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Child Holding Pencil Incorrectly? This Pencil Will Fix Their Grip Without Any Discussion!
  • The Penagin Twist N Write Pencil forces the correct 'tripod' grip position
  • Our teacher recommended it, and it worked like a charm. (While discussing and cajoling hadn't helped at all!)
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Best Holiday Hacks
  • The ONLY wrapping paper you ever need to buy
  • Online gift registries that work on any shopping website
  • Let someone else address your holiday cards!
  • Get rid of holiday toy clutter
  • Let the kids track Santa's journey online!
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Add Your Nanny to Your Car Insurance Plan Today, or Your Family is at Risk!
  • Parents have been sued for millions as a result of their nanny getting into an accident (without the kids) while driving her own car!
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Online Thanksiving Menus, Recipes, & Shopping Lists
We searched the internet and found the best Thanksgiving resources for you
  • Best online meal planners, recipes, and shopping lists
  • How to carve a Turkey 101
  • How much Turkey to buy per person, thawing time per pound and cooking time per pound
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What Can I Do to Help?
  • A loved one is facing serious illness, injury or grief. You want to help, but don't know how.
  • Lotsa Helping Hands is a free, easy online tool for family, friends and neighbors to help in times of crisis.
  • It helps caregivers to coordinate meals, organize rides to medical appointments, manage logistical tasks, and provide medical status updates.... more...
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Halloween Tips!
  • How not to overeat your kids candy
  • Swapping costumes online
  • Free Halloween Coloring Pages
  • Make Glow Sticks last longer
  • Best Halloween DIY "How To" site
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What Do You Say to a Mom Who Has Lost a Child?
  • "Healing Hearts" has a good list of things to say, and importantly, things NOT to say to a grieving parent
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How to Manage Your Digital Family Photographs
  • Moms have thousands of digital photos to manage and backup for posterity
  • And, you likely have many many duplicates clogging up your hard drive, due to changing computers, backups, and photo book projects
  • These simple tools will help you eliminate the duplicates in your collection, free up valuable space, and simplify and speed up your back up process
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Moms, are you in charge of group sign ups for your school, sports team, or church?

SignUpGenius.com is a great free tool for managing group sign up lists. Use it to sign up Moms for group events like:
  • Sports Team Snack List
  • School Volunteer Schedule
  • Group Potluck Sign Ups
  • Holiday Party RSVPs
More...
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How to Store Kids' Art, School Work and Precious Keepsakes
  • Being the family 'archivist' is actually a lot of pressure. And it is more than just photo albums and baby books.
  • How do we store kids' artwork, school papers, and precious keepsakes?
  • Try this elegant solution: A File Box for each child with a hanging folder for each year...More...
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What to Buy for New Baby & Nursery
  • The Ultimate Checklist!
  • What to buy for Baby, Nursery, and Mommy
  • Share with your pregnant friends! More...
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Moms, Solve Your Calendar and Scheduling Confusion with "Tungle!"

Moms manage everyone's schedule: school, kids, sports, social plans, doctors, plus work - it's crazy!

We’ve reviewed a bunch of online scheduling apps and found Tungle to be the answer!
  • Syncs with any online calendar you already use
  • Helps you plan individual meetings, and especially group events without the usual flurry of back and forth scheduling emails
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Moms, Put the Oxygen Mask on Yourself Before Helping Those Around You!
  • Stressed? Not sleeping? Not exercising the way you want to? No "Me" time?
  • Moms put everyone else first, that's our job
  • Unfortunately, it is not sustainable. You need to replenish!
  • Try these Free Guided Meditation Podcasts
  • A few minutes of deep relaxation can replenish you, so you can give to others
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Free Printable Coloring Pages Updated!
  • A short list of the best sites for free printable Coloring Pages
  • Don't spend your time searching through pages and pages of bad art and ads (we already did!) More...
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Fun Kitchen Science Project:
Shine Pennies with Ketchup!
  • Let the kids pour Ketchup on a few dull, tarnished pennies
  • Wait five minutes, then rub with fingers or an old toothbrush
  • The acid from the ketchup.... More...
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The One Thing Every Mom Needs:
The Lego Brick Separator!
  • This tool makes it a snap to pull those tiny Legos apart when they get stuck
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Eliminate the Stress of Deciding "What's for Dinner" Every Night!
