Carnival of Family Life: Mother’s Day Edition

Car­ni­val of Fam­ily Life: Mother’s Day Edition

Edu­ca­tion

Plan­ning Queen presents 10 Indi­ca­tors of School Readi­ness posted at Plan­ning with Kids, described as a “sim­ple check­list to help guide you on decid­ing if your child will be ready for school.”

Home­work. Din­ner. Life. presents Spring Test­ing Mad­ness: Stop Starv­ing Your Kids! posted at Angela Nor­ton Tyler.

Mar­jorie presents In The Mid­dle of It All posted at Life With­out School.

Fiona Lohrenz presents Get­ting Par­ents Involved At Day Care posted at Child Care Only.

Leti­cia Velasquez presents Christina read her first word! posted at cause of our joy.

Mark Mont­gomery presents Col­lege Appli­ca­tions: They Can Make You Sick posted at Great Col­lege Advice, explain­ing, “The col­lege appli­ca­tion process is stressful–so stress­ful, it can make kids phys­i­cally ill. To say noth­ing of the parents!!”

Fathersez presents Cool skills to have / habits to form for per­sonal devel­op­ment – Learn­ing The­atre / Drama posted at Father Sez. “Often play skills learned at a young age can help us a lot in our adult lives,” he opines. “One such skill would be theatre/drama.”

David B. Dohl presents What Can Your Kids Teach You About Tech­nol­ogy? posted at Slow Down Fast Today! “Tech­nol­ogy. The word itself is enough to strike fear into the hearts of those of us old enough to remem­ber when a three-day turn-around on postal mail was con­sid­ered speedy com­mu­ni­ca­tion — espe­cially after spend­ing some time with today’s young tech­no­log­i­cal savants,” David says.

Ray­mond presents Stu­dent Credit Card Rewards posted at Money Blue Book.

A.Lee presents The Artist’s Mother posted at eArtFair.com, an arti­cle about “how famous artists such as Picasso, Van Gogh, Dubuf­fet, and many oth­ers have depicted their own mother.”

Fam­ily Finance

Super Saver presents Avoid­ing Annual Mem­ber­ship Over­load posted at My Wealth Builder.

Ray­mond presents Stu­dent Credit Card Rewards posted at Money Blue Book.

BeThisWay presents Do I Have to Pay to Appre­ci­ate Them? posted at Are You Going To Be This Way The Rest of The Time I Know You?.

Every­thing Finance presents How to pre­vent a finan­cial blun­der posted at Invest In India.

MyMaria presents Daves Relat­ing with Money Les­son posted at Finan­cial Tips, argu­ing that “know­ing how to deal with money helps ease ten­sion, so learn­ing about per­sonal finances should be part of prepa­ra­tion for marriage.”

Trevor McKay presents What Kind of Mort­gages are Avail­able? posted at All About Mort­gage Cal­cu­la­tors.

Hank presents What Effect Does It Have On The Econ­omy When Com­pa­nies Stop Offer­ing Stu­dent Loans? posted at My Invest­ing Blog. “Find­ing money for your college-aged son or daugh­ter is get­ting tougher,” accord­ing to Hank.

Trevor McKay presents Does Annu­ity Fraud Exist? posted at The Annu­ity Pro­fes­sor.

Matthew Paul­son presents 5 Tips for Cheaper, Health­ier Eat­ing posted at Amer­i­can Con­sumer News.

Debt Free­dom Fighter presents Five Money Top­ics to Dis­cuss With Your Future Spouse Before You Get Mar­ried posted at Dis­cover Debt Free­dom!.

Kelsey presents A Mother’s Salary posted at Vanilla Joy.

Trevor McKay presents Deals On Pre­paid Cel­lu­lar Ser­vice posted at All About Pre­paid Phones.

Fic­tion

Jenn presents The Let­ter (Part Twenty-Three) posted at Mixed Metaphor.net.

Fam­ily Health and Wellness

Matthew Spears presents The flame of blame posted at Lov­ing Aware­ness. “It is the need to look for a cause for an expe­ri­ence that is the major fac­tor in blame,” accord­ing to Matthew. “So if you want to let go of the blam­ing process, you must let go of a need to assign responsibility.”

