Educational Links to Keep Kids (and their caregivers) Occupied

Playing with kids allows us to be kids again, while modeling curiosity, inquisitiveness, fun and team spirit. These are some links to websites that you can enjoy with the kids in your life "guilt-free." Enjoy! And feel free to add more sites to the list.

PBS Kids has lots of learning topics for kids to explore
pbskids.org/



Starfall is a free public service that teaches kids to read using phonics
www.starfall.com/





Funschool Kaboose has many topics for kids to explore, including preschoolers
funschool.kaboose.com/index.html



Learning to type has never been so much fun!
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/levels/level1.shtml

The name says it all: MATH is COOL
www.coolmath.com/



Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and...math MAJIC
www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/Mathmagician/cathymath.html



National Geographic games for kids
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/games/

Elementary school games for kids
http://www.gamequarium.com/

Use Activity TV to interact with your kids on many topics
http://www.activitytv.com/



Smithsonian Kids is a museum of topics for explorationhttp://www.smithsonianeducation.org/students/idealabs/smithsonian_kids.html



FunBrain is just that...fun for your brain
http://www.funbrain.com/?wtlAC=tablinks,FENhome

Go on an adventure with Kratts' Creatures
http://pbskids.org/krattscreatures/login.shtml?

Mr. Rogers still lives on in this neighborhood
http://pbskids.org/rogers/



Homework or learning help needed?
http://udltechtoolkit.wikispaces.com/

Free stories for kids
http://www.storytimeforme.com/



Nick Jr. games for preschoolers
http://www.nickjr.com/games-activities/

Math games from elementary to ALGEBRA
http://www.mathnook.com/

The People Who Pass Through Your Life Via Your Body

On Children

 Kahlil Gibran

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.

Okay, so there are these people who enter this world by passing through your body. You have a visceral reaction to someone of the opposite sex and procreate. You think you are in love. You are so excited that you and this other godlike being have planted the seed of life in the form of another human being into your womb. Little did you know that the seed had ideas of its own. It grew and became an INDIVIDUAL. Yes, maybe it was forced by DNA to have brown eyes, knocked knees, high blood pressure, or WHATEVER. BUT, this person had a mind of his/her own from the moment of conception. 

Anyone who has had more than one child can attest to this fact. No child is an exact replica or mathematical equation of each of his/her parents. Even after birth, with all the inputs, the child will not comply!!! The child is...well...what...he/she...IS!!!

 

Lucky for us!

Child of My Child

Child of my child
You tug at my heart strings
I see my child in you
I see myself in you
I see you, but I see my child plus something else...


Like the added spice that makes the dish taste just right.





YOU ARE THE FUTURE.