Forget lugging your kid’s guitar on a crowded 6 train or sloshing through a New York City snowstorm to get to a piano lesson. If skilled instructors who will teach your child "Here Comes the Sun" on the ukulele in the comfort of your own home or through an engaging virtual music lesson sound more your speed, Hey Joe Guitar Music School is about to game-change your future Beethoven's education. The dad-owned business has been matching Manhattan and Brooklyn children (and adults) with highly-trained teachers for private in-home lessons for more than 15 years and, now, they’re offering flexible online lessons and hybrid options too.

Hey Joe Guitar was founded by fourth-generation New Yorker and long-time musician, Joe Berger, after countless friends asked him to recommend music teachers for themselves and their children. With the school in its second decade, he's still personally involved with every client and monitors each instructor. Above all, he takes care of perfectly matching teachers to eager learners.

From Joe's helpful hand-holding to the program's promise of individualized attention and flexibility with both in-person and virtual lessons, this stress-free learning style is tough to top—and getting started is as easy as one, two, three, four.

Online learning has risen in popularity with families looking for high-quality educational alternatives that provide flexibility and individualized instruction to fit their unique learners. The Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School (PA Cyber) serves up an online tuition-free public school education to kids in grades K-12 that spans from their computer screens out into their communities with a combination of online and in-person learning opportunities.

One of the largest, most experienced remote public schools in the nation, PA Cyber is well-loved for its personalized instructional methods; state-certified, highly-qualified teachers; and rich academic content that’s aligned to state standards. Flexible and engaging, the program offers both virtual live and self-paced instruction, plus a number of meaningful ways for kids to connect with their teachers and peers on and, sometimes, off-line.

If you’re out there wondering whether this popular online program could be the right choice for your family, read on. We’ve rounded up answers to some of the most-asked questions about PA Cyber to help you make the best call.

Whether you’ll be celebrating Halloween at home with the family this year or you’re planning to have a few friends over, there’s no shortage of easy ways to make the holiday extra special.

Light on the fright and heavy on the fun, here are five Halloween activities inspired by Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories by Jeff Kinney, #1 international bestselling author of the beloved Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. Packed with comically terrifying zombies, vampires, and ghosts, the book’s scary-but-silly tales will leave your whole crew laughing—much like these Halloween games!