  • Meal planning websites like Relish, The Scramble, EMealz, Make Dinner Easy and Saving Dinner provide a week's worth of easy recipes, together with an aggregated grocery shopping list
  • They have make and freeze, crockpot, vegetarian, gluten free, low carb, low fat recipes - you name it!
  • Meal planning cuts your stress, your food bill by eliminating wasted ingredients, and saves you tons of time... More...
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10 Play It Safe Rules to Protect Your Kids from Child Predators
  • Print out and discuss these 10 Play It Safe Rules for Kids from SafelyEverAfter.com
  • It takes less than a minute for a Sexual Predator to lure a child away
  • 90% of childhood sexual abuse occurs by someone the child knows - not a stranger
  • Even very young children can be taught these important safety rules and skills...More...
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Remember, Babysitters are Cheaper than Marriage Counselors!
  • Cultivating your couplehood is important. Date Night should be a priority!
  • If cash is tight, try trading with close friends, or create a babysitting circle among your girlfriends. To learn how... More....
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Cancer and Health Screening Tests by Age
  • Put these tests in your calendar now!
  • Early detection saves lives!
  • Every cancer and health screening test you need on one page... More...
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Is It Better to Buy or Rent?
  • How do you decide?
  • This Buy v. Rent Calculator is the best tool to help you decide
  • Is it better to rent or buy in your city? Check the Rent vs. Buy City Index... More...
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Make 6 Easy Dinner Recipes in 1 Hour at a Dream Dinners style 'meal assembly' kitchen!
  • Prepare a week's worth of dinners in about an hour with no shopping, chopping or cleaning up
  • "Meal assembly" kitchens for busy moms are popping up across the country.  Each store has recipe stations with ingredients prepped, chopped, ready to assemble and freeze
  • To find one near you...More...
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Top 10 Uses for Used Dryer Sheets
Many Moms forgo dryer sheets for personal or environmental reasons. For those who like to use them, it makes sense to re-use them:
  • Freshen stinky sneakers by placing dryer sheet in shoes overnight
  • Deodorize garbage cans, drawers, and hampers with dryer sheet on the bottom
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How to Create the Ultimate Workout Music Playlist Using BPM (Beats Per Minute)
  • The best tempos for walking, jogging, and running music
  • How to find and sort on BPM in iTunes
  • BPM software to use and to avoid
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Can My Kids See that Rated PG Movie? How Do I Decide?
  • Tools to decide if a movie is suitable for your kids to watch
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Bedtimes: How Much Sleep Do Kids
Really Need?
  • Doctors recommendations for sleep by age
  • What time do most kids go to bed?
  • Results of our 2010 Bedtimes by Age Poll
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Top 10 Creative Uses for Coffee Filters!
Super Cheap, Super Useful
  • Protect China, Catch Popsicle drips...
  • Filter wine, Hold Tacos...
  • Children's art projects
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Back to School Shopping List New!
  • Download, customize and print the ultimate Back to School Shopping List
  • Covers school supplies and clothes!
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Easy Ways to Visualize Correct Portion Sizes for Better Portion Control
  • Handy print out guide for adults and kids!
  • 1 Serving of Meat = Deck of Cards (3 oz)
  • 1 Serving of Pasta = Baseball (1 Cup)
  • 1 Serving of Rice = Lightbulb (1/2 Cup)
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Fix those DVDs Your Kids Scratched!
  • Kids ruined another DVD or CD?
  • Try repairing with Furniture Polish, Vaseline or Car Wax!
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Kids Cell Phone Number Bracelets!
  • Use number beads to create a cell phone bracelet for your kids safety at Theme Parks and other public places
  • Sports themed beads and other ID bracelets available for boys
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Reduce your family's exposure to Pesticides by 80%, just by avoiding the "Dirty Dozen"
  • Download a free paper Pocket Organic Shopping Guide
  • Download a free Organic Shopping Guide iPhone App
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How to Tie a Scarf Dozens of Ways!
  • Download and print your Free Hermes Guide to Scarf Tying
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Make Cheaper and Healthier "Paperbag" Popcorn in Your Microwave!
  • Microwave popcorn costs much more than plain popcorn kernels, and has some really unhealthy ingredients
  • Try making easy popcorn in a paperbag in your microwave!
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Put a plastic office chair mat under your kids art table to protect your carpet!
