Friday Fun: Adventures with Wildlife

Like many kids, Anna loves animals – or shall I say, “aminals.” (We're still working on that one.) Not only do we look up various creatures on the iPad every chance we get, but we’re also constantly on the lookout for them when we’re out and about.  Here are some of the ones we’ve encountered recently!

Teach Your Children

Returning to our series about researchers’ most important skill areas for parents, we come to #5 on the list, education and learning.  It’s probably obvious to everyone that it’s important to “promote and model learning” and to “provide educational opportunities” for our kids.  What is interesting to me here is the variety of views out there about how best to go about accomplishing this.

One debate revolves around whether flash cards are useful or not. I will save thorough discussion of that for another post, but I will say that even though hands-on learning is best, I do think flash cards have their place too. Anna really enjoys them and has gotten quite good at connecting pictures with letters.