Tag Archives: Kids

Amid the chatter of travel’s long-awaited rebound one year into the pandemic, many families with children feel largely left out of the conversation. Nearly every summer, Ada Ayala, a teacher, and her husband, Oscar Cesar Pleguezeulos, travel with their children to visit Mr. Cesar Pleguezeulos’s parents in Spain. But this …

As any parent overseeing homeschool knows: Zoom P.E. is hardly a hard-driving Peloton class. It’s more like your kid lying on the floor of the living room doing halfhearted leg-lifts by the light of her laptop. Many students, particularly tweens and teens, are not moving their bodies as much as …

Here is a sampling of the week’s events and how to tune in (all times are Eastern). Note that events are subject to change after publication. Monday Tune in to a concert celebrating art and art museums by the children’s performer Laurie Berkner, who is often called the ‘queen of …

Many parents across America are facing the start of a school year in which they’re called upon to balance virtual schooling for their children and working from home. It’s a difficult thing to balance. We all want our children to have an excellent education, but also a safe one, while …

Author’s Blurb: When I stepped foot into my first day in science stream back in Form 4, I just couldn’t pick up or find subjects like physics and chemistry interesting. That made me drop it altogether and go into the arts instead. Syukran realised that only 19% of students were …

As a father of three children, I find it very important to support them in a variety of different ways. One of the most important subjects I feel my kids need to know, they might not learn in the classroom — either online or in person. Teaching my kids about …

Launched in early 2020, Singapore-based startup Doyobi is raising the next generation of change-makers. The edtech just announced a US$ 1 million (S$ 1.37 million) funding round led by 500 Startups and Xoogler Angels. Under Doyobi’s courses, children are taught science and coding fundamentals. Depending on their age group, kids …

Author’s Blurb: I’ve gone to government school all my life, where my lunch options were never very attractive. Options were limited, not that cheap, and it’s probably safe to say that healthiness was the last thing on the food operators’ minds (cleanliness too, but I don’t even want to think …

The playground padlocks are starting to come off. Now that all 50 states have begun to reopen, children in some areas are once again zipping down slides and swinging from monkey bars after months of waiting. A handful of states, including Massachusetts, Colorado, Ohio and Iowa, announced in June that …