Carnival of Family Life: St. Patrick’s Day Edition

 

Top o’ the mornin’ to you! Wel­come to the very spe­cial St. Patrick’s Day Edi­tion of the Car­ni­val of Fam­ily Life! The luck o’ the Irish is cer­tainly with us because there are a wide vari­ety of excel­lent arti­cles amassed here for your read­ing plea­sure! No blar­ney — just fact! Enjoy!

Mar­jorie presents Change pub­lished at Life With­out School.

Rose presents An Uncre­den­tialed Day pub­lished at Learn­ing at Home.

Wayne Buck­hanan presents Upping the Down­side with Self Knowl­edge pub­lished at Life, Love, & Learn­ing.

Fathersez presents How I intend to help my daugh­ters secure jobs they would like – Part 3 – Basics of life as an employee pub­lished at Father Sez. He is using his own expe­ri­ence to edu­cate and guide his chil­dren into a suc­cess­ful career path.

Chris­tine presents The French School Sys­tem and Sex Edu­ca­tion pub­lished at Me, My Kid and Life.

Jeremy Zongker presents Can Your High School Stu­dent Have a Credit Card? pub­lished at Credit Card Arti­cles.

BeThisWay presents What to Know About Buy­ing and Redeem­ing (Unless They Are from Sharper Image) Gift Cards pub­lished at Are You Going To Be This Way The Rest of The Time I Know You?.

Jesse Moran presents Teach Your Chil­dren to Han­dle Their Money pub­lished at CompGifts — The Fru­gal Way of Liv­ing.

Stephanie presents Com­mu­ni­cate with Your Cred­i­tors pub­lished at Unclaimed Money.

Sil­i­con Val­ley Blog­ger presents Slash­ing Our Bud­get By 25%: Our Lat­est Fru­gal Moves pub­lished at The Digerati Life.

Chief Fam­ily Offi­cer presents Silence the Sounds of Per­tus­sis pub­lished at Chief Fam­ily Offi­cer.

nickel presents The High Cost of Instant Grat­i­fi­ca­tion pub­lished at fivecentnickel.com.

Mike Remer presents Is Stress Real? pub­lished at My Path To Fit­ness Blog.

David B. Bohl presents Where is the Love? Tips for Get­ting Back that Old Spark pub­lished at Slow Down Fast Today! David says, “Healthy, com­mit­ted rela­tion­ships can some­times lose their lus­ter because we get too com­fort­able and fall into old rou­tines. We take each other for granted and put our part­ners on our low pri­or­ity list.” It doesn’t have to be that way.

Expat Chef presents Going Green for St. Patrick’s Day pub­lished at The Expatriate’s Kitchen, a dis­cus­sion of using St. Patrick’s day to get your kids to embrace green foods, includ­ing recipes and tips from pedi­a­tri­cians and book authors.

Aparna presents Home Reme­dies for nose bleed pub­lished at Beauty and Per­son­al­ity Groom­ing, explain­ing that a “nose bleed” is actu­ally “epis­taxis” and can occur most often in sum­mer, espe­cially for young chil­dren, and offer­ing tips to com­bat and stop “nose bleeds.”

Lazy Man and Money presents Vac­cines Cause Autism? pub­lished at Lazy Man and Health.

Marc and Angel present Seven “Before the Wed­ding” Steps That Ini­ti­ate a Suc­cess­ful Mar­riage pub­lished at Marc and Angel, invit­ing read­ers pon­der­ing or plan­ning mar­riage to con­sider their recommendations.

Edith presents Are You Com­pro­mis­ing Your­self? pub­lished at Edith Yeung.Com: Dream. Think. Act.

Rebecca Suzanne Dean presents Why Japan, Rebecca? pub­lished at Rebecca Dean.

Cory Aldrich presents Zoe and Wash — Fire­fly pub­lished at marriageactually.com.

GP presents You Might Just be an Endurance Rider pub­lished at Innstyle Mon­tana– Come on Inn, say­ing, “Signs you might be an endurance rider!”

Jenny presents Kids Say The Darn­d­est Things pub­lished at the so called me.

Dora Renee Wilk­er­son presents YouTube — My daugh­ter isn’t scared of her shadow, is she? pub­lished at YouTube. She asks read­ers to decide whether her young daugh­ter is try­ing to scare her own shadow — or is afraid of it.

