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Our best remedy for long winter days? A healthy supply of activity sheets for kids—because when it’s too chilly to go outside, exercising their brains is the next best thing. We’ve rounded up the coolest printables with a timely winter theme, from mad libs to paper snowflakes, free coloring pages, color by number printables and more. Read on to see them all, and get ready to fire up your printer! photo: MomDot Count the Snowmen Get counting practice in with this printable from MomDot. Once they’ve counted up all the snowmen, they can decorate them all too! Click here to...

Juggling a baby and toddler? No, not literally, although it sometimes feels that challenging. When child number two appears on the scene, you realize caring for a baby with a toddler along for the ride requires a new approach, creativity and some parent-tested tricks up your sleeve. Read on for our best tips on what to buy, how to organize your day and what to keep on time to help you not just survive but thrive with a baby and toddler. photo: iStock 1. Find Activities Toddlers Can Do On Their OwnSometimes you'll need your toddler to occupy themselves. Find...

Before taking the i-Ready Assessment, kindergarteners practice clicking on their answer choice (in this case, responding to “what do you use to see?”) and learn to push the speaker button to hear a question repeated out loud. Way back in the late 1960s, when federal officials and eminent psychologists were first designing the National Assessment of Educational Progress, they probably never contemplated testing students younger than nine. After all, the technology for mass testing at the time—bubble sheets and No. 2 pencils—only worked if students could read the instructions and the questions, hold a pencil, and fill in their answers....

Heyo good people! Whew — it’s 2022! Three months ago I was still unburying my office and inbox from moving, and as a result skipped my Q3 2021 Progress Report. So here’s the Q3 / Q4 / Year-End combo edition. In this post I’ll attempt to highlight some of my most important projects and the impact those had on the bottom line. Cheers! Why Progress? So why a “progress” report? Because that’s what it’s all about. To me, progress means forward motion, or actively taking the steps to improve each day. It’s one thing we can control. Progress is universal;...

Happy first week of 2022. I hope your new year is off to a good start. I very much appreciate the heartfelt and supportive comments on my last post. I have read every single one of them and will be revisiting each and responding throughout this week. I was pretty wiped out when we arrived home from Florida last week. I dropped Finn off with his dad as we were getting back into town last Tuesday evening and spent the next couple of days not doing much of anything. It’s so interesting, I read social media posts and listened to...