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Baking with Kids: 10 Kid-friendly Holiday Treats

November 4, 2020 by Melissa Chapman Leave a Comment

Baking with Kids: 10 Kid-friendly Holiday Treats

One of the best parts about the holiday season is the seemingly never-ending supply of festive treats and Baking with kids.    The truth is those holiday sweets become even more special when you involve your kids in the baking and preparation process! Keep reading for Baking with Kids: 10 Kid-friendly Holiday Treats.  Fun and easy to make (with adult supervision, of course), … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Family Fun, Featured Tagged With: Baking with Kids, Bonding with your kids, Family fun, Kid-friendly Holiday Treats

Fun Ways To Encourage Kids to Learn About Pi and a Weight Watchers 1 point Pumpkin Pie recipe

November 1, 2020 by Melissa Chapman Leave a Comment

Weight Watchers 1 point Pumpkin Pie recipe

Fun Ways To Encourage Kids to Learn About Pi and a Weight Watchers 1 point Pumpkin Pie recipe because Let's face it-- Math gets a BAD RAP. Math is very technical and very right brain- it requires an ability to really focus on a formula and work at figuring it out, even when the problem feels IMPOSSIBLE to solve.  A lot of kids don't like math ( I was one of those kids) so I decided to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Delicious Recipes, Featured Tagged With: activities that will make math fun, Bonding with your kids, Cooking with your kids, Getting your kids excited about Math, Melissa Chapman

10 great PLAYDATES for parents and their kids

September 19, 2020 by Melissa Chapman Leave a Comment

Get the recipe for these Chocolate Haystacks

I know scheduling 10 great PLAYDATES for parents and their kids is a lot easier said than done and even when I get that time in; my son is a bit hard to impress. It feels like it is increasingly getting that much tougher for us parents to compete for our kids' attention having to keep up with the excitement of a fast-paced movie or television show for their affections. And of course it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Family Fun, Featured Tagged With: 10 great PLAYDATES for parents and their kids, Bonding with your kids, Melissa Chapman, Mothers and daughters, parenthood, parenting older kids, parenting your kids, raising kids, Staten Island Family fun

10 Tips to Get your Kids in the Kitchen and Make Healthy Food FUN

August 25, 2020 by Melissa Chapman Leave a Comment

Weight Watchers No Bake Energy Bites

I am fully aware of my shortcomings as a person... I CANNOT COOK. There I've said it. I've put it out into the universe. As a mother and a woman, I've always felt the sense that the ability to be able to whip up a sumptuous meal that would satiate and nourish my family's collective bellies, was a MASSIVE internal flaw of mine. It made me less of a nurturing parent; my kids will not have those … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Delicious Recipes, Featured Tagged With: Bonding with your kids, Getting your kids to eat healthy foods, Melissa Chapman, parenting your kids, raising kids, Staten Island weekend activities for families, the Staten Island Family

Memorial Day weekend reads for kids: The Flag Keeper

May 21, 2020 by Melissa Chapman Leave a Comment

Looking for Memorial Day weekend reads for kids? This weekend parents can sit down with their children to read The Flag Keeper by Stacy Juba and illustrated by Larry Drumtra, either in softcover or on an e-reader in the days leading up to Memorial Day weekend or as a wind-down bedtime activity that night. The PLOT: The Flag Keeper is an educational picture book with illustrations of a bear … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Family Fun, Featured Tagged With: Bonding with your kids, Melissa Chapman, Memorial Day weekend reads for kids, The Flag Keeper, the Staten Island Family, The Staten Island Family Book reviews

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