Carnival of Family Life

Fam­ily Pets

Matt M presents Did Nemo Inspire Flush­ing? posted at The Pet Haven.

Edu­ca­tion

Melitsa presents Play­ing with Granny posted at Play-Activities.com.

Super Saver presents Over-Scheduling Has Become the Norm posted at My Wealth Builder.

Mar­jorie presents Teach­ing a Child How to Read posted at Life With­out School.

Chris McGinn presents Book Week? Looky Here posted at Hit­ting Home, a review of Lookybook.

Fam­ily Crafts and Activities

Chris presents 3 Steps to the Per­fect Veg­etable Gar­den (Part Two) posted at Smith Fam­ily Gar­den.

Matthew Paul­son presents 5 Free Activ­i­ties to End The “I’m Bored” Com­plaints! posted at Amer­i­can Con­sumer News.

Yi Hui Chang presents Sten­cil­ing a pair of pants posted at The Sim­ple Wealth.

How­ToMe presents How To Make a Cus­tom Area Rug From Car­pet Rem­nants posted at How­ToMe.

mom2my9 presents Child #5 of 9 folds a fit­ted sheet posted at 11th Heaven’s Home­mak­ing Haven, offer­ing you the chance to “learn to fold fit­ted sheets like the pros from a dar­ling 8-year-old!”

Fam­ily Finance

Debt Free­dom Fighter presents Three Hid­den Fees Com­pa­nies Use to Take Your Money posted at Dis­cover Debt Free­dom!

Amy presents 13 Ways to Be Green and Save your Green ($$) posted at The Q Fam­ily Adven­ture, argu­ing that “Sav­ing money and going green can go hand in hand.”

Ben Dins­more presents Trees Full of Money: 7 Ways to Increase Your Cash Flow posted at Trees Full of Money, say­ing, “In order to see the fruition of most finan­cial strate­gies, you have to be patient. Pay­ing down debt and build­ing wealth do not hap­pen over night. How­ever, there are a few things that you can do today to help accel­er­ate your progress.”

Chief Fam­ily Offi­cer presents Back to School Sav­ings posted at Chief Fam­ily Offi­cer.

Sil­i­con Val­ley Blog­ger presents Cool Gifts For The Real Estate Lover, Investor, Home­owner: A Photo Gallery posted at The Digerati Life, say­ing, “Have you got a real estate afi­cionado in your fam­ily? Here are some unique, fun gift ideas just for them!”

Matthew Paul­son presents 5 Tips for Cost-Effectively Restock­ing Your Child’s Closet posted at Amer­i­can Con­sumer News.

Money Answer Guy presents Secrets that your bank isn’t telling you posted at The Money Answer Guy.

Fam­ily Health and Wellness

Sha­heen Lakhan presents A Bad Mix — Cell Phones and Chil­dren? posted at Brain Blog­ger, say­ing, “Every­where you go peo­ple are using cell phones. School, work and even in the car! But with all this use, researchers have only found cell phones to be safe for kids.”

Aparna presents Nose Hair Stick­ing Out of Your Nose? Trim it Using Nose Hair Trim­mers posted at Beauty and Per­son­al­ity Groom­ing.

Angelawd presents Maybe you saw this com­ing posted at angelawd, explain­ing, “When a teen is break­ing away from the fam­ily, there can be unex­pected health issues.”

Kaye presents How to Get More Done posted at Mrs. Nespy’s Fru­gal World, assert­ing that if you incor­po­rate rest into your sched­ule, you will actu­ally be more productive.

Alvaro Fer­nan­dez presents Top 10 Brain Train­ing Future Trends posted at Sharp­Brains: Your Win­dow into the Brain Fit­ness Rev­o­lu­tion, point­ing out a “num­ber of trends that blog­gers should watch closely in the com­ing years, as brain fit­ness and train­ing becomes main­stream, new tools appear, and an ecosys­tem grows around it.”

Riley presents Address­ing the Real Con­cern posted at All Rileyed Up, her reac­tion to com­ments made by radio talk-show host Michael Sav­age obout autism and a call to vac­ci­nate chil­dren from actress Amanda Peet.

Fam­ily Humor

Monica8046 presents Six Tips On How To Help Your Mate Help Out posted at Monica8046’s Weblog.

BeThisWay presents Flush With Love for Son posted at Are You Going To Be This Way The Rest of The Time I Know You?

zame­jias presents Life Span posted at Our Makiko.

Gabriel Almada presents Savvy con­sumer posted at Live from Water­loo.

Fam­ily Rela­tion­ships and Self-Improvement

Jeremy Neal presents Fam­ily Time is the Best Time posted at Dis­cov­er­ing Dad.

GP presents B and B and Barn­storm­ing posted at Innstyle Mon­tana — Come on Inn.

Good Foun­tain presents Let’s pre­tend posted at Good Foun­tain.

Ashli O’Connell presents Being not “of the world” posted at BaaaFam­ily.

Money Answer Guy presents Why You Should Never Loan Money to Fam­ily Mem­bers — The Money Answer Guy posted at The Money Answer Guy.

Hope­ful Spirit presents Pri­or­i­tiz­ing My Life posted at On the Hori­zon. “These are hard eco­nomic times,” she writes, “and putting the needs of our fam­i­lies ahead of our own is even more dif­fi­cult — and crit­i­cal — when our cir­cum­stances are par­tic­u­larly challenging.”

Fam­ily Travel

Mod­ern Par­ent presents Our First Trip to Sesame Place posted at Modernparent.org, say­ing, “My 11 month old son’s first trip to Sesame Place theme park in PA.”

Matthew Paul­son presents Hol­ly­wood Uni­ver­sal Stu­dios posted at The Travel Advo­cate.

Par­ent­ing Tips and Advice

Allen Scott presents Let the Chil­dren Come posted at Jour­ney Across the Sky, say­ing, “What a priv­i­lege par­ents have been given to be endowed with such an honor. Chil­dren are indeed a her­itage to trea­sure and a resource to be val­ued. Whom is it that can look upon the face of a child and not see the hand of God? The week I got to spend with these lovely bless­ings from God had a great impact upon my life.”

Mary presents Claim­ing Your Car Back posted at A Mom Learn­ing More Every­day.

Thank you all for par­tic­i­pat­ing in the Car­ni­val this week!

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