Stephanie presents Bye Bye Shaggy Boys pub­lished at Stop the Ride!

Matt M presents Morn­ing Dog pub­lished at The Pet Haven.

Jen­nifer in OR presents A Three Year Old and a Fish pub­lished at Diary of 1. Every par­ent who has been through the gold­fish phase with young chil­dren will relate and applaud Jen­nifer for seiz­ing upon a dif­fi­cult event to teach about char­ac­ter­is­tics for life success.

Laura presents Grow Old With Me… at Chil­dren & Choco­late and Other Paths to God pub­lished at Beut­lerBlog­ger.

Jenn presents The Let­ter (Part Fif­teen) pub­lished at Mixed Metaphor.net.

mom & dad presents Dis­ney Magic Caribbean Cruise Review pub­lished at raising4boys.com.

Melitsa presents Tessy & Tab pub­lished at Play-Activities.com, say­ing, “we’ve just joined a read­ing club.”

Chris­tine presents Stuffed Pep­pers with Cheese (Poivron au Fro­mage) pub­lished at Me, My Kid and Life: An Amer­i­can Sin­gle Mom Liv­ing in France.

Lisa presents What To Do At A Princess Party — When Boys Are There! pub­lished at Lil Duck Duck.

Riley presents I Never pub­lished at All Rileyed Up.

Seabird presents Favorites: Tod­dlers’ Bed­room pub­lished at SeaBird Chron­i­cles.

K presents Fru­gal Dessert: Apple Cus­tard Bread pub­lished at Small Cents.

Dora Renee Wilk­er­son presents Y-2K Hip­pie pub­lished at Knit­ting, horses, and my fam­ily. She shares the pat­tern for a per­fect spring craft that your kids will love.

Liz Thomp­son presents This Full House Kids: The birth of a fam­ily blog­ging project pub­lished at This Full House. Her fam­ily has launched a new project. She explains why they’ve started another blog that’s just for the kids.

paidtwice presents One Way To Get Over the Bath and Body Works Habit pub­lished at I’ve Paid For This Twice Already …

Jaimie presents When They Need More Help Than You Can Give pub­lished at Hug Twice.

Laura Scar­bor­ough presents Can I hear a yeah!? pub­lished at Adven­tures in Jug­gling. Her kid has been kicked out of a “club” — and she couldn’t be hap­pier about it! Read why Laura and her fam­ily are celebrating!

Sil­veral presents Celebrity babies – new kids on the block pub­lished at Celebrity News, and Gos­sip.

Patri­cia presents My Cof­fee Time pub­lished at Stay at Home Mom & Mil­i­tary Wife.

Naomi presents Diary From Eng­land: British Fam­ily Life in the 21st Cen­tury pub­lished at Diary From Eng­land.

Joanne presents Tran­sra­cial Adop­tion pub­lished at Adop­tion Sup­port at For­ever Par­ents, a dis­cus­sion about being a mul­tira­cial family.

Nicole presents Spend­ing Your Sat­ur­days Babysit­ting Teaches You a Thing or Two pub­lished at Makeitbetter’s Weblog.

Vet­eran Mil­i­tary Wife presents Why was my Son a Lem­ming? pub­lished at Life Lessons of a Mil­i­tary Wife in which she shares details about some­thing that hap­pens more than she would like.

Autumn Beck presents My Top 5 All-In-Ones pub­lished at All About Cloth Dia­pers. She claims that cloth dia­pers are mak­ing a big come­back and dis­cusses her favorite “All=in-Ones.”

Kevin Heath presents The Big 4 Par­ent­ing Pit­falls pub­lished at More4kids.

War­ren Wong presents How To Solve Prob­lems By Chang­ing Your Frame Or Per­spec­tive pub­lished at Per­sonal Devel­op­ment for INTJs, explain­ing how seem­ingly unsolv­able prob­lems can be solved by chang­ing your frame of mind or perspective.

Terri Mauro presents Hop to Those Easter Chal­lenges pub­lished at About Par­ent­ing Spe­cial Needs.

Next week, the Car­ni­val will be hosted at Beauty and Per­sonal Groom­ing! Sub­mit your family-related posts by 12:01 a.m. (Pacific time), Sun­day, March 23, 2008 using this form:

 

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