Carnival of Family Life

Edu­ca­tion

Lau­reen presents All I Needed to Know About P.E. I Learned from Jackie Chan posted at The Life With­out School Com­mu­nity Blog.

Alvaro Fer­nan­dez presents Top 10 Brain Fit­ness and Cog­ni­tive Health Books posted at Sharp­Brains.

Mark Mont­gomery presents Best Value Col­leges from Prince­ton Review: Infor­ma­tion You Can Lose posted at Great Col­lege Advice, opin­ing that “rat­ings are tit­il­lat­ing and enter­tain­ing, but they are no way to pick a college.”

Fam­ily Cook­ing & Recipes

How­ToMe presents How To Bake Rusks posted at How­ToMe. “Rusks, a double-baked sweet bis­cuit, are usu­ally dipped in one’s morn­ing cof­fee, hot tea or hot choco­late before they are eaten, but they can also be enjoyed in their nat­ural state as a snack,” How­ToMe writes.  “Report­edly, rusks can also be help­ful to a teething child.”

Kelly presents Roasted Brus­sel Sprouts with Chest­nuts posted at Almost Fru­gal Food.

Fam­ily Crafts and Activities

Becca Glouzstein presents The Best Activ­ity for Pre-schoolers Ever! posted at Inspi­ra­tion for Mothers.com.

Stephanie presents Home­made Hand Hacky Sacks posted at Make It From Scratch.

Stephanie presents Fam­ily Movie Night posted at Stop the Ride!

knitts­ings presents Free Stitch Design Soft­ware For Hand and Machine Knit­ting posted at knitts­ings, explain­ing that “Win_Crea is a won­der­ful Win­dows free­ware pro­gram. With some lim­i­ta­tions, this free soft­ware gem can be used by all hand and machine knit­ters, as well as other crafters who rely on a grid layout.”

Riley presents Ink­heart, Ink­heart, Ink­heart posted at All Rileyed Up, a “pre-review of a book turned fam­ily film, Ink­heart.”

Don­ald Latumahina presents Save Time by Improv­ing Your Typ­ing Speed posted at Life Opti­mizer.

Fam­ily Finance

Pamela Parker presents Max­i­miz­ing Resources for your Dis­abled Child posted at Legacy.

Jill presents Gro­cery Sav­ings Tips posted at Best Free Gro­cery Coupons.

Michael presents How to Reward Your­self While Liv­ing on a Bud­get posted at Michael Emilio.

Ray­mond presents Best CD Rates For High Yield Cer­tifi­cate Of Deposits posted at Money Blue Book.

Kevin Flem­ing presents Dish Net­work Review posted at Satel­lite TV Guru. “Can your fam­ily save money by switch­ing from cable to satel­lite tele­vi­sion?” Kevin asks in his updated review of Dish Network.

Sil­i­con Val­ley Blog­ger presents Best Coupon Sites For Online Shop­pers posted at The Digerati Life, a cat­a­logue of great resources “for fam­i­lies look­ing to trim their budget.”

The Smarter Wal­let presents Fam­ily Bud­get For Fru­gal Liv­ing: Liv­ing Cheap Can Be Fun, Too! posted at The Smarter Wal­let.

Con­cern­ing Kids presents Some Thoughts On Afford­able Child Health Insur­ance posted at Con­cern­ing Kids.

Jeonard Cook presents Home Sell­ing in 2009 posted at How to Sell Your Own Home.

Fam­ily Health and Wellness

Tiffany Washko presents Cir­cum­ci­sion — Is it Nec­es­sary? posted at Nat­ural Fam­ily Liv­ing Blog.

Jacque­lyn presents What to Do When Your Child Has Diar­rhea? (Part II) posted at WParent.com — Wise Par­ent­ing Guide, say­ing, “Your child nor­mally gets diar­rhea unin­ten­tion­ally. As par­ents, we have to pre­vent or reduce the occur­rence by tak­ing some actions.”

Aparna presents Home reme­dies for hard­ened palms posted at Beauty and Per­son­al­ity Groom­ing, say­ing, “The skin on the hands is pro­tected with a coat­ing of oil/sebum to keep it moist and pre­vent dry­ness. Eczema or hand der­mati­tis is char­ac­ter­ized by cracks, lesions, and fis­sures which usu­ally start on the tips of the fin­gers, but some­times effect the palms, as well.”  Aparna offers a hand care rou­tine designed to avoid eczema.

