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Cricket Media Announces Digital Media Partnership with Joymis, a Tencent Company in China

WASHINGTON DC, China August 25, 2015 – Cricket Media, an education media company and global learning network, today announced an agreement with Joymis, a Tencent company, to expand the availability of Cricket’s award-winning content and products in China across multiple platforms, channels and products. Under the partnership, the companies will develop digital media products that […]

The First Day of Kindergarten and the Stupid, Smelly Bus

If your little one is heading off to school for the first time, I feel for you both. That first day of kindergarten is one of the biggies when it comes to parenting. I hear from friends with teens, that heading off to kindergarten and heading off to college evoke the same sort of intense, […]

Helping Your Child Build a Volunteering Habit

With all the extra daylight hours, plus the nice weather that comes with summer, this could be a great time for your family to think about getting out into the world and making a difference. Children as young as 3 can pick up trash in the neighborhood, older kids can make sandwiches for a local […]

Compliments Are Free

Your kids are heading into a new grade. Whether they’ll be surrounded by the same faces they’ve known for years, or they’ll be faced with the challenges and joys of making new friends, there are some insecurities they are likely taking with them. Have my friends changed over the summer? Will I have the same […]

Amazing Adventures from the Editor of Ask

As the editor of Ask, I get to learn about some amazing and unusual people and writing “The Amazing Adventures of Manjiro” for our July Shipwreck issue of Ask was no exception. This is the true story of a young castaway rescued by an American whaler who became the first Japanese person to visit the […]

Games to Conquer the “I’m Bored” Monster

Around this time each summer, the joys of no school start to fade into the cries of “I’m bored.” I’m not sure there is another phrase emerging from my child’s mouth that annoys me more than the ubiquitous “I’m bored.” I always try to tell her to think before using it because it is inevitably […]

Have You Talked to Your Kids About Hiroshima?

It’s the 70th anniversary of the Hiroshima this week which brought up an interesting conversation between my husband and myself. The question was, is the atomic bomb and its aftermath an appropriate topic for a 9-year-old? If not, why not? And if so, then how can we make sure she is getting age-appropriate, factual content […]

Favorite First Lines to Keep Your Kids Reading

A story is only as good as its first sentence. That’s probably why some authors spend as much time crafting the perfect first sentence as they spend writing the rest of the book. If you can’t reel your audience in with the opening line, what’s going to motivate them to stick around for any line […]

Cricket Media Partners with Magzter to Expand International Access to Cricket Digital Brands

Washington, DC August 10, 2015 – Cricket Media, an education media company and global
learning network, today announced a distribution agreement with Magzter, a cross-platform global digital newsstand

A Lot More Than Just Horsing Around…

Do you have a horse crazy kid in your life? Loving horses is a special kind of affliction that seems to target both girls and boys of a certain age. I know this from experience. Back in the day, I was one of those preteens who fell in love with horses. I took riding lessons […]