This is a sponsored post for cars.com. The opinions expressed are honest. Car shopping is always an event for my family. When I was a young child, my dad worked briefly as a car salesman, so he knows the ins and outs of buying a new car. My dad always comes along to negotiate with the salesman at the dealership….
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Children ages 3 to 5 years old are incredibly curious, inquisitive, enthusiastic bundles of energy who are so ready to absorb everything presented to them. If you plan exciting lessons, preschool-age children are always ready to learn. This is especially true of hands-on science experiments. Rather than teaching preschool-age children all the steps of the scientific process, I like to focus on teaching them two…
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Store-bought Oreo cookies seem to be one of those foods that other people think are absolutely delicious, but I think are just kinda “eh”. I followed the smitten kitchen recipe for Oreos a few years back, and they were amazing. Unfortunately, they contained a few ingredients that I do not prefer to cook with regularly, so I modified the recipe…
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Before young children are able to perform simple mathematical operations, like addition and subtraction, they must first understand that the visual representation of a number, the way it is written, represents a set or quantity. For example, if I see the number 5 written on a piece of paper, I can envision 5 cookies, 5 apples, or 5 cars. If…
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It’s with both a smile on my face and tears in my eyes that I say — my daughter is beginning preschool this year. I am in complete disbelief that in just a few weeks she will be such a big girl. How’d this happen? I have been homeschooling her for the last (almost) 5 years, so I know she…
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