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My house is stocked with cars and trucks, monsters and dragons, Stars Wars action figures and Lego in all shapes, sizes and colors. There’s not a pink anything in sight — no sparkly crowns, magic wands or frilly dresses in all of our 2,000 square feet of living space. I have two nieces, though, and [...]

You can never have too many balls for your kids. Well, maybe you can. But these Spalding Rookie Gear balls are definite must-haves for young ones. They are the same size as regular youth balls, but they weigh 25 percent less. Score!

Do you have a pool nearby? Doesn’t need to be your own, maybe just one in your neighborhood, or a pool belonging to a friend would work too. If so, consider booking it one late afternoon for a pool party hosted by your kiddos. That’s what we’re doing. The idea came from my 8-year-old who [...]

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My kids subscribe to Highlights magazine. Well, mom and dad subscribe, and the kids are the lucky recipients who get to fish it out of the mailbox every month. It’s a good publication — short and sweet stories, activity ideas and best of all: Hidden Pictures.
You don’t have to sign up for your own subscription [...]

My kids love it when school’s out (three weeks left), but summer break makes me a little nervous, because it’s hard to fill all the free hours with purposeful plans. You know, I want my kids to be active, and I want them to learn some stuff, and I want them to have a lot [...]

Maybe it’s for good reason that I’m not a lover of electronics for kids. Seems keeping children in the great outdoors, not the closed-up indoors, is best for the little bodies of the world.
Did you know there’s actually a “No Child Left Inside” bill geared towards getting environmental education into schools so that kids can [...]

According to my 8-year-old’s estimates, he’s the only one he knows who doesn’t have a Nintendo DS. Truth be told, I didn’t really know what Nintendo DS was until yesterday, when a mom at a birthday party clued me in. I guess that’s why he doesn’t have one. That, and the fact that I’m not [...]

Don’t think of workouts as work-outs. Think of them as play-outs, says MizFit, who demonstrates how you can get fit while at the playground with your kiddos.

You might want to bookmark the site of this fit momma — she’s like the queen of fitness and food, and I know she can teach you a thing [...]