Preschoolers are a tough audience to impress, especially when you’re trying to get them interested in something academic that they’re just not into. You’ve exhausted all the help available online and you’ve already recycled lesson plans from 5 years ago.

You are not a bad teacher and this isn’t a plateau in your teaching career. Maybe, you just have to extend your fantastic ideas beyond the classroom walls.

It’s time to take the class out of the room. Socrates perfected the Socratic Method without a classroom and successfully nurtured minds like Plato and eventually, Aristotle. These 3 tips below will give you ideas on how you can take your preschool class outdoors to help your students remember lessons better. (more…)

Gyms that cater to children are more expensive than the gyms that adults go to. The rates per hour skyrocket because kiddie gyms require a higher ratio of staff per child, to make sure children are safe. Moreover, the equipment requires higher safety standards.

Even with a worsening economy, you cannot take your child’s health and happiness for granted. There is a way to keep your child happy without having to spend a lot. All it takes is a little creativity and a little more quality time with your kids. (more…)

Although you want your kids to have fun, you also want them to be safe. Before letting your kids play on a public playground, here are the things you should inspect.

1. Space

We expect playgrounds to have the basic structures such as slides, swing sets, and seesaws. However, a poorly planned playground with an overwhelming number of fixed structures could take away a big chunk of grass space.

The beauty of taking kids to the playground is the opportunity that allows them to experience the outdoors within a safe and controlled environment. Boxing them inside fixed plastic and metal structures could end up defeating the purpose of spending time outdoors. (more…)

No matter how much you want to avoid it, there are just days when you have to skip taking your children to the playground. You can arrange for a babysitter to make sure that your kids are not deprived of their regular playground time. How do you make sure they still have fun, even with a babysitter? The key is setting qualifications for your baby sitter to make sure that your kids still get the most out of playground time.

Below are 3 things you need to look for to make sure that the babysitter can do a great job keeping your kids safe.

1. Must lead an active lifestyle

A natural, outdoorsy person can make a great playground buddy for your children. Babysitters who already lead an active lifestyle won’t complain about having to be in the playground and having to get a little dirty. (more…)

Playground fun isn’t exclusive to children. There are so many ways for grown-ups to have fun in the playground. Often, adults just don’t pay attention when the chance comes to let loose. Bringing kids to playgrounds shouldn’t be a chore. Below are 2 ways you can have fun—and just be—at no cost.

1. Get in there and play
You’re there to watch the kids anyway, why not attach yourself to them without being just-another-annoying-grown-up? Not only do you get to keep a close eye on the kids, you also get yourself a great opportunity for you to bond with children in an outdoor environment. Do what they do and really be with them. You’d be surprised with the things you’ll learn from children in their natural environment. This is your chance to talk to them without sounding like a parent. Bridge the gap, get to know their friends and find out what’s in and what’s out on things that matter to them. (more…)

When children ask for permission to go outside to play, parents often fear for the safety of their kids outdoors. After all, a child coming home with a scraped knee and scratches all over is a heartbreaking sight no parent would ever wish to see.

It is thus a good thing that an increasing number of safe playgrounds are being built in our communities. It would immediately be noticeable that these playgrounds are quite similar in that they all employ the use of rubber mulch. (more…)

There are many ways we can try and get our kids to learn about other countries and their cultures. Play is always a good way for children to learn, because they are having fun and picking up information at the same time, it is not like the drudgery of a class room. Although learning in classrooms can be fun as well.

If we look around the world, there are many great buildings, monuments and pieces of architecture that once seen, are generally remembered with the country they are in. So why not use this to our advantage when trying to teach our kids something about the world around them. (more…)

School playgrounds are a place for children to learn about themselves and how to interact with each other. They need a set of rules taught to them and adequate punishments in place for not adhering to these rules.

Kids, these days seem to more boisterous, so games like Red Rover, tag and hanging upside down on the monkey bars are frowned upon, and even outlawed these days due to concerns about fights and injuries. (more…)

In the United States over the past few years, there has been a lot more housing developments being built. The one thing that really grabs people with these new places, is the closeness and community feeling they give.

What does not seem to enter into the equation though, is the fact that all the play areas for the children seem to be the same, and have looked the same for the past fifteen years. Do they have just one person that designs the play areas for children, do the same thing all over the country, then go abroad, look at what they have, move it around a bit and then do exactly the same thing. Is there only one company producing swings, slides, roundabouts and funny looking things as climbing frames? (more…)