Raising Smarter Children

Dear RaisingSmarterChildren.com Readers,

Today, I feel as if I know each and every one of you personally - and truly want to thank you for all the e-mails and beautiful wedding stories.  One long distance love is printed in the comments below.

Erin and Sean remained together, even though apart for 4 very long years.  Erin was in medical school in Chicago and Sean was getting his Ph.D. in California.  Yet, even through the distance and time, they were so in love.  

You can’t imagine my surprise to open my inbox this past week to literally hundreds of congratulations and love.

Thank you everyone!  Virtual world though it is, it really does feel deeply personal these days.

God Bless,

Pat

       Calling all moms. It’s one of every mother’s proudest days - her daughter’s wedding!  My baby girl, who will always be my baby girl, is the co-founder of this Raising Smarter Children blog, a Pediatrician who loves kids as much as I do, and now - a married woman.

Sometimes I wonder - how hard is it to let go of our kids?

I was one of those moms who raised my kids to be so independent, and thought I’d never feel that empty nest grit in my heart… who knew I’d cry Read the rest of this entry »

Remember the standard fairy tale stories like Little Red Riding Hood, The Three Little Pigs, and Cinderella?

Once you share these with your kids, read more at http://www.RaisingSmarterChildren.com so you have a quick and easy way to teach them good values like how to understand others, or what it means to be misunderstood…here’s how: Read the rest of this entry »

There are so many great ways you can teach your child the alphabet, and I especially love this one - they get to eat the letters when you’re finished with this smarter child activity…

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I want to take a quick break in our RaisingSmarterChildren.com mini-series on Smarter Children Activities, because of news on a new study from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

The study says that unvaccinated kids are 23 times more likely to  get pertussis or whooping cough…and as a mom, I still have questions about whether kids should be vaccinated - do you?

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Want to teach your child different parts of speech the easy way?  Have your child write a poem about a special pet…

Get a large piece of construction paper and some markers and you’re set —

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