Aparna presents Home reme­dies for age spots posted at Beauty and Per­son­al­ity Groom­ing, explain­ing, “Age spots, also called as liver spots, are yel­low­ish, brown or gray flat spots that look like large freck­les and are usu­ally caused by aging, too much sun, impaired liver func­tion, and a dietary or nutri­tional defi­ciency. Age spots can appear on any skin that has been exposed to the sun, such as the back of the hands, face, feet and back. They are extremely com­mon dur­ing and after mid­dle age and are an indi­ca­tion of free rad­i­cal intoxication.”

K presents Health­care in France: An American’s Story posted at My $mall C€nts.

iMagxz presents Ulti­mate Stress Relief Guide posted at LifeJelly.org.

Howard Ditkoff presents Bor­der­line Per­son­al­ity Dis­or­der Aware­ness Month: Dis­cussing, Under­stand­ing & Pub­li­ciz­ing an Under-Recognized Epi­demic posted at SystemsThinker.com Blog. Accord­ing to Howard, “Bor­der­line Per­son­al­ity Dis­or­der is grow­ing more preva­lent, play­ing a cru­cial cul­tural role, and hav­ing a dis­pro­por­tion­ate social impact, though it remains under-recognized. Here are some edu­ca­tional resources in con­sid­er­a­tion of Bor­der­line Per­son­al­ity Dis­or­der Aware­ness Month.”

Trevor McKay presents Gas­tric Bypass Surgery And The Food Police posted at All About Gas­tric Surgery.

Alex Bo presents Baby Teeth Are Impor­tant posted at Worlden­tal — world den­tal treat­ment Guide.

Trevor McKay presents Detec­tion of Early Alzheimers posted at The Alzheimers Resource Cen­tre.

babs moun­tjoy presents Just like peas and car­rots posted at Awalkabout’s Weblog.

Matthew Paul­son presents Man­ag­ing Your Child’s Motion Sick­ness posted at The Travel Advo­cate.

Tip Diva presents Top Ten Tips — Stock­ing And Orga­niz­ing A Med­i­cine Cab­i­net posted at Tip Diva. “Every­one should have a med­i­cine cab­i­net in their homes in case of a sick­ness or an emer­gency,” she says. “Here’s what to do to make sure you’re stocked and prepared.”

Fam­ily Humor

Dana presents Mother’s Day with a pru­dent Mouse posted at Prin­ci­pled Dis­cov­ery.

Sonja Stew­art presents The Icky Gooey List of Dis­gust­ing Things Only Par­ents Would Do posted at Par­ent­ing Squad. Sonja pon­ders the dis­gust­ing habits of par­ents that grate on the nerves of their child­less friends.

Amy Ver­non presents The zero-second rule posted at ice cream is not for break­fast.

Angela Williams Duea presents At least she’s not naked posted at angelawd, ask­ing, “When does clean equal pun­ish­ment? When you’re talk­ing to a teenager, of course!”

Madeleine Begun Kane presents Ode To An Absent-Minded Hus­band posted at Mad Kane’s Humor Blog.

Erica presents Say My Name, Say My Name posted at Tales from the Tracks.

emily whitby presents The $35 Band-aid: A Hys­ter­i­cal Mom’s Guide to Deal­ing With Minor Lac­er­a­tions posted at Crazy Mom: Ideas, Recipes, Thoughts, Humor & More!

Riley presents It Looks Just Like Me! posted at All Rileyed Up.

Brip Blap presents irie posted at brip blap, not­ing that her “toddler’s atti­tude toward reg­gae taught me some­thing about life.”

zame­jias presents Lucky Girl posted at Makimeji.

Robert Bach presents Let Me Intro­duce To You posted at Kin­tropy In Action. “The music plays on as I sad­dle my kids with my musi­cal favorites,” writes Robert. “Yes, they’ll shrug off this music at some time in the future, bring­ing home some­thing I can’t stand. But it’s nice for now … ” Enjoy it while it lasts, Robert!

Jan­ey­cat presents School Hol­i­days are Over! posted at Kidzarama, explain­ing why she is “the most relieved I’ve ever been to see the end of school hol­i­days, for sev­eral reasons.”

Terri Mauro presents Get­ting a Good Good­bye posted at About Par­ent­ing Spe­cial Needs.

Fam­ily Pets

Jason Rusch presents So Just How Do You House Train Your Boxer Prop­erly? posted at boxerdogessentials.com.

