Ways to Celebrate Moving up to Preschool

Ways to Celebrate Your Child Moving up to Preschool

Fun and Simple Ways to Celebrate Moving Up To Preschool

There are few sights more delightful that the sparkle in the eyes of a toddler who has grown beyond a foundational program and is moving up to preschool! In daycare and childcare centers everywhere, children and parents joyfully celebrate growth, learning, and progress as their children advance into preschool.

Stay at Home Moms, Working Dads…finding the balance

Finding balance to make a happy family

Setting Expectations and Compromising to Find Balance

Stay at home moms often express frustration with husbands who don’t or won’t help around the house. Often dad is happy to play with the kids, but wants a break from the “Honey Do” list after working all week. What they forget is that stay at home moms are never off duty and when hubby is off, she wants to have a break, even if that break is just going to the grocery store alone. Young families have to learn to find a balance

North Texas Giving Day is Thursday

North Texas Giving Day 2015

Stretch Your Donation Dollars on North Texas Giving Day

With this year’s North Texas Giving Day set for September 17, area nonprofits are already gearing up for another exhilarating day of giving. In just six one-day events, Giving Day has pumped $89 million into local nonprofits and broken three national giving day records since 2009. Last year, more than 98,000 gifts totaling $26.3 million were donated, benefiting more than 1,580 local nonprofits.

Fancy Nancy: The Musical at Dallas Children’s Theater

Parlez-vous francais?

Dallas Children’s Theater Season opener Fancy Nancy: The Musical will have families dancing and discovering what it truly means to be fancy!

The trés irresistible world of the fanciest, funniest kid to ever take the stage opens Dallas Children’s Theater’s (DCT) 2015-2016 Season. Fancy Nancy: The Musical based on the popular book series by Jane O’Connor with Book & Lyrics by Susan DiLallo and Music & Lyrics by Danny Abosch runs at DCT September 18 – October 25.

Reasons to Get Kids Involved in Volunteering

Reasons to Get Kids Involved in Community Service

Top 10 Reasons to Encourage Your Kids to Volunteer

Getting kids into volunteering builds character, develops empathy and allows them to learn about their community. Here are ten reasons why it’s important to get your kids to volunteer.

#1: Volunteering helps foster empathy.

Empathy is the most critical disposition for responding to the needs of others.  We need to be able to imagine what other people may be going through or feeling. Volunteering helps engage our natural empathic sense, but you have to make sure that there are opportunities to talk about the purpose and experience of any volunteer activity if the recipients aren’t visible in the process (making sandwiches for the homeless isn’t the same as helping to deliver the sandwiches to homeless people).