Carnival of Family Life: “Welcome, Summer!” Edition

Thanks for vis­it­ing the “Wel­come, Sum­mer!” edi­tion of the Car­ni­val of Fam­ily Life!

The days are long and hot, the kids are fin­ished with school and enjoy­ing some much-needed relax­ation, and plans are in place for Fourth of July cel­e­bra­tions and fam­ily vaca­tions. There’s no bet­ter time to pour your­self an icy cold bev­er­age, get com­fort­able, and read inter­est­ing, infor­ma­tive, inspir­ing, and comedic arti­cles about the many aspects of liv­ing within a family.

Enjoy!

Fam­ily Fiction

Jenn presents Hide and Seek posted at Mixed Metaphor.net.

Edu­ca­tion

Mar­jorie presents Home­school­ing and the Sort­ing Hat posted at Life With­out School.

Heather John­son presents 5 Tips for Help­ing Your Kids To Read in the Sum­mer posted at Dolce Bellezza.

Fam­ily Cook­ing & Recipes

MyMaria presents Soaked Flour Whole Grain Frozen Berries Muf­fin Recipe posted at Raw Milk Mama, say­ing, “My chil­dren loved help­ing me make berry muffins ear­lier this week … yum!”

Melissa presents My Cur­rent Favorite Brew posted at Caf­feinated Exis­tence which she describes as a “fun lit­tle arti­cle about how my hus­band and I dis­cov­ered peet’s coffee.”

Fam­ily Crafts and Activities

Melitsa presents Find, cut, paste then draw posted at Play-Activities.com.

Randi Weiner presents The straw­ber­ries are ripe posted at ice cream is not for break­fast.

Yi Hui Chang presents How to face paint your kid with make up posted at The Sim­ple Wealth.

Fam­ily Finance

Debt Free­dom Fighter presents How to Stop Liv­ing Pay­check to Pay­check: 7 Steps posted at Dis­cover Debt Freedom!

Matthew Paul­son presents Tips for Teach­ing Kids Bet­ter Money Man­age­ment posted at Amer­i­can Con­sumer News.

Money Answer Guy presents Don’t Take Chil­dren to The Gro­cery Store posted at The Money Answer Guy.

David B. Bohl presents Fam­ily, Kids, Wealth, and Respon­si­bil­ity posted at Slow Down Fast Today!, say­ing, “Wealth mag­ni­fies your deeper per­son­al­ity traits.”

Sil­i­con Val­ley Blog­ger presents I’m Self-Employed! Retire­ment Plans, Insur­ance and Tax Con­sid­er­a­tions are Afoot posted at The Digerati Life, say­ing, “I share the issues I face as a self-employed indi­vid­ual and how my deci­sion to work for myself impacts our fam­ily and our family’s finances.”

Ray­mond presents Do Credit Cards and Stocks Make Up Your Emer­gency Fund Sav­ings? posted at Money Blue Book.

Michael presents Fore­clo­sure: House Sells For Less Than What is Owed at an Auc­tion posted at Michael Emilio.

Fam­ily Health and Wellness

Can­cerkitty presents Vac­ci­na­tions: Good or Bad? posted at Del­Squa­cho.

babs moun­tjoy presents Dis­ease, take a num­ber! posted at Awalkabout’s Weblog. Babs says, “Just when you think you’ve seen it all … those crazy kids come up with a new one.”

Amy Ver­non presents File under: What were they think­ing? posted at ice cream is not for break­fast. Amy says, “At first blush, it seemed like a cute idea. Then I thought about it and was appalled to really see the cor­po­rate brain trust at work.”

Super Saver presents Ath­let­ics and Kids posted at My Wealth Builder.

Fam­ily Humor

Madeleine Begun Kane presents Quick Story & Other Verse (Lim­er­ick & Haiku Prompt) posted at Mad Kane’s Humor Blog.

Robert Bach presents Dad Goes Over­board posted at Kin­tropy In Action, explain­ing that “Dad gets an early start on his six-year-old son’s job search.”

Mama Meji presents So What Do You Do Now? posted at Our Makiko.

Mama Meji presents Bed­time (Toi­let) Story posted at Makimeji.

