Ideas for Chores for Kids of Every Age

The lucky thing about toddlers is that they LOVE to “help.” You may have to accept that their help is not that helpful, but soon you’ll be in the habit of looking out for ways they can help that are age-appropriate. Find out the three different types of chores for kids you could choose from. Each will require a different level of commitment from you and an increasing level of independence from your children.

22 Gifts for the Feminist Mom Smashing the Patriarchy between Carpool and Bedtime

Every mom is a world-changer. These gifts recognize your feminist mom for the bad-ass activist and world-changer she is—whether she’s working at home wrangling the kids, marching in the streets for justice, or crushing it at the office.

8 Toys and Games that Build Problem Solving in Early Childhood

These are my favorite toys and games that teach problem solving. As a parent and an educator, these are also the toys that have multiple levels of challenge and engagement so your child can play with these for years and years as their cognitive skills grow.

3 Reasons Why Kids Need Chores

Your kid needs chores because chores are the perfect opportunity to teach your family’s beliefs about work, money, family, and caring for others. Without these messages, your child grows up unprepared for the realities of a life of work, in addition to a skewed version the work it takes to run a home. Preparing your child for the world of work does not mean impersonating a drill sergeant, but putting some thought into your values and messages can align who you are to your expectations for your kids and chores.

Number Sense for Pre-K Math Confidence

Want to give your child a healthy dose of math confidence before Kindergarten? In preschool or at home, children should develop a sense of what numbers mean and how they work in order to be prepared to learn the more complex math that will be taught in Kindergarten. We are inspired by the Montessori method because it introduces work on number sense very early and incorporates physical objects to support your child’s…

10 Feminist Children’s Books for the Next Generation

Yes, RBG is my hero, and she’s even more my hero when I know the obstacles she faced and the barriers she busted through. Yet, for my Girl, I’m looking for the books that don’t celebrate the victories of the past but reflect the current world we live in. Her generation of girls are already living so much further outside of the boundaries of sexism than I grew up with. We need books that exemplify that.

You Don’t Need a Shower

Look, you don’t need a shower.

I don’t have a shower, I have a tub. Dozens of people have looked at my bathroom in amazement, saying “how do you shower?” The truth is, the bathtub shower is much better than a regular shower, and I’d love more folks to understand why.

Here’s what you see on Pinterest: beautiful clawfoot tub in an impractical situation. Here’s the reality: clawfoot tub with a rigged-up chrome shower curtain holder, and a shower curtain that gets moldy and gross.

New Orleans is full of clawfoot tubs and rigged up shower curtains. Honestly, it looks like hell. And the experience of showering in a tub completely surrounded by a plastic liner is, um, slimy.

Sometimes They Destroy Your House

Some weekend mornings you wake up and your Girl, who has been up since 5:45am adventuring around by herself, has gone and made it her morning’s mission to destroy your house.  She’s dumped out all the beads in the entry. Every paper cup from yesterday’s puppet project has been stabbed with a marker. There is a […]