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5 Ways to Help Kids Handle Disagreements with Friends

Friends can disagree, and they often do! With guidance, your child can recognize that a disagreement doesn't have to mean the end of a friendship.

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Welcoming Wonder and Endless Questions with Kids

Young children seem to be innately curious about nature. Here are six simple ways to incorporate wonder and curiosity into family life.

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Watch, play and learn with your favorite PBS KIDS characters every Friday from 7 to 9pm.

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Chore Ideas for Kids Ages 2-8

Everyone benefits when kids engage in household chores! Here are some tips for tackling chores with kids.

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Ideas for Getting Out the Wiggles

Bust a move, dance and get the wiggles out! Whether you’re crawling or creeping, hopping or galloping together, make some time for learning through play!

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Encouraging Optimism in Children

Pessimistic children see negative events as evidence that they’re doomed, while optimistic children see them as temporary setbacks. Here are some ways to ease your child to optimism.

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Becoming Brave: Help Your Child Move Past Fear

Bravery does not mean fearlessness. It means doing something even though we’re scared. To become brave, children need to tolerate feeling scared and not let fear hold them back.

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Making More Time for Imaginary Play

Imaginary play is a great vehicle for giving kids the space to work through their fears and other difficult emotions.

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When Your Family Includes an Imaginary Friend

What should you do if your child has an imaginary friend? Encourage it.

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How to Help Your Child Set and Reach Goals

Long-term goal setting helps kids build resilience and cope with setbacks. Here are six steps to help your child set and reach their goals.

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Use the Super Powers of Science to Play and Learn

Super Powers of Science in Hero Elementary help kids play with science. Here’s how to put those into practice.

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How Telling Stories Help Kids Learn

Reading is important for all ages and has been well-researched for its many benefits, but is there a difference with storytelling? Not to be confused with story reading, storytelling has its own techniques and advantages.

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How to Create a Quiet Time Routine

Nap time is as essential to both children and grown-ups. But when your child starts to grow out of it, creating a quiet time routine will help the whole family to reset during the day.

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Nature as Stress Relief for Kids

Playing in nature has a number of benefits for children. No matter where you live, here are some ways to reduce stress and anxiety by going outside.

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How to Connect with Long-Distance Loved Ones

As much as it is nice for families to live close by, that’s not always possible. With creativity and commitment, there are lots of ways to help your kids connect with far away loved ones. Here are 10 ideas to try!

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Explore How Making Mistakes Changes an Art Project

In this activity, try stopping between each step to give your child a chance to decide if their creation looks like what they are trying to create. Mistakes happen and it’s OK to make adjustments and change course along the way.

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Fun Ways to Help Your Children Learn Hard Lessons

When kids are all fired up, nothing is getting in their heads or hearts. Research shows that children (and adults) learn best when they are happy and calm.

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Bubble Bath Math Game

Estimation is a skill we use to make careful guesses. Explore counting and making estimates in this online activity from Peg + Cat !

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Act Out the Lifecycle of a Butterfly

Teach your child about metamorphosis! In this activity, kids can act out the stages butterflies go through and learn about other animals that go through the process.

Make A Puppy Marionette

Make a puppy puppet with paper towel rolls and paint. When you finish, encourage your child to put on a puppet show.

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Play A Senses Discovery Game

Play this game with your child to help them make their own discoveries using different senses.

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Paint with Nature

Art + Nature = Fun. For this activity from PBS KIDS, you’ll use outdoor objects like leaves, pinecones and rocks as your paintbrush.

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Make Leaf and Bark Rubbings

Encourage your child to explore the trees with their senses by doing leaf and bark rubbings. Then, play a matching game!

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Night Time is a Great Time to Explore

What can you and your child discover about nature at night? Make a nighttime observation kit to help your family explore what's outside your front door after dark!

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Why Imaginary Friends Are Good for Kids

Psychologists believe that imaginary companions offer healthy opportunities for children to experience things they can’t in real life.

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Why Yoga and Kids Go Together

Discover how striking a yoga pose can help children learn about both their bodies and minds.

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Story Book Builder

Does your little one enjoy making up stories? In this activity, emerging readers build their own story book while strengthening empathy and literacy skills!

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Exploring Space: 10 Books for Little Astronauts

What happens to the sun at night? What are shooting stars? And is there life beyond Earth? These ten books can help answer your kids' space science questions... and perhaps inspire new ones!

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Dig Into Dinosaurs

Harness your child's interest in dinosaurs and travel back in time to when dinos ruled the Earth with this collection of prehistoric page-turners for kids ages 0-9.

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Unlearning: Kindness, Colorblindness and Racism

Being an antiracist educator means allowing your classroom to be one where your kids see Black, Indigenous and other people of color and their cultures as beautiful and worthy.

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PBS LearningMedia | Mental Health Awareness Month

For Mental Health Awareness Month, explore resources that can help you meet the mental health needs of students at school and at home.

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Plants: Learning Environments

To learn science, kids need to be hands on! Watch a center-based educator set up a thoughtfully planned learning environment to engage children in learning about plants.

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Gardening with Kids

Gardening can be an important tool in your child's development! Find out how planting a garden can affect not only your child’s body but also their brain and soul.

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Make a Composter

Find out what happens to a pile of old leaves outside when you add a dash of time, maybe some worms, and a healthy splash of moisture?

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Create Egg Carton Turtles

Instead of throwing away empty egg cartons, upcycle them into this easy and adorable turtle craft while discussing sea turtles’ habitats and the importance of recycling.

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9 Ways to Help Soothe and Comfort Your Child

Here are some tips to remind that you’re strong and that you can help your children and your family through these complicated times.

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Self-Care for Parents

When you take time for self-care during times of stress, you’re better able to care for your child. Keep these tips in mind when you’re feeling overwhelmed.

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4 Ways to Help Kids Build Resilience and Perseverance

Here are four ways parents and caregivers can support this vital effort to help kids build perseverance and resilience.

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Exploring the Seasons with the Foods You Eat

It’s helpful for kids to understand where their food comes from. The different seasons change what food is available and impact how the food tastes, too!

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Explore the Outdoors with PBS KIDS

It's that time of year again! The birds are chirping, the flowers are blooming, and the whole family is ready to get outside. Explore the outdoors, discover fun nature crafts, and learn more about the world outside our doorsteps.

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Dig Into Dinosaurs

Travel back in time through our imaginations together to when dinosaurs ruled the Earth! If your child loves everything dinosaurs, now is a great time to introduce them to paleontology with these activities.

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Things That Grow

Want to encourage your child's curiosity about plants, trees, and flowers? As the weather warms, it's the perfect time to take advantage of fresh air and explore your neighborhood.

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Grow Seedlings in an Egg Carton

Growing seedlings in an egg carton is a great way to teach your child about plants.

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Make A Miniature Garden

Learn how seeds and plants grow, and build observation skills with this hands-on garden activity!

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7 Ideas to Get Creative on a Family Walk

Here are seven simple tricks that turn a family nature walk into an enjoyable adventure for everyone.

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Make A Neighborhood Map

Help your child develop their mapping and spatial skills! In this activity, children can create a neighborhood map and gain a better understanding of their community in the process.

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Make A Trolley Path

In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Trolley follows the dotted path to each destination. Encourage an interest in transportation, and have fun creating a unique path for Trolley. Ding, ding!

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Build Your Own Volcano

In this classic science fair experiment, help your child understand how a volcano forms in the Earth's surface.

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Take A Flight With a DIY Kite

Building a kite is a great way to explore wind and how it moves things.

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Make A Stegosaurus Puppet

Creating a Stegosaurus puppet can help your child understand how the dinosaur’s plates and spikes helped it survive.

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Boredom Isn’t a Bad Thing For Kids

Kids’ brains need stimulation, but they need downtime, too. Read on for ways to use screen-free zones, brain breaks and pretend play to raise creative and independent kids!

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Play a Storytelling Game

Roll homemade dice and use your imagination to tell a unique story! This fun game can inspire countless wacky tales and be played over and over again.

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Super Scribbles: How Young Artists Grow

From fridge art to the MoMa? Here are ways to encourage your emerging artist’s skills — and the milestones to expect along the way.

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Learning to Appreciate Diversity Through Play

Children will explore similarities and differences between themselves and others.

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How to Talk to Kids About Honesty

Sometimes children don't tell the truth - this is a normal part of their development. Try, "When you tell me what happened, I can help you," to encourage kids to share openly and honestly.

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Great Adventures Start with a Story

Bedtime stories are great ways to encourage kids to be creative and confident. Give your next book a boost by sharing experiences that relate to what you are reading to spark conversation and inspire curiosity.

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11 Picture Books to Celebrate Diversity

This list of books featuring diverse characters and highlighting the importance of diversity in communities is a great way to start conversations about diversity with your young children.

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13 Children’s Books With Strong Black Characters

Reading can be an effective way to teach kids about important issues. To encourage thoughtful conversations about race and diversity with your children, check out this booklist you can read together as a family.

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Children’s Books About Peace

Even the best of friends sometimes have problems they must work out. Try "Dog and Bear: Two's Company" and other bedtime stories to share this lesson with little ones!

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What’s Race? Having the Conversation with Young Children

Families should be talking more about race so that we can understand it. Dr. Aisha White explains what race is, and how grown-ups can talk about it with young children.

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Helping Our Children Love their Differences

We can make having those tough conversations about what makes us different easier by teaching our children empathy, understanding, and kindness.

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Talking to Kids: Families Come In All Shapes And Sizes

It’s normal for young kids to be curious about families. They don’t need much explanation, rather, just the positive acknowledgment that families come in different shapes and sizes.

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Getting Along: How Arthur Can help Your Child Manage Friendships

Here are some tips for helping your child cope with the ups and downs of friendships.

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Fights with Friends: Help Your Child Learn to Resolve Conflicts

Arguments with a friend can be very upsetting for kids, but it does not have to mean the end of a friendship.

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15 Children’s Books About Friendship

Here are 15 books that can help us start conversations with our kids about what it means to be a friend.

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MPT is here to help parents and educators keep kids laughing and learning all summer long. Look to our new summer resource collections including MPT Summer On!, weekly theme-based activities, and At-Home Learning: Summer Edition for daily activities connected to our PBS KIDS broadcast. Count on MPT to always provide access to high-quality, educationally-based programming for your family. Anytime and anywhere – on-air, online, and on our free mobile app.

Look to our education website, Thinkport.org, to find safe, adult-led activities for young children, and independent student learning resources for students in grades PreK-12.

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Interactive PBS KIDS Schedule

Find learning games and activities matched to your favorite PBS KIDS shows.

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At-Home Learning

At-Home Learning continues with our back-to-school edition to support families and educators with new digital resources and hands-on activities aligned to our PBS KIDS broadcast.

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Daily Activities Calendar

Find fun, daily activities and crafts to do with your children using items in your home and a few basic supplies.

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Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month! Using lessons from the PBS documentary "Asian Americans," share a new lens on U.S. history and the role Asian Americans play in shaping the nation’s story.