Matt M presents My Dogs Talk To Each Other posted at The Pet Haven.

Fam­ily Travel, Activ­i­ties, and Crafts

Malia Rus­sell presents Trav­el­ing With Chil­dren posted at Home­mak­ing 911.

Linda W. presents Eat­ing Well On Your Bud­get Vaca­tion posted at The Eclec­tic Female.

GP presents Team Can­ter Pre­pares to hit the trail posted at Innstyle Mon­tana– Come on Inn.

How­ToMe presents How To Make a Knight’s Cos­tume posted at How­ToMe.

Amy presents Handy­man in a mak­ing … posted at The Q Fam­ily Adven­ture.

What Works For Us presents More Or Less posted at What Works For Us.

Alex presents How to Make Your Own Free Thank You Cards posted at Home Life Weekly.

Stephan Grind­ley presents The Best Fam­ily Beach Vaca­tion Des­ti­na­tions posted at The Fam­ily Vaca­tions Info Entre.

Fam­ily Rela­tion­ships and Self-Improvement

Woman Tri­bune presents A Lit­tle Mother’s Day His­tory posted at Woman Tri­bune.

Yvette Niet­zen presents Can any­thing good come out of Nazareth? posted at Fresh Wind Min­istries, Int´l.

Par­ent­ing Tips and Advice

Momma presents Just Another Day In Par­adise posted at Tales from the Road Less Trav­eled.

Randi Weiner presents Fan­tasy kitchen posted at ice cream is not for break­fast. Randi is try­ing to help her daugh­ter cre­ate her first real kitchen and is look­ing for advice. Can you help her?

Stephanie presents Sum­mer Carry In Favorites posted at Stop the Ride!

Kaye presents Rant … posted at Mrs Nespy’s World about her dis­ap­point­ment in find­ing a book about Jesus that only pre­sented what is, in her opin­ion, a “world view” of its subject.

mom & dad present School Pic­tures Are a Scam posted at raising4boys.com.

Matthew Paul­son presents Turn­ing Chores Into Smiles posted at Amer­i­can Con­sumer News.

Autumn Beck presents My Top 4 Pocket Cloth Dia­pers posted at All About Cloth Dia­pers. Autumn explains, “I have been excited to write about my favorite pocket cloth dia­pers for quite awhile now, but had to wait for the arrival of a par­tic­u­lar brand I wanted to try.”

Chief Fam­ily Offi­cer presents Think­ing about wean­ing … how do you know when it’s time? posted at Chief Fam­ily Offi­cer.

Her­man presents Does Your Baby Co-Sleep or Cot-Sleep | Super Baby Blog posted at Super Baby Blog.

Mike May presents Expert Par­ent­ing Tips posted at News­AboutKids.

Dana presents Mother’s Day with a Pru­dent Mouse posted at Sim­ple Plea­sures.

Melitsa presents Cre­ate your own posted at Play-Activities.com.

Jour­neyer presents 10 free ways to amuse the kids when it’s rain­ing posted at Journeyer’s Chron­i­cles, which “began as a rainy day list, but you could do most of the activ­i­ties on any day since they are lovely ways to spend some qual­ity time with your children.”

jc wheeler presents Choose your words posted at Par­ent­ing Teens Blog, warn­ing that “par­ents should always be mind­ful of what­ever they say, and how they say it, when talk­ing with their children.”

Rose Rose­tree presents May Con­test: Role Mod­els for Empaths posted at Deeper Per­cep­tion Made Prac­ti­cal.

tip­sandtricks presents Hik-kup! posted at tips and tricks 4 me.

Kevin Heath presents Bring­ing Baby Home — Par­ent­ing 101 posted at More4kids.

Jen­nifer in OR presents Mag­num Opus: Happy Mother’s Day posted at Diary of 1, a reflec­tion on the “great words on moth­er­hood from Charlotte’s Web.”

Next week, the Car­ni­val will be hosted at ice cream is not for break­fast. Sub­mit your post not later than 7:00 p.m. (Pacific time) on Sat­ur­day, May 17, 2008, in order for it to be included in the May 19, 2008, Edi­tion. The archive of past Edi­tions is located here. If you would like to host a future edi­tion, please review the sched­ule here and drop a note let­ting me know which date works best for you!

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