Category: department of good parenting
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18 Tabletop games that are great for kids
Our family has a lot of board games. Gaming has always been a huge part of how we entertain ourselves and also an important part of our kids’ education. But typical “educational games” are almost uniformly awful. And unnecessary — all games can be educational in one way or another, whether they use math or…
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Jenny and Jai
Last weekend, we found out that two friends of ours — mothers of our kids’ classmates — were involved in a domestic dispute that left the two of them in the hospital in critical condition from multiple gunshot wounds. Full news reports here and here. What happened was horrid and devastating and both women not…
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That’s our school!
Deseret News covers the “Thriller” flash mob the 6-8th graders pulled off at the Open Classroom. Photos: ‘Cause this is Thriller: Kids dance to the scary classic | Deseret News.
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Role Playing Games for kids
Our son loves reading. He’s recently gotten way into The Magic Treehouse series and we’ve since completed the full series (all 45 books!). It occurred to me, since he’s so interested in storytelling, that he might be into those Choose-Your-Own Adventure books that I wasted my youth reading and re-reading until every possible scenario had…