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Kids love helping Mom and Dad in the kitchen and whipping up meals for family and friends, and this updated edition teaches kids the basics about cooking, kitchen safety, and nutrition, while offering recipes for a Just Peachy Smoothie, Bite-Sized Blueberry Pancakes, Poppin’ Popovers, Take-Along Trail Mix, and more! With 30 delicious food-themed puzzles, kids will have fun both in and out of the kitchen. Written by a certified dietician, this creative cookbook gives kids the know-how and tools...

Bilingual children in poor families are at increased risk for falling behind in reading and language skills during the summer holidays, according to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Parents should provide these children with language-rich activities over the summer, says the ASHA, which offers the following tips: * Talk to your child in the language you’re most comfortable using, even if it’s not the language used at school. For example, have more conversations with your...

The Girls Next Door is a great show on the E! network. I was watching satellite tv the other night and found an old rerun of it I hadn’t seen in awhile. This one was from when Holly Madison, Kendra Wilkinson, and Bridgette Marquette were Hugh Hefner’s girlfriends. This was the first season this show was ever on TV. I really enjoyed getting to know Hef and the girls on this season. This show happened to be the one where they all decided to move on to other things. Kendra sat the...

This is a guest post by Wendy Teller The other day, I turned on my Direct.TV and started surfing channels. I found a show on TV called Family Guy. It looked funny, so I decided to watch it. This show is about an American family with a dad, mom, three kids, and a dog. The dog talks. So does the youngest child. Well, I think he talks. It seems like some people, especially the dog, can understand him, but I don’t think that everyone can. Anyway, in this episode, the family is having a garage...

This is a guest post by Malika Jones We had planned to take our kids on a trip to Tulsa, Oklahoma. I knew it was only a 2 hour drive, but I wanted to find out all the things we could do while we were there. I looked online to see what I could find. My hughsnet helped me to find everything for the trip. We looked over several hotels for this trip. We finally decided on the Raddison because it had a small indoor water park for the kids to play in while we were there. When we set our reservation,...