Tag: children
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Keep Your Kids Fit With GoNoodle
Have you heard about GoNoodle? My wife has been raving about it for years as a great tool for brain breaks and as an in-class fitness tool. Well, it’s been a little chilly in our neck of the woods during the last few days and our kids needed exercise, so I found GoNoodle on our…
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5 Helpful Hints To Entice Reluctant Readers
People often ask me how they can get their children interested in reading, which I’m always more than happy to answer. It’s vital we encourage our young people to read. Studies show that reading improves critical thinking skills, vocabulary, comprehension, writing, empathy, and a broader understanding of the world surrounding us. Best of all? Every…
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Nasreen’s Secret School by Jeanette Winter – A Book Review
Though not particularly full of machismo, I am not prone to cry, but this book made the old eyes water just a bit. Based on a true story during Taliban-occupied Afghanistan, Nasreen is a little girl whose parents are taken by Taliban troops. She retreats within herself, no longer smiling or talking. Desperate, her grandmother…