Carnival of Family Life

Edu­ca­tion

Mar­jorie presents Mother Doesn’t Always Know Best posted at Life With­out School.

Leti­cia Velasquez presents Book Review: A Haystack Full of Nee­dles posted at Cause of our Joy.

Fam­ily Cook­ing & Recipes

K presents Eat Your Rain­bows posted at Almost Fru­gal.

Laura Williams presents Around the Home­stead Today… posted at Laura Williams’ Mus­ings.

Riley presents That’s How We Roll (Sushi) posted at All Rileyed Up, describ­ing her first effort to make sushi.

Fam­ily Crafts and Activities

Melitsa presents Cre­at­ing a lift-the-flap book posted at Play-Activities.com, “an easy together play-activity you and your chil­dren will cher­ish for years to come.”

SeaBird presents Swap: crafts for young chil­dren (update) posted at SeaBird Chron­i­cles, pre­sent­ing “sev­eral fun and cre­ative craft ideas for tod­dlers and preschoolers.”

Fam­ily Finance

Matthew Paul­son presents Mar­ried Women Need Credit in Their Own Name to Pro­tect Their Credit Score posted at Amer­i­can Con­sumer News.

Debt Free­dom Fighter presents Bud­get­ing 101: Cre­at­ing A Monthly Bud­get And Stick­ing To It posted at Dis­cover Debt Free­dom.

Money Answer Guy presents How Much Should I Have In Sav­ings? posted at The Money Answer Guy.

Matt M presents Less Prod­uct for Same Price posted at Can’t Afford Life.

Larry Rus­sell presents Liv­ing Expense Track­ing Meth­ods posted at Pasadena Finan­cial Plan­ner.

Ben Dins­more presents 7 Finan­cial Steps to Take When You Have a Baby on the Way posted at Trees Full of Money, a dis­cus­sion of “finan­cial moves to con­sider tak­ing before the baby is born in order to ease your finan­cial stress, and allow you to focus on your lit­tle bun­dle of joy.”

Sil­i­con Val­ley Blog­ger presents Our Finan­cial Progress Over The Last 10 Years posted at The Digerati Life, a com­par­i­son of the family’s finances ten years ago with their cur­rent sit­u­a­tion — an exer­cise rec­om­mended for everyone.

Fam­ily Health and Wellness

Aparna presents Hip fat is actu­ally ben­e­fi­cial posted at Beauty and Per­son­al­ity Groom­ing.

Sha­heen Lakhan presents Anti-Smoking Cam­paign Doesn’t Mess Around posted at Brain Blog­ger. Increas­ingly, smok­ing is being banned in pub­lic places. Con­sider the steps Brazil is tak­ing to con­vince its cit­i­zens not to smoke.

Fam­ily Humor

BeThisWay presents Coun­try Liv­ing and the Loo posted at Are You Going To Be This Way The Rest of The Time I Know You?

Brent Diggs presents Lit­tle Known Ways to Get Your Spouse to Attend Your Anniver­sary* posted at The Omi­nous Comma.

AmyL presents How to Ruin a Per­fectly Good Whine posted at Earnest Par­ent­ing.

Fam­ily Travel

Chris Chris­tensen presents Trav­el­ing with Small Chil­dren posted at The Ama­teur Trav­eler Pod­cast, an inter­view with Deb­bie fromDeli­cious Baby about trav­el­ing inter­na­tion­ally with small children.

Hilary Green presents Best Road Trip Cars posted at Cars for Girls.

Fam­ily Pets

Matt M presents Cataracts Can Lead to Blind­ness in Dogs posted at The Pet Haven.

Jen­nifer John­son presents Whose Dog is This, Any­way? posted at MommyABCs.com.

Fam­ily Rela­tion­ships and Self-Improvement

Jeremy Neal presents What Dads Really Think About Qual­ity Time posted at Dis­cov­er­ing Dad.

GP presents Lessons Dad Still Teaches Me posted at Innstyle Mon­tana– Come on Inn, about the “life lessons dad still teaches” a year after his death.

David B. Bohl presents Does Guilt Have a Mes­sage for You? posted at Slow Down Fast Today!. If you are “some­one who, no mat­ter how many right things you do today, there will always be that one other item that got away from you — and so you feel guilty that you didn’t accom­plish all you set out to,” you need to read this article.

Terri Mauro presents As Long As You’re Kick­ing Autis­tic Kids Out of Church … posted at About Par­ent­ing Spe­cial Needs.

Fam­ily Travel

Matthew Paul­son presents Catch­ing the ‘Big’ One in the Florida Keys posted at The Travel Advo­cate.

Michael Davis presents 20 Money Sav­ing Tips For Trav­el­ing with a Large Group. posted at Fam­ily Hack. “A mother of seven shares tips for trav­el­ing cheaply with a large group.”

Veg­gie Mom presents Keep Your Vay-Kay Safe! posted at Eat Your Veggies!

Par­ent­ing Tips and Advice

Madi­son presents The Big Reveal: New Kids & Money Site! posted at My Dol­lar Plan.

Nan­dita presents Dis­ci­plin­ing Chil­dren posted at Cold Snap­Dragon.

P presents The Loud Nar­ra­tor, a.k.a. My Daugh­ter posted at Stay at Home Mom & Mil­i­tary Wife.

Nesher presents Teach Your Kids Online Eti­quette posted at Col­lec­tion of the Web Free­bies.

Kevin presents Fam­ily Moves — Tips for Par­ents and Kids posted at More4kids.

Thank you all for par­tic­i­pat­ing in the Car­ni­val this week!

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