Carnival of Family Life: St. Patrick’s Day Edition

Top o’ the mornin’ to you! Wel­come to the very spe­cial St. Patrick’s Day Edi­tion of the Car­ni­val of Fam­ily Life! The luck o’ the Irish is with us this week, as evi­denced by the col­lec­tion of excel­lent arti­cles amassed here for your read­ing plea­sure! No blar­ney — just fact! Enjoy sit­ting back with a nice cup of tea or glass of green beer and read a few!

Fam­ily Cook­ing & Recipes

Rani presents Irish Potato Can­dies posted at Christ’s Bridge, “some­thing sweet for St. Patrick’s Day!”

Char Polanosky presents 5 Clas­sic Irish Recipes for St. Patrick?s Day posted at Rais­ing A Healthy Fam­ily, shar­ing her five favorites.

Fam­ily Crafts & Activities

Deb Serani presents Vir­tual Art Ther­apy posted at Dr. Deb, high­light­ing the ben­e­fits of art ther­apy and link to a vir­tual canvas.

Super Saver presents Keep­ing Busy Dur­ing the Sum­mer Used to be Almost Free posted at My Wealth Builder. “It shouldn’t cost thou­sands of dol­lars to keep our kids occu­pied for the sum­mer,” and read­ers may want to start plan­ning activ­i­ties now.

Stephanie presents Make a Dr. Seuss Hat posted at Make It From Scratch.

Dolfin presents Ariel Dress posted at Lion­den Land­ing.

Julian Pol­lock presents Baby Foot­print Poetry and Graph­ics Cre­ate Per­fect Pham­ily Mnemonic Mas­ter­pieces posted at Baby Foot­print Graphic, one of a series of three posts “encour­ag­ing par­ents to com­pose their own fam­ily or baby foot­print genre of poem to cel­e­brate fam­ily occasions.”

Char Polanosky presents St. Patricks Day Count and Color with the Pups Activ­ity Page posted at Print­a­bles for Kids, offer­ing orig­i­nal St. Patrick’s Day col­or­ing pages.

Alex presents Ani­mal Col­or­ing Pages posted at Home Life Weekly, “a great selec­tion of ani­mal col­or­ing pages to print and enjoy.”

Jenny Jen presents Pho­to­Lab Reviewed posted at JennyReviews.com. 

Edu­ca­tion

Sonja Stew­art presents Just Say No to Vol­un­teer­ing in the Class­room posted at Par­ent­ing Squad.

GrrlSci­en­tist presents Magic Tricks, Sci­ence Facts posted at Liv­ing the Sci­en­tific Life, an edu­ca­tional video inter­view with and demon­stra­tion by sci­ence teacher and book author, Robert Fried­hof­fer, who likes to use magic tricks to help kids learn sci­en­tific principles.

Meaghan Mon­trose presents Effec­tive Learn­ing Strate­gies and Study Skills — Part 2 posted at Tutor Fi.

Con­cern­ing Kids presents How To Han­dle A School Yard Bully posted at Con­cern­ing Kids.

Cyndi presents Hyp­notic Lan­guage Pat­terns posted at Evo­lu­tion Ezine, pre­sent­ing a video that will teach you to use the word “try” in ben­e­fi­cial ways.  A spe­cific lan­guage pat­tern, “The More the More,”  increases the “effec­tive­ness of your com­mu­ni­ca­tions,” as does con­scious­ness of your voice’s tonality.

Fam­ily Spirituality/Belief/Worship

Home­spun­heal­ers presents True Spir­i­tu­al­ity: It’s How You Love posted at Home­Spun­Heal­ers, which she describes as a post about spir­i­tu­al­ity and what it is ver­sus what it isn’t.”

Tracey presents Glimpses of Hope posted at Girls to Grow.

Cyndi presents A boat called free­dom part 1 posted at Evo­lu­tion.  She describes it as “a beau­ti­fully writ­ten, inspi­ra­tional fic­tion high­light­ing humankind’s cur­rent state of con­scious­ness. A piece that makes you think.”

Fam­ily Finance

Momma presents 25 ways to save money and bar­gain shop in small towns and rural areas: part 2 posted at Engi­neer a debt free life, the sec­ond of a five-part series. 

Stephanie presents The Wii Fund posted at Stop the Ride!, say­ing, “Teach­ing kids about saving.”

Steve Bernal presents What Do They Mean When They Say “Con­scious Busi­ness?” posted at Biz­light­en­ment, opin­ing that “con­scious busi­ness is pri­mar­ily aware­ness of the impact one’s habits and actions has on their envi­ron­ment, know­ing that every­thing is inter­con­nected, know­ing one’s strengths and weak­nesses, and liv­ing and work­ing with joy, cre­ativ­ity, ease and love, rather than fear, power and domination.”

The Dough Roller presents 10 Lies that Got You (and Keep You) in Credit Card Debt posted at The Dough Roller, a dis­cus­sion of the ways we “con­vince our­selves that credit card debt is o.k.”

Sil­i­con Val­ley Blog­ger presents Lower Your Car Insur­ance Rates! How To Cut Insur­ance Pre­mi­ums in Half posted at The Digerati Life, sug­gest­ing ways to cut your family’s car insur­ance costs.

