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A mom shares how she helps her kids build self-confidence and encourages them to be kind.

A mom demonstrates finding fun ways to incorporate learning into everyday activities.

A mom with MS tells ways that she and her son have turned tough times into fun adventures.

A mom MS shares how she use letters and photographs to capture everyday family moments.

This video features a mother of three children, including two who are autistic.

This video highlights a parent helping her kids transition from one activity to another.

Join the Great Sunflower Project to help scientists learn where pollinators are in crisis.

Join the Great Sunflower Project to help scientists learn where pollinators are in crisis.

Celebrate Urban Birds by observing, recording, and sharing information about where they use green spaces.

Celebrate Urban Birds by observing, recording, and sharing information about where they use green spaces.

Join the Monarch Larva Monitoring Project to help scientists protect the butterflies’ habitat.

Join the Monarch Larva Monitoring Project to help scientists protect the butterflies’ habitat.

Help scientists confirm if springs are arriving earlier by joining the Track a Lilac project.

Help scientists confirm if springs are arriving earlier by joining the Track a Lilac project.

Learn how you can make a difference as a citizen scientist by joining Bird Cams Lab.

Learn how you can make a difference as a citizen scientist by joining Bird Cams Lab.

Hear a poem, write a poem, make a pocket!

Including non-immediate family members (such as grandparents) in your child’s learning.

Meet pigs and horses, regrow vegetables, make a chicken from a paper plate & a clay sheep!

Decorate a t-shirt, turn an old one into yarn & make a friendship bracelet!

Sketch with food, make hummus, learn about seeds on the move, take a food festival quiz!

Make a walking water rainbow, sing about colors, learn why the sky is blue, sketch clouds!

Meet penguins and ravens, turn black & white video into color, sketch the moon!

This video features a family that demonstrate ways that they spend time together.

This brief Parenting Minutes video explores ways to support children’s literacy skills.

This video demonstrates one family’s strategies for connecting home and school.

Meet a firefighter and a conservation biologist, make a balloon rocket!

Learn about sharks, sketch in the sand, make jellyfish, play a sea animal guessing game!

Have an animal dance party, make a hungry bunny, meet otters, llamas, and red pandas!

Wear shoes or socks that don’t match; read A SOCK STORY!

Try foods from different countries, play “Land, Sea, Air,” make a compass!

Read CROWN, make a crown and a coat of arms, meet the king of the jungle!

Play mini-golf, mini-football, and mini-bowling!

Make a name sign, read THE NAME JAR, learn what’s in a name!

Celebrate with a stars and stripe handprint, toss balls into Uncle Sam’s hat!

This Parenting Minutes video talks about the importance of reading together as a family.

Make a necktie pouch, tie-dye cookies, and read Mr. Tanen's Tie Trouble!

Make an inside out sandwich and a “mini moody me” cup that shows how you’re feeling!

Dance a pattern, make a pattern parfait, play rhythmic patterns on a homemade drum!

Make fake snow and hot chocolate snowmen! Meet polar bears, visit icebergs and glaciers.

Sing hip hop hooray and do a salad dance! Celebrate summer with penguins and pandas.

Learn to step dance, do magic tricks; make bouncing bubbles and a flying origami star.

Learn to make scary sounds and an oboe from a straw; sing, see leafcutter ants in action.

Meet a bearcat, partner juggle, make a peace box and guacamole, explore stars and flowers.

Learn about pollinators, play writing, and goats; try tap dancing and body percussion.

Meet snake Julius Squeezer, regrow a pineapple, make a book, read a book – Fox in Socks.

Meet a tarantula, go gaga over graphs, make parachute cups, learn about palindromes.

Make a hovercraft and a friendship bracelet, meet a scorpion, play Rock 'n' Roll Bingo.

Make boats that float, be a clown, dance like river creatures, go on a treasure hunt.

Make a frozen banana penguin, meet a skink, empty a ketchup bottle with centripetal force.

