Technology for Kids

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Videos of the girls playing Sebran on the computer at age 3 Alphabet Rain Video Memory Game on Computer Computers, iPads, iPods, iPhones, and Kindles are just a normal part of our children’s lives. They will never know what it was like without all these technological devices. It was quite apparent that once the computer [...]

What Are Your Children Reading This Summer?

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What are your children reading this summer?? The girls came home from school with a Junie B. Jones book list from Books a Million. They had to read 4 books in order to complete the requirement to get their backpacks. We headed off to the library and borrowed a stack of Junie B. Jones books. [...]

Junie B. Jones Backpack!

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Summer reading programs are a great way to get children excited about reading. The girls participated in the Books a Million Reading Program that was given to them at the end of their Kindergarten year. They enjoyed going to the library and checking off the books as they read them. We went to pick up [...]

Start the Love of Reading Now!

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Start the Love of Reading Now…Here are some tips! Start the learning process as early as possible with books your baby and toddler will enjoy. Your child’s natural curiosity at this age makes books as fun and exciting as a any toy. How Can Toddler Books Enhance Development? The first stage of child development is [...]

Join Teaching Tiny Tots and Random House in Our Read and Play Summer Fun Community

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Join Teaching Tiny Tots and Random House in a new community at BlogFrog!  Teaching Tiny Tots along with 9 other leaders are launching the new Read and Play Summer Fun Community.  This community is made up of literacy experts, educators, parents and people interested in promoting literacy.  I am very excited to be partnering up [...]

Selecting a Sunscreen for Kids

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Share 15 SPF, 30 SPF, 50 SPF…What Do You Use? My girls have fair sensitive skin so I did a little research. I spoke with a couple pharmacists as well. It’s good to speak with your pediatrician if you have any specific questions or your local pharmacists to find what is best for your child. [...]

MrsP.com Supports NEA Campaign with Videos by Kid Writers & a School Visit!

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Teaching Tiny Tots would like to showcase two very special young individuals who are the winners of Mrs.P.com’s prestigious annual “Be a Famous Writer” contest, a nationwide creative writing competition. Bill Wang and Briana Beebe the winners of this contest, and will be receiving special recognition today. On March 2, 2011, www.MrsP.com, the popular, award-winning [...]

Perfect-Parties.com Has Been Launched!

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Our Newest Site has been launched!! Perfect Parties.com is now up and running. Join us to see kids party ideas such as games, cakes, themes and more! We want your Cake Ideas! Submit them HERE to build your own page and be featured by Perfect Parties…Help make us one of the best resources on the [...]

MrsP.com Announces the Winners of their 2nd National Kids’ Writing Contest

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It is with great pleasure that Teaching Tiny Tots has been asked to assist in giving special recognition to these young writers. Two children have been selected as the grand prize winners from Mrs.P.com’s in its “Be a Famous Writer” contest, a nationwide creative writing competition held in September. Mrs.P’s Be a Famous Writer contest [...]

Review of Mrs.P’s Interactive Storybook Four Favorite Fairy Tales & Funny Stories

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Our girls have really enjoyed MrsP.com’s online stories starring actress Kathy Kinney as Mrs. P, who played Mimi on The Drew Carey Show. In fact, one of my girls asked if we could visit her at story time! So we were very excited to have this opportunity to review Mrs. P’s newly released book Four [...]

Christmas Gift Ideas for Toddlers & Young Children

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We have a few favorites that we would like to recommend if you are looking for a Christmas gift for a young child. We have feature Mega Bloks at our main site Teaching Tiny Tots and have included some great learning activities just through playing with Mega Bloks. Comes in a carrying case and easy [...]

Doorway Jumpsters

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One of our absolutely favorite activities was the Jumpster. It became part of our morning routine and it really put the girls in a good mood. We played our “jumping” music and let them bounce away for about 10 minutes. Please make sure you read the instruction booklet completely and follow all suggestions for age [...]