Welcome to the very special St. Patrick’s Day Edition of the Carnival of Family Life! The luck o’ the Irish is certainly with us because there are a wide variety of excellent articles amassed here for your reading pleasure! No blarney — just fact! Enjoy them all! Visit the contributors' sites and be sure to leave them a comme

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Every parents goal is to encourage their children to have healthier eating habits. Delicious vegetarian soup recipes and low fat soup recipes is one way to sneak more vegetables into a child's diet.

However, sometimes the best intentions backfire and other times there are surprising results. Read about

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Many parents wonder whether cell phones for kids is a good idea. I have examined the topic of cell phones for kids before on this site and after testing out a family cell phone plan for a few months, I am ready to report back with what I have learned about cell phones for kids. Overall, I think it is a good idea and a wonderful

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Internet safety is a big concerns of parents today. As children's exposure to the internet grows, it becomes harder for parents to monitor their kids online activities. The key to internet safety is education. Parents need to teach kids skills to use the internet properly. Like anything else children need to learn right from w

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Being a Mac user and a parent, I have had a hard time finding a PDA that sync's easily with Apple's iCal and Contacts. Given my children's busy schedules I am desperately in need of some electronic help. When the iPod Touch was first introduced by Apple it did not have the capability to enter new calendar events, basically i

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When you adopt a child at an older age, they come to you knowing they were adopted. But when you adopt an infant, you are the one who they get that information from. Most research suggests that a child who was adopted will  benefit from knowing early on and as they get older they will be able to understand more. Adoption sho

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Long division with decimals? It's easier if you copy Beyonce and sing, "To the left to the left" as you move the decimal point. Or do you move it to the right? I got really confused, and wrote a lighthearted piece about 6th grade arithmetic ho

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Anne Glamore and her son fight over the steps to the Soulja Boy dance. After reviewing the Soulja Boy Tell 'Em Instructional video to go over the moves, Anne is gratified to learn that the Crank Dat Soulja Boy dance does in fact have a "lean wid it" step in between steps two and four. She and Drew practice the dance while Finn films an

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Unschooling Voices (unschooling carnival) is a monthly collection of writings (mainly from blogs) on the topic of unschooling. What is unschooling? It's a form of homeschooling that is done with out formal lessons or the use of a curriculim.

This page serves as as index to all the editions and gives all the details you'll

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Blogging about parenting advice is a difficult business. After all parenting young children leaves precious little time for the business of blogging. Even if you are not a parent, if you blog part time, chances are that you have a full time commitment elsewhere. Finding the motivation to blog everyday is tough.
Blog 365 is a network of blo

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Here's a little parenting tip that works for me - it is good for the environment and keeps the kids busy for hours. It may even save you a few dollars next holiday season.
The parenting tip that I am talking about is reusing your holiday cards.
Instead of throwing away the holiday cards, cut off the backs (with all the writing and person

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Even wonder what a woman's body goes through when she is pregnant? Well, it does not end just because they had the baby. This is my story of what happened after the birth of both my children and what other mothers out there are going through. The hormonal balance that happens after birth is one of those things that nobody tells you about

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Working from home is challenge many moms face. Parenting is usually the main focus for moms and as a result moms don't treat their home businesses as serious endeavors. While time might be scarce for moms, attitude does not need to suffer. Moms need to believe that they can be successful in th

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You think babies are hard-- all that diapering and baby food and equipment. But think back-- do you remember when you learned how babies were made? Do you realize, that as a parent, you're going to have to give "the talk" unless the stoner down

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The Happy New Year Edition of the Carnival of Family Life will be hosted at Mixed Metaphor.net on Monday, July 31, 2007. Submit a post by December 29, 2007 at midnight to have it included. This is my first time hosting a blog carnival, so please help me make it a great success! We will ring in 2008 with a festive theme and wonderful Carniv

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The only privately owned copy of the Magna Carta was sold at auction today for 21.32 million dollars. Dating back to the year 1297 and bearing the wax seal of King Edward I, this is the only original copy of the Magna Carta located in the United States. Fortunately the new owner, David Rubenstein, plans to loan the document to the National A

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Someone caught Miley Cyrus' (better known as Hanna Montana's) costume change trick on tape. And you can see it here. My kids are crazy for Hanna Montana, so they found it quite entertaining and I became one cool parent for finding the video before they did. I am sure other celebrities use similar Houdini-ish tactics to trick their audiences

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