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Instagram Inspiration :: The Wonder of the Dragonfly
Last night my daughter and I were walking out our front door when we saw a rather large insect flying around our porch light. When we realized it was a dragonfly, I was a bit surprised as I have never seen one flying around at nighttime. So of course, this sent us on a quest to find out more about dragonflies. I love when nature inspires us to learn more about the creatures that share our planet with us and we spent the evening on Google learning about them! After much discussion we decided to call him (or her) Daphne. Though my daughter wanted to call him Gingivitis the Dragonfly. Funny…
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Screen Madness and Your Kids: A Parental Guide to Limiting Electronics Use
Screen Madness & Your Kids: A Parental Guide to Limiting Electronics Use Maybe your kids start gaming as soon as they get home from school. Or maybe they just never look up from their phones—they’re texting and surfing from after dinner until they go to bed, and then they start again from under the covers. Sound familiar? From gaming consoles and cell phones to computers and tablets and back again, kids spend too much time in front of a screen. A Harris Interactive study found that kids ages 8-18 spend an average of 44.5 hours per week in front of various screens. That’s more than a…
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Creating Traditions: Family Movie Night Ideas and Recipes
Back-to-school means back-to-routine, and for many families that routine used to include pizza and a movie on Friday night. But with busy days and busier nights on the horizon, chock-full of homework, sports practice, PTA meetings and play dates, why limit family time to just Fridays? Create a new family tradition this school year, using Netflix’s list of family-friendly titles as a starting point. Whether you stick to Friday night pizza and a movie or bring everyone together for Tuesday Night TV Time, it’s easy to create family memories with Netflix as there are so many options available! My daughter is enjoying all the episodes of Disney’s Jesse…
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PBS Kids Promotes Reading All Year Long
As part of the PBS Kids VIP group I was provided some books and other materials to host a PBS Kids Summer Reading party. My daughter and I are always up for a party and especially if it is one where we are encouraging young readers a love of books! Here are some ideas we incorporated into our party that you can use to host your own book club or book reading party. What a great way to encourage a love of reading in our kids. Tips to Throw A Book-Reading Party: Host the Party Outside: If weather permits, why not host the book reading…
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Join Our “Talk Like A Pirate” Facebook Party on September 19th
Tis that time of year again! Talk Like A Pirate Day of course! This day was devised over 10 years ago by two buddies speaking pirate while playing tennis. They talked about how fun it would be if the whole country spoke pirate for a day. Bring in columnist Dave Barry who thought this was a grand idea and thus Talk Like A Pirate became an official day on September 19th! You can read more about the founders in our interview with them here. So in celebration of this rather fun and silly day, let’s have a Facebook Party! As you know, we are all about pirates and will…
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Day 11 :: Get Your Home Decluttered in 28 Days: Master Bedroom
How are you doing in our Home Challenge where we are working at de-cluttering and redecorated our homes in 28 days? You can jump in any day you want, and don’t worry if you skip a day or two. This isn’t a contest – just a communal effort on all our behalf. I have needed to get our place de-cluttered for some time now as we had/have too much stuff! I am not quite that bad where I need to be on that hoarders show (well, maybe you should see my garage first before you decide that), but it was a matter of things kept coming in…
