Help Your Kids Get Used to Wearing Masks

If your kids are going to school in person at all for the foreseeable future, it’s likely they will have to wear face masks at some point. Make it a little easier on the teachers and help them get used to the idea and practice of wearing masks now and it will be less scary/annoying when school starts.

Dana at Bias Behavioral has a great set of tips for parents to help their kids get used to wearing masks.

One that we’ve done in our family is putting masks on dolls, and she gets to pick the masks she wants from a variety that I am making.

Click over to her post for all the tips. If something has worked for you I’d love to hear about it!

[Photo: Bias Behavioral.]

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There’s something great about every state, and Clive Gifford has collected fun facts, trivia and firsts from every state in Record-Breaking USA: Celebrating America’s Biggest, Brightest and Bravest.

Each state gets a one or two-page spread, with facts scattered around the page and illustrations by Paul Hammond. The page lists a state nickname, the capital, state mammal, a fun fact and some famous residents, as well as firsts and record breaking events that happened in each state.

You’ll learn that Alabama is home to the biggest unclaimed baggage center in the world, that Florida is home to the most toxic tree (the manchineel tree, which has sap that can burn the skin and make people go blind, and its fruit is toxic) and that Iowa is home to the largest model of a strawberry, to name a few facts. Loma, Montana, holds the record for the largest temperature range in a day (from -54 to 49 degrees F, which is a 103 degree difference), while Ohio’s Geauga County once employed the smallest police dog on record, an 11-inch-tall chihuahua/rat terrier mix.

South Dakota has the world’s biggest Bigfoot statue, the cotton candy machine was invented in Tennessee, and a car that was 91 percent cake was driven (and eaten) in Washington state in 2021, now holding the record for the fastest moving mostly edible car.

As you might guess from these sample facts, kids will find this book funny and probably learn some things, too. In addition to the states there’s a page for Washington, D.C., where President Theodore Roosevelt broke the record for the most hands shaken in one day (8,513, a record that’s held since 1907), and the US territories, as well as records that cross state lines and span the globe.

Readers will also learn about records set in space and read what it takes to be a record breaker. There are even a few records listed that you can try to break yourself.

This fun and colorful book is sure to engage kids who love facts, and would be a great one to take along on your next road trip.

About the book: 96 pages, hardcover. Published 2026 by Wide Eyed Editions. Suggested retail price $24.99.

Comments

Christine says
July 30, 2020 at 5:28 am
I didn’t know children had to wear masks. No child round here wears a mask.
Sarah White says
August 5, 2020 at 6:24 pm
Where I live, and I think it’s true in lots of places in the United States that have mask mandates, kids over 10 have to wear them and they are recommended over age 2. Some schools are also requiring masks since they can’t have kids sit six feet apart.

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