Holiday Gifts Your Kids Can Make

Holiday Gifts Your Kids Can Make

Homemade Gifts Help Teach the Lesson of Giving Christmas is coming, the gift list is getting fat! It is inevitable that children get stars in their eyes and dream about magnificent toys and gadgets at night. One of the best ways I have found to encourage my kids to keep their gift wish lists reasonable [...]

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10 Tips to Survive Holiday Travels with the Kids

10 Tips to Survive Holiday Travels with the Kids

Tis the season for family gatherings, indulging our tastes and our senses, and hoping we will survive travelling with children to all four corners of our family and friendship trees. Whether you live across town from your parents or across the continent from your in-laws, travelling with children for the holidays always poses some challenges [...]

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3 Ways to Add Thanksgiving Fun to Your Family

3 Ways to Add Thanksgiving Fun to Your Family

We have now entered the Holiday Spiral Zone - we went from creating fun Halloween costumes and pranks to spook each other, to the sugar melt downs, and Bang! Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and the Christmas stockings are itching to climb upon their hooks. Help your kids slow down and enjoy the spirit of Thanksgiving with [...]

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Free The Leash Kids!

Free The Leash Kids!

Tips for Keeping Your Sanity and Kids Safe in Crowds Taking children into extremely crowded situations can be daunting for parents. Suddenly the airports, fairs, and shopping malls seem more like tests of parental abilities to keep track of lightning-fast children. There are ways you can enjoy and survive the throngs of people without losing [...]

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Tips for Creative Summer Fun with Your Kids

Tips for Creative Summer Fun with Your Kids

Summer is a time of beaches, sand, swimming, hiking, camping, and other family outdoor activities. Sometimes, however, even the biggest fan of the local swimming pool needs a change of pace. Here are some creative and goofy ways you can incorporate even more fun into summer days with your kids. Bring on the pirates! Turn [...]

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6 Tips for Enjoying a Safe 4th of July

6 Tips for Enjoying a Safe 4th of July

The 4th of July is a magical holiday; adults and children alike gather to enjoy the explosion of colors that rock the night sky. Though it is a night of wonder, it is also a celebration fraught with potential danger. Here are 6 tips to enjoy a safe 4th of July with your family. Leave [...]

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Tips for 4th of July Family Fun

Tips for 4th of July Family Fun

There is nothing quite like the thundering celebration of the 4th of July, perhaps because families are able to take a break in the middle of the summer season for another excuse to have fun in the sun with friends and family. Whether you are campers around the a fire or suburban families who gather [...]

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7 Tips for a Great Family Vacation on the Road

7 Tips for a Great Family Vacation on the Road

If your family trips look anything like ours, there are coolers, pillows, cameras, and elbows sticking out of and into every corner of the mini-van. When it comes to taking a family vacation on the road, we pack that thing in like we are practicing for moving day. Over the years of raising 4 children [...]

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10 Inexpensive Ways to Have Fun With Young Kids Over Memorial Day Weekend

10 Inexpensive Ways to Have Fun With Young Kids Over Memorial Day Weekend

Memorial Day is a day of remembrance for those soldiers who have died while serving our country. For some people, it is also an extra day off of work, more time to spend with the family, and a sure sign that summer is fast approaching! Here are 10 fun things to do with your kids [...]

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5 Kids’ Shows That Are Making Me Crazy

5 Kids’ Shows That Are Making Me Crazy

Do you ever wake up with kids’ cartoon theme songs running through your head? I do. All. The. Time. Like most kids, mine looooove to watch TV. They would watch it all day if I let them. I used to sit with them and watch, figuring TV time with a parent was better than without [...]

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