From making a monster mask to going on a bike photo safari, 365 Smart Afterschool Activities will let kids' imaginations soar with terrifically fun things to do during those valuable afterschool hours and beyond. 365 Smart Afterschool Activities is perfect for parents, teachers, grandparents, babysitters and youth leaders. Illustrated by children, a terrific variety of adventures await you, including activities for: Crafts Dance and movement Drama Games Hobbies Nature Self-Esteem Writing "Engaging and fun-filled activities that are sure to keep kids playing, imagining and creating all year long!"—Brenda Pilson, Creative Classroom magazine

Suggest children's afterschool activities involving cooking, handicrafts,ravel, gardening, science, art, and music.

"Subject Areas/Keywords: academic enrichment programs, academic skills, after school activities, after school programs, children, elementary schools, exercise, games, health promotion, high poverty schools, interventions, kinesiology, literacy, mathematics, obesity prevention, physical education, physical fitness, public health, reading, social studies, struggling learners, students DESCRIPTION Every school day, more than 10 million children attend after

365 Games Smart Toddlers Play will help you make the best of the time you and your toddler share, every day of the year. Each day with your toddler brings new experiences for them and new opportunities for you to teach, share and grow closer to each other. Bestselling parenting author Sheila Ellison fills each page with fun, practical ways to create and enhance those special everyday moments. Perfect for: Parents Grandparents Child-care providers Baby-sitters Praise for the 365 series: "Parents struggling to discover new playtime ideas can finally relax. Now there is a solution to every day of the year." —Parenting Magazine "Imaginative ways to raise healthy, happy families." —Healthy Kids

Originally published: London: Usborne Pub., 2007.

"A marvelously simple, clear and practical guide to parenting in the first days, months and years!"—Diana Huss Green, Parents' Choice "Wonderful ways to help parents and babies enrich each other's lives."—Sesame Street Parents Each day with your baby brings new moments of caring, teaching, holding and growing through baby's first experiences. Filled with magical ways to create and enhance those special everyday moments, 365 Games Smart Babies Play will help you celebrate each once-in-a-lifetime opportunity you and your baby share. Illustrated by children.

Here it is-the cookbook parents have been waiting for, filled with carefully chosen, great tasting, good-for-you, kitchen-tested recipes that appeal to the whole family, especially the kids! Encourage healthy attitudes towards food and lifelong, wholesome eating habits with 365 Foods Kids Love to Eat! Book jacket.

Creative ways to build character and self-esteem in kids.

"Many parents work more hours outside of the home and their lives are crowded with more obligations than ever before; many children spend their evenings and weekends trying out for all-star teams, traveling to regional and national tournaments, and eating dinner in the car while being shuttled between activities. In this vivid ethnography, based on almost 200 interviews with parents, children, coaches and teachers, Hilary Levey probes the increase in children's participation in activities outside of the home, structured and monitored by their parents, when family time is so scarce. As the parental "second shift" continues to grow, alongside it a second shift for children has emerged--especially among the middle- and upper-middle classes--which is suffused with competition rather than mere participation. What motivates these particular parents to get their children involved in competitive activities? Parents' primary concern is their children's access to high quality educational credentials--the biggest bottleneck standing in the way of, or facilitating entry into, membership in the upper-middle class. Competitive activities, like sports and the arts, are seen as the essential proving ground that will clear their children's paths to the Ivy League or other similar institutions by helping them to develop a competitive habitus. This belief, motivated both by reality and by perception, and shaped by gender and class, affects how parents envision their children's futures; it also shapes the structure of children's daily lives, what the children themselves think about their lives, and the competitive landscapes of the activities themselves"--

A complete guide to HAPPY, healthy mealtimes Here it is-the cookbook parents have been waiting for, filled with carefully chosen, great tasting, good-for-you, kitchen-tested recipes that appeal to the whole family, especially the kids! Encourage healthy attitudes toward food and lifelong, wholesome eating habits with 365 Foods Kids Love to Eat! Perfect for busy parents and child-care providers "A book with all the goodies." -Daily News "As a mother and pediatrician, I have found this book to be full of healthful recipes that kids really like! A must for anyone who has the happy and sometimes perilous job of feeding children." --Joan Slackman, MD "Parents with children who hate all food (except Lucky Charms) will grasp this book to their breasts with gratitude." --Fresno Bee