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Multiple Intelligences

Make It Your Mission! Part 1 in a Series

This month, we’ll be focusing in on helping your kids develop their own personal “mission statements” and weaving together the intelligences via a multitude of activities as you help your kids pursue their missions. So, we’ve added a new blog

kidzmetjen July 30, 2011 Intrapersonal Intelligence, Linguistic (Verbal) Intelligence, Personal Mission Statement Read more

Cute “Creepy Crafty”

With October starting this weekend, many of the topics of conversation in our house have started to orbit around Halloween. What should we wear? How are we going to decorate? When can we get a pumpkin? Which neighborhoods are we

kidzmetjen September 30, 2011 Visual/Spatial Intelligence Read more

Sensory Sensitivities

Visit different outdoor environments—e.g. the playground, a field, the woods, school, your backyard, a community garden, the zoo, the beach—or even just the same one at different times of day with your child and tune into your senses. What does

kidzmetjen June 19, 2011 Intrapersonal Intelligence, Naturistic Intelligence Read more

Creativity for the Crafty-Phobic Parent

Guest post by Meredith Resnick (M.Ed. & M.A.) of labelsnotlimits.com Many parents are wary of creative projects if they don’t consider themselves particularly artistic or crafty. I understand this, as I am a former-fearful-crafty-mom myself! In the past, when asked

kidzmetjen August 6, 2011 Visual/Spatial Intelligence Read more

How to Choose the Best Instrument for Your Child

musical intelligence aka music smarts

If you have a little musician in the house, they may be chomping at the bit to graduate up from your pots and pans and belting out vocal stylings to toddler tunes to their first musical instrument. Selecting the right

kidzmetjen March 8, 2015 Musical Intelligence Read more

Haiku and Tanka

Pick up a child-friendly Haiku collection like If Not for the Cat or Cricket Never Does to introduce your child to the art and science of Haiku and Tanka. Talk about the structure of Haiku (5 syllables in the first line, 7 syllables in

kidzmetjen June 19, 2011 Linguistic (Verbal) Intelligence, Logical/Mathematical Intelligence Read more

How Playing Angry Birds Could Make Your Child Smarter

how angry birds could make your child smarter

Have you noticed that kids nowadays are always glued to their phones or playing video games instead of going outside and hanging out with the neighborhood children? It seems that good ol’ fashioned games like duck, duck, goose are a

kidzmetjen November 23, 2012May 11, 2017 Logical/Mathematical Intelligence, Visual/Spatial Intelligence Read more

Musical Musings

Listen to a piece of music from a ballet, then have your child draw a picture or make a model of the scene they believe is occurring at that point in the ballet. Have your child describe the picture (or

kidzmetjen June 19, 2011 Musical Intelligence, Visual/Spatial Intelligence Read more

Letter-Perfect Park Poems

Adapted with permission from Chicago Park District’s “Once Upon a Day Camp” Guide Go to a park or into another natural setting (e.g. beach, woods, etc.) with your child. Then show your child a letter perfect poem like this one (a poem

kidzmetjen June 19, 2011 Linguistic (Verbal) Intelligence, Naturistic Intelligence Read more

Summer Reading Recommendations for the “Body Smart” Child

All ages: Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World's Fastest Woman. By Kathleen Krull. The story of Wilma Rudolph, the prematurely born black child who, despite suffering from polio, became the first woman to win three Olympic gold medals.

kidzmetjen June 21, 2011May 11, 2017 Bodily/Kinesthetic Intelligence, Linguistic (Verbal) Intelligence Read more
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