We live in a world of uncertainty where our anxiety and stress levels have been put to the test more than ever before. In the past few months, we have been forced to stay at home for weeks at a time, and our personal space has been narrowed down. This has made many of us realize that, before the pandemic, we never really paid as close attention to our mental health as we should.

Mental health is a key aspect of our wellbeing, no matter how old we are, which is why we should start paying attention to it from a young age. Many mental health issues start showing up at a young age, or even arise from traumas people experienced when they were younger.  Parents should be cognisant and keep an eye out for their kids’ mental health from day one.

This is why it is so important for brands like Scenties to support organizations like Child Mind Institute, an independent national nonprofit dedicated to transforming the lives of children and families struggling with mental health and learning disorders. Scenties strives to bring happiness to children with their array of scented accessories, with their most recent launch being a set of face masks with scented ear loops. The masks themselves aren’t scented, but they are made with velcro sewn onto the sides so that kids are able to interchange the ear loops from one scent to another by simply sticking them on and off.

Kara Dahn, the founder of Scenties, knew from day one that she wanted to support organizations that resonate with her. So, as a mom with a history of anxiety, and now seeing her children struggle with anxiety too, Kara didn’t think twice when the opportunity to support the Child Mind Institute came her way. Kara is just one of many people who support this incredible cause. Celebrities like Emma Stone, Michael Phelps, Lena Dunham, Emma Chamberlain, Margot Robbie, Octavia Spencer, Bill Hader, Kevin Love, and Jonah Hill have been involved with Child Mind Institute for a while now, raising awareness for kids’ mental health and helping children reach their full potential.

This year more than ever, the clinicians at Child Mind Institute deserve to be honored and thanked for their remarkable commitment to providing mental health care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, Kara will be joining Emma Stone, Andrew Feldman, Kate Snow, Jeremy Strong, and many other celebrities at Child Mind Institute’s virtual 11th Annual Benefit on Tuesday, December 8th from 7:30 to 8pm EST to do just that.

From feeding dog food to a little brother, to destroying each other’s toys, to observing nose-pickers in church, nothing is off-limits in L. W. Lewis’s collection of amusing poetry, Bathing Kitty. Told from the unfiltered perspective of a child, the short, whimsical observations are meant to draw young readers in with entertaining, humorous verses that can help young minds think beyond the nuts and bolts of standard prose. Bathing Kitty blends clever wordplay with easy-to-remember rhymes to help build reading confidence and create verses that are fun to say aloud — again and again!

Bathing Kitty covers the spectrum of childhood’s mischievous mayhem, with poems about applying lipstick to the cat, getting bubbles in your butt and eating insects. Intended for audiences from grades 4 through 6, the verses take a serious turn at the end, with The Not-Too-Funny Section, which features three touching tributes to the author’s military legacy and the contributions of our armed forces.

Along the way, Lewis manages to sneak in subtle lessons about the importance of having high ideals and good morals — undercurrents that should have an impact yet go unnoticed by all but the most perceptive of children.

An ideal gift for holidays and birthdays, Bathing Kitty can help children cultivate a penchant for poetry and build confidence in their reading skills, and can teach all of us the value of viewing the lighter side of life with an ounce of whimsy and a pound of humor.

Winner of the Bronze Award for Poetry from the Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards, Bathing Kitty is the fifth collection of poems from L. W. Lewis. His other books include The Tickle Tree and Why Do Flies Eat Doggie Poop? Lewis was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He is a retired U.S. Air Force pilot and navigator. He was assigned to B-52’s during the Vietnam War and later flew fighters with the Flying Tigers. He was an Air Force instructor pilot. While assigned as an adviser to the U.S. Army, he attended Army jump school and has made 268 military parachute jumps. He earned a B.S. degree from the University of Miami in Florida and a master’s degree from Oklahoma City University. His introduction to poetry began in the sixth grade and has been a part of his life ever since.

Lewis provides fun-filled, interactive poetry readings in schools (at no charge), where he uses his contagious enthusiasm to ignite the interests of children in this type of literature.

Bathing Kitty

Publisher: Mascot Books

ISBN-13: 978-1643072326

Available from Amazon.com

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Pitsco Education is pleased to announce a partnership with TTS. As an established education provider, TTS shares a commitment and enthusiasm for quality, meaningful learning experiences for students. Pitsco and TTS believe that STEM learning can happen anywhere, anytime, and at any age. For this reason, they have joined forces to expand early learning STEM opportunities for students in the US, thus creating a continuum of hands-on, minds-on learning from preschool to high school for the students and educators Pitsco serves. With a similar entrepreneurial history, dedication to educators, and long-standing investment in work that positively impacts learners, Pitsco and TTS are well-suited to work alongside each other.

Hands-on STEM learning can begin in the earliest education experiences. Young children learn naturally through exploration, play, and construction – critical behaviors for STEM learning. Further, STEM experiences can be easily integrated into other disciplines and experiences and are a natural starting place for literacy and communication capacities. Through STEM experiences, young children can build a foundation of relevant, important real-life skills that can grow with them and serve them through their education and in life.

Through this new partnership, Pitsco will carry both STEM and coding and robotics offerings for young learners. These educational products, curriculum, and resources help create engaged minds and active hands and empower fun, meaningful opportunities in traditional preschool and early elementary spaces, blended learning environments, and at-home learning.

The initial offering adds preschool and early learning options for coding and robotics to Pitsco’s coding and robotics continuum.

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Accessories for both Bee-Bot and Blue-Bot will be available to enhance students’ experiences. Additional coding and robotics products, including the award-winning Rugged Robot and InO-Bot, will be added in early 2021, and products that support sensory play and outdoor play will be available Spring 2021.

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