Fam­ily Pets

Matt M presents Children’s Book Review — CRASH posted at The Pet Haven.

Vic­to­ria E presents Canines Care, Too — Dogs Live Green at the Paw Lux­ury Store posted at Vic­to­ria Ever­man — Sus­tain­able, Cre­ative, Enlight­ened Liv­ing.

Fam­ily Rela­tion­ships and Self-Improvement

Jan­ice Fer­rante presents Do Suc­cess Rules Belong at Home? posted at Queen of Kaos at Home, a dis­cus­sion about goal-setting at home.

Chris Tru­man presents 4 Ways to Avoid Painful Sit­u­a­tions posted at You Are Liv­ing.

Kath­leen Gage presents Why’s every­one always pick­ing on me? posted at Daily Aware­ness.  She the­o­rizes that “one’s out­ward expe­ri­ences will be reflected as a result of inner thoughts and beliefs. If you con­stantly have neg­a­tive expe­ri­ences, it is time to look in the mirror.”

Joce­lyn presents The View On A Father-Daughter Rela­tion­ship posted at A Pon­der­ing Heart.

Ther­a­py­Doc presents Keep­ing the Pace posted at Every­one Needs Ther­apy.

Aparna presents Beauty and Per­sonal Groom­ing: An anger man­age­ment tip posted at Beauty and Per­son­al­ity Groom­ing.

Chief Fam­ily Offi­cer presents Work/Life Bal­ance (or Blog/Life Bal­ance) posted at Chief Fam­ily Offi­cer.

Laura Scar­bor­ough presents it’s a won­der I even lived and pro­cre­ated! posted at Adven­tures in Jug­gling.

Fam­ily Travel and Activities

GP presents Tak­ing the Guess Work out of the Guest Room posted at Inn­side Montana-Your Home at the Range.

Sweet­tooth presents The 3G Rule: 3 Gift Ideas for Him posted at Shop Lit­tle Gifts.

Matthew Paul­son presents How to Plan for Unex­pected Travel Expenses posted at The Travel Advo­cate.

Tea Party Girl presents Tea Party Girl’s Top Tea Moments on the Road posted at Tea Party Girl, a pic­ture essay illus­trat­ing how “my chil­dren and rel­a­tives responded to the tea party and Eng­lish gardens.”

Every­thing Finance presents Maui After Dark posted at Travel-Eat-Sleep.

Stephanie presents For­get the Outer Banks posted at Adven­tures in the 100 Acre Wood.

Stephanie presents Dad Knows Best posted at Stop the Ride!

Chris McGinn presents Father’s Day Unplugged posted at Hit­ting Home.

Par­ent­ing Tips and Advice

Plan­ningQueen presents How To Cre­ate A Preschool Writ­ing Box posted at Plan­ning with Kids, say­ing, “A sim­ple way to fos­ter a preschooler’s desire to learn to write.”

Nicole Hor­ton presents It’s Okay To Play Air­planes posted at yucktoyum.com.

Mag­no­lia presents Have More Per­fect Chil­dren posted at Things We Should Do Bet­ter.

MyMaria presents Fru­gal Fun Sum­mer Activ­i­ties for Kids posted at Fru­gal Home­steading Blog, advis­ing, “Don’t let high gas prices get in the way of fun fam­ily activ­i­ties this summer.”

Kelsey presents Read­ing with Tod­dlers posted at Vanilla Joy — Fam­ily Fun and Edu­ca­tion.

Jeremy Neal presents Top 10 Dis­cov­er­ies About Being a Good Dad posted at Dis­cov­er­ing Dad.

Next Mon­day, the very spe­cial “Cel­e­brate Amer­ica” Edi­tion of the Car­ni­val will be hosted by Jenn at Mixed Metaphor.net. Inter­ested in par­tic­i­pat­ing? Review the Car­ni­val guide­lines and then sub­mit an arti­cle using the form. Past edi­tions of the Car­ni­val are avail­able in the archive.

Would you like to host a future edi­tion of the Car­ni­val? Review the sched­ule and then drop me a note let­ting me know what week you would like to fea­ture the Car­ni­val on your site!

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