by Leah Langby | Aug 18, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Photo credit: Lou Bueno flickr My public health colleague Karen sent me a link to an article about a recent study about significant media use and self-regulation issues for young children. Being able to self-regulate is a crucial life skill that allows kids to be...
by Leah Langby | Aug 11, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Photo credit: Sharon & Nikki McCutcheonJoin ALSC members and anyone interested in participating in a monthly Twitter chat. On Thursday, August 13, 2015 at 8 pm Central, ALSC will be hosting a one-hour chat on the topic of media mentorship. What are you doing...
by Leah Langby | Aug 4, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
The Crowd-Sourced Readers’ Advisory List continues, even though everyone is so busy! Thanks to the contributors, and please consider participating in August, when the topic is books in a series. Read a book in a series for any age group (PreS-high...
by Leah Langby | Jul 31, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
We’ve been talking a lot about pre-readers in the past few years, but what happens once kids enter school? There’s an upcoming free webinar from the Multnomah County Library (Portland, OR) about supporting emerging and early readers (K-3rd graders)...
by Leah Langby | Jul 28, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Probably lots of turn-taking, tuning in, and talking happening during this Lego play session at the LEPMPL libraryThe University of Chicago Medical School is working with families to help them learn ways to talk with their kids that will help close the often-cited 30...
by Leah Langby | Jul 24, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
In case you aren’t already following the Library As Incubator blog, there is a fun, practical post about a terrific STEAM program for teens (I think it would work for younger kids, too). Black-light painting at the Eager Free Library in Evansville included...
