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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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PBS Kids and Whole Foods Market Partner to offer Sustainable Toys
PBS KIDS® AND WHOLE FOODS MARKET® partner to ROLL OUT Assortment oF SUSTAINABLE TOYS IN TIME FOR HOLIDAY SEASON Proceeds from toy sales will directly support the development of children’s educational media and Whole Kids Foundation This past week PBS KIDS and Whole Foods Market announced a partnership today that will bring PBS KIDS’ line of educational and earth-friendly toys exclusively to the supermarket’s customers this holiday season. Starting this week, gift givers can find the PBS KIDS toy line, including classic wooden toys and soft plush animals, at Whole Foods Markets nationwide in the retailer’s Whole Body department. We shop at Whole Foods Market near our…
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Dandelion Moms Favorite Holiday Gift Ideas Giveaway
YAY! Tis the season for friends and family to celebrate and enjoy one another. What better way to say thank you for all that you do than to provide a holiday giveaway?! We hand-selected the following companies because we love their products and think you will to! The dandelion moms Favorite Holiday Gift Ideas giveaway has gifts for the whole family – for mom and dad, for the kids and even your furry friends! We are excited to be working with these wonderful companies to provide you with some treats that you can enjoy with your family. Make sure to enter as many times as you can and good luck! a Rafflecopter giveaway…
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Garden :: DIY Succulent Gift Ideas
Succulents are one of my absolute favorite types of plants because they take minimal care and I love how they will surprise you with their infrequent blooms. There are so many interesting ways to use them as accents in your garden or indoors as a table accent. And they are perfect to give as gifts. It is a pretty inexpensive yet unique present to give to the plant lover, friend or your child’s schoolteacher. We found some unique DIY ideas you can do with the kids! Some are large projects and would be more costly as you need several plants and others would take just one succulent. The skies the limit with…