Matthew presents Still a Dif­fer­ence in Gen­der Accom­plish­ment — Suprised? Why? posted at Fast Med­ical Infor­ma­tion. “I read a new story almost every week,” writes Matthew, “about a study demon­strat­ing that men’s accom­plish­ments still dom­i­nate in the work­place, sports atten­tion, education.”

Super Saver presents Improve Safety — Lower Drink­ing Age and Raise Dri­ving Age posted at My Wealth Builder.

Joe Hayes presents Her­nia Symp­toms posted at Hub Pages — Her­nia Symp­toms, pro­vid­ing a list of “symp­toms and insight into the more com­mon types of her­nias and treat­ments, includ­ing surgery.”

nickel presents Free Antibi­otics (and Pre­na­tal Vit­a­mins!) posted at Money Tip­per.

Fam­ily Humor

Praveen presents “See, Santa Also Likes Coke!” posted at My Sim­ple Trad­ing Sys­tem.

Beth Man­cuso presents Where oh where has my baby gone? posted at Manic Mother.

Michael Sipes presents Of Lost Teeth posted at The Adven­tures of Super Mega Dad.

Country-Fried Mama presents I now pro­nounce you? posted at Country-Fried Mama.

Love­lyn presents Some­thing in the Bath­tub posted at Neb­u­lous Mooch.

Stephanie presents Don’t you know that answer? posted at Adven­tures in the 100 Acre Wood.

Jen­nifer presents A funny thing hap­pened on the way to the office posted at Diary of 1.

Fam­ily Pets

GrrlSci­en­tist presents The World’s Most Obe­di­ent Dog posted at Liv­ing the Sci­en­tific Life. “The video is inter­est­ing,” the GrrlSci­en­tist offers, “but it also is sort of creepy to see a human con­trol an animal’s actions so completely.”

Jim presents Is Pet Insur­ance Nec­es­sary? posted at Blue­print for Finan­cial Pros­per­ity, “yet another chap­ter in my research before get­ting a new pet.”

Fam­ily Rela­tion­ships and Self-Improvement

Vickie Sloder­beck presents Non­sex­ual Touch?An Oxy­moron? posted at Joy­ful Jour­ney Pro­duc­tions.

Babs Moun­tjoy presents (Bro­ken) Home for the hol­i­days posted at Awalkabout’s Weblog. “Some­times par­ents have to teach their chil­dren about things they hoped never to share — breakups and other fam­ily trou­bles.”  Babs believes that “there’s a right way to do it.”

Fathersez presents Con­tin­u­ing a goal set in 2008 – low cost fun filled fam­ily pic­nics posted at Father Sez.  “Forg­ing fam­ily bonds is impor­tant,” Father believes.  “Why not make it a goal? Why not sched­ule time for it? This is what I am doing in my household.”

Emma presents Why kids need fam­ily tra­di­tions and how to start them posted at Baby-Log.  “Fam­ily tra­di­tions are the “glue” that holds us together,” accord­ing to Emma.

dawn presents I’ve Been Think­ing About What Suze Orman Said posted at iowahip­piechicks talk­ing … reflect­ing on a com­ment made by Suze Orman and how it relates to today’s multi-generational families.

gaz­zali presents How To Love Your Spouse Through­out Life posted at Proen­rich­ment.

Fam­ily Spirituality/Belief/Worship

Xquis­itlife presents Who Am I? posted at The best is yet to come!, a dis­cus­sion about dis­cov­er­ing who you are and how to pasion­ately pur­sue your dreams.

Rich presents Mar­riage posted at Blog­ger For Christ.com.

Fam­ily Travel

Robin presents How To Keep Your Kids Busy While Trav­el­ing posted at Kids Toy Reviews.

Par­ent­ing Tips and Advice

Kevin presents Weekly Par­ent­ing Tips: Let Kids be Kids posted at More4kids.

Nicki presents Rou­tine — Part 2, Find­ing Your Groove posted at Domes­tic Cents.

Abel Cheng presents To Par­ents Who Have Anti-Social Chil­dren posted at Par­ent Won­der.

Kakie presents What’s the best thing that hap­pened to you today? posted at Bur Bur & Friends: Com­mu­nity Park. “Some­times the best parts of life come in the small­est Moments,” Kakie shares.

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