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Mandarin Chinese Sesame Street Is Now on YouTube

Mandarin Chinese Sesame Street Is Now on YouTube

Now a popular children's show can help kids learn Mandarin. Chinese Sesame Street episodes are now available online. [...]

Growing Up Asian in America Contest 2013: If I Were President

Growing Up Asian in America Contest 2013: If I Were President

Find out how your kids can enter their art, writing or videos in the Growing Up Asian in America contest and win up to $1000 [...]

You Mess With Big Bird, You Mess With a Nation of Immigrants

You Mess With Big Bird, You Mess With a Nation of Immigrants

  Judging by the reaction to Mitt Romney’s vow during the first presidential debate to cut funding for PBS, Big Bird is the sacred cow of American childhood. For anyone born during the 1970s or later, [...]

College Day

College Day

It's College Day at our school. How do you talk to your kids about higher education and are you thinking about applications or tuition yet? [...]

Lunch Wars Book Review and My Own School Food Journey

Lunch Wars Book Review and My Own School Food Journey

Reading, Writing and... Rutabaga? Why teaching kids about healthy eating should be part of education. [...]

Why Does School Start So Early?

Why Does School Start So Early?

It's hard to believe the kids are back in class, when it feels like summer [...]

Grandfather Counts

Grandfather Counts

Learning Chinese is as easy as one, two, three -- or yi, er, san -- in Grandfather Counts, this week's HapaMama Summer Reading pick. [...]

Language, Culture and the Search for Summer Camps

Language, Culture and the Search for Summer Camps

"What camps are your kids doing this summer?" It's the question that comes up during any mom conversation at this time of year. As soon as the Christmas decorations come down, the brochures start arriving in the [...]