When you become a parent, you pick up many transferable skills that can help you in various roles. For example, you become more efficient, are often great with kids, and can anticipate needs of other people in a heartbeat. You also become more empathetic and caring, which is something many roles require now in customer-focused enterprises. If you’re looking for a new career as a working parent and you want to put your skills to good use, read on for some ideas:
There’s a lot of emphasis today on giving children too much praise and not preparing them for failure and disappointment. However, it’s important to find the balance because as children today grow older, they enter into a world of social media, fierce competition for jobs and pressure to “succeed” – whatever that means. Therefore to survive in this world, your child needs to be confident and have self-esteem. But how do you do that and make them strong without doing more harm than good?
A themed birthday party is a fun way to treat your child on their special day. Whether it’s something you do with just family or your child wants to invite some friends and classmates, you can easily set up a super fun birthday party that’s themed around something that your child loves.
It doesn’t take much to make a themed party, and you don’t have to spend a lot of money either. Some decorations, food and activities that all match the theme can keep everyone entertained and delight your little one too. Here’s what you need to plan your themed birthday party.
For parents, toys that make noise are probably one of the most irritating gifts that people buy for our kids. Even when we buy them ourselves, we often regret it – quickly. However, noisy toys can be used to develop our children’s minds, functional skills, and other vital aspects of their development. For example, we can help grow our children’s’ musical abilities with kid-friendly instruments and even inspire the future musician or audio-visual artist in them.
Many of us lead busy lives, so when it comes to our child’s education during the Age of Learning, we leave the brunt of it to our child’s teachers. After all, that’s what they’re paid to do, right?
But as parents, there are specific reasons why we should get involved with our child’s education. In a moment, we will look at some of the ways in which we can do this, but first, let’s consider the benefits of our involvement.
Quality time is one of the most important things in life and for ensuring that relationships grow as they’re supposed to. However, in this busy and modern world, it can be sometimes quite difficult to maintain the levels of quality time to give those relationships the attention they deserve due to long working hours, rising costs, and an array of other things that take up time and attention.
So, if you’re looking for some ways to spend more quality time with the people who you love the most- your son, for example, so that you can bond with them better, but also don’t want to stay at home all the time or do things that will break the bank, then in this post we’re going to share with you some great ways to spend quality time with your son.
Let’s be honest, a lot of kids don’t really want to learn in the conventional way. If you sat your kid down in front of a book, it may hold their interest for around 3 seconds, after which time they’d be back to eating crayons, and doing other things that make you wonder, ‘how am I ever going to teach them anything?’ Whilst this can be pretty stressful, most children do have an innate interest and curiosity, and they do want to learn about things. You just have to try to make it as exciting as possible, so that they’re on board.
We’ve put together a list of a few ways that you can make learning an exciting experience for your kids, so that they can go into the world with the right knowledge as adults!
Being a great dad in the modern world is very subjective, but there are definitely some things that can help you with this if you are serious about it. There are a lot of factors to parenthood, and whether you are co-parenting, or you are a single father, there are plenty of things you can do to make sure you are focused on improving the way you parent.
This is so important for the future, and it allows you to do as much as you can to spend more time with your kids, and to be a better dad in the process. Do what you can to follow the ideas on here, and allow you to improve your skills as a modern parent. There are plenty of pitfalls that need to be avoided, and it is essential that you get this right.
We all know what a gamer is, and your children especially. YouTube is such a big platform where people go to watch videos, to either learn, be entertained, or know about important things out there in the world, along with so much more.
There is now a way to play games, and be paid for it while making a huge opportunity for yourself. A lot of parents are unsure about the idea of video games, as people assume they’re a waste of time and far too consuming. And while there are and always will be some concerns – as long as things are done in moderation, as well as done safely, there really is a lot of possibilities that it could bring.
Sometimes the world of technology seems to move dizzyingly fast. Twelve years ago, only 120 million people owned mobile phones. Now more than 5 billion people own a smartphone, and the figure rises every year.
Toys have been affected by this seismic shift too. They’ve become infected by new software and electronics, turning them from something static to objects with potentially infinite opportunities for exploration. Let’s take a look at some of the high tech toys that are going to revolutionize the lives of your kids.
3D Printing Pens
3D printing is one of those technologies that is endlessly hyped but not yet ready for prime time – at least in the industrial setting. When it comes to toys, the story is very different. A company called 3Doodler has developed a kind of 3D printing pen for kids.
This is a Corsair model drawn with a 3Doodler (or 3D Printing Pen) – Pretty amazing, right?
That might sound a bit far fetched, but the pen – part of the company’s Start STEM Series – does not contain any hot elements and works simply by pushing out the printing material through the nozzle at the tip. The pen comes with a range of accessories that allow kids to make whatever they like, although it’s advisable to follow the tutorials to start with.
Bionic Arms
Exoskeletons and human bionics promise not only to improve the lives of people who have been injured in conflict or accidents but also to enhance human capabilities in general. Sure, we’re still some way off from becoming bona fide iron men, but that doesn’t mean that kids can’t enjoy playing with the idea.
Speaking of Iron Man, the notion that we can enhance our bodies with machinery is pretty mainstream, even if nobody is doing it yet. And now LittleBits has developed a Droid Inventor Kit based on the Avengers theme, that allows kids to trial a kind of Iron Man suit prototype on their wrist. The toy, which fits like a gauntlet, has lights, programmable features, and sensors. Unfortunately, they don’t supply it with a pocket-size fusion reactor for flight purposes. Perhaps that’ll come with next year’s model.
Camera Drones
Drones are a controversial topic right now, but there’s no doubt that they’re going to play an essential role in the future across a range of industries, particularly agriculture, military and ecommerce. Right now, their primary purpose is to serve as toys, with kids and their parents clamouring for the best drones with cameras.
Getting kids started early in any hobby is important, be it music, sport or art. And drones provide keen parents with the perfect means of getting their children interested in photography. Drones allow kids to get shots at angles that just weren’t possible in the past, creating new opportunities for experimentation and creativity.
Cuddly Tutors
With improvements in artificial intelligence, it was only a matter of time before a company developed a cuddly toy imbued with smart software. Ubooly is a kind of intelligent device wrapped in a cuddly toy shell that can tutor kids of all sorts of topics, from numeracy to literacy and beyond.
It provides games, activities and stories to make learning enjoyable.
It provides games, activities and stories to make learning enjoyable.