Farewell Badger, by Tesa Silvestre
http://www.dailygood.org/story/2114/farewell-badger-tesa-silvestre/
“It tells the story of an old Badger who knows he will be dying soon, and worries about how his friends Mole, Frog, Fox, and Rabbit will cope with his departure after he goes down “the Long Tunnel.” The rest of this beautifully illustrated book revolves around the touching and creative ways in which Badger’s friends end up cherishing his legacy, and working through their loss.”
Climate vs. Weather - Science Rap Academy - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87P0G_9aK2c
What's the difference between weather and climate? Learn in this science-ified version of "Better Now" by Post Malone, written and produced by 7th graders from the Nueva School.
The New York Public Library
https://boingboing.net/2019/02/12/every-detail-visits-the-new-yo.html
Excellent video. What a place!
The 'Swiss Army knife' legs of a house centipede
https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/house-centipede-legs
A cool bug that helps get rid if not-so-cool bugs in your house.
Why Children Aren't Behaving, And What You Can Do About It
“First: Where, how and how much kids are allowed to play has changed. Second, their access to technology and social media has exploded. Finally, Lewis suggests, children today are too "unemployed." She doesn't simply mean the occasional summer job for a high school teen. The term is a big tent, and she uses it to include household jobs that can help even toddlers build confidence and a sense of community.”
In Britain’s Playgrounds, ‘Bringing in Risk’ to Build Resilience
"Limited risks are increasingly cast by experts as an experience essential to childhood development, useful in building resilience and grit."
10 websites all kids should bookmark
"Reliable go-to resources for a variety of subjects and skills for preschoolers through high schoolers"
How to Make Minecraft More Friendly for Small Children
"Minecraft is a great game for kids, no doubt about it, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a wee bit frustrating for smaller children. If you have a younger player and you’d like to adjust the game to their age and skill level, we’ve got more than a few tweaks to help make Minecraft frustration free for the whole family."
Explore musical variations amid floating 3D islands
"YUME is a simple musical experience where the songs change as you explore 3D floating islands—just click and drag them to move around. It's restful, easy to get lost, and the evolving tracks are great"
Top 10 Android Parental Control Apps
"This list contains apps that restrict functionality, keep tabs on locations and report online activities. All in all the 10 Android parental control apps try to cover almost every aspect of parental control, from mild to paranoid."
Free-Range Parenting: Be a Helium Parent, Not a Helicopter One
"We should hold on to our children as a child holds on to a balloon. Let them rise, float on their own, but keep a grasp on the string. "
Online Safety Tips for Kids, Students and Teens
"This post offers some online safety tips, especially for kids, students and teens, and can be used by anyone to see that he or she is not negatively affected while using the Internet."
Completely Protect Your Windows PC with Microsoft Family Safety
"Family Safety imbues your Windows account with a veritable cornucopia of monitoring and filtering tools that allow you to put up a virtual wall that you can exploit to monitor and filter app, game, and web activity. In other words, you are the boss."
How to Use Parental Controls on Windows 7
"Windows 7’s parental controls are pretty basic, but they’re effective and much better than having nothing at all. Plus, they can be used in conjunction with something like OpenDNS to filter websites and online activity."
8 Ways to Toddler-Proof Your iPhone or iPad
8 Ways to Toddler-Proof Your iPhone or iPad "Tips, tricks and general advice for parents with Apple-based tablets or smartphones and inexhaustibly curious 2-to-3-year-olds"
How to Raise Happy Kids: 10 Steps Backed by Science
How to Raise Happy Kids: 10 Steps Backed by Science: "Now there’s tons of info on raising smart kids and successful kids, but how do you raise happy kids?
Sometimes it’s hard to balance what’s best for children with what makes them happy — but the two don’t have to be mutually exclusive."
Sometimes it’s hard to balance what’s best for children with what makes them happy — but the two don’t have to be mutually exclusive."
What Parents Need to Know About Web Filtering and Parental Controls
"It’s easy to set up parental controls and filter the web. These features are built into everything from Windows to the iPad. But none of these filtering solutions is perfect."
How to Lock Down Your iPad or iPhone For Kids
"iPads and iPhones give you control over how your kids can use your devices. You can quickly lock your device to a certain app before handing it over or lock down an entire device with comprehensive parental controls."
‘Flow’ is a pretty, simple, and strangely compelling free game
"Do you enjoy strange, off the wall games that most people might consider ‘odd’ because they don’t follow set conventions for modern gamers? If so, you’re going to love ‘Flow’, a free browser based game. It offers a very pretty game environment, simple but compelling game play, and can be installed as a Chrome App (shortcut) if you should desire to do so."
Don't Be Bored, Be Unbored
"The hardbound tome is an activity book for children aged 8 and up, with over 350 beautifully designed and illustrated pages that encourage kids to use their natural curiosity and skills to be creative and to try to change the world."
Kurupira Web Filter
"Kurupira is a customizable web filter that enables you to protect your kids from inappropriate online content. You also set daily time limits, restrict access to applications and keep track of websites that were visited"
Are kids saying they're bored? Break out the Bucket of Boredom.
It has some fun thing to do in it, but also some chores and some goofy time-wasting stuff, because our goal was not only to give them something to do, but to get them to stop complaining of boredom and think of things to do themselves (and because if it was all rainbows and ice cream they'd use it all up on day one and get sick of it). So in other words, they quickly learned that they had to really be bored to take the chance on the BoB.
My wife, an inveterate scrapbooker, fancied up our Bucket (a plastic jar with a screw-on lid) with letters and pictures, but even an old shoebox or coffee can would work. We printed out a list of things, cut them apart and folded them, and put them in the Bucket, and when the kids were really and truly bored, and willing to take a chance, they'd draw one out.
Some of the items were retired after one use, some items were put back in after they were drawn, and we added new ones as we thought of them. The kids never knew what was in there, although they did suggest things (that we may or may not have added). Anyway, you get the idea.
Here's the list of items we started with:
Here's the list of items we started with:
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