To play with your kids, there’s no need for expensive toys or couch potato activities. We prepared a list of games that can keep you and your toddler(s) fit while wildly stimulating their imagination and yours!
1) THE TEMPEST. Your big bed is a raft. Produce huge waves using your bed sheets! Move the sheets, make sounds, and describe the danger you’re experiencing. Pretend to fall out of the raft, and desperately ask your kids to save you. Then, switch the roles.
In the past few days, there has been a lot of talking around the issue of whether women can or can’t have it all, and why. Anne-Marie Slaughter, a Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton, started the fire, with her honest thought-provoking cover story, Why Women Still Can’t Have It All, in the latest issue of The Atlantic.
In the article, Slaughter – former Director of Policy Planning for the United States Department of State – shares her experience with great honesty. With a high-profile career, a husband and a child, she was convinced that yes, women can have it all. But when she moved to Washington D.C. and, for the first time, had a job where she wasn’t in control of her schedule, she realized the demands of her profession and those of her two teenage sons, just weren’t compatible. Her family was in Princeton, while she was posted in Washington, and although her husband was taking, Slaughter says, “the lion’s share of parenting,” that still wasn’t enough.
And so, after two years, she went back to Princeton instead of continuing service with the government, coming to the conclusion that “having control of your schedule is the only way that women who want to have a career and a family can make it work.”
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Ah, how we love wonderful iPad apps! iF Poems, for instance.
Guess who told us about it? Helena Bonham Carter. Here:
Remember Martha, the 9-year-old blogger? Well, meet Owen, the 8-year-old artist!
The Washington Post calls him a genius (nice one, Owen!) and looking at his work it’s easy to understand why.
His drawings look like this:
All pictures via Owen Guarino’s Facebook page. [read more]
To celebrate our very own award-winning art director Samuele, whose birthday was on Sunday, we went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
It was a-maz-ing! We highly recommend you take your kids there this summer, if you are in the area.
We already knew the world under the sea is fascinating, but guess what we found most beautiful? Something we would be really scared of, in the ocean.
No, not sharks! Something prettier: Jellyfish!
Ah, summer vacations. Fun times: kids around the house and parents desperate for ideas on how to entertain them!
But worry not, we’ll be here all summer to share fun ideas for things to do so your kids won’t get bored, you won’t lose your mind, and will you both have a good time.
In case you missed it, we’ve shared some wonderful classic rare books online you and your kids could read together, or alternatively you could write and illustrate a book, go see some fun art or, well, go to all the way to Denmark to explore the most fantastic playgrounds out there.
And here’s another option: how about cooking with your kids? We are not talking about some normal food making, but about wonderful cooking with illustrated recipes from all over the world.
All images via They Draw & Cook
It’s never too early to learn programming. And, as we were just saying, what better way to teach it than through a game?
Of course, there is one. For iPad.
Video and images via Cargo-Bot
Learn math through game development. Create an app to understand photosynthesis. Figure out thermal energy with gameplaying.
Wouldn’t that be every child’s (and many parent’s) dream? Except it’s not a dream, it’s a true story by GameDesk.
Band-Aids, they are no fun. Or are they?
Well, when combined with the Muppets in an augmented reality iPad app, they can actually be pretty exciting.
Video via Gizmodo
