Intricate Database of Awesome Playgrounds 🚸
Playgrounds are awesome. But how do you find the good ones? It's high time we had an objective playground ranking system.
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Puzzles More Intricate than Most Escape Rooms, in a Book! 🧩 📗
Fun story, insanely amazing artwork, and the entire book is an intricate puzzle!
The Nerdy Approach to Incentivizing Chores 🧹
Section 5 of the Prentice Family Policies and Procedures specifically relates to points-based rewards and fines.
Teach your Pre-Schooler to Bike 🚲
Last weekend we had a couple big Spreadsheet Awards in our family. Our two younger kids learned how to bike without training wheels!
The Nerdiest Game, But in a Good Way: Dungeons and Dragons 🐉
D&D has an amazing mix of probability, math, rules, and strategy with creativity, story telling, drawing, acting, improvisation, and leadership.
Inspire Your Little Scientists with Ada Twist 👩🏾🔬
Learn about being a young scientist, the good and the bad, in this rhyming book "Ada Twist, Scientist"!
Fun Resources to Teach Your Kids French 🇫🇷
What are your favourite tools and best approaches to teaching your kids another language?
Spreadsheet Awards: The Baby Memory Book for Nerds 🏆
As with most things in life, keeping track of your baby's milestones is better and more fun with a spreadsheet.
The 77 Best Kid-Friendly Books That Are Educational AND Awesome 📘
Reading any book will surely contribute to your children's knowledge and skills, particularly in the areas of language, vocabulary, listening, attention span, and reading itself. This is great, but why not help your kids in these areas plus additional educational areas (such as math, technology, life, science, engineering, equity, art,
Among Us Themed Socially Distant Wink Murder 😉
Had enough of your kids constantly playing Among Us? Why not send them outside to play the wink murder version without a screen!
Host a Pandemic-Safe Virtual Birthday Party 🎈🕹
There are still COVID restrictions, so this year we went with a digital birthday with multiplayer games, video chats, and a virtual hang-out space.
The Best Songs to Help Celebrate Pi Day 🎉
These songs will give you something to listen to at your Pi Day parties and will help you with memorizing pi and generally nerding out!
An Amazingly Simple and Fun Board Game 🖐
My kids recently re-discovered Spot It! and have been playing it a lot the last few weeks. It's surprisingly great for young kids!
Iteratively Softening the Shock of Letting Your Kids Roam Free 🗺
As scary as it is, at some point in their lives all parents need to start letting their kids explore the world without their direct supervision.
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