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Featured by thetripclip, posted in Uncategorized

I'm glad you found The Trip Clip® blog! I'll post here about new activities and clipart, fun ways to use The Trip Clip products, and topics I'm passionate about like finding learning opportunities in everyday life and supporting working moms. I love to hear from others, so leave a comment any time!

Share the Load: A workbook for parents striving to be equal partners

by thetripclip, posted in Working Moms

My husband and I have worked hard to share our parenting responsibilities as equally as possible because we're aware that even when women work full time outside the home, more of the childcare and housework still falls on them. Sharing these tasks equally has been pretty tricky for many reasons, from defining 'fair' (especially once … Continue reading Share the Load: A workbook for parents striving to be equal partners

New Social Skills Clipart

by thetripclip, posted in Life Skills

In the last couple of months I've made a number of new checklists to help teachers and parents work on social skills and social emotional learning with kids. I've needed a bunch of clipart that wasn't available on the social skills activity, so I've added it! There are now 56 new images in the social … Continue reading New Social Skills Clipart

Teaching Kids About Mental Load

by thetripclip, posted in Life Skills, Share the Load

The term mental load, also called cognitive labor, refers to the invisible, intangible tasks involved in running a household. It's the work of planning, organizing, managing, and thinking that is often overlooked. Women traditionally take on more of the mental load, without pay and often without acknowledgement of how much time and energy it takes. … Continue reading Teaching Kids About Mental Load

New Cleaning List Clipart

by thetripclip, posted in New Clipart

I added 20 new images to the Cleaning Checklist activity to help you make cleaning checklists for your family. These are all items customers have asked me to add, and it brings the total number of images for this activity to 170! I'm always happy to hear from my customers so let me know if … Continue reading New Cleaning List Clipart

New Feature: Bubble Lists on the Phone

by thetripclip, posted in Life Skills, New Features

Bubble lists are picture checklists that let you group tasks any way you want. This has been a popular checklist format with my customers, and I've been working over the past year to make them fully functional. Today, I'm happy to report the very last feature is done! You can now create, edit, and use … Continue reading New Feature: Bubble Lists on the Phone

Teaching Emotional Labor

by thetripclip, posted in Life Skills, Share the Load

emotional labor noun The mental activity required to manage or perform the routine tasks necessary for maintaining relationships and ensuring smooth running of a household, workplace, or process, typically regarded as an unappreciated or unacknowledged burden borne disproportionately by women. Common examples might be: Putting a lot of time and effort into helping a friend … Continue reading Teaching Emotional Labor

How to Apologize

by thetripclip, posted in For Teachers, Life Skills

Teaching kids to apologize well is an important life skill, and it's not something that will come naturally to most kids. There's an excellent article about how to teach kids to apologize on Today's Parent that I recommend you read. I created a visual guide to help kids remember all the important steps, along with … Continue reading How to Apologize