Really Terrific Tunes For Kids

For me the hardest thing about my pregnancy has been having to combine it with my full time job. It is not easy to decide when to start your maternity leave, but once I reached 26 weeks pregnant I had had enough. I worked in quite a manual position as a picture framer, and some [...]

When I was growing up, the one and only place to watch the latest movies, was the theater downtown.  How things have changed in a few decades.  Now a days, you can watch movies just about anywhere.  You can  watch movies online, you can watch movies on your iPod, you can watch movies on your [...]

I don’t know how many times my kids have heard me say that, but it’s true.  It seems like all the toys and stuff kids get to play with today are way better then the stuff I had when I was a kid.  Kids of all ages get really neat stuff these days, right from [...]

What is it with kids and glasses.  I know that growing up, I hated wearing my glasses.  For years it seemed, I just stopped wearing them because I didn’t like them.  Eventually, I think my parents just got tired of reminding me to put on my eyeglasses and gave up.  That was fine with me.  [...]

There are so many career opportunities for kids these days, it’s amazing.  That is, if we can ever get through the current economic slump that is.  It just seems, that with so much new technology floating around, and the need for practical applications of that technology, that their are kinds of cool jobs out there.  [...]

Being a young mother is not easy. But it is surely very unlike what it was twenty or even ten years ago. Now it is much more fun and convenient and it’s easy to see why more and more women want to combine motherhood and their dynamic lifestyles. With breastfeeding tops it is possible to [...]

Trinette Robinson sure has been having a lot of fun showing off her extremely smelly pair of sneakers. At the Annual National Odor-Eaters Rotten Sneaker contest she was announced the winner from a group of nine contestants. As the name of the contest suggests, all she had to do was prove that her sneakers were [...]

This can be a tricky question to answer, as there every kid is different. There are of course the old standbys, where you can pick just about any movie by Disney or Pixar, and your likely to end up with a movie that works well. But I know of a few parents, that [...]

Believe it or not, the local drum corp was not always seen as the coolest activity for a kid to do where I grew up. As a result, we did seem to get quite a range of children involved in the activity. Some form very affluent homes who had a genuine love for the activity. And then there were others, whose parents seemed to view it as a way to unload their kids (and their problems) for long periods of time. My dad the director never turned any kid away, but at times seemed to be running a foster care business. He was a well respected teacher as a career, and other adults and teachers marveled (with some confusion) as to why he would want to spend even more time with kids after hours. I think, he just genuinely loved kids, and the activity of drum corp. That's what kids really need. A role model that treats them with respect, demands respect from them, and shows them how to be passionate about something in life.