Make a space station and shadow puppets, watch hippos race, play body percussion.

Make maracas and ice cream, meet sea lions and Frida Kahlo.

Make a glovaphone and a flower crown, meet Monty the ball python, learn African dance.

Play "Four Corners," make a dream-catcher, listen to a glass armonica, avoid poison ivy.

Make water bend, a paper bag puppet, cookies, and a birthday crown; write a song.

Visit distant planets, do an opposite dance, sculpt with clay, watch ducklings leap.

Make an airplane, a tambourine and plastic string; meet sloths, play a magic carpet game.

Dress up in disguise, write a message with invisible ink, watch bush babies and jellyfish.

Meet a porcupine, learn summer words in sign language and why Pluto is not a planet.

Meet an opossum, speak-sing, blend colors, learn about dinosaurs and robots, mud paint.

Learn about animal adaptations and food webs, make a rocket, go night bugging, step dance.

Attached are various graphic assets for the children's television series Camp TV. The Camp TV theme song is also included.

This brief Parenting Minutes video describes the importance of reading to children in whatever language you are most comfortable. It highlights the fact that reading to children is an important part of their development and can help children improve their reading skills and succeed in school.

This new Parenting Minutes video helps parents assess how ready their children are for the next school year through the Readiness Check tool from the organization Learning Heroes. Readiness Check Tool: https://bealearninghero.org/readiness-check/

This brief Parenting Minutes video features parenting strategies from real parents, including tips on helping children express their emotions, having children play an active role in planning the grocery list, and helping children prepare for school.

This brief Parenting Minutes video advocates paying attention to what children watch on TV and encourages parents to watch TV with their children and talk to them about what they are viewing. The video encourages pointing out related examples throughout the day, reading books and doing related activities.

This brief Parenting Minutes video points out that there are about 40g of sugar in one 12oz can soda, which equals about 10 teaspoons of sugar. The video explains that the extra calories children get from soda and other sugary drinks can lead to obesity, diabetes and other chronic diseases.

This brief Parenting Minutes video talks about how parents and caregivers can help children eat healthier. Eating healthy snacks keeps kids strong, which means fewer sick days and a stronger mind.

This brief Parenting Minutes video talks about how parents and caregivers can help build their children’s language skills through storytelling, talking, singing, playing rhyming games, as well as by pointing out and discussing things throughout the day.

This Parenting Minutes video, featuring parents sharing personal stories, explores the importance of helping children to name and express emotions. When children can recognize and communicate their feelings, they are better able to develop skills such as confidence and self-awareness.

This brief Parenting Minutes video talks about how parents and caregivers can help build their children's math skills with simple everyday exercises like matching and sorting laundry, playing games of "I Spy," and comparing shapes and sizes.

This Parenting Minutes video, featuring parents sharing personal stories, highlights the importance of helping children to understand and manage emotions effectively. By providing an environment where sharing and listening can take place freely, you are sending a message to your children that their thoughts and feelings are important.

This brief Parenting Minutes video provides information about the importance of establishing a schedule at home with daily routines. Having regular routines helps children learn good habits for everything from healthy eating to doing homework. Following a routine at home helps children know what to expect each day and is great practice for following a routine at school.

This Parenting Minutes video features a mom of four children, including two sons on the autism spectrum. She describes how she and her husband lean into their sons’ interests to motivate them, foster independence, build self-esteem, strengthen math and literacy skills, and help the family to bond.

Meet Cecilia Brentlinger, an on-demand driver who came to New York from Peru in search of a better life for her son.

Meet Walid Abdelwahab, a street card food vendor chasing his own American Dream.

Meet Heidi Kole, a subway busker who competes with trains and cellphones for your ear- and your donations.

Meet Daniel Rodriguez, a bike courier who dreams of one day being a police officer.

Meet Nadir Samara, a New York City dog walker who makes more money walking dogs in Brooklyn than he did working for an insurance company in Philadelphia.