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Beating the #SummerSlide with Target and Soleil Moon Frye and Sweepstakes

Update! Giveaway is closed! Congrats to the winner! Schools out for summer! I still remember hearing that last bell and running out to enjoying the warmth and freedom of summer vacation. Almost instantly it seems in addition to that feeling of freedom all the wonderful knowledge I learned during that school year disappeared instantly. This phenomenon now has a name, it is called the Summer Slide. Researchers have found that without practice over the summer children tend to regress especially their reading skills. Fortunately, Target and "Punky Brewster" Soleil Moon Frye have teamed up to start spreading the word on how to combat the Summer Slide. We had the wonderful opportunity to ask Soleil Moon Frye a couple of questions regarding the Summer Slide and here are her answers: Sweepstakes/ Giveaway! ONE dancinghotdogs.com will win $50 Gift Card to Target and 10 age appropriate books (up to $10 each). Just tell me what methods you use to avoid the Summer … [Read more...]

Goodnite Lite Product Review

By Eddy One of the biggest lessons I have learned so far as a parent is “it’s the little things that count.” Since sleep has become a premium at our house, the youngest goes to sleep around 10-11 the oldest wakes up around 5:30 -6:30, you can imagine how even an extra 15 minutes of sleep can be valuable. I can vividly remember waking up at 5:50 and seeing the clock then immediately closing my eye savoring the pleasure of an extra 10 minutes. Believe me those extra minutes make a difference to a parent, they are the difference between having a good day or snapping at even the littlest thing and don’t even get me started on the merits of uninterrupted sleep, give me 4 or 5 hours of uninterrupted sleep over 7 or 8 hours of waking up every hour or so any day. Yet things didn’t used to be so easy, if you rewind a couple of months ago, Big Brother was getting up at all different hours of the night and morning. Big brother was then cranky all day due to lack of sleep … [Read more...]