Children

This Is What Good Does: Operation Christmas Child

Children

This is the week to turn in your shoe boxes. What a great way to start Christmas and a new tradition for me and my kids. This is what good does.

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Give my son a damn trophy already!

Activities

Over the past year or so, I have noticed a rallying cry amongst radio personalities to condemn the practice of handing out trophies at the end of the season for Little League sports. This is absurd. Every single year I played any type of Little League sport, I got a trophy. If we won the [...]

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So your child eats this regularly?

Children

This part of the series, My Children’s Health. Calories are based on a recommended 1600 calorie diet for a 10 yr old female with low activity (just things a regular kid would do during the day). Program Used: http://caloriecount.about.com Unfortunately, my children are unavailable for this experiment so I did a conservative estimation of what [...]

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