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Coping with Change – How to Help Kids Make Friends in a New School

Posted on 10 March 2010

Wouldn’t we all like to make our kids’ lives magically full of friends and free of stress? Unfortunately, there is no magic formula for making the transition to a new school totally stress-free. But there are things we can do to help kids cope for child education. Teaching them how to make friends can really [...]

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The Pros and Cons of Home Education

Posted on 23 February 2010

Anyone who has homeschooled their children can tell you they have good days and they have bad days. There are days when some homeschool parents may even wonder what on earth they’re doing. It’s on days like that many homeschooling parents wonder again about the pros and cons of home child education.

The Pros of Home [...]

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What Is Needed to Home Educate Successfully

Posted on 20 February 2010

Families who are considering home child education, or homeschooling, for their children want to know what is needed to home educate successfully. You may be surprised to know that home education success is often more than educational. The following are some things a home educating family will need to succeed.

* Commitment of the whole family [...]

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Learning Things – The Education Store

Posted on 16 February 2010

More and more parents turn to child education homeschooling as their preferred education choice. They believe that it is a much better option for their children and themselves than a traditional classroom. A lot of support and information is needed for homeschooling families to make their educational journey an exciting and happy one.

The Education Store’s [...]

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The Parents’ Guide to Successful Homeschooling (Kindle Edition)

Posted on 15 February 2010

The Parents’ Guide to Successful Homeschooling is a child education resource that provides parents with the support and information needed to become successful homeschoolers. It covers topics that every homeschooling parent will be interested in.

The book features:
* Things you need to consider before homeschooling your child
* Important actions to take to make sure you have [...]

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Endangered Rainforest Animals For Your Kids To Know

Posted on 08 February 2010

Children need to be educated about our planet and all the different life forms that inhabit the earth. Teaching a child about the millions of species of animals that exist in this world, half of them in the rainforests are a good thing. This child education article on the endangered rainforest animals for [...]

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Which Dog Breeds Make Great Family Pets

Posted on 08 February 2010

You’ve been hoping to put it off a little while longer, but your children finally wear down your defenses. You agree to get a dog. But which dog breeds would make great pets for kids and which will you choose? The answer to those questions may not be as difficult as you imagine.

Ask twenty different [...]

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Animal Care Knowledge For Kids

Posted on 06 February 2010

To home pets for kids is serious business, the animal whether a dog or any other animal becomes a family member and the right animal care knowledge for kids is very essential. This article gives a broad overview of the basic considerations and care that need to be taken for dogs.

Dogs are probably the [...]

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Extinct Animals

Posted on 06 February 2010

This child education article is a fascinating study of the extinct animals that once inhabited our planet. Read all about these animals from the not so distant Caspian Tiger, which went into extinction around the 1970s; to the Sea Cow, which disappeared from the Bering Sea. What we need to understand is that [...]

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Animal Facts For Kids

Posted on 03 February 2010

Child education is one of the most important aspects of parenting. This article on animal facts for kids makes for interesting reading about little known facts about the animals that inhabit planet earth. Encourage your child to read and learn in a fun way, and share knowledge with friends and have great fun [...]

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Learn To Type For Kids In The Virtual World

Posted on 27 January 2010

In order to use the computer you need to know how to type, efficient typing or touch typing, you still need to learn how to type. Learn to type for kids in the virtual world is an article that covers the child education, you will need to know how to type or you will [...]

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Virtual Worlds for Kids that focus on Education

Posted on 27 January 2010

In an age of highly advance computer technology and the World Wide Web at our disposal, using virtual worlds for kids that focus on child education is a good way to get children interested in learning. It is recommended that you read this article to learn more about these virtual worlds of learning to [...]

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Alternative Schools – An Explanation

Posted on 13 January 2010

Children and teens have attended public schools for years as a means to receive an education. Some children, however, don’t learn well in that system. For parents whose child struggles in traditional schools for child education, they may choose to homeschool their children or search for other alternative schools for them.

One alternative approach to education [...]

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DVDs Won’t Make Your Kid Smarter, But Shaving Cream on Your Kitchen Table Will

Posted on 09 January 2010

The Walt Disney company is now offering refunds on its Baby Einstein child education DVDs in response to pressure from the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood. The videos were originally promoted as educational tools, but studies show that there is no substitute for parental involvement in helping children to learn and develop.

Elementary school teacher, reading [...]

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McGraw-Hill Education’s New Virtual World Boosts Early Math Skills In Minnetonka Public Schools

Posted on 14 December 2009

The Minnetonka Public School District in Minnetonka, Minn., is using an online virtual world to build young students’ mathematics skills. The district implemented Planet Turtle, McGraw-Hill Education’s fully digital interactive classroom solution, in Grades K-3 at the beginning of the 2009-2010 school year. Available in English, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese, the program is used in [...]

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Top 5 Reasons Why Giving Musical Instruments Makes Most ‘Cents’ for Holidays

Posted on 02 December 2009

Music Making Creates Magical Holiday Traditions and Gifts for Kids, Gift of Music Keeps on Giving with Numerous Health, Wellness and Cost Benefits

With interest in recreational music making at an all-time high, according to a 2009 Gallup Poll* conducted by the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM), the holidays are the perfect time to share [...]

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Heartfelt New Children’s Book Shares Adoption Story

Posted on 02 December 2009

Full of hand-drawn color illustrations, “Catiana Makes a Family” (published by AuthorHouse), the new children’s book written and illustrated by Mary Lotorto-Soroka, details the poignant true story of child education and her own daughter’s adoption.

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World Vision Goes Around the World to Find the True Spirit of Christmas; Next Stop: Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Posted on 30 November 2009

Since November 19, World Vision and thousands of people around the world have been traveling the globe in search of the Christmas spirit as part of the Christian humanitarian agency’s “Spirit of Christmas” tour. The month-long tour features interviews and stories with children and families in the United States, Ecuador, Cambodia, Zambia and Ethiopia. In [...]

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The Little Ambassador: ‘Please President Obama, Lead the American People to Adopt Children’s Human Rights’

Posted on 22 November 2009

The following is being issued by Ariana-Leilani Children’s Foundation International:

I will never forget that the only reason I’m standing here today is because somebody, somewhere stood up for me when it was risky. Stood up when it was hard. Stood up when it wasn’t popular. And because that somebody stood up, a few more stood [...]

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Tame Holiday Costs with Frugal Fun Tips to Save Energy

Posted on 20 November 2009

The difficult economy and concerns about home and vehicle energy costs need not dim your holiday cheer this winter. Frugal, fun, and more Energy-efficiency holiday tips for child education from the Alliance to Save Energy can take the “chill” out of the holiday season by lowering home and vehicle energy bills as well as pollution [...]

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Baby Breakthrough: What Parents Wear Can Help Infants Develop

Posted on 18 November 2009

Bright Baby Tees announces the launch of a new line of women’s, men’s and older children’s T-shirts specially designed to deliver early child education benefits to infants. According to research reported in The Daily Parent, wearing designs of high-contrast colors and visually stimulating patterns can help boost a baby’s brain power — including their curiosity, [...]

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New Children’s Book Instills Healthy Eating Habits

Posted on 12 November 2009

“Veggiesaurus Lex” Teaches Children that Eating Vegetables Is Important and Fun
At a time when parents spend more each year on fast food for their children than on books, child education materials, DVDs, music, trips to the movies and video games combined, it can feel like instilling healthy eating habits is a losing battle.

With the publication [...]

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Early Child Education and Care in Europe

Posted on 06 November 2009

This study produced by the Eurydice network gives a detailed picture of the provisions available for child education in some 30 countries participating in the EU Lifelong Learning programme.

It addresses some major issues faced today by the nearly one in eight households across Europe which are caring for a child under the age of 6. [...]

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Using Theatre to Teach Financial Literacy Pays

Posted on 04 November 2009

The words “theatre” and “financial literacy” aren’t typically used in the same sentence especially for child education. However, The National Theatre for Children (NTC) based in Minneapolis has worked hard to change that and it’s paying off.

Now, the country’s largest in-school educational theatre company has been invited to perform at the Jump$tart National Educator’s Conference, [...]

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Benefits of a Healthy Lifestyle and a Healthy Environment

Posted on 26 October 2009

Today, LA’s BEST After School Enrichment Program and the American Chemistry Council (ACC) announced a new partnership for child education about the importance of drinking water for a healthy living, and reducing waste by reusing and recycling more plastics.

As part of the program, ACC will provide LA’s BEST students with reusable water bottles that they [...]

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Calling All Pupils! Has Your Lollipop Person Got It Licked?

Posted on 16 October 2009

Kwik Fit Insurance are calling on all schools in the North East region to remember to nominate their Lollipop person for the 2009 Lollipop Person of the Year Awards, which close on Friday 30th October.

The North East winner from 2008 was Eric Allen from St Oswald’s Primary School in Durham and time is running out [...]

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A School Assignment That May Add Years to a Child’s Life

Posted on 11 October 2009

Back-to-school means back to hitting the books. Yet this year, one Wisconsin teacher is passing out a different kind of book to her students in grades five through eight. The new fitbook junior, a 12-week interactive fitness and food journal for kids, will teach students at St. Francis de Sales the importance of goal-setting, engaging [...]

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18 Million Children Need - But Don’t Have - Afterschool Programs

Posted on 11 October 2009

Despite an increase in the status of child education in afterschool programs over the last five years, today more than a quarter of the nation’s schoolchildren are on their own in the afternoons, and the parents of 18 million children say they would enroll their kids in afterschool programs if programs were available. These are [...]

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Child Education Wonder Helen Keller Gets Statue

Posted on 07 October 2009

“Most people know about Helen Keller as a child - full of curiosity and wonder at the world that was opened to her. Today we recognize her as that child, but also as the woman she became: civic-minded, politically active, and a standard bearer for the great causes of her age and of ours.

Speaker Nancy [...]

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Project Play Puts the Fun Back in the Backyard

Posted on 05 October 2009

Veteran creative strategist Marlene Byrne today announced that her fourth book in the Project Play children’s series, which aims to inspire child education to get back outdoors for good, old-fashioned playtime, is now available.

Starring Sam and the adventurous Edgebrook gang, Kick the Can is Byrne’s first paperback, chapter-style story in the Project Play (www.ProjectPlayBooks.com) series, [...]

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