Managing Your Home

This activity teaches children how to make a compost pile and how to recycle.

Kids can build their window cleaning skills -- and make a bit of money -- by offering their services to others.

Kids can build their snow and leaf removal skills -- and make a bit of money -- by offering their services to others.

This article provides advice on how to organize your family's shared spaces, possessions, and tasks.

Here are some great tips on how to organize your life.

Learn how to prepare your family in the case of a hurricane.

Let your child select a designated number of seed packets after you have sketched out a garden plan.

Indoor herb gardening is easy and fun, and in two to four weeks, you can have great results!

Posting a list of acceptable behavior helps parents be consistent and lets children know what is expected of them.

Doing chores helps children learn responsibility, teamwork, and practical skills. Follow these instructions to make a chores chart, which will help to keep your child on task and diligent.

Plant tomatoes early in the growing season, about two or three weeks after the last frost.

The key to a healthy garden is good soil, and the best way to improve soil is with compost.

Strawberries are easy to grow, delicious to eat, and the plant bears fruit for years.

Your child can learn how to grow seedlings indoors, then transplant them outside.

Follow the easy instructions in this activity, and you can have your own bountiful pumpkin harvest!

Follow these instructions for growing lemons, oranges, grapefruits, and potatoes with your child.

By trying to provide the best of everything for their child, are parents actually stealing his childhood?

Find out what to do when children experience culture shock after moving to a new country.