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How to Tackle the “5 More Minutes” Bedtime Routine
Do you kids like to stall at bedtime? I think our daughter is the queen of stalling! Just the other night she threw a fit saying that I didn’t believe she was a big girl because I was making her go to bed before 8:30 (her usual bedtime). But she had been sick all week so thought it might be good idea. Wrong. So what do your kids say? That their eyelids hurt? They’ll die of thirst without more water? Mine usually throws out that she is hungry for a snack before bedtime. It’s like a big deja-vu when your own kid starts rattling off the same bedtime excuses you used back in…
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Tips for Raising a Reader
Next week I will be speaking to parents at a preschool about the benefits of reading aloud to your children, so I thought this would be a good time to write about raising readers. I think back to when my son was about 6 months old. How I would hold him and read board books in the rocking chair. He would have let me read to him all day. Today, he is a 7-year old book-aholic who reads everything he can get his hands on. I like to think that reading consistently to him beginning at an early age helped guide him to that path. Reading to young children, including…
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Dandelion Moms Favorite Gift Ideas Giveaway 2015
Tis the season friends! All year long we have searched and found some of our favorite holiday gift ideas to share with you. Here are some of our favorites companies who have generously offered a goodie for our lovely community! Prizes valued at over $800! Good luck and have a wonderful holiday season! Art: Mike Kungl is one of our favorite artists around. Mike Kungl works with Disney along with many other companies such as the Chuck Jones Gallery and Stan Lee of Marvel Comics. After completing art and design school M Kungl applied his graphic design education to achieve a successful career in advertising. Spending nearly two decades creating award winning logos,…
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Breaking Bread with Brooke Burke
With the holidays upon us hosting or attending family dinners can be so much fun or chaotic or a little of both don’t you think? One of my favorite memories is the year my mother thought it would be fun to have a food fight on Thanksgiving. Yes, we were all sitting around the table enjoying our turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, green bean casserole (well, at the time my mom was the only one who liked that dish), and dinner rolls when my mom picked up a handful of mashed potatoes and threw them at my dad, laughing the whole time. After a few moments of complete shock…
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PBS Kids Nature Cat Encourages Outdoor Exploration
Last May at the PBS annual meeting we heard about a new PBS Kids show called Nature Cat that premieres tomorrow November 25th, after the first hour-long WILD KRATTS holiday special, “Creature Christmas.” Nature Cat is geared towards children ages 3-8 and is designed to encourage children to explore and develop connections with the natural world. The show was created by the very talented Rudman brothers, David Rudman (“Cookie Monster” and “Baby Bear” on Sesame Street; “Scooter” and “Janice” on The Muppets) and Adam Rudman (Tom & Jerry, Sesame Street, Cyberchase). We had a chance to speak to them at the PBS annual meeting and they spoke about how much…
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ReAmp Studios Mission: to educate youths and aspiring artists
A few weeks ago, our very own Melissa Northway asked if I could write an article on ReAmp Studios’ celebrating their one year anniversary since opening up their flagship studio, Studio G, in Tustin and their new partnership with the School of Rock. Being an avid fan of all things music, (albeit a complete ignoramus when it comes to anything that happens in the studio), I was thrilled and jumped at the chance to see what happens behind the scenes! The team at ReAmp is made up of founders Stefani Rose, Daniel Martin, and studio manager/ head engineer Joshua Brooks. The experience and talents of these three combined…