What’s Your Child’s Favorite Printable Activities?
Please join the current Random House Conversation. What better way to get your children excited about books then brain storming with other parents to see what works for them. .
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Live Chat 9pm 6/7 with Steve Cotler : Cheesie Mack Author
Join me at 9pm Thursday evening for a Live Chat with Steve Cotler right here at Shibley Smiles! I am an author and an educator. My Cheesie Mack series is funny, engaging, and stealthily pedagogical....
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Kohl’s Cares Causes Merchandise Only $5
Kohl’s Cares Causes Merchandise available through the end of June at Kohl’s If you ask my daughter what here favorite school activity is she will tell you it is READING! She says she loves to read,...
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What Makes You Feel Alive Giveaway #ChargedLife
The purpose of the book The Charge by Brendon Burchard is to help you activate human drives that will help you become alive. I have currently gotten through about half of the book. I don’t get a lot of...
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The Adventures of Katie Bubbles Book Giveaway : (Ends 8/15)
Ever since my daughter started Kindergarten she loves to read, read, and read! In fact I think we signed her up for any and all reading programs we could find this summer. So when we were asked to...
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Do You Use An E-Reader?
As techy as I am, as much as I love new gadgets and technology it has taken me sometime to embrace the e-reader. Probably because most of my book reading listening is done on my iPhone through...
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Serve It Up : Kid-Friendly Portion Sizes
Guest Post Can you feel it? I’m talking about the weight gain that started creeping onto your body last week and hasn’t seemed to have found its way back off yet. It starts with a mini snickers bar...
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Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Even More Amazing Now!
This post brought to you by Ripley’s Believe It or Not!. All opinions are 100% mine. Did you ever watch Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! on TV when you were young? I remember vaguely the show. It is amazing...
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Kohl’s Cares Dream Gifts for the Holiday Season
I have often said how much I love the Kohl’s Cares program. One of the reasons is the books and plush they offer are just adorable. Every time there is always one that resonates with me, brings up some...
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iPhone 5 For Dummies Review and Giveaway : (Ends 1/10)
I absolutely LOVE the “For Dummies” series of books. They are always so straight to the point and logical that well….even a dummy could understand. I recently had the chance to review iPhone 5 for...
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Kohl’s Cares Introduces The Pout-Pout Fish Summer 2013
Honey recently received her Kohl’s Cares box and couldn’t wait to open it up. Each quarter we receive a few free samples, of the books and plush toys available in the new line of Kohl’s Cares items....
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Books-A-Million Introduces Kids-A-Million Grand Opening
Today I opened the door to find the cutest press release I’ve received in a long time. The press release was from Books-A-Million. Saturday, June 29, 2013 is the Grand Opening of a re-designed...
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Encourage Summer Ready With Cwist
I recently introduced you to a new platform, cwist, to help motivate and reward your children the way you want to. I cwist is an activity you want your child to do, when they do it they get their...
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SI Kids July Issue Athletes Making a Difference
It is not always that you find a product or service that really speaks to you as a parent. One that does more then just entertain. Last year I was a SI Kids Ambassador and I’m excited to say that I’ve...
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Alicewinks for iPad with iBooks : Read Watch and Listen With Your Children
How you read a book is so different then when I was a child. Don’t get me wrong I actually own some “real” books and my daughter’s shelves are full of classics, modern, and informational books....
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Kohl’s Cares with Curious George and Friends
I love how the Kohl’s Cares program always manages to bring classic characters to life from their Dr. Suess merchandise to the Christmas Classics. They also introduce new characters to our children...
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Book Series Prolongs the Fantasy : Our Favorites
I know many people that like to read and others that just have no interest. My mother and father were both readers. I would say my father was an avid reader. You could always find him winding down at...
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Happiness is Helping Kids : Kohl’s Cares
This quater’s Kohl’s Cares program is a classic. The Peanuts gang is featured this quarter with your favorite fluffy friends and classic books like “A Charlie Brown Christmas” Charlie Brown Peanuts...
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The Key to Reading Starts with You : Give the Gift of SIKids
With three kids I admit getting it hasn’t always been easy getting them to read. Well, to be honest it is the boys that I’ve struggled with. In fact my oldest son was behind in reading and I had to...
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Chicken Soup for the Soul 7 Days of Giveaways Day 1 : (Ends 12/16)
I’m so excited to be participating in the 7 Days of Giveaways which Chicken Soup for the Soul. I am a huge fan of their books having received my first book many, many years ago. Now I’m working on a...
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