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How to Create a Healthy Home Environment

By Danielle Pastula | March 27, 2025 | Happy Home , Health
From our children’s success at school, to how we perform at work, to how happy we are in our relationships with family and friends, many things can be linked back to our healthy home environment. One way to adjust how we look at our home is to break down our activities and improvements into the

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Financial Downsizing: Thinking Outside the Box

By Selena Garrison | March 20, 2025 | Life
Over the past few years, my husband and I have been in a gradual financial downsizing process, necessitated by our desire for me to be home with our kids. When our first baby was about 10 months old, I started a home-based business to supplement our income, and one year later, I left my full-time

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Try These At-Home Listening Activities

By Rebecca Vitkus | March 20, 2025 | Conception 2 College , Early Years
While listening skills are practiced every day in preschool and kindergarten classrooms, it is up to parents to continue building those listening skills at home. Former kindergarten teacher Ilene Vitkus shared some of her classroom tactics to make at-home listening activities both fun and beneficial. Draw This! Bring out the crayons and paper and instruct

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picking a stroller

Tips For Picking the Stroller That is Best for You!

By Nicole Irving, Publisher and Editor-In-Chief | March 10, 2025 | Expecting
When I had my first baby shower, I remember opening the big clunky box that held my first stroller. It was a Graco combination, where the car seat fit right into the stroller, so you didn’t have to wake a sleeping baby to put him into the stroller. GENIUS! Fast forward 17 months and we

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Foods You Don't Have to Refrigerate

11 Foods You Don’t Have to Refrigerate

By Mary Velasco | February 4, 2025 | Forks & Spoons
Stop playing Tetris in your refrigerator. If space is looking tight, don’t throw it out—take it out. Contrary to popular practice, there are foods you don't have to refrigerate to keep them from going bad. Certain goods have natural ingredients or preservatives that slow down the time-to-trash clock. Here is a list of foods that

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Winter Wear In Florida!

By Giggle Magazine | January 13, 2025 | Guides
Living in the Sunshine State has it’s advantages. Sun, surf and sand all year long. Golf on Thanksgiving, swimming on Christmas...what could be better? We are so lucky to live in paradise...but, even paradise welcomes Jack Frost now and then in the Florida winter. Although short lived, the winter season does show its face here

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Outdoor Winter Activities in Gainesville

By Rebecca Vitkus | January 13, 2025 | Health
As tempting as it may be to keep the kids indoors when the temperature drops, the winter weather is only here for a moment, and it is meant to be enjoyed! Take a break from video games and movie marathons to bask in the briskness of the cool outdoors with these winter activities in Gainesville!

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Baby Sign Language

From Fuss to Fun: Perks of Teaching Baby Sign Language

By Jacqueline Saguin | December 9, 2024 | Conception 2 College , infant
No need for baby talk when there’s baby sign language. Babies can communicate using modified gestures from American Sign Language, and teaching it can make for a fun bonding activity with your child. According to the Mayo Clinic, baby sign language may allow children a way to communicate months earlier than those who only communicate

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Holiday Crafts

6 Holiday Crafts for Little Hands

By Mercedes Leguizamon | December 8, 2024 | Blog
The time for decorating is now! Why not have your little ones help with decorations or even create their own holiday crafts? These crafts are so easy that they can be made with even the smallest of hands, but they will definitely result in big smiles from both your guests and your little artists, who

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