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How to Clean Your StairSlide (and other toys)
Whether it’s because of their literal sticky fingers or the dirt they tracked into the house, anything freshly clean in your kid's vicinity is on borrowed time. Use this post is a one-stop information dump on how to clean your StairSlide and all of  your other well-loved toys.
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Ten Tips for Building a Fort
Building a fort is a classic and excellent way to treat cabin fever. Sounds fun, right? If you take the following tips we’ve collected, we guarantee you’ll have a Pinterest-worthy pillow fort/smaller house!
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A Super Bowl Everyone Will Enjoy
The Super Bowl is fun and can get very exciting, but it’s probably a little too long for kids to sit still. To make sure you both enjoy game day, we’ve compiled a list of different activities to occupy their attention and allow you to sit back and relax.
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Fill Your Day with Sensory Play!
The Sensory Steps encourage going barefoot. Walking barefoot strengthens the foot and ankle. Stepping on unfamiliar textures encourages sensory input which supports the nervous system. In addition, trying new experiences, even ones that feel different, will support our children’s resilience.  Some children are very hesitant to try a new experience
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The Benefits of Fresh Air and Being Outside

Outdoor play fosters and encourages children and adults to enjoy and benefit from unstructured play.  This is the essence of the work of a child.  Unstructured play is when a child learns they are capable. 

Children are able to own their experiences, capable of being creative, capable of being curious, capable of getting their needs met, capable of problem solving and probably most important, capable of taking on appropriate risks.

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