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Kids Can Game With Sesame Street’s Grover

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This summer, preschoolers can learn about the importance of physical activity, eating right, keeping clean, and why it’s important to chill out and sleep with Sesame Street: Ready, Set, Grover. Tykes will be able to interact with their fave blue guy on the Wii and Nintendo DS. In the game, released by Warner Brothers, Grover [...]

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ABCmouse.com: An online educational fun zone for your preschooler and kindergartner

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Goodbye winter vacation and hello school days. While parents are rejoicing, younger siblings may be pouting. Big brother and sis, and that’s like everyone who’s anyone, have school but the little one is stuck at home. Before the tyke gets blue, settles down in front of the TV with a gallon of milk and a [...]

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Get kiddo kudos with a “Handy Manny Big Race” family night

Family night plans? Oh, let’s get real. I’m never going to be the mom that plans a themed-evening with the hubs and kids. My soul wants to, but my schedule, inability to plan and my let’s-just-wing-it attitude red flags that. Thankfully the folks at Playhouse Disney have a pre-planned, easy-to-implement solution that includes healthy recipes, [...]

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It’s not what you say. It’s how you say it

My voice is my power. It’s the timbre and alto that keep my household running smoothly. Without it, well … I’m merely an object to be mocked. Winters in Central California don’t bring snowstorms, just the occasional rainstorm and Tule fog. The only white flurries I see are tissues flung after a cold virus has [...]

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There’s a whole lot of cussing going on

Language around our house can be salty. Don’t get me wrong. It’s not like we’re the Osbournes and the f-bomb is dropped every other word, but there is the occasional curse-word muttering or exclamation. I’ll admit, in my younger years, I wasn’t so careful to guard my language around my oldest son Jay. He was [...]

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Surviving the help monster

The help monster invaded our house about six months ago. At first I didn’t realize it had body snatched my four-year-old child. It started off so innocent, so sweet. “Mommy, I helpa you.” “What?” Craig reached his arm out and pointed to the laundry I was stuffing into the washing machine. “Oh, sure.” I handed [...]

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