1988 results found for Time Capsules: A Family Time Machine.
Help your child create a time capsule to be opened next year--or ten years from now.
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Help your child prepare information to put into her time capsule by asking her questions (and writing down her responses if necessary). You might ask about favorite foods, songs, activities, friends, and so on.
If you like this idea, you'll want to begin as early as possible your child's first birthday would be the perfect time.
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Help your child write a letter expressing her likes and dislikes, and then make a time capsule to put it in.
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Try this fun activity with kids every year on their birthday, New Year's Eve, or anytime you want to capture memories! Print out this "questionnaire" ... read more
Take a look back at some of the most significant events of the century. Take our quiz! read more
From the Beatles to the Bay of Pigs. Vietnam to Woodstock. The '60s rocked . . . and rolled. read more
From flappers to flyboys. Boom to bust. Those '20s sure did roar! See how much you know. read more
War was raging in the 1940s, but Americans still found time to let their hair down now and then. read more
How much do you know about the decade when blue jeans and bobby socks ruled? read more
The century's penultimate decade was one of greed and glamour. How much do you know about the '80s? read more
They seem like only yesterday. How well do you remember the 90s? Take our quiz! read more
Do you think you're a whiz at "ancient" history? We challenge you with this quiz! read more
Styles from this decade keep returning like a boomerang. What else do you know about the 70s? read more
A quiet time for everyone to read on their own may be the only chance you get to see the morning paper. But it's also a time that your little one can "read" her books or magazines.
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Finding the time is always hard to do now that families spend so many hours at work or involved with some kind of extracurricular activity. Anyone with a teenager and a phone bill knows that kids that age want to hang out with their friends or gab on the phone all night. Prying them away from their personal lives can be a challenge. And then there's our younger kids who have aliens to blast, and levels to beat in their latest computer game craze. And we can't forget about the tremendous amount of homework to be done.
In our society, we are given the illusion of control about many things. We can preprogram our coffee makers to have fresh coffee in the morning, watch close to 100 cable channels on TV 24 hours a day, and zap frozen food in the microwave for a 3-minute dinner. We tend to assume that we can apply this control to everything in our lives.
In Spend Special Time with Your Child, you learned about the importance of special time—one-on-one sessions with each of your kids. It's also vital to spend time together as an entire family to cement your family identity.
There's no two ways about it, watching TV together does not count as family time. Turn it off, stop focusing on the screen, and look at each other!
Time for some family planning decisions. When's the best time to have a second baby? Should you have your family all at once, spacing your children less than two and a half years apart? Or should you recover from the first before having the second, spacing them at least two and a half years apart? As the following table demonstrates, it all depends on your priorities.
You may be wondering when you're going to do all these arts & crafts when you're running to soccer games, trying to get the laundry done, rushing to finish a project for your boss on time, and struggling to get a meal on the table every night.
When difficulties arise, families sometimes give up on homeschooling, believing that children will be in the way, or will be unable to cope with a challenging situation. Family illness, a new baby, moving, job loss, divorce, and other family issues are reasons why parents may think about putting their children back in school.
Time-out has been a common form of discipline among parents with young and school-age kids for a long time. However, there is plenty of confusion about when and how to use it most effectively. Part of the problem is in failing to adapt this occasionally useful technique to the age of the child.
Punishment, such as time-out, always has the potential to increase fear, especially in younger kids, and it saps parents' energy. Rewards, on the other hand, are usually pleasant and create energy.
Don't forget to treat your body well! Consider a manicure, pedicure, or massage to give yourself a boost and help you feel attractive. Often these simple things can be very helpful in getting your healthy body image back. You haven't lost it forever; it's just hidden.
