I Can Teach My Child!

5 Fun Ways to Encourage More Reading in Your Home

*This is a sponsored post on behalf of Energizer®. All opinions are 100% mine. As parents, we all know that reading should be an important part of our child's daily routine. Not only is it a great way to bond with our children (of any age), studies have shown that 20 minutes of reading a day has significant long term benefits for children that include:expanded vocabulary increased brain development higher test scores broadened worldview lower levels of ...

I wanted to do something a little bit different this year for Father’s Day. We have done the sentimental gifts…the sweet “I Wanna Be Like My Daddy” photo, the engraved hammer, the handprint work gloves. So we decided to change it up and do something silly instead! This Silly Father’s Day Blow Painting…

Entertaining My Children is not My Life's Mission

We are only a week into summer and I texted my husband at 8am this morning saying that I am ready to officially resign from my position as cruise ship director. I am so done trying to keep my kids entertained all. day. long. I want them to be bored. I want them to…

We made it! Today is Day 31 of our 31 Days of Outdoor Activities for Toddlers series! For today’s activity we did some Outdoor Slider Counting using a mock abacus that we hung outside on our fence. This is something we will keep up for a while for Little Sister to play with while…

For Day 30 of our 31 Days of Outdoor Activities for Toddlers, Little Sister enjoyed this Water Soaker Painting for Toddlers activity. In fact, it looked like so much fun, her brothers decided they should get in on the action too. I found these water soakers at Dollar Tree last weekend for $1…

Even though the calendar says it is still spring, we are in full SUMMER mode now that school is out! For day 29 of our 31 Days of Outdoor Activities for Toddlers, Little Sister had some fun with this Alphabet Target Practice with Water Guns. Not only is this activity great for…

Whipped Topping Painting and Paint Fight

Why not make art and have dessert all at the same time?!?! For Day 28 of our 31 Days of Outdoor Activities for Toddlers series we enjoyed this Whipped Topping Painting activity that very quickly turned into a Whipped Topping Family Paint Fight! We had SO. MUCH. FUN! And the best part was we just hosed…