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Zero Waste Lunch: Getting Serious About Going Green |
It happens to the best of us. Speeding through the supermarket, we grab the staples of the “kid lunch”: string cheese, small bags of chips and cookies, single serving applesauces and puddings, Lunchables. Uncrustables. Maybe a package of brown lunch bags, plastic spoons and paper napkins. It’s... |
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Editor's Note: Dragged to Greensville |
If I don’t do something drastic soon, I’m going to end-up like Lamont Sanford on Sanford and Son. If you’re too young to know what I’m talking about, Sanford and Son was a sitcom in the 70s that focused on a junk dealer and his long-suffering son who loved him too much to bail on the old... |
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Woo hoo! Another Golden Birthday! |
This issue of Parent:Wise marks our 6th birthday, and boy have we received a great present: for the fourth straight year, The Parenting Publications of America honored us with a slew of Gold Awards in its Design and Editorial Awards Competition (... |
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| Essay: Life of the Party |
All right, I admit it. I was that kid who kept a rubber-worm fishing lure as a pet, set traps for aliens forged from empty TicTac boxes, wrote sci-fi stories I tried to sell door to door for a quarter, and invited to my birthday parties one special friend … of my mother’s choosing. About a... |
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Sizzle Sights: Aquarena Springs |
If you grew up around Austin, you may remember Aquarena Springs, in nearby San Marcos, as a theme park whose array of visual delights included Ralph the swimming pig, a cable car ride, underwater clowns, and synchronized swimming shows performed by costumed mermaids. Visit the area today,... |
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| The Cookie Junkie |
Every winter it’s the same story. There I am, just sitting on the couch watching TV and wondering why Jay Mohr still has a career, when the doorbell rings. And on the other side of the door awaits….Evil. “Hi, Mrs. Aarons!” “Oh, crap. It’s you again.” “How are you today?”... |
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| Who Should Deliver Your Baby? |
Until recently, this wasn’t a question most women even thought of asking. But now that pregnant moms have so many options for giving birth, the American College of nurse Midwives has developed an interactive web site to help moms determine which kind of birth is right for them. If you log... |
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| Fostering a Pet This Spring |
You’ve heard the old saying In the Spring a young man’s fancy turns to love, right? Well, it also applies to pets. And as a result, the Town Lake Animal Center is swimming in puppies. So, the Center has asked us to put out the word for friendly families to foster a pup this Spring. We... |
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| Get UpClose With AISD |
Have you ever wanted to know how the Austin Independent School District works — from the inside? If so, now’s your chance: AISD is accepting applications for its 2010-2011 AISD UpClose program. The program offers parents a unique opportunity to learn about the district’s... |
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Livi.Lu.Lu Strawberry Kitty Gift Set + Lotion and Shower Gel | $25 |
When this gift set arrived, we had a bit of a stampede to review it. The kids just loved the brightly colored kitty, not to mention the little bag o’sparkling stuff around her neck. From a mama’s point of view, we didn’t mind letting them test the products with wild abandon: made by Herban... |
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Epitaph Road |
The year is 2097 and the world is run by women after a plague decimated 97% of the men on Earth. Now that women are in charge, the world is experiencing a renaissance of sorts: no crime, no poverty, no war, no hunger. It is into this world that 14-year-old Kellen struggles to come of age. As... |
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The Case of the Lost Boy |
A beautiful golden retriever is forