Giveaway - Feed your Imagination with Kellogg's and Scholastic

Every parent knows that strong reading skills are an important factor in their children's success at school and in life -- but getting children to love reading isn't always the easiest thing.  Some kids are like my daughter, who seemed to love reading from birth; there wasn't much we needed to do to get her to love books and set her on the...

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Chuggington "Icy Escapades" Giveaway

Chuggington fans, rejoice!  Chuggington's new holiday DVD, Icy Escapades, has just become available to entertain your kids over Thanksgiving and the winter holidays!  We love how Wilson, Brewster and Koko as teach kids about problem solving and teamwork while having fun.  Plus, trains are cool.... :) About Icy Escapades In this traintastic...

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Neighborhood Toy Store Day is November 10, 2012

My kids love visiting our neighborhood toy store.  Whether it's to buy a birthday present for a friend, or to spend some of their hard-earned (and saved) allowance, or just to look and fantasize, there's something magical about gazing into their windows as we walk past, on our way home from an afternoon visit to the ice cream parlor.  Loading...

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Dr. Seuss Fun Machine Game Tiles

Some parents bemoan the loss of simple activities and games to the ever-increasing reach of videogames and apps.  Other parents are happy to let their children move with the times and join the digital world sooner rather than later.  I say there's a happy medium -- apps and videogames can be fun, effective teaching tools, especially when...

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Bonggamom's Friday Finds -- list your giveaways here

Welcome to Bonggamom's Friday Finds! I'm glad so many of you are finding this to be a useful way to get more traffic to your giveaways. And as a person who loves entering giveaways, I have to admit it's a great, easy way to find out where all the best giveaways are. So feel free to leave links to your giveaways, everyone. And don't forget...

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Schwan's makes fall feasting easy and delicious

This is probably the busiest, most jam-packed fall that I can remember.  The kids have triple-loaded their schedules-- volleyball, dance and an assortment of school clubs for The Pea, plus piano, soccer and a school play for the boys. Even with carpools, I find myself having to drive kids to and fro every day, and two days a week we...

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Monkeez Makes a Difference: turning philanthropy into child's play

All 3 of my kids are mad about stuffed toys, so we've got piles of them at home.  Every year I try to downsize their stuffie stash, winnowing out the ones they don't play with and letting them keep their favorites.  We recently received 3 adorable new friends that are sure to be in their favorites pile until they leave for college! Meet...

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Easylunchboxes.com lives up to its name

I stopped using plastic sandwich bags to pack my kids' lunches in several years ago -- plastic takes up so many valuable resources to produce, and it clogs up landfills.  I'm never sure whether all the soap and water I use to wash reusable containers actually cancels out all the good I'm doing by avoiding disposables, but I've grown so accustomed...

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Holiday cards from Shutterfly

I can't believe the holiday season is already here!  Even though we've barely had time to decide on our Halloween costumes, the stores are already filling up with holiday decorations and the airwaves are started to show holiday shopping ads.   I supposed it serves as a good reminder for us to start digging out those family photos and start...

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Nominate a Pink Power Mom

Do you know someone who has battled, or is battling breast cancer with strength and dignity?  There's still time to nominate her as a Pink Power Mom! Think globally, act locally: this is the concept behind the Pink Power Mom program, which is now accepting nominations for its 2012 contest to select eight deserving moms in local communities...

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Energizer supports breast cancer research all year, every year

Energizer's commitment to Breast Cancer Awareness is strong, consistent and long-lasting:  just like their batteries!  They have donated over $3 million since 2005, and have partnered with the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation since 2007.  This year they donated $225,000.  I will be forever grateful to Energizer for sponsoring...

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Disney Parks announces Limited Time Magic events in 2013

What was an ice castle doing in the middle of Times Square this week? Disney Parks unveiled a 25-foot-tall, 45,000-pound castle made of ice to celebrate their new "Limited Time Magic" events that will take place throughout 2013 at the Disneyland Resort and Walt Disney World.  Each week in 2013 the parks will have a different surprise that...

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