Each year it seems like I hear about bigger and more expensive birthday parties for kids. I have known parents to spend thousands of dollars on birthday parties for one-year-olds! That just doesn’t fit in my budget. And yet, my kids always want to do something different. Some years we have kept it inexpensive with […]
Two Great Online Tools for Rocket Math
Both of my daughters are now doing Rocket Math at school. One is in the addition/subtraction and the other is in multiplication/division. It’s kind of like the old “timed tests” but the numbers are not exactly sequential and the kids have to get a certain number right based on how fast they can write (as […]
Leftover Halloween Candy Idea
Over the last couple of days I have been hearing some great ideas for leftover Halloween candy. Some houses have the “Great Pumpkin” or “Halloween Witch” come and exchange a present for the candy. Some dentists buy back the candy from the kids on a per pound basis. I’ve even heard that there are ways […]
“My Mom is on Facebook” from SNL
For those of you who didn’t see Saturday Night Live this week, there was a really funny sketch about moms on Facebook. The gist of it is not only that moms say really corny things on Facebook but that “kids” (including grown up kids) have to watch what they say when their mom joins Facebook. […]
Power Cop Helps Police Video and TV Time
When my daughters were young, I never had to worry about how much time they were playing video games or watching television because I was always in the room with them. Now as they are getting older and more independent, we have more televisions in our house than we have people and video games in […]
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