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Summer camps that offer half-day programs are perfect for kids that need a little bit of time away from home. For parents with flexible schedules, this might be right up your alley. This roundup of summer camps that offer half-day programs is just a start. Find more summer camps in our Annual Camp Guide. Thank you to our sponsors: 24-7 UK Soccer Academy and KidztoPros. 24-7 UK Soccer Academy offers half-day sessions from 8:30 am to 11:30 am or noon to 3 pm as well as a full-day program at many Bay Area locations. Find recreational and competitive. KidzToPros STEM, Arts...

1. As literary origin stories go, the one about how Haruki Murakami became a writer stands out in my memory. According to an account published in Jay Rubin’s Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words, it was during an afternoon baseball game in Tokyo in April 1978. Murakami was then 29 years old, and while he had vague literary aspirations, they had faded. Instead, he was absorbed with the operations of Peter Cat, the jazz club he owned: listening to music, preparing sandwiches, and making cocktails. Murakami has told this story often. Each time, the author of Norwegian Wood and...

Oh what a Tuesday it was. I slept horrendously last night and found myself up and at ’em at 4:30a listening to a podcast and cleaning my house. I knew I didn’t have the mental bandwidth to work on the computer but I did feel motivated to get my space tidy. I left for the gym at 6:30a and had five personal training clients back-to-back. It was a great morning of training and everyone worked super hard! I got home around lunchtime and laid myself out on my driveway to get some vitamin D while I talked to my dad and...

Here’s the truth about your big concerns from the early years all the way through high school From the first goodbye in kindergarten to the last day of twelfth grade, sending our kids to school means letting go a little bit every day.  And for many parents, that nudge out of the nest cue ALL the parental concerns. Questions run the gamut, from “Will my kindergartener get lost on her way to the bathroom? ” to “What if my college-bound kid doesn’t get good grades?” But teachers say to take a deep breath!  “What does worry actually contribute? A lot of...

Learning to sing the alphabet song is an important preliminary step of the process of learning about the letters of the alphabet as part of learning to read and write. While I am pretty sure we all know the traditional version of the alphabet or ABC song for kids but these different and super fun versions of the alphabet song for kids are super cool and fabulous for bringing the alphabet to life for preschool, kindergarten and early elementary/primary aged children. 15 Fun Versions of the Alphabet Song for Kids Each of the following fifteen alphabet songs is shared as...