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Healthy Lunchbox Options For Kids: How You Can Encourage Better Eating Habits During The School Year

Healthy lunchbox options might be the last thing on your mind right now. As a parent, you’re either on the cusp of that first day back from summer break or still in recovery mode from seeing the supplies lists, forms, and requests for volunteer time. Feeding your kids right was a given all summer when […]

7y ago

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Rio Olympic Swag: Here’s A Peek At The Best Of The Merch

Rio Olympic swag may set a new standard for the gift bags given out to contestants in this year’s edition of the Summer Games. Like any other event where sponsors hope consumers will want to emulate the members of various teams, swag bags are a part of the material landscape. https://twitter.com/ultragranditems/status/760922011245969408 One of the most […]

7y ago

Women To Watch At The 2016 Rio Summer Olympics

Which women should you watch at the Olympics? Women’s events at the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro offer a bit of everything: drama, star power, and some of the fiercest competition this side of the World Cup. Better known athletes such as Serena Williams are already receiving a lioness’ share of media […]

7y ago

New Family Video Releases: ‘The Angry Birds Movie,’ ‘Elena of Avalor,’ and ‘April And The Extraordinary World’

New family video releases and late summer are two things you don’t hear mentioned together very often. August and September are all about getting ready to go back to school and last hurrahs that take the form of vacations and outdoor recreation while the weather permits it. This is why the latest crop of new […]

7y ago

Election Talk And Kids: How Much Trump And Clinton Chat Is Too Much For Your Child?

Election talk is everywhere right now, even in places not known for having much to do with politics. Whether or not you intend for your kids to be exposed to the current contest for the keys to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, it’s all around them, too. If the discourse is getting heated between grownups, it is […]

7y ago

New Family Video Releases: ‘Miracles From Heaven,’ ‘Adventures In Babysitting,’ And ‘The Real Ghostbusters’

New family video releases have been hitting the shelves and websites this summer. While everyone is flocking to see the latest and biggest family blockbusters, there is still much to recommend an evening at home and out of the heat. The latest DVD and Blu-rays to drop include more than a few favorites that will […]

7y ago

Summer Camp Friendships: Connections That Can Last A Lifetime

Summer camp friendships are just one of the developmental boosts that can give the children who are lucky enough to go a leg up on peers who opt to spend the long school break at home. Kids Health, a website devoted to helping parents navigate milestones in childhood development, referred to sleep away camp as […]

7y ago

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Experts Advise On How To Talk To Your Kids About Terrorism

How do you talk to your kids about terrorism? In our current media environment. access to images, raw footage, and up to the minute news talking points can make it difficult to filter what little eyes and ears take in. Fred Rogers, better known as television’s “Mr. Rogers,” had been a gentle, reassuring media presence […]

7y ago

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Fan Made MLP Videos Show The Creative Power Of ‘My Little Pony’s’ Fandom [Video]

Fan-made MLP movies are not new. The relaunch of the animated franchise in 2010 – My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic – garnered a fandom that astonished culture observers with the breadth and depth of their devotion to the show. Even though much of the focus has been on “Bronies” – the adult male fans […]

7y ago

New Videos For Kids: ‘Zootopia’, ‘Shrek’, And ‘The Land Before Time’ Are Must-Haves For Your Family’s Library

This week’s new video releases for kids includes two well-loved franchises and a new favorite that families making return trips to the multiplex. While “Finding Dory” is swimming circles around the competition for biggest screen thrill of the summer, these classics will offer families screen therapy that’s as close as the nearest TV. https://twitter.com/__brysonnn/status/742791651278487552 The […]

7y ago

VBS: A Low Cost Summer Activity For Kids Or Cause For Parental Sticker Shock?

VBS, also known as Vacation Bible School has been a traditional summer activity for kids in the southeastern and mid-western regions of the U.S. Structured days spent making macaroni art, plaques with Bible verses, and all of those prizes earned by memorizing and reciting passages from the New Testament are happy memories for many parents […]

7y ago

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Gordie Howe: The Final Buzzer Sounds For Mr. Hockey

Gordie Howe was 88 years old when he died earlier this week. By most standards, that could be seen as a good long run, but by professional hockey standards, any more is darned near miraculous. His entire career could be seen that way. Howe had reached a point where his stats bumped his life story […]

7y ago

Writing For Kids: Camp NaNoWriMo YWP Offers A Summer Boot Camp For Budding Authors

Writing for kids in the summer months used to mean one of two things: letters home from camp or homework assignments for summer school. Thanks to the people who brought you NaNoWriMo and Camp NaNoWriMo, their Young Writers Program includes the juvenile authors in the Summer program. Do you have an aspiring novelist itching for […]

7y ago

Summer Activities For Kids: Three Boredom Busters That Won’t Break The Bank

Summer activities for kids can seem like a miracle cure for everything that ails a parent dealing with onslaughts of “I’m bored!” Two weeks after the initial rush of not going to school wears off, everything in the fridge becomes inedible, none of the games in the living room are cool, it’s too hot to […]

7y ago

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Muhammad Ali Center: Want To Honor ‘The Greatest’? Donate To The MAC

The Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Kentucky is more than a celebrity museum. It is the manifestation of a vision held by the man who would electrify the world with his athletic prowess, his dedication to his deeply held beliefs, and his determination to achieve greatness on his own terms as a Black man, as […]

8y ago

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‘The Walking Dead’: Take A Tour To Get More TWD Thrills And Chills

The Walking Dead franchise might be a high rotation rerun for fans this summer, but a series of Atlanta-area tours are giving TWD followers new zombie tracking adventures of their own. Want to hunt down the places where Walkers have shambled for the camera? The biggest catch is you have to make your way to […]

8y ago

Five Below: Are The Cheap Thrills Worth The Plastic Waste?

It is just past eight on a Friday night. I enter the local Five Below flanked by two friends, one of whom sometimes uses “adulting” as a verb to make a point, the other is just south of 60-years-old and still delights in her own odd mix Sanrio cuteness and stygian goth that includes graphic […]

8y ago

Top Misspelled Words By State: Google’s List Reveals The Most Commonly Misspelled Words

The top misspelled words by state might come as a surprise, especially as America’s best and brightest grammar school word champs are battling it out in Washington D.C. at the Scripps US National Spelling Bee in a quest to determine whose phonetic skills reign supreme. To celebrate that event, the people who do all the […]

8y ago

SNAP/Food Stamps: Local Farmers Market EBT Card Rules Allow Good Food Choices For A Healthy Diet Plan

Local farmers markets are a resource for good food choices for more families thanks to the expanded acceptance of relief programs. Participants in programs such as SNAP, WIC, and EBT were formerly limited to what was offered by brick and mortar retailers. Now, they can benefit from the variety of good food offered by local […]

8y ago

Farmers Market Etiquette: How To Keep The Peas Between You And Your Favorite Farmer

Farmers market etiquette is probably the last thing on many shoppers’ minds as they head for the nearest open air popup to buy locally sourced produce, meat, dairy, and in some places, wares from artisan bakeries and craftspeople. The impersonal nature of big box retail means that most shoppers never encounter the person who actually […]

8y ago