Carnival of Family Life: In Praise of Mom Edition

Welcome to the In Praise of Mom Edi­tion of the Car­ni­val of Fam­ily Life. I hope that all moth­ers had a won­der­ful day and were able to spend time with their fam­i­lies. Take a break from your daily respon­si­bil­i­ties, put your feet up, get com­fort­able, and enjoy the many won­der­ful arti­cles included in this spe­cial edition!

Fam­ily Cook­ing & Recipes

Belle presents Fried Fish, a LaMan­cha Dairy Goat, and Home­made Goat Milk Ice Cream posted at Homesteaderbelle’s Blog.

Fam­ily Crafts & Activities

Buck Weber presents 20 Ideas To Keep The Kids Busy This Sum­mer posted at The Buck List. Once again the time of year is approach­ing when par­ents of school-age chil­dren won­der how they are going to keep the kids occu­pied all sum­mer. Here are some ideas.

Edu­ca­tion

Susan Gais­sert presents Mother’s Day Book Rec­om­men­da­tions posted at The Expand­ing Life.

Mark Mont­gomery presents Party Schools: Choose a Col­lege or Uni­ver­sity by its Alco­hol Pol­icy posted at Great Col­lege Advice. Col­lege admin­is­tra­tions dif­fer in their for­mal and infor­mal poli­cies regard­ing under­age drink­ing. When help­ing your child select a col­lege, it is impor­tant to ascer­tain whether the school’s pol­icy is acceptable.

John Anya­sor presents Going Out to Eat in Col­lege posted at Liv­ing the HiLife2B (My Col­lege Jour­ney), offer­ing “a few tips to break out of the din­ing halls and into the awe­some din­ers in your col­lege town.”

Fam­ily Finance

Jim DeSan­tis presents Divorce: What To Do About Med­ical, Life, Home­own­ers, and Auto Insur­ance! posted at On Line Tri­bune — Mar­riage Mat­ters. The insur­ance needs of your fam­ily mem­bers must be con­sid­ered dur­ing pre-divorce set­tle­ment nego­ti­a­tions. Here are some considerations.

Pinyo presents Col­lege Stu­dents Should Take Respon­si­bil­ity for Their Finan­cial Sit­u­a­tion posted at Moolanomy Per­sonal Finance.

jim presents What Is A Good Credit Score? posted at Bar­gaineer­ing.

Renae presents In Defense of Fru­gal­ity posted at Life Nur­tur­ing Edu­ca­tion.

DR presents Dave Ram­sey Unleashed: How to Apply Ramsey’s ‘Baby Steps’ to Grown Up Finances posted at The Dough Roller, a dis­cus­sion of how to apply Ramsey’s Baby Steps geared to folks already on their way to retirement.

David presents 9 Tweet­ers Every Credit Card Hound Should Fol­low posted at Credit Card Offers IQ.

Sil­i­con Val­ley Blog­ger presents TradeK­ing Review: How Does TradeK­ing Mea­sure Up? posted at The Digerati Life, a review of a pop­u­lar stock bro­ker whose ser­vices you might be con­sid­er­ing to man­age your family’s finances.

The Smarter Wal­let presents Fibonacci Retrace­ment: A Tech­ni­cal Stock Tool To Pre­dict Mar­ket Direc­tion posted at The Smarter Wal­let.

Madi­son presents Mak­ing Home Afford­able Q & A posted at My Dol­lar Plan.

Kevin Flem­ing presents Best Cash Back Credit Cards posted at Cred­it­Shout.

Anony­mous presents Stu­dent Loan Default posted at Leav­ing the Folks, explain­ing the con­se­quences of default­ing on a stu­dent loan.

Health and Wellness

Aparna presents Hypochon­dri­acs over the net posted at Beauty and Per­son­al­ity Groom­ing.

Mar­sha Hud­nall presents Rais­ing Healthy Eaters: A Mother?s Day Tale of Sugar &, Finally, Spice posted at A Weight Lifted.

Fam­ily Humor

Dan presents 5 Ways to Really Tick Off a New Mom posted at My Dad Blog, a humor­ous arti­cle offer­ing advice on what how to say or do around a new mom. “Take it from me,” Dan writes, “I’ve learned the hard way!”

Anthony McCune presents Once, When I Was Mar­ried … The First in a Series posted at The Lives and Times . . of Anthony McCune.

Par­ent­ing Tips & Advice

Mike King presents The Imag­i­na­tive Mind: Social Cre­ativ­ity posted at Learn This.

Ilona Siller presents Top 10 Things I Hope My Daugh­ter Will Expe­ri­ence When She Grows Up posted at top10mama.

Eliz­a­beth Alexan­der presents Les­son Eight: Play Ball posted at How to Be a Week­end Dad: A Guide for Sin­gle Moth­ers.

Fiona Lohrenz presents Prepar­ing For Day Care Toi­let­ing Acci­dents posted at Child Care Only.

Kakie presents Make plans to read with your kids this sum­mer posted at Bur Bur & Friends: Com­mu­nity Park, offer­ing some sug­ges­tions to keep your kids read­ing over sum­mer vacation.

Tracey presents Peace at the Break­fast Table posted at Girls to Grow.

Kelly presents Fun, Fru­gal Kid Toys posted at Almost Fru­gal.

Fam­ily Pets

Jake presents Com­mon Dog Behav­ior Prob­lems to Watch For posted at Dog Train­ing Pet.

Fam­ily Rela­tion­ships & Self-Improvement

Cather­ine Van­Wet­ter presents The Power of Words and Thoughts posted at To the Heart of the Mat­ter. We have between 60,00 to 80,00 thoughts per day, most of which are repeated from prior days. Here are some tips for becom­ing more aware of the words you use.

nickel presents Off the Grid and Into the Future posted at fivecentnickel.com.

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