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DIG is looking at “Beijing Through Time”

This month in DIG, we are taking a fascinating, engaging, and informative look at the history of China’s capital city of Beijing—from past to present. Have you ever wondered how an issue of DIG gets put together? Editor Rosalie Baker is ready to tell you: “For the past few years, I have focused […]

Introducing Your Sensitive Child to Ghost Stories

Halloween season is in full swing and ghosts, witches, zombies, monsters, and other scary creatures are everywhere. It seems like no matter where you go you are bound to see spooky decorations adorning store windows and private houses, grotesque costumes on display, and scary stories in the “featured” section of libraries and bookstores. Kids are […]

Diwali: Not a Holiday to Take Light-ly

Halloween lights are becoming more popular these days. But before the strings of purple or orange fairy lights lit up bushes around my neighborhood, we often had green, yellow, red, and white holiday lights in October. For a while, I assumed it was people getting into the Christmas spirit REALLY early. But then I heard […]

Are There Any Art Magazines for Kids?

Adults love to read coffee table books of beautiful art. Well, let me amend that. Adults love to buy coffee table books, put them on our coffee tables, and occasionally flip through them a few pages at a time. Few adults I know actually like to read art books. How or where the artist […]

What We Learn From Nature

Go outside. Look around. What do you see? A robin? A squirrel? A honeybee? A parade of busy ants beneath a shady tree? What can our little outdoor friends teach us? What can we learn from them? What lessons await us at every turn? The robin is busy collecting sticks and straw and […]

Unique Gift Ideas for Kids That Last

As kids get older, it’s harder and harder to buy them unique gifts they can enjoy well beyond the day they receive them. As each celebration approaches, my kids request gift cards or money as their gift. While I understand why they ask for money and/or gifts cards, I also like to surprise them with […]

BEHOLD THE A-MAIZE-ING CORN MAZES!

Warning: This blog is a little corny. I’m having one of those moments where I wish I was a kid in today’s times. Growing up, Halloween was a one-day event: a parade at school, trick-or-treating at night, and then a month week of candy as we switched gears, put the costumes away, and started counting down […]

Looking at Dinosaurs Through a Child’s Eyes

Every time I think about dinosaurs I feel the need to reread one of my daughter’s favorite books: Oh My Oh My Oh DINOSAURS! by children’s writer and artist extraordinaire Sandra Boynton. With simple pictures and just a few words of text, Boynton has captured exactly what makes dinosaurs so interesting to kids: they’re big, […]

Resources to Inspire a Future Astronomer

Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! (No.) It’s a plane! (No.) It’s a planet? (Possibly…let’s find out.) Asteroids, super moons, eclipses, and satellites have all been in the news lately and this may have prompted your junior astronomer to make statements like the ones above. If you are a layperson when it […]

How to Help Your Middle Schooler Relax and Focus

Today’s middle school kids are growing up in a world unlike the one their parents knew. With the explosion of technology into their lives, many parents of middle schoolers are worried that their kids are becoming addicted to devices and are missing out on the benefits of having downtime. According to iKeepsafe.org, kids […]