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When you give a child a pack of crayons it’s like giving him or her a key to a whole new world. A world where an apple can be blue, grass can be orange, and normal objects can become creatively different. In our household coloring is a favorite past time. If you’re looking [...]

Driving in the station wagon to grandma’s house was how we traveled during my childhood holidays. Now with families living all over the country, flying is becoming more common. It’s expensive enough buying a plane ticket for one person, let alone buying four to go to Grandma’s! Allow me to suggest taking [...]

After a busy day of work, prepping and eating supper, it’s nice to sit down with the family and watch a movie. This is a scenario that happens in our house on occasion. The question that usually comes up is “What movie are we going to watch?” For the most part, we’ve [...]

As a family living off of one income, any additional money that comes in is useful. I recently came across a new (new to me) blog service that pays for articles you write on your blog. If you like blogging and if you like to have some extra cash in your pocket? Get paid to [...]

If you are like me, you worry about your child using the internet. You may have a list of sites that you are comfortable with your child surfing. But what happens when they accidentally click the wrong link or type in the wrong thing, suddenly their innocence can be forever lost.
Two things I use in [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Whyville.com, a virtual city of 1.7 million 8-15 year olds aims to engage young people in constructive educational activities while promoting socially responsible behavior. While interacting with each other, Whyville citizens can complete activities in civics, math, science, art, and economics.
Whyville.com was started as a hands-on learning environment for kids to learn about science [...]

As I was trolling through the vast expanses of the web, I came across a very intriguing quiz for dads of daughters. The quiz aims to be “a quick way to understand how well you’re doing as your daughter’s father.” Dads if you are up for [...]

Has your child been wanting to setup a MySpace or Facebook account? However, you’re a bit leery due to the fact that you’ve heard horror stories about kids who have been stalked by sexual predators via MySpace or Facebook? Check out a new site called Imbee.com. Imbee.com is a site geared to 8 [...]