Encourage Pretend Play

• Playful Learning
Fred Rogers said “Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children, play IS serious learning. At various times, play is a way to cope with life and to prepare for adulthood. Playing is a way to solve problems and to express feelings. In fact, play is the real work of childhood.”

DIY Classes for Kids

• Grandparents' Academy
Coronavirus doesn't make elders expendable or children less needy. Connect these two generations––conscript the grandparents as teachers. Pool children from the neighborhood and form an online school with their grandparents.

Keep Kids Busy (and Learning) in Quarantine

• Facilitate Active, Engaged Learning
It may be tempting to hand over an iPhone or iPad or but the younger the child, the worse this is for their language and cognitive development.

Strengthening Social Skills

• What Is Social Competence?

It's about being able to deal with conflicts, frustration, jealousy and disappointment and involves skills like problem- solving, self-control, self-regulation, communication, and seeing things from another perspective. It's the foundation of academic success.

Smartphone Generation Statistics

• What Smartphones Are Doing To A Generation
iGen: a generation shaped by the smartphone and by the concomitant rise of social media.

Boredom for Kids

I'm Bored
It’s especially important that kids get bored — and be allowed to stay bored — when they’re young.The ability to handle boredom is correlated with the ability to focus, self-discipline, resourcefulness.

Taking Class Online

• Easy Passing Grade But No Gain
In so-called credit recovery programs, children who have flunked a course in an old-fashioned classroom pass the class online but to do quite poorly on subsequent tests of academic knowledge.