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Most kids are missing the opportunity to engage in healthy exercise, especially the tweens and teens in our families.

Other than having your own, personal gym in your home, The New York Times has some suggestions as to how to get our kids exercising with their Ways to Get Your Kids Moving.

Keep on trucking’!

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In National Public Radio’s Goats and Soda, Stories of Life in a Changing World, their recent 4-minute broadcast came with a downloadable comic book that you may wish to share with your child.  Entitled A Kids’ Guide to Coping With the Pandemic, this helpful booklet can enable parents to share feelings and events that may be scary to your child.  Created by social workers, the comic book can allow children to open up to their fears and frustrations about the current pandemic.

Be safe and healthy!

The New York Times has its 25 Best Children’s Books list for 2020.  Looking for a perfect holiday gift for a special child?  Why not consider sharing one of these titles?

Picture Books

• Scott’s I Talk Like a River
• Blackall’s If You Come to Earth
• Pinkney’s The Little Mermaid
• Tamaki’s Our Little Kitchen
• Underwood’s Outside In
• Berry’s The Story About Afiy
• Alzauner’s The Strange Birds of Flannery O’Connor
• Yoshitake’s There Must Be More Than That!
• Van den Ende’s The Wanderer
• Decur’s When You Look Up
• Robinson’s You Matter

Middle Schoolers

• Patterson & Alexander’s, Becoming Muhammad Ali
• Shulevitz’s, Chance: Escape from the Holocaust
• Craft’s Class Act
• Pinkney’s Loretta Little Looks Back
• Munoz-Ryan’s Mañanaland
• Grossman’s The Silver Arrow
• Watson’s Ways to Make Sunshine
• Entrada-Kelly’s We Dream of Science
• Jamison & Mohmad’s When Stars Are Scattered

Young Adult

• Woodson’s Before the Ever After
• Luen-Yang’s Dragon Hoops
• Sayer’s Everything Sad is Untrue: A True Story
• Hudson & Hudson’s The Talk: Conversations About Race, Love & Truth
• Hesse’s When They Left