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Planning healthy, interesting meals for your family that they’ll actually eat is always a challenge. More so if you’re planning your meals around a holiday such as the upcoming Halloween. The Syfy channel’s Sci Fi Wire website has you covered for breakfast, however, with a list of 15 haunted cereals that will scare your kids’ dentist as much as your kids.
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If you and the fam find yourselves feeling too sweaty, sticky, bug-bitten, cranky and anxious to truly let loose, you’re not alone. We’ve tackled the ten most common summer bummers so you can frolic before the sun sets on the summer.
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There’s a great piece on MSNBC this week about all the horrible things we went through as kids that OUR kids will never have to survive.
It says if you grew up in the fifties, sixties or seventies, you’re pretty darn lucky to have made it out alive. What with chomping on the lead painted bars of your cribs and the family tanning sessions in the backyard, some of us are pretty screwed.
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Of the TV commercials that have been rattling around in my brain since childhood, the one I parrot (and parody) the most with my own kids is from Kool-Aid.
Remember when the punch-maker came up with the great idea of selling little packets containing only the flavor — no sugar. It was doubtless an effort to say them (and Mom!) money. But they advertised it as a way to empower mothers with a little control over the amount of sugar — bad, bad sugar! — their kids were ingesting after a hot day roller-skating or playing on the lawn.
“And I control the amount of sugar he drinks!” the mom explains to another kid’s mom, who nods approvingly. Anything to fend off sugar!
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Pick up time at my daughter’s nursery school is always hectic, but nothing like this. I could hear the shrieks from the sidewalk.
Walking into the church hall where her classes are held, the echo factor forced me to scrunch my shoulder up toward my ears. They were all on sugar overload. Oh yeah, and it was all my fault. Continue reading »
You may indulge your kids in sugary cereals from time to time, but you probably don’t believe you’re feeding them important nutrients.
Well, a California woman was a bit confused by the whole concept of marketing. Continue reading »
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