How Much Do You Spend On Your Kids’ Activities?
How much do you spend on your kids’ activities? Is cost the major consideration — or time, or logistics (such as dropoff/pickup)?
3 Ways to Teach Kids a New Language
I still remember the big day in 6th grade that we got to choose the foreign language that we’d start learning: Spanish, French, or German. (I picked Spanish.) Many schools in the U.S. still don’t begin to teach kids a new language until middle school, while most European countries, for example, start instruction of a second language when kids are six to nine years…
School Break Camps: Open Thread
Do your kids go to school break camps during winter and spring school vacations? With day care, you usually don’t have to worry — just send them to your regular provider. But parents of school-age kids need to find an alternative child care situation. Good sources for information about school break camps include local parent magazines and websites, and…
Your Kids’ Activities, Overscheduling, and Working Parents
A reader wondered, “Kat, could we do a discussion on overparenting/overscheduling when a working mom?”
