This New Gaming Console Wants to Replace Your Board Game Collection Meeple Mountain’s founder, Andy Matthews, spent some time last fall with Harris Hill Products, Inc., the team behind the new gaming device Board. After Andy finished the demo, he reached out to me because I do a lot of gaming-as-a-family nights at the Bell household with …
Squash It! is a hands-on social emotional learning game designed to help children explore and understand a wide range of feelings and situations. The set includes 10 soft, squishable animal characters—each individually wrapped—plus 10 character description cards and 42 situation cards covering important emotional topics. The 42 Situation Cards guide players through scenarios related to …
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Sometimes I stand out in a crowd.Sometimes I am not seen at all, and I feel alone.I start to ask myself, why can’t I blend in? Fit the mold?But when I stop and look, I see nothing in this world is exactly the same. Sometimes we hide who we really are to conform to the way we …
Strategies to Rally Motivation and Get Things Done (Even When You Don’t Want To) Authors: Michelle Garcia Winner and Jenny Sojat Brain Hacks is a colorful, high-energy graphic novel where five stressed-out teens meet online and form friendships as they learn strategies from each of their quirky brain-based CREW to navigate the ups and downs of their different high school …
Parents, educators, therapists, and social workers alike have declared The Invisible String the perfect tool for coping with all kinds of separation anxiety, loss, and grief. It’s also been joyfully embraced as a year-round celebration of love–gifted at births, graduations, weddings, Valentine’s Day, and beyond. In this relatable and reassuring contemporary classic, a mother tells her two …
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Studies in the 1950s revealed that young children hospitalized without their parents respond first by crying for them, then by showing signs of despair, and finally by emotionally detaching from the parents and acting indifferent to their absence. This detachment is hard to repair and highly detrimental to a child’s development-most children who feel they …
“I’m BORED!” wails a little girl after her screen time is cut short. “That’s great!” her dad says with a grin. “Being bored comes right before having a Really Good Idea.” After an initial protest, the little girl dives into her imagination, and takes the reader with her on a whirlwind ride of pure fun. A cardboard …
Here are some ideas that you can put on your coupons for your kids These are just a few ideas that we had. I’m sure you can think of more that is conducive to where you live. These experience coupons are a great idea especially if you are on a budget. It is about time …
