My daughter has been making characters out of her food for years now. As an example, she'll arrange her breakfast plate to look like a face, with bacon lips, eggs for hair, biscuit halves for eyes, and

When using visual arts materials to not only identify, but also to treat emotional trauma and mental disorders, it can be called Art Therapy. By creating images in drawings, paintings, sculptures and

When you write about a person, organize your ideas into a paragraph.  A paragraph is a group of sentences about one idea.  The first sentence tells a paragraph's main idea. Then a few sentences

During 'play', children get the opportunity to develop interdependence and to interact and communicate with other children. While sharing affection with others, learning takes place and personalities form.

Today I'm showing off our latest adventure in the park. We launched another rocket and we had an audience to! Click the linky(It's a safe YouTube video). The first pic? That's a little clue for tomorrow's

Every evening before Easter, the kids dye eggs. I'm not sure why we started doing it this way, but we've done it for probably 8 years now. Ultimately the eggs just sit in the fridge, and then eventually

Took the family to see Peg + Cat Live. It was put on by one of the Bay Area Children's Theatre touring companies, based out of Oakland, CA. I have seen other productions they have put on, and they always

Had anyone else's daughter (or perhaps a few Steemians) become obsessed with LOL Surprise dolls? My then 7 year old daughter received one as an early Christmas present around Thanksgiving, and then that

I took my kids to The Home Depot this weekend for their monthly kids building workshop. This month the kids made a mini easel and whiteboard. Since then, my son has been drawing and erasing and drawing

My youngest daughter asked me to get her a drink of water before finishing up her bedtime routine. Instead of getting the water for her, I invited her to walk with me to the kitchen so that we could get

This year, for some reason, my wife and I have decided to start marking the kids' half birthdays. We don't do anything too elaborate, but usually just do some activity that they think is fun, make a bit

The kids have stated to get invites Recently Mini Me 1 and Mini Me 2 have received a few invites to birthday parties that involve a sleepover. Personally I feel they are too young to sleep over at friends

My son is having a terrible time keeping up with 6th grade homework. Particularly in Social Studies. He loves history, just not the ancient history they are studying this year. So he rebels by not doing

For the most part all of us insert ourselves mentally somewhere on the social/vocational totem pole. And for the most part all of us have this problem with judging people, we will write or talk about how

Hi to all my Steemian friends I hope you have all had an amazing week, It's "Black Friday" and I am staying indoors and away from the masses of people. It has been a crazy week, it is full moon

My son had a brief period where he was into Legos. He assembled and disassembled his sets many times. He has since decided it's not really his thing, so I thought I'd see about selling some of his sets.

I am proud to announce that my son has arrived. Stats 9 pounds 4 ounces - he was the biggest of all of our kiddos 21 inches loves to eat and sleep the most loved little brother in the entire world he came

The last 40 weeks have been leading up to this moment. My wife I will leave the house about 6:45 tomorrow morning and head to the hospital. We will enjoy the quiet morning drive, chat like we always do,

We hit a local corn maze this evening, and it had metal casts of animal tracks hidden throughout. I thought it might be fun to post the tracks up and see if you can guess to which animal they belong. There

Big shout out to @anomadsoul for putting this contest together...while I may not be in as much torment as some with this HF20...I am enjoying reading through the tag #gettoknowme - I'd like to start out