Parenting resources for all who love and care for children
How to Help Your Child Use College and Career Support ServicesThe new school year has started. As a superintendent of two public middle schools and a comprehensive high school, I have reflected on how I can change some of our school’s procedures and programs to fully support our college and career ready students. Here’s a list of changes that we will implement this year: [Read more…]
| Date | Location | Venue | Event |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1–9:30 AM | Costa Mesa, CA | Orange County Children's Book Festival - Orange County, CA | The GenParenting.com team will be selling the Yikes! twin book series and our parenting book with FREE resources. |
| Oct 8,—2:00 PM | San Rafael, CA | Copperfield's Books | Meet the author, Mary Ann Burke, at this Meet and Greet Event! FREE blog resources will be provided. |
| Oct 14—10:00 AM | Sunnyvale, CA | Bay Area Kids' Book Festival - Silicon Valley | The GenParenting.com blogging team will be selling their Yikes! twin book series and parenting book with FREE resources. |
| Oct 15—10:00 AM | Lafayette, CA | Bay Area Kids' Festival - Lafayette | The GenParenting.com blogging team will be selling their Yikes! twin book series and parenting book with FREE resources. |
| Oct 22—11:00 AM | Oakland, CA | Great Good Place for Books | Meet the author, Mary Ann Burke, at this special story time event. She will be selling her newly published Yikes! Brandon Has Twin Sisters book series with FREE blog resources. |
For more information about these events and to purchase books, log onto Amazon.com at https://www.amazon.com/Mary-Ann-Burke/e/B001H6IXXW/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0.
Places to Take Your Preschool KidsAs the summer days draw to a close, you probably have exhausted places to take your preschool kids. Parents have identified the following fun activities to pursue with your children this fall:
Lately, I have felt a growing concern over the amount of screen time children seem to have. They could be playing games on smartphones or tablets, or they could be watching TV. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) children have an average of seven hours of screen time a day. That is alarming!
The AAP recently created new guidelines for media use. For a detailed report, click on http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/21/health/screen-time-media-rules-children-aap/index.html. Here is a summary of the guidelines. [Read more…]
What does terrible two look like when twins, who look identical, flip their personalities daily? I could never predict my confusion and joy in grandparenting twins. I watched countless videos about twin antics and read numerous parenting books about twins before they were born. I worked with lots of families of preschool siblings when teaching early childhood education classes. Nothing, however, prepared me for the craziness that twins love to share by confusing their family with their many antics. [Read more…]
