The Parenting WeblogParenting, Family, and Child HealthSummer fun- June 22, 2008 Summer has rolled around and even if your kids are in camp, there is still a lot of time to be filled. Having silly family fun with your kids helps make lasting memories for them. The activity actually can be secondary - it is the idea of giving your children all of your attention, tuning out the world just for them. Here are some of the creative ideas we&39;ve used or have on tap for this summer. -Make your own tie-dyed shirts -Grow some cactus, you&39;ll be amazed how many varieties there.http://www.parenting-weblog.com/50226711/summer_fun.php Getting old- June 22, 2008 Saturday was my 20th high school reunion. In fact it was exactly 20 years ago this week I graduated high school from the Dean Smith Center in Chapel Hill, N.C. My big goal at the time was getting down to Myrtle Beach with my friends and we barely slept, leaving for the beach at 6:45 am that next morning. It was a summer of fun, everyone was heading off to college and buying all the things they&39;d need. But in general there were no worries since the concerns of undergrad life weren&39;t...http://www.parenting-weblog.com/50226711/getting_old.php Baby boom in Mass. HS- June 19, 2008 Pregnancy Boom at Gloucester High - TIME I&39;m astonished to read above linked story about a group of seventeen high school girls that decided to get pregnant together at a high school in Massachusetts. The girls made a deal to get pregnant and raise their babies together. Unfortunately few of them seem to have taken as much time to plan their life as they did getting knocked up. One of them is pregnant by a 24 year old homeless man. By all accounts the Gloucester area is economically...http://www.parenting-weblog.com/50226711/baby_boom_in_mass_hs.php HSM3- June 19, 2008 High School Musical 3 started shooting on May 3rd of this year and with a scheduled 40 days of filming, sometime this week or next the work should come to an end. Now editing and about 90 days separates us from the third installment of the wildly-popular High School Musical series as High School Musical 3 is set to come out in late October. As if we as parents didn&39;t end up buying about 101 different items from the HSM themed items, this time we&39;ll have to cough up more cash since this.http://www.parenting-weblog.com/50226711/hsm3.php Sporting pack mule- June 17, 2008 You don&39;t see the old &39;Mom&39;s Taxi&39; joke as much as you did when I was a kid. The parent act to lampoon - the sports pack mule. The bags that parents carry about with newborns with the essentials are nothing when you start to check out what some parents pack and carry to various sporting events for their children. The average recreation sports child needed their jersey and a ball, and not much else. A wider variety of sports have been available across the board, as well as more...http://www.parenting-weblog.com/50226711/sporting_pack_mule.php Adventurous family wanted for traveling- June 16, 2008 We got an interesting email that might appeal to some of you: My name is Leah Gritton and I work at an advertising agency in Los Angeles. Bugaboo is one of our clients. I was wondering if you could help in one of our projects. We are conducting a casting search and are looking for modern parents who would like to be filmed on a family adventure (your audience). We&39;d like to document the exciting moments of families traveling. There are no rules to the types of adventures and trips we are...http://www.parenting-weblog.com/50226711/adventurous_family_wanted_for_traveling.php End of school- June 13, 2008 I can&39;t wait for summertime, even if it is a shorter summer with our daughter being in year-round school. It has been a pretty good year at school but there has been some conflict. My child definitely plays a role in the issues going on but her actions are more of reactions. I&39;m not absolving my child of her role and she&39;ll pay a price for that. However there were two incidents where another child physically caused her injury while upset with her. Neither injury was dangerous but...http://www.parenting-weblog.com/50226711/end_of_school.php Kids meal toys for movies my kid won't see- June 12, 2008 Bear with me and read this... the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) defines the PG13 rating for a movie as the following: PG-13 rating is a sterner warning by the Rating Board to parents to determine whether their children under age 13 should view the motion picture, as some material might not be suited for them. A PG-13 motion picture may go beyond the PG rating in theme, violence, nudity, sensuality, language, adult activities or other elements, but does not reach the restricted..http://www.parenting-weblog.com/50226711/kids_meal_toys_for_movies_my_kid_wont_see.php Sunburn prevention trick- June 12, 2008 Summer has arrived here where we live and the temperatures have been hovering around the 100 degree mark the past few days. We are going to get a small reprieve and just low 90s for a few days - yippie. Days like these I&39;m especially grateful to have a neighborhood pool just a few minutes away. These days we pretty much are daily visitors. My daughter is on the swim team there - they compete against all the other neighborhoods in a summer season swim league. Plus it is the center of the...http://www.parenting-weblog.com/50226711/sunburn_prevention_trick.php June 7, 2008: Jessica Alba Gave Birth To Baby Girl Honor Marie- June 11, 2008 The newest celebrity mom and dad are Jessica Alba and Cash Warren, respectively. The "Love Guru" co-star and her new husband, Cash Warren, are new parents, her publicist Brad Cafarelli said Monday in an e-mail to The Associated Press. The 27-year-old actress gave birth to a healthy baby girl - Honor Marie Warren - on Saturday, Cafarelli said. He didn&39;t provide further details. Good luck and best wishes to the new parents. We all know that parenting doesn&39;t stop at childbirth -...http://www.parenting-weblog.com/50226711/june_7_2008_jessica_alba_gave_birth_to_baby_girl_... |