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Buying a Family Pet
Sooner or later, your child will probably ask for a pet. While owning a pet has many advantages such as teaching responsibility and fostering care and compassion in our children - pet owning is also an enormous...
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Re-connect with your child this summer
As another hectic school year comes to a close, summer holidays present the perfect opportunity to re-connect with your child. Doing activities together is an ideal way to spend quality time, rediscover what...
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SANTA'S VILLAGE: Celebrating 50 Years
This is an area that just seems timeless. For 50 years this park has captured the minds of children young and old and it proved it' s worth all over again for my family when we arrived for our day to see Santa...
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Family Meetings
Kim and Josh meet every week without fail. It's a date they never break. It is their family meeting; the time that they set aside for each other to discuss the week's happenings and deal with the joys and...
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Harvest Time
Do you ever wonder if it's all worth it? We work so hard at being a good parent. How often do we get that feeling of total satisfaction, that we've done enough, the job's complete, it worked out perfectly, and...
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Make Time for Teens, Young Adolescents
Make Time -- Don't Mark Time with your young adolescent Is your family time-starved? Are you always trying to get things done when the reality is that one is never done? Over and over again, young...
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The Best of Times: Communicating With Your Children
As a parent, I want to share the best of times with my kids. A mother's joy is to see her children grow, and be happy. The best of times are...
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The Road to Disney World: Part Four
Less than a week and the countdown is on for our trek to Disney World. To say we have been in a planning frenzy is putting it a little lightly! I thought planning our wedding 17 years ago took a lot of...
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Educational Activities for Kids and Families
Teaching kids how to learn will go a long way in helping them be more successful in school. With all the educational materials marketed to parents...
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The Road to Disney World: Part Three
To say Christmas day was exciting at the Willliams’ household would be the understatement of the year. Christmas morning came and the usual first wave of childhood hit our bedroom at about 4:30 am when my...
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The Road to Disney World: Part Two
Okay, Christmas is just days away and we are making the final plans on how to tell our kids Emmy and Sam (8 and 6 years old respectively) about what will be their most exciting Christmas present ever – a...
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Reduce Stress and Enjoy Your Kids More
The Hardest Job in the World There's a new person living in your house -- a demanding new person who, though pretty small, seems to take up the whole house. And in between doing the new baby's laundry...
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Family Fitness
You've bought your kids toboggans, hockey sticks, and cross-country skis. You've signed them up for indoor soccer, swimming lessons, and gymnastics classes. You've told them all about the benefits of physical...
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The Road to Disney World: Part One
The dictionary defines the word “Anticipation” as a ‘pleasurable expectation’ and to say that our household has been locked onto this particular definition of the word in planning a...
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Family Traditions
Traditions are customs and beliefs that are handed down through a family. Old family traditions are important to carry on and are easily forgotten in today's society of already jam packed calendar schedules. You...
