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Benefits of Having Your Parents Watch Your Kids

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Although I live 200+ miles away from my two grandkids, I try to get them for a week or so during the summer. On special occassions, now that I’m retired, I go to their house to watch them. There are many documented benefits to utilizing grandparents to watch grandkids. Would you pay your parents to watch your kids?

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Grandparenthood Can Be Expensive!

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

In Huffington Post article Boomers Give New Meaning To Spoiling The Grandkids author Linda Stern reported: “Roughly 36 percent of the grandparents surveyed by AARP said “spoiling (grand)children by buying them too much” was a part of a grandparent’s financial role.”. It’s my grandkid!”. It’s just fun!

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Ways for Busy Parents to Teach Young Children About Money

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Food Related. Show the kids how you are paying and explain the concept (checks, cash, debit, credit, food stamps or whatever). Show them the big truck that pulls up with hamburger buns, frozen fries and etc and talk about where the food comes from. My grandkids were 6 and 3 and they really got into this! Watching TV.

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Gaiam Vivendi Entertainment Releases FIVE Family Friendly DVDs this Summer and Giveaway

Nicoles Nickels

Join everyone’s favorite food-loving feline in this delicious collection of mouthwatering favorites, topped with extra excitement and laughs! When Sammy & Ray find themselves trapped in The Tank, an underwater aquarium, they must to hatch a plan to escape past Big D and his dopey friends to reunite with their grandkids Ricky & Ella.