  • They come large enough (46" x 60") for most kids tables
  • If you DO get paint on the carpet, try these removal techniques...
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Tooth Fairy Mom Hacks!
  • Tooth Fairy forget to show up?
  • Lose a “lost” tooth?
  • How much does the Tooth Fairy pay
    these days?
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How Much Seafood, Sushi or Canned Tuna is Safe to Eat?
  • Download your free pocket guide, or iPhone App, to know how much seafood is safe to eat!
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Family Dinner Games Make Dinnertime More Fun and Less Stressful!
  • Quick, easy games break up the routine, encourage conversation and eating
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Top 10 Safest Sunscreens for Your Kids
  • Did you know that the FDA does not regulate sunscreen? They have yet to finalize regulations promised since 1978!
  • The Environmental Working Group tested 1,000 sunscreens. Over 90% either contained harmful chemicals or didn't protect skin as well as promised on the package. Including our favorite very common chidren's brand!
  • See EWG's Top 10 Safest Sunscreens
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Please Backup Your Computer! Don't lose your precious family photos!
  • Best reviewed external hard drives
  • Best reviewed online backup systems
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Sticky feather or tape will amaze and occupy babies!
  • Put a little syrup on your baby or toddler's fingers, and hand them a feather. It will delight and occupy them ... more...
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Remove wood scratches with Nuts!
  • Use nuts to remove wood scratches, more...
  • Use Mayonnaise or Toothpaste to remove white rings from wood tables, more...
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The Best Reusable Grocery Bags!
  • Envirosax pouch holds 5, big, gorgeous, strong reusable bags - enough to do a full shop.. more...
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Are those leftovers still safe to eat?
  • Can you eat Yogurt after its expiration date?
  • How long can you keep cooked chicken?
  • Are eggs safe after their sell by date?
  • This ultimate shelf life guide has the answers for thousands of foods and drinks ...more...
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Finally conquer your Home Filing system!
  • Freedom Filer is by far the best home filing system on the market
  • It is intuitive, well organized, flexible, and "self-purging" - it tells you what to keep forever, what to toss... more...
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Nearly 25% of Purses tested have E. Coli on the bottom!
  • Clean the bottom of your purse regularly!
  • Use a clever and stylish 'Luxe Link' or 'Clipa' Purse Hook to keep it clean!
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Easy Homemade Bubble Recipe!  
  • Plus easy to make bubble wands from household objects
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Make any Purse a 'good' purse with portable purse pockets
  • Clever purse organizer provides six pockets to organize all your hard to find items
  • Easy to transfer whenever you want to change your bag! ...more...
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Clean Retainers, Sports Guards and Night Mouth Guards with Polident for Partials
  • Kids' retainers get covered with food, dropped in the trash and on the floor
  • Toothpaste and brushing alone doesn't remove the white scaly... more...
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Buy a new Kitty Litter tray for a Cheap, Portable Sandbox!
  • Perfect size, shape and depth for little hands
  • more...
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Share a Computer with Kids and Husband?
Bookmarks a mess?
  • Assign a different Web Browser to each family member .... more...

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Summer Boredom Hack
"Painting" with Water!
  • On a hot summer day, give the kids paintbrushes, a bowl of water, and let them “paint” your cement patio, wall, sidewalk, driveway
  • Painting will dry and more...
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Close the Lid!
Or get fecal matter on your toothbrush, yuck!
  • Each toilet flush creates an unseen mist that can travel up to 20 feet in all directions.
  • Toilet water can contain fecal matter, E. coli, streptococcus, staphylococcus, klebsiella oxytoca, enterobacter, flu and cold viruses etc.
  • Micro-droplets land on everything within the flush zone: toothbrushes, more...
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Theme Park & Beach Hack
  • SafetyTat temporary kids tattoos put Mom's cell phone number right on your child
  • Or, in a pinch just Sharpie... more...
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Restaurants with Kids
  • Stuck taking kids to a restaurant in a large group later in the evening than you'd like?
  • Hint: Feed them first at home or hotel, then at the restaurant let them order dessert
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ThredUp  The Netflix of gently used Kids Clothing
  • Free! Pay only for shipping
  • Send in your box of outgrown clothes
  • 'Shop' for the clothes you want online using peer ratings for quality and style... more...
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Kitchen Hack
  • Use a Pizza cutter on kids waffles, pancakes, quesadillas etc. So much easier!
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