The Smarter Wal­let presents Kids and Money: Answer­ing Your Children’s Money Ques­tions posted at The Smarter Wal­let.

Helene Zemel presents The Impor­tance of Your “Why” posted at Work at Home Mom and Dad. Helene observes that a home-based busi­ness allows for more time with fam­ily and pro­vides addi­tional income.  But “before start­ing any new busi­ness, it is impor­tant to have a good under­stand­ing of ‘why.’”

freefrom­broke presents Is 8 To 12 The New 3 To 6? posted at Free From Broke, say­ing, “Should you be sav­ing more months worth of expenses these days?”

Deb­bie Ducker presents Your Chil­dren and Grand­chil­dren Must Learn to Save Money posted at Ducker Pro­mo­tion Ezine, opin­ing that if chil­dren are taught “how to save money at an early age, they will be spared a life­time of heartache.”

oshkhar tiglao presents Pool Enclo­sure Buy­ing Tips posted at Pool Enclo­sures.  Sum­mer will be here before you know it.  Are you ready?

Mr. Banker presents Bank­ing Online Safety Tips posted at Best Inter­est Rate Banks.

Fam­ily Health and Wellness

Alvaro Fer­nan­dez presents Michael Merzenich: Brain Plas­tic­ity offers Hope for Every­one posted at Sharp­Brains: Your Win­dow into the Brain Fit­ness Rev­o­lu­tion, explain­ing that “the inher­ent plas­tic­ity of the brain is an under­uti­lized and under-appreciated resource that we all have.”

Aparna presents Kapal­ab­hati Pranayam posted at Beauty & Per­son­al­ity Groom­ing, a descrip­tion of the ben­e­fits to be derived from a breath­ing exercise.

Fam­ily Humor

Rose presents Ban­ning Bar­bie? posted at Learn­ing at Home.  Rose is of the opin­ion that Ban­ning Bar­bie is “for law­mak­ers who have noth­ing bet­ter to do.”

Belinda presents Lost In Fast Food Trans­la­tion posted at Laugh with Friends.

jenafer presents Din­ner Dates and Love Notes posted at Cage Free Mon­keys.

Nerd­Mom presents From the Mouths of Babes posted at Nerd Fam­ily.

Par­ent­ing Tips & Advice

More than just a mother presents A bit of ‘me’ time posted at More than just a mother.

Sweet Suc­cess presents Child Car Seat Safety posted at Par­ent­ing Tips at Neen­Ma­chine, offer­ing guide­lines for select­ing the right car seat for your child.

Kim Cohen presents Resist­ing the myth posted at The House­hold Maven, about “resist­ing the myth of the orga­nized life so that fam­i­lies can live hap­pier, more health­fully, and have more fun doing activ­i­ties together, rather than get­ting hung up on what we ‘should’ be doing.”

Kela Price presents Encour­ag­ing Sib­ling Rela­tion­ships in the Blended Fam­ily posted at BFSO (blended fam­ily soap opera).

Jody DeVere presents Booster Seat and Seat Belt Safety Reminders posted at Ask Patty.

Melitsa presents 5 do-it-right-now play activ­i­ties posted at Play-Activities.com.

Khor­daddy presents 10 Baby Items You Will Buy More Often Than You Thought posted at Khordaddy.com.

Con­cern­ing Kids presents Rais­ing A Street Smart Kid posted at Con­cern­ing Kids.

Fam­ily Pets

Tina presents A Barn­yard Birth­day Party! – Oh, so much fun posted at TLC in the Kitchen, explain­ing, “We started off with some basic rules about how to hold the ani­mals and direc­tions for safety and then we let them go. Each ani­mal pen had an adult to super­vise the hold­ing and pet­ting of the ani­mals. We have two pot-belly pigs, five hens, eight chicks, two horses, two baby bun­nies and my grand­son brought his big bunny to the party, too!”

Fam­ily Rela­tion­ships & Self-Improvement

Jim DeSan­tis presents 5 Ways To Keep Your Mar­riage Healthy posted at On Line Tri­bune Mar­riage Mat­ters, not­ing that within a long-term rela­tion­ship, it is some­times “hard to under­stand what is going wrong, and it takes only the most basic advice to clear the fog of confusion.”

Tony presents Wreck the Corvette, but fix your rela­tion­ship posted at Rekin­dle your rela­tion­ship.

Jim DeSan­tis presents I Want To Be Wanted posted at On Line Tri­bune Fam­ily Life. “Our self-esteem is always being tested,” Jim writes.

Susan Gais­sert presents The Man Behind the Counter vs. the Nifty Machine posted at The Expand­ing Life, about “our post office relationships.”

Jeonard Cook presents Reverse Cell Phone Lookup — A Great Way to Catch Your Cheat­ing Spouse Or Find a Prank Callers Name posted at How to Find Phone Num­ber.

Dr. Neill Neill presents How I Fell in Love posted at Prac­ti­cal Psy­chol­ogy for Capa­ble Peo­ple.

J. Cullen presents Baseball=Pure Joy posted at Life’s dewlaps.

bryan presents I Can’t Get No Sat­is­fac­tion! posted at Per­sonal Devel­op­ment and Growth.

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