Power of Play in Action: One Mom’s Story
Welcome to our guest blog post from Mimi Tovar, mother of five and parent partner in Boston! Mimi was one of fifteen parent partners who participated in Boston Children’s Museum’s Power…
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Carolyn Manning – Runner Story
Welcome to our Boston Children’s Museum Marathon Team Runner Spotlight Series! This is an opportunity for you to get to know our incredible Boston Marathon runners and their journey to the…
Mary Langevin – Runner Story
Welcome to our Boston Children’s Museum Marathon Team Runner Spotlight Series! This is an opportunity for you to get to know our incredible Boston Marathon runners and their journey to the…
Engaging Young Children in STEM Activities
For the past four years, Boston Children’s Museum has been partnering with National Grid and a federal Race to the Top grant to create STEM learning kits for distribution to…
Play as Immunization: Mitigating Stress and Supporting Healthy Development through Collective Impact
This article, written by Anna Housley Juster and Saki Iwamoto of Boston Children’s Museum, is reprinted from “The Forum”, the newsletter of the Massachusetts chapter of the American Academy of…
How to Make Transitions Easier
Happy New Year! As we are transitioning into the year of 2016, I’d like to take this opportunity to talk about transitions for children. We see a lot of struggles…
Toys For Your Child’s Healthy Development
December is often gift-giving time with all the holidays that occur. Children get excited with all the new toys that they get. But let’s take a moment to think about the…
Indigenous Halloween Costumes: Empowering or Problematic?
By Sara Tess Neumann and Meghan Evans Recent issues have arisen with the lack of career costumes available for girls, or the prevalence of sexualized costumes for young children. Empowering…
The Power of Play 