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Win With Cricket Media!

Big news: Cricket Media is sponsoring a sweepstakes contest! Enter now for the chance to win an iPhone 7! You’ll also be entered to win the grand prize of an iPad and a free subscription to magazine of your choice just for sharing about the contest! Now, wait just a minute, you might be thinking. […]

Cricket Media Partners with PBS Kids to Help Bridge the Summer Learning Gap with Fun-Filled Literacy and Exploration Activities

Local PBS Member Stations Will Have Access to Issues of Cricket’s Award-Winning Science Magazine, CLICK, Copies of “My Nature Notebook” Encouraging Backyard Exploration and More; Summer Partnerships Also Include a Sponsorship of WTTW-TV’s 24/7 PBS KIDS Channel in Chicago McLean, VA May 23, 2017 – This June, Cricket Media joins with PBS KIDS to help […]

A Few Haiku for You

Look around outside. What do you see? A bird? A flower? A sunset? A tree? Each one would make a great haiku — for you! The Japanese haiku, one of the oldest forms of poetry, teaches us much about the art and craft of poem-making. The entire poem consists of only three short lines, […]

A Personal Environmental Warning System and Solar Power Generating Blinds Are Among the Winning Entries in Smithsonian-Cricket Media’s 6th Annual Spark!Lab Invent It Challenge

More Than 190 Students and Teams Submitted Innovative Solutions to Global Environmental Issues; Other Winning Entries from Around the World Included an Improved Water Filtration Device, a Fluoride Filter and a Water Collection/ Filtration Device that Also Fuels Home Heating Systems Washington, D.C., May 15, 2017 – The environment is under assault, but if the highly […]

Cricket Media and Parents’ Choice Foundation Help Families Balance Screen Time with Real Time through the “Keeping Tech In Check” Campaign

Year-round initiative helping families achieve “a balance, not a ban”, launches on April 17 at KeepingTechinCheck.com McLean, VA, April 17, 2017 – More and more, contemporary parents feel “tech shamed” over the amount of time that their children spend consuming electronic media. Research released almost daily warns of the mental health value of unplugging and […]

Poems About Poetry for National Poetry Month

Have you ever read a poem ABOUT poetry? Have you ever written one? All it takes is a metaphor (comparison) and your imagination! Here are some poems with metaphors that compare poems to lots of different things. What’s a Poem? A whisper, A shout, Thoughts turned Inside out. A […]

Lorelei or Roseanne: What’s Your TV Parent Personality?

One of my favorite mom-to-mom blog resources is Cafémom. Recently, an article about TV mother-daughters reminded me of my panic when I found out I was having a girl – a story I’m finally willing to admit to and share out loud. Here’s the straight, never-before-admitted, honest, mom-to-mom, truth: I never wanted a girl. […]

4 Resources for Teaching Essential Reading Skills

Direct instruction from a reading teacher is one way kids learn to read. Informal learning from parents and caregivers is another way. In fact, research has shown that this informal instruction is pivotal to ensuring kids have the basic skills they need to actually learn to read once they are in school with a teacher […]

6 Tips for Starting Your Own Father-Daughter Book Club

My daughter and I are reading the same book. It happened completely by accident. She had a book. She left it lying on the kitchen counter. I spilled grape juice on it. While I was cleaning it up, I happened to read a few lines of the book and suddenly I was hooked. I must […]

Four Famous Women Who Loved to Paint, Write, Sing, and Act

The urge to create is in each one of us. Our individual need to express ourselves is a vital part of who we are. The poet Walt Whitman once wrote that we are all born with the desire to “sound our barbaric yawps over the roofs of the world.” Since the beginning of time, […]