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Stopping the Summer Learning Slide

by Cheryl Clark, Vice President, Programs, Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) Summer is a time to kick back, relax and enjoy warm lazy days away from school. For many children, summer is also an idle time when they forget many of the skills they learned the previous school year. This learning loss is called the summer […]

Celebrating Alex and her Lemonade Stand

Did you drink any lemonade this past weekend? If so, it may have been sold as a fundraiser during Alex’s Lemonade Days, an annual weekend of lemonade stands where all the profits from your local lemonade stand are donated to charities trying to cure childhood cancers. Through the proceeds of these lemonade stands held throughout […]

Have You Heard About Our New Bug Band?

If you happened to look at the address bar on the latest issues of Cricket Media’s 11 award-winning magazines, you may have noticed something new: a line of small circles each with a character or symbol relating to a specific magazine. Each circle is in black except the magazine you are looking at, which is […]

Best Friends Forever!

Did you have a best friend when you were growing up? Chances are, you did. Childhood friendships are often among our most cherished relationships. These are the people who knew you when. Who were with you when you fell of the monkey bars and broke your arm. Who understood how you felt when your favorite […]

Graduation: A Time for Moving On Up

Do you have a graduation happening in your family this season? If so, congratulations! Graduations are important life cycle events and whether your child is graduating from pre-school or high school, this is a time to celebrate all the milestones your child has achieved over the past few years. I cried my eyes out […]

Teachers Have Class

As the end of the school year gets closer and closer, I wanted to take a minute to recognize all the wonderful teachers out there. You don’t get paid nearly as much as you are worth and the knowledge, memories, and skills you impart on our children will never be appreciated to the extent they […]

How to Recycle: Ride Your Bike To and From School

This year, on May 4th, my oldest daughter’s school celebrated bike to school day. My husband and I got voluntold we were running this event. “Join the PTA!” they said. “You get to do fun things!” they said. Fun things apparently means waking up at 5:00 am to set up a table in the still […]

Meet the Winners of the Invent It Challenge

If you’ve been reading this blog for the past few months, you’ve no doubt seen a lot of writing about the Global Invent It Challenge, our annual contest that invites kids and young adults from ages 5 to 21 to think about a real world problem and find a solution for it. This year, our […]

Kyngdom: Puzzled Yet?

Amazing puzzle solving is happening on our Kyngdom forum. If your child likes to solve word problems, puzzles, riddles, codes, or just loves fantasy fiction, writing, or the chance to be part of something really cool, you need to have them head over to the Chatterbox and check it out. So what’s going on […]

Make the most out of reading with your young child

by Denise Yellen Ganot It is no secret that reading to and with your children has social, emotional, and intellectual benefits. The good news is that it doesn’t take much—maybe just a bedtime story, or a cuddle on the couch with a good book—to achieve these benefits. When it comes to reading with your child—no […]