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Tiger Woods started golfing at age three. What’s to say a kid couldn’t start programing at age three. (Hmmm, they would have to know their alphabet first. Small hurdle!) Wired.com has a sizeable list of resources for teaching your kid how to program. Who knows, he or she could be the [...]

Volunteering in my opinion is compassion with hands and feet. Volunteering is one avenue to help teach your kid the value of compassion and selflessness. This tends to go against the mainstream idea of “Me first!” I remember one time around Christmas time, there were several elderly ladies who lived in the area [...]

In the past week Myspace.com banned 29,000 sex offenders from using Myspace. I applaud their action but realize that it wouldn’t take much for them to cook up some phony identity, log back on and get back to their old habits. Below are several points to discuss with your teen in regards to [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firms named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed.
Name of Product: Pacifiers
Units: About 1,000
Retailers: Dara Linda’s Baby Bling and Jewelry Design, of Davie, Fla.; Bling Toes, of Cherry [...]

When do I stop supporting my kids financially. Do I support them through college? Do I support them after college? How do I stop supporting them financially? Is there a solid exit strategy from doing so? For at least eighteen years you expect to support you kids financially. When [...]

Since school is starting in less than a month and a half, I figured we should have one last summer vacation fling. My oldest said he wanted to go camping, so camping it is… I’ve secured the campground and now I need to gather up all the items needed for camping. What [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed.
Name of Product: Matelassé Crib Bumpers
Units: About 31,000
Manufacturer: Pottery Barn Kids, of San Francisco, Calif.
Hazard: The decorative stitching on the [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed.
Name of Product: Sky Rangers Park Flyer Radio Control Airplanes
Units: About 21,000
Distributor: Estes-Cox Corp., of Penrose, Colo.
Hazard: The airplanes are [...]

The USDA has announced that Castleberry’s Food Company, an Augusta, Ga., establishment owned by Bumble Bee Foods, LLC has voluntarily increased the recall of a number of canned meat products that might contain Clostridium botulinum. Stores that carry the product include Kroger, Meijer, Piggly Wiggly, [...]

I found myself looking for something to do with my preschool aged child during the daytime this past week and stumbled across a great resource - our public library! Besides an endless supply of books, I discovered that our public library has some great activities such as:

Stepping into the world of make believe, both [...]