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The Best Toys for Babies [toys for babies that will last for years]

Best Experience Gifts for Kids (Instead of Toys!)

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Best Experience Gifts for Kids (Instead of Toys!)

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23 Best Art Supplies for Kids

The Best Pikler Triangle: Why You Need One for Your Kids

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The Best Pikler Triangle: Why You Need One for Your Kids

Educational Wooden Toys for Kids (3 to 8-Year-Olds)

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Educational Wooden Toys for Kids (3 to 8-Year-Olds)

Together we’ll slow down, stop rushing our kids through life and raise lifelong learners who will become confident and independent adults.

thealannagallo

📖 Former teacher (M Ed.) turned secular homeschooler
🚫 Reducing screen time + rethinking school
🌱Raising confident, curious, real-world ready kids ↓

“You’re so lucky your husband agreed to raise

“You’re so lucky your husband agreed to raise non-iPad kids.”
Luck had nothing to do with it.We started noticing how different our kids were after screen-heavy days.
Shorter fuses. Less curiosity. Always needing the next hit.So we made a choice.
To give them the kind of childhood we remember:
boredom, imagination, real connection.And yeah, it’s countercultural now.
Because the world keeps telling parents,
“Just give them a screen. It’s easier.”That’s why I wrote Uninfluenceable.
It’s the book I needed when I realized how much the algorithm was shaping our kids…
and how powerful it is when parents decide to step out of that noise.If you’re ready to raise kids grounded in who they are, not what the culture tells them to be,
💥 Comment GETIT and I’ll send you the link to grab your copy (plus my 5-Step Screen Reset Course free).

I used to think I’d retire in the classroom.Gr

I used to think I’d retire in the classroom.Grading essays. Drinking bad coffee. Changing lives one kid at a time.But somewhere along the way, the system changed.The spark I saw in kids started to fade.They were anxious, overstimulated, and desperate for validation from a screen.Curiosity gave way to compliance.And the kids who didn’t fit the mold — the dreamers, the neurodivergent thinkers, the feelers — were labeled “problems.”Then I became a mom.And suddenly it wasn’t just students I was worried about.It was my own kids.I didn’t want their childhood measured by grades, screens, or social media status.I wanted them to know themselves. To question. To create. To think critically — truly critically — not the watered-down version that makes adults comfortable.So I left.I walked away from the system I once believed in and built something new. A life that values play, curiosity, empathy, and truth.And, I help parents do the same:
Raise kids who can’t be manipulated by trends or fear.Globally minded kids who are kind, confident, curious, and grounded in who they are.Kids who are Uninfluenceable.And it’s needed now more than ever.

When I was teaching high school, I watched it happ

Did I do this right? 😅Follow me @thealannagal

Did I do this right? 😅Follow me @thealannagallo if you agree with this list 😆 ✍️

Your 8-year-old knows what Skibidi Toilet is… bu

Your 8-year-old knows what Skibidi Toilet is… but doesn’t know how to ride a bike.And that’s not judgment: it’s a mirror.We’ve built a world where kids can navigate YouTube better than their own neighborhoods.
Where they can follow entire “lore universes” online… but struggle to focus through a simple storybook.It’s not that kids have changed.
It’s that childhood has.Because the culture they’re growing up in rewards constant noise, instant dopamine, and endless distraction.
And if we’re not intentional, that becomes their normal.But here’s the good news:
we can change that story.
We can raise kids who know how to think, create, and live offline again.✨ That’s why I wrote Uninfluenceable... to help parents raise kids grounded in who they are, not what the algorithm tells them to be.💥 Comment WAITLIST and I’ll send you the link to join.
When you do, you’ll also get my 5-Step Screen Reset Course (a $27 value) completely free when the book launches.

Every time I hear parents say, “But everyone in

Every time I hear parents say, “But everyone in their class already has Instagram,” I think about this:
When we delay social media, it’s not about sheltering kids. It’s about giving them more time to become themselves before outside voices drown them out.When kids know who they are without the influence of likes and comments, they’ll be stronger and more ready when the time comes.That’s why one of the core messages in Uninfluenceable is this: delaying social media is a gift, not a punishment.📖 Launches October 22. If you’re on the waitlist and purchase during launch, you’ll get my 5-Step Screen Reset Mini Course FREE.👋 Comment WAITLIST to get the link.

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