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Come Celebrate Penelope’s 3rd Birthday with Us!
It seems like yesterday when I received the email from Lynette Mattke of PicPocket Books and said that they were interested in my children’s picture book, Penelope the Purple Pirate, and would like to make it into an app available on their platform. I was so excited because my dream of creating a children’s picture book and storybook app was finally coming true! You can read more about my journey of becoming a children’s picture book writer in a post I wrote for Moms With Apps. It has been three years since the storybook app became available as an iPad, iPhone and iPod app in iTunes and we wanted to have a little celebration. But at this…
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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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Ruby’s Studio:The Friendship Show Giveaway Winners
We are big fans of The Mother Company and their award-winning show The Ruby’s Studio. Their new show called The Friendship Show is a great program that teaches children the importance of empathy, friendship and about The Golden Rule. They provided us with two copies for The Friendship Show DVD to hand out to a lucky dandelion mom! And the winners are: Christie Dwyer Jennifer Shamburger-Schlotzhaur Congratulations to you both!
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Ruby’s Studio: The Friendship Show
The Mother Company and Ruby’s Studio was started by two friends, Abbie Schiller and Samantha Kurtzman-Counter who both have a background in television. They wanted to create a slower-paced and educational program for children that would focus on topics such as emotional literacy. With award winning Ruby’s studio we find adorable Ruby talking to groups of children about various topics. They described Ruby’s Show as a mix between Mr. Rogers meets Mary Poppins. Ruby has such a magical way to interact and speak to children that my daughter immediately responded to the show. In their newest release “The Friendship Show” they talk about the importance of friendship using adorable animated segments, art…
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A Little Book About Feelings Teaches Emotional Literacy
Emotional literacy is not something we hear about in the media. Sure, we hear about the importance of literacy and encouraging a love of reading and writing for our children. But the ability to understand our emotions and express our feelings is an important skill that needs to be learned in childhood. Emotional literacy is defined as the ability to recognize, understand and appropriately express our emotions. Feel.org states that becoming emotionally literate is learning the alphabet, grammar and vocabulary of our emotional lives. (Source: www.feel.org). A recent poll by USA Today showed that when parents were asked what they most wanted to change in their children’s schools, 75% of…
