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Your relationship with your sister or brother is one of the most lasting relationships you will ever have. It's often longer than your bonds with your husband or wife, parents or even best friends. Therefore, National Siblings Day was established to celebrate the important relationship between brothers and/or sisters. The great time to strengthen your relationship with your siblings is National Siblings Day held on April 10th, that offers a fantastic opportunity for parents to help their children grow closer.

Even before babies can pick up or hold a paintbrush, most children love making artwork using their hands. One important way kids explore and learn about the world around them is through their artwork. Veteran parents, educators, and even therapists will expound on way in which the youngest of artists utilize their imaginations and develop creativity by using paints and sometimes shaving cream or the food on their plates to experiment with textures, colors, and images.

Watching your little ones flourish is a real joy. As supportive parents and caregivers, ensuring children develop in line with expected milestones can be a little overwhelming. This can especially be the case when monitoring a youngsters' handwriting skills because every child develops at different speeds. Therefore it can be confusing to ascertain what skills they should be exhibiting at what stage. 

Do your kids beg you for candy every time you try to get out the door at the grocery store? How often have you pleaded with your child to “just eat their broccoli already”? Giving your child the knowledge behind healthier eating options can mean the difference between forcing your kids to eat something they don’t want to and the courage to pick the food they know will help their body be its best! Here are eight ways you can introduce healthy eating habits to your children.

Welcome to Kids Academy’s Math Learning Bundle! This article aims to help you in guiding your kids in learning multiplication and division progressively. It presents lessons in accordance with the complexity of lessons. It strives to produce mathematically-inclined students through presenting them with real-life scenarios, enjoyable activities, and effective worksheets. It comprises the following articles which help you introduce to your kids the topic, Multiplication and Division!

Creating firm boundaries within your household to ensure your children consume a balanced amount of media is important. Freedom of the press is obviously significant and is not something to take for granted, as it allows us to understand and learn about the reality of life in other countries as it is reported. There are also benefits to watching and enjoying movies, dramas and documentaries through which we can laugh, learn and enjoy a new topic.

However, it is undeniable that the constant consumption of news and media, specifically that which displays violence, war, dysfunction and general harm, are not beneficial for children and young adults (and let’s be honest - adults) to consume. This is particularly relevant now, in times of conflict.

Common childhood illnesses, such as allergies and asthma, have become increasingly frequent in the last decades, particularly in Western countries. On the one hand, we used to believe that the rise in allergy disorders was related to the fact that we were not exposed to as many early infections as previous generations. On the other hand, scientific evidence demonstrates that this is not the case. It appears that spending time in nature and being exposed to a range of bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms (that are not disease-causing) can help to reduce the severity of asthma and allergy symptoms in people who suffer from them.

It is the purpose of this article to provide a concise summary of some of the most significant points related to the so-called classic hygienic hypothesis in the scientific community. Furthermore, as we will explain further below, we believe it is worthwhile to consider a contemporary point of view on this theory.

Mathematics is known for being a hard and mundane subject. The biggest problem that has lead to this reputation is the way it is taught. As a student, you are told to memorize formulas and apply them to homework and tests. Mathematics is much more than that, it is practical life translated into numbers and letters. It is logic. In this article, we’ll guide you to properly explain the Mathematical concepts of perimeter and area of quadrilaterals to your kids, while including fun and practical life worksheets from our website.

Raising healthy, securely attached children who can thrive and learn as they grow up is the aim. A key way to ensure that children grow up in this way, whilst developing holistically, is to ensure as parents you are consistently present and involved within their home and educational lives.  

Your presence and support provides the valuable water with which to nourish their seeds of potential.  

Children like playing games and solving puzzles. With this in mind, our goal is to make our product engaging, appealing, and comfortable both for children and their parents. We spend a lot of time and effort developing new features both for our apps (such as the Talented and Gifted app) and the website. In this article, we want to tell you how we have brought to life interactive worksheets — here on the website.