Treat Your Kids Like Intelligent Humans 🤓
Kids are smarter than we give them credit for, let's push ourselves to treat them as such.
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Recommendations suitable for 8 year olds!
The Pros and Cons of Pokémon Cards for Uninitiated Parents 👾
If your kids are into Pokémon cards and you haven't had a chance to look into it yet then read on! There are a few downsides to trading Pokémon Cards, but I would argue the learning opportunities and benefits outweigh the risks.
Try Blokus AND The Nerdy Parent Original Add-On Game, Blokris 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟦
If you have never played Blokus, you really need to give it a try. The greatest thing about Blokus is that the rules are really simple, but optimizing your strategy is quite involved.
Inspire 4th-Dimensional Thinking with These Awesome Time Travel Books 🕔📚🕤
Thank the time-lords, there are children's picture books about Back to the Future and Doctor Who! Introduce your young kids to time travel while they are still too young to watch!
Catch and Release Field Biology for Children 🦋 🐸
There are many benefits to letting your kids catch bugs and small animals: cementing their scientific tendencies, learning about nature, patience, persistence, and more!
The World's Best Piano Teacher for Kids 🎹
Joseph Hoffman has a series of insanely awesome online piano tutorials that are available completely free!
Fun Summer Learning Time 💡
Take the education of your kids into your own hands this summer and schedule a regular "Learning Time!"
Stoic Happiness on the Camping Spectrum 🏕
Having a hard time convincing your kids to go camping? Well, read on for one MORE reason you can use to convince them.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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