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Ready for an EPIC summer activity for kids? You MUST TRY Water Balloon Painting! These water balloon games are simple to set-up but so much fun. These water balloon activities get kids enjoying sunny days outside while still creating, using their imagination, and even cooling off. These fun water balloon games are perfect for toddler, preschool, pre-k, […] The post 5+ EPIC Water Balloon Painting Activities for Kids appeared first on 123 Homeschool 4 Me.

— Recommendations are independently chosen by Reviewed’s editors. Purchases you make through our links may earn us a commission.Kid birthday parties may have gotten a little out of control. When party favors outdo the actual presents for the guest of honor, and entertainment is on par with a Vegas residency, it can feel pretty hard to keep up. We often get the advice to “spend what you can afford,” but that’s of little comfort when you're showing up to kids’ parties that cost more than your mortgage payment. What’s a parent to do? What’s everyone else doing? Credit: Getty /...

Help kids learn about American money with money games for kids. We have found TONS of engaging, fun money games for pre-k, kindergarten, first grade,  2nd grade, and 3rd grade students who are learning about the penny, nickel, dime, quarter, half dollar, one dollar bill, five dollar bill, ten dollar bill, and more! We’ve included coin […] The post 35 FUN Money Games and Activities for Kids appeared first on 123 Homeschool 4 Me.

The fundamental economic dilemma of family life is that children cost money but a well-functioning market economy does not magically allocate additional funds to the parents of young children. On the contrary, having a child tends to depress the earning potential of the primary caregiver, typically the mother, and the facts of human biology are such that a woman’s peak childbearing years occur well before the typical time for peak earnings. In traditional societies, this is a nonissue, because children serve as economic resources—they are farm hands, they are domestic servants, they are a retirement plan. But in the modern...

Apple Twist by SmartGames is a simple and fun logic game that teach your kids important cognitive skills without them realizing it. One of the most commonly asked questions that I get when I meet a new homeschooling parent is, “How do you keep your kindergartener occupied when you are teaching your elementary school kid?” I have to admit, multitasking and trying to teach two kids at the same time is probably the hardest part about homeschooling. Thank goodness for SmartGames like Smart Farmer and Camelot Jr that allow one of my kids to play independently while I focus on...