers Online Education for the Entire Family
Noodle.org is an educational search engine, the first of its kind. It's a life-long online database of educational resources and tools that helps their users free of charge by matching them with recommendations for learning. Read More »
Chore Time: Kids’ Daily Checklist Printable For a Organized Household
Ease the evening and make it less stressful with this printable Kids' Daily Checklist that can help add a little structure and order to you and your child's life. Download it now Read More »
Vlog: What Happens When Your Child Accuses You of Oversharing?
I haven't done a video update in ages. Mostly because I have been busy with travel and family life. But I wanted to update you guys with a few new changes in my life as well as pose a question ... Read More »
4 Ways to Help Keep Your Child Active For Health
Yes, it is unfortunate but true that most kids are growing up to a lifestyle packed with too much television and junk food and too little exercise and fruits. Exercise and physical activity have a ton of benefits for kids Read More »
Raising Volunteers: How to Encourage Children to Give Back
Kids and Parenting contributor Prerna Malik discusses 4 ways parents can encourage their kids to volunteer and give back to the community. Our next National Day of Service is on 1/21/13, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Read More »
2012 Holiday Gift Guide: Fashion and Beauty Gifts For Tweenagers
As parents (or aunties like me) it’s important that we help these little ladies transition into womanhood. Obviously, they’re much too young for makeup and high heels, but this Christmas season there are still gifts we can choose to help ... Read More »
Encouraging Kids to Set Goals Not Resolutions for the New Year
Parenting Contributor Prerna Malik gives 5 ways that you can help your children set goals, not resolutions for the new year, encouraging them along the way Read More »
Holiday Manners for Kids: Etiquette for the Holidays Simplified
Thanksgiving and holiday parties are now in full swing, and manners and etiquette for kids is the very important. Read tips on how to teach your children how to behave while at a holiday party or dinner Read More »
Preparing Kids for Thanksgiving: Involving Children in Holiday Preparations
Parenting contributor Prerna Malik gives us 4 tips on how to involve our children in our holiday preparations for Thanksgiving Read More »
6 Ways To Ease Your Mom Guilt When Traveling
I used to feel a twinge of mom guilt when I had to leave my kids, but since I travel at least once or twice a month, I had to develop a plan for us that eased the stress and ... Read More »
What To Do When The Teacher Calls About Disciplinary Problems
We'd all like to think that our children are angels. But in reality, no matter how perfect we think our kids are (or want them to be), they aren't perfect---they are human. Read More »
