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10 Benefits of Hosting A Family Math Night Event

10 Benefits of Hosting A Family Math Night Event

1. Promotes family involvement with math.  Fall carnivals, jog-a-thons, and spring flings…all are great ways to involve parents in their child’s school experience.  But a Nifty Numbers Family Math Night is unique because it purposefully connects parents to classroom learning and reinforces the role they have as active participants in the education of their children. 2. Builds strong family-school partnerships.  Gone are the days when a parents’ role in their child’s school was simply being the room parent or helping…

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Teaching Kids the Price of Luxury – A Teachable Money Moment

Teaching Kids the Price of Luxury – A Teachable Money Moment

It’s our job as parents to provide food, shelter, and clothing to our kids.  But no where in the manual does it say that our little cherubs need to be clothed in the finest of linens. So the next time you’re out shopping with Junior, and he is just drooling over those $100 Lacoste shoes that “everyone is wearing”, remind him that you will always make sure his toes are dry and comfy, but your shoe budget taps out at ($60)….

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Teaching Kids Money: Embracing Mistakes

Teaching Kids Money: Embracing Mistakes

Nobody likes to make mistakes. They’re annoying, frustrating, and sometimes even embarrassing.  And they often make us feel like we’ve done something wrong.  Unless we change the way we think about them.  And when we do, we can discover that mistakes are one of the most powerful teaching tools we have. Consider your child being in charge of making a class poster for the school play.  He brings home the poster board and stencils and begins to work.  “Do you…

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The Bad Numbers

The Bad Numbers

It was 6:45 a.m. this morning when I heard the pitter-patter of little feet on the floor.  It was my 7-year old niece who was visiting for a few days.  I was shocked to see her peek into my office that early in the morning; I’ve seen her sleep til 10. But today was the last day of her short visit and I’m guessing she didn’t want to miss out on anything.  Ryan was up and fixing himself breakfast, John…

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Ryan Learns to Grocery Shop…and Gets Paid

Ryan Learns to Grocery Shop…and Gets Paid

Ryan just got back from Winco.  He was grocery shopping.  For me.  My entire weekly list of items. For over a year, Ryan has asked me if he could do the grocery shopping.  He knows it’s way down on my list below scrub the toilet and clean the hair out of the sink.  But for some reason, I thought it would be more of a hassle having him do it than me just going and getting it over with. I…

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