Reviews
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Best Parent-Approved Phones for Kids
While researching for my tweens first cell phone, I was happily surprised by two companies that have great options for a first phone for kids.
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6 Last Minute Stocking Stuffer Ideas to Delight the Whole Family
Looking for a few more things to stuff your stockings with this holiday season? You’ve come to the right place. Here are six great stocking stuffer ideas to make the whole family happy. Stocking Stuffer Ideas for Older Kids and Adults 1. Mini Coloring Books. Alli Koch’s mini coloring books (Coolest Homes Ever and Hey Day) make great stocking stuffers for yourself or older kids or even your husband (if he’s the coloring sort). Coloring is also great for self-care as it calms your brain and can help you relax. Combine a coloring book with a portable pack of colored pencils, and you’ll be all set. 2. Planning Supplies. Stay…
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Ororo Heated Vest Review: Stay Warm While at Your Kid’s Winter Activities
Don’t suffer while watching your kids participate in winter sports. Click here to learn how to stay warm in cold weather with an Ororo heated vest.
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Gabb Phone Plus Review: Safe First Phone with Perks
The Gabb Phone Plus is the newest phone from Gabb Wireless. It’s basically the original Gabb Phone (Gabb Z2) supercharged. It has all the basic features the Gabb phone has plus “safe, curated apps” that a parent can enable. According to Gabb’s website, the Gabb Phone Plus is Gabb’s premium phone in a Samsung device and has an “all-metal frame for improved durability,” an “edge-to-edge Infinity Display, and a lighter, slimmer profile for kid and teen hands.” We found the Gabb Phone Plus easy to navigate. I really liked the ability to customize the home screen. Gabb Music on the Gabb Phone Plus My eleven- and fifteen-year-olds were more interested…
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Gabb Watch Review: Perfect First Device for Young Kids
The Gabb Watch is a perfect first device for kids too young for a phone, so we decided to keep the review watch for our daughter.
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Pinwheel Phone Review—Slim Model
A Pinwheel phone gives you peace of mind while allowing your child to connect and use a smartphone without going from nothing to everything.
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Gabb Z2 Phone Review
The Gabb Z2 phone allows my daughter to stay connected with her friends and has all of the options we decided were important for her phone.
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Book Review—365 Days of Happiness
If you’re open to new ideas, Jacqueline Pirtle’s 365 Days of Happiness may be a fun way to become a happier person every day of the year.
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Summer Word Search Fun
My oldest has been making a notebook filled with math worksheets and other things in preparation for the summer trips we’ve been planning. She'll be able to keep herself busy while also practicing everything she learned this past year. (Essentially, she's created a notebook of things to avoid the “summer slide.”)
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Book Review—It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health
How to Talk with Your Child about Sex Do you have an older child or teen? Have you talked with them about puberty and sex yet? I didn’t think the puberty talk was that bad. Really, it was a series of smaller talks as I’ve always been very open with my girls, from a young age, about menstruation and the changes that happen during puberty. (You kind of have to be when they follow you into the bathroom as a toddler.) I also signed my oldest daughter up for a class through her school with some of her peers that helped make sure all the bases were covered as far…