February 2012

Learning through Play

by Heligirl on February 27, 2012

in Mom Tip Monday,Parenting Articles

Learning a new skill has to be fun for kids, or anyone really when you think about it, and our job as parents is to make it as fun as possible to help kids develop a life-long love of learning. Sweetness, now at 4 ½, is starting to show interest in learning to read. We’ve […]

It was by complete mistake that we came across one of my daughter’s favorite rainy day learning tools. My husband was looking something up on Google Earth and Sweetness became suddenly enthralled. Soon we were showing her our house, then cool places around the country. Before long she was asking about things she’d seen on […]

Changing Perspective

by Heligirl on February 16, 2012

in Beyond Mommyhood,Helicopters

It’s been a crazy couple of weeks here at the Heligirl household. I apologize for the lack of Mom Tip Mondays of late. We’ll return to the regularly scheduled programming next week. Promise. Just before my annual pilgrimage to Heli-Expo last week I had to take a quick trip to Washington, D.C., for business. While […]