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After weeks of being cooped up, we’re all desperate to bust out of our home offices and home schools and be outside again. But even as the country starts to reopen — cautiously, unevenly — the reality is it’s going to be a different kind of summer. Camps are canceled, parks are closed, and strategizing a simple road trip feels like planning a special-ops mission.This summer we’re all going to have to go back in time, to the glory days of the 1980s, when kids were marooned in the neighborhood with nowhere to go and nothing to do. Back when...

I've taken the week off from writing my own content so that I could really pause, listen, and learn about the black communities in our country. I have learned a lot over the last week, and am in the process of making actionable steps towards change in my life, and in my own home. I've compiled some resources that I hope will be meaningful to you and your family as you work towards creating meaningfully change in the right direction in your homes as well.I don't claim to be an authority on any of this and still have so much...

In The Muppet Movie, amphibian philosopher Kermit asks, “Why are there so many songs about rainbows?” As I took my fourth walk around the neighborhood the other day (walking is my new coronavirus shutdown hobby), I thought about Kermit’s question and listed all of the songs about rainbows that I know. Rainbow Connection, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Rainbow Ballerinas, the theme song to Reading Rainbow, and the Youtube jam Double Rainbow popped into my head. Musing the answer to Kermit’s query, I think there are so many songs about rainbows because rainbows simply make people feel happy. My preschool students...

Top 10 Best Small Nightstands in 2020 You might think of nightstands as an unnecessary waste of space, and I agree that you do have a point. After all, there are closets to keep our clothes in, and reading desks for our accessories. But I find nightstands to be very useful. They are great for placing your glasses just before going to sleep, or alarm clocks to wake you up. Most nightstands often come with drawers, which are great for keeping your TV remote or novels that you might read just before feeding. However, some nightstands do indeed take up...

Last year, after a stint in China, Lincoln Logs began to be manufactured by honest to goodness Maine woodworkers, news which likely elicits one of two responses from most people: “‘Merica!” followed by a loud whoop, or simply, “They still make Lincoln Logs?” Indeed they do, and have since 1918. It’s a good thing, too, because building toys are powerful learning tools. There’s plenty of research to suggest that unstructured block play helps kids develop spatial awareness and problem solving. Structured block play – the kind Lincoln Logs promote by providing kid-accessible blueprints for frontier-era palaces like Fort Lincoln –...