Category | Child Education
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 [...]
Tags: Child Education, family, information, kids, parenting, science
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 [...]
Tags: Child Education, dog breeds, kids, parenting, Pets 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 [...]
Tags: Child Education, children, kids, parenting, Pets for Kids
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 [...]
Tags: Child Development, Child Education, extinct animals, Pets 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 [...]
Tags: animals, grooming, kids, parenting, Pets for Kids
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 [...]
Tags: children, Children Activities, family, games, parenting, typing
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 [...]
Tags: Child Education, children, family, kids, parenting, virtual worlds
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 [...]
Tags: alternative, Child Development, Child Education, parenting, school
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 [...]
Tags: Baby Einstein, child care, Child Education, Disney, DVD, parenting, shaving cream
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 [...]
Tags: Child Education, education, Hill, McGraw, parenting, public, virtual worlds
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 [...]
Tags: buying, Child Education, Gifts for Kids, holidays, music, musical instruments
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.
Tags: adoption, bonding, bullying school children parenting, Catiana, Catiana makes a family, Child Education, children, kids, parenting
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 [...]
Tags: Cambodia, Child Education, christmas, Phnom Penh, Spirit
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 [...]
Tags: Ambassador, America, Child Development, Child Education, Foundation, Obama
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 [...]
Tags: bills, Child Education, children, energy, family, parenting, saving
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, [...]
Tags: babies, clothes, family, Infant Care, parenting, wardrobe, wear
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 [...]
Tags: child care, eating, Elmo, health, Michele Obama, parenting
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. [...]
Tags: Child Education, EU, Europe, Eurydice, Lifelong
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, [...]
Tags: Child Education, children, family, finance, literacy, parenting, personal finance, theater
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 [...]
Tags: Child Education, children, exercise, healthy lifestyle, parenting, physical fitness
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 [...]
Tags: art, Child Education, Children Activities, drawing, family, Lollipop, parenting, toys
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 [...]
Tags: assignment, children, fitness, health, obesity, school
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 [...]
Tags: after school, alliance, Child Education, Fund, JCPenney, parenting, United States
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 [...]
Tags: blind, Child Education, disabilities, example, helen keller, parenting, statue
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, [...]
Tags: backyard, Children Activities, fun, games, health, parenting
Posted on 02 October 2009
Halloween is one of the most avidly awaited holidays for children activities, but it also harbors the greatest potential for dangers, including accidents and contact with strangers.
While any night on which children parade darkly-lit streets in a race for candy is a fraught with hazards, statistically speaking, the biggest threats to kids on Halloween are [...]
Tags: caution, Child Safety, Children Activities, Halloween, horror, parenting
Posted on 02 October 2009
Pennsylvania Parent Information Resource Center (PA PIRC) announced that Governor Edward G. Rendell is proclaiming October as “Parent Involvement Month” in Pennsylvania.
The proclamation will be signed on October 6, 2009, and with this proclamation, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania will acknowledge the vital importance of family involvement with child education.
“PA PIRC is part of a larger [...]
Tags: Edward Rendell, involvement, October, parenting, Pennsylvania
Posted on 30 September 2009
University Games has acquired the rights to create educational toys based on children’s books by award-winning author Mo Willems. University Games plans to design a broad range of games, puzzles, and other merchandise inspired by the fresh illustrations and humorous dialogue of the Mo Willems’ “Pigeon” series, published by Hyperion Books for Children.
Beginning with the [...]
Tags: Children Activities, Educational Toys, Mo willems, Pigeon, puzzles
Posted on 11 September 2009
Children grow up so fast, and there are changes each step of the way. If you’ve recently found out you’re pregnant, you may be wondering how to prepare your child or children for a new arrival. Use these child education ideas and you may find your child actually looking forward to their new brother or [...]
Tags: arrival, Child Education, domestic, family, home, new baby, parenting
Posted on 17 August 2009
Parents try to do their best to teach their children to be honest, but the fact is many children lie anyhow. If this tendency isn’t dealt with while the child is young, parents may soon find they have a teenager that lies for any reason. With that kind of child behavior problem, you may be [...]
Tags: Attention Deficit Disorder, behavior, child, child behavior problem, Child Education, lying, parents, problem, Webster’s Dictionary