Family Guides

Gifts

How to Read to Your Grandchild Over FaceTime: A Simple Weekly Ritual

How to read to a grandchild over FaceTime or Zoom: setup, tips to keep kids 3–8 engaged, and why matching books on both ends works...

Read the guide →

Gifts

Things to Do With Grandkids: 30 Ideas at Home and From Far Away

30 things to do with grandkids ages 3–8: at home, outdoors, and from far away over video. Plus a ready-made reading ritual with the Teddy...

Read the guide →

Gifts

Teaching Kids to Be a Good Friend: 8 Skills and How to Practice Them (Ages 3–8)

Eight friendship skills for kids 3–8 and simple ways to practice them at home, plus a story about loyalty: Teddy and His Best Friend Jerry,...

Read the guide →

Gifts

How to Explain Your Job to Your Child (Plus Take Your Child to Work Day Ideas)

How to explain what you do at work to a child 3–8, by age, with Take Your Child to Work Day ideas and a story...

Read the guide →

Gifts

Teaching Kids Patience and Delayed Gratification: 10 Everyday Ways (Ages 3–8)

Ten everyday ways to build patience in kids 3–8, from waiting jars to saving goals, plus two stories that help: Teddy and the Piggy Banks...

Read the guide →

Gifts

How to Talk to Kids About Mean Words and Teasing (Ages 3–8)

What to say when a child comes home upset about mean words, how to tell teasing from bullying, and a story to start the talk:...

Read the guide →

Gifts

Snow Day Activities for Kids: 20 Ideas for Inside and Out (Ages 3–8)

Twenty snow day activities for kids 3–8, outdoors and indoors, plus a cozy read-aloud plan with the Teddy Volume 2 set ($69.99).

Read the guide →

Gifts

How to Help Your Kid Start a Lemonade Stand (Ages 4–8)

A step-by-step plan for a child's first lemonade stand: supplies, pricing, counting change and what to do with the money. Plus a story to read...

Read the guide →

Gifts

Needs vs Wants for Kids: Simple Activities and a Story to Start (Ages 3–8)

How to explain needs and wants to kids 3–8, with six easy activities and a read-aloud set to go with them: Teddy Volume 2 ($69.99).

Read the guide →

Gifts

Allowance for Kids by Age: How Much to Give and How to Start (3–8)

How much allowance to give kids 3–8, how to start, and simple rules that make it work. Plus a read-aloud set to go with it:...

Read the guide →

Gifts

Chores for Kids by Age: An Age-by-Age List for Ages 3 to 8

Chores for kids by age, 3 to 8, plus read-alouds that start the talk: the Teddy Volume 2 five-book set ($69.99).

Read the guide →

Gifts

Experience Gifts for Kids: 25 Ideas They'll Remember (and How to Wrap Them)

25 experience gifts for kids and how to wrap them. Our pick to wrap: a Teddy five-book set ($69.99).

Read the guide →