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Parenting Pointers: Tips for a Screen-Free Holiday

Motherhood Moments

But it can also be a great opportunity to establish new habits, spend more quality time with family, and set intentions for the new year. Everyone in the family can make their own list, and then together you can work towards completing them. Some families take a “digital Sabbath” once during a weekend.

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Enriching Education: How Families Can Make Summer a Season For Building Children’s Language, Literacy, and Learning Skills

Motherhood Moments

While school systems continue to dispatch various resources and approaches to help students catch up, parents and caregivers can support their child’s learning at home—something that’s especially important during the summer when most children aren’t in school. This could be a family book club, or one with neighbors or friends.

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Start Planning and Budgeting for Summer TODAY!

Family Balance Sheet

As a family, we are looking forward to camping trips, a week at the beach, and cookouts with friends. ” Kids (and parents) get excited about summer trips and activities, so I like to post a family calendar on the refrigerator with all of our summer plans and activities. How much is summer going to cost you and your family?

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Two New Family Friendly Releases from Lionsgate and Giveaway

Nicoles Nickels

Snowflake is the only white gorilla in the world, and the zoo’s main attraction. With the help of an eccentric red panda, Snowflake sneaks out of the zoo and heads into the dangerous city to find a circus witch with a magical potion that promises to make her a “normal” gorilla. Curriculum Commentary for Parents. Adjectives.

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Summer Fun Guide 2019

Family Balance Sheet

As a family, we are looking forward to camping trips and a week at the beach. We bought the family a summer pass to Hersheypark for a Christmas gift, something we’ve never done before. It’s a helpful visual for everyone in my family as we were anticipating our summer fun. ”… ”When are the fireworks?”

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My Family’s Weekend in New York City

Family Balance Sheet

Over the Memorial Day weekend, we headed to the Big Apple to see a Broadway show with my daughters’ Girl Scout troop and their families. We’ve taken the girls to New York City before for a day trip to Central Park’s Zoo, but this was a weekend trip and my girls were beyond excited to see their first Broadway show.

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Free Kindle Books: Supernatural Recipes For Halloween And More

For the Mommas

Download: Boo and The Backyard Zoo by Pat Hatt. In Feeding Eden, Susan writes with poignancy, honesty, and humor about her quest to help her son–including trying a cluster of alternative therapies-as well as the effect of Eden’s illness on their entire family. Download: Feeding Eden by Susan Weissman.