School Aged Kids

Kids and Chores

Assigning children household chores is one of the best ways to build self-esteem and a feeling of competence. Regular chores establish helpful habits and good attitudes about work. Having chores also teaches valuable lessons about life and creates an understanding that there are jobs that must be done to run a household. Children who grow up perceiving chores as a normal part of life will find the flow into adulthood much easier than those without responsibility will.

Lunch bag containers

Save those empty baby juice bottles...the small 4oz plastic ones with a screw on cap. They work great for packing salad dressing, veggie dip, ketchup, vinegar, etc. in a lunch bag. The cap screws on tight so you have no spills. These work better than containers I've paid more money for.

Submitted by:Gloria B.

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Tooth Fairy Fun!

A while back, I asked around for fun ideas on making the loss of a tooth a fond memory for children. Some great ideas started rolling in, so I've compiled them for your enjoyment and use. Thank you, everyone, who contributed! We've got some real "pearls" of wisdom here. Get it?

Private School Vs. Public School

When I think of all of the words that crossed my palate when I was in my 20s that I wished I could swallow and take back at this much later age, these words certainly win the prize for "the dumbest words I ever spoke." "I dont see any reason to send any child of mine to private school. Public school was good enough for me, and it will be good enough for my child." Now, in looking back, I view what I said as being the equivalent of a child abuse survivor saying, "I got beat and see how well I turned out."

"Boys Will Be Boys" and Other Myths

"Boys will be boys," once a common explanation for multitudes of mischief, is no longer said with confidence. In the last twenty years, hundreds of studies aimed at sorting out which sex differences are inherent at birth from those that are learned have knocked down one myth after another about the behavior and personalities of children of each sex.

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