The Jiffy Greenhouse is a nifty, inexpensive way to introduce children to the joys of gardening. The green house comes in a plastic tray, about two feet by one foot with a clear plastic lid and seventy-two individual peat pots.
In order for you to properly understand this product review, you have to understand that I have a black thumb of death when it comes to plants. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong – I don’t think it is just one thing – but I am just not good with plants. Between my inability to maintain healthy plant life
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Raising Super Kids
October 1st, 2009 Posted by Gumer Liston | Academics, Elementary, Hobbies, Infants/Toddlers, Music, Preschool, Sports
It is natural for parents to want their children to excel, to be the best, to be above other children in almost everything, to grow up into exemplary citizens who achieve so much in life. That's an open secret that most of us have in our hearts, which is why we do everything to build our children into the super kids that we want them to be. But how do we exactly go about raising super kids? Each of us has a unique formula, but most fall into a common pattern. I see parents who buy musical instruments for their
An Interesting Way to Get Kids to Look at Religion
September 24th, 2009 Posted by Joe Lawrence | Adolescence, Hobbies, Learning, Self-esteem
Danny White with AnointedFighter.com has decided to take the best of two worlds, martial arts and religion, and combined them into a very unique system called ChristJitsu. The lessons and life principles of the Christian faith now have the excitement and recognition system of the martial arts world.
ChristJitsu plays on the popularity of martial arts, especially mixed martial arts and their Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Relax parents, kids won't be learning to prize fight in a cage. Instead, Danny claims they will be learning to fight in the cage of life. ChristJitsu translated means, " the way of Christ." The students will
ChristJitsu plays on the popularity of martial arts, especially mixed martial arts and their Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Relax parents, kids won't be learning to prize fight in a cage. Instead, Danny claims they will be learning to fight in the cage of life. ChristJitsu translated means, " the way of Christ." The students will
Screen Time: From the Teen’s View
August 17th, 2009 Posted by Jacob P. | Academics, Behavior, Entertainment, Games, Hobbies, Internet, Learning, Sleep, Teen Perspective, Television
Recently, I completed earning enough money to buy a Xbox 360 Pro for myself. I am limited in the amount of 'screen time' I am allowed a day, and I wanted to discuss that with you.
Now, some of my thoughts on screens (TV, video games, computers, etc.) for kids. First of all, I believe they are addictive. Some studies have shown that video games are addictive, they release a drug-like chemical. Here is one article on the study of video game addiction. I have seen kids at school who are addicted, it's all they talk about or do after school (World of
Now, some of my thoughts on screens (TV, video games, computers, etc.) for kids. First of all, I believe they are addictive. Some studies have shown that video games are addictive, they release a drug-like chemical. Here is one article on the study of video game addiction. I have seen kids at school who are addicted, it's all they talk about or do after school (World of
For the longest time, I resisted my son’s pleas for a Pokémon trading card game. Ditto for Bakugan, Digimon, and a slew of other nonsense words that he threw at me. I didn’t know very much about it at the time, but the cartoon looked cheesy (it is), the game sounded complicated (it is), and I was pretty sure the whole thing would end up costing me a princely sum of money (it has).
When Max got a $25 Amex gift card for his eighth birthday, I made the mistake of telling him that he could spend it on anything that
When Max got a $25 Amex gift card for his eighth birthday, I made the mistake of telling him that he could spend it on anything that
