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SAVE 50%: The Fire HD 8 Kids Pro tablet is on sale for only $69.99 as a back-to-school deal at Amazon as of August 16. That's half off its usual cost of $139.99 and right on par with its Prime Day 2022 price.If your little one is begging you for a back-to-school tablet, Amazon's Fire tablets are built especially for their destructive little hands. And as of August 16, you can save big on one of the best kid-specific tablets on the market: the Fire HD 8 Kids Pro.The Fire HD 8 Kids Pro is a great choice for a...

After the world upheaval of the pandemic during the last two years and the volatile political climate that we've seen, many kids are having a difficult time. Research shows a rising number of kids are experiencing anxiety and difficulty with self-regulation. And after a growing number of school shootings, parents and educators are looking for ways to reach and help children who are struggling. One of these ways is through social emotional learning. It's a foundation that can be worked on both in school and at home. I'm grateful to Dr. Gwen Bass for the following guest post on the...

Steve, Trevor, and I just recent from our most recent travel adventure, a 10-day trip through Minnesota and Wisconsin. We flew from Sacramento to Minneapolis, drove southeast along the Mississippi River and then through Wisconsin, and flew home from Chicago. It was a fantastic trip! And it brought us two states closer to our goal to take Trevor to all fifty states before he turns 18. As always, our days were packed. I have so many recommendations for museums, tours, restaurants, and other don't-miss attractions to share. We had a great time and I'm so excited to tell you all about...

Helicopter parents are moms and dads who pay extremely close attention to their kids' activities and schoolwork in an effort to not only protect them from pain and disappointment but to help them succeed. Helicopter parents are known for constantly hovering over their children and being overly involved in their lives. To get a better picture of them, a now-deleted user posted a question on the platform, asking: "What is the most extreme example of helicopter parenting that you have ever witnessed?" and people flooded the comments with all sorts of real-life examples. From escorting their son to a job...

These are dangerous times. Current policies that seek to limit critical thinking in schools combined with extremist ideologies like white replacement theory and the literal rise of white supremacy and supremacist groups in the U.S., combined with voter suppression laws that Republicans like Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott and others seek, are fully about the Nazification of American education as eloquently argued by Henry Giroux. We as a polity and a press who want schools to be vibrant spaces where youth can engage in informed, measured, dialogue and critique and in so doing, cultivate their skills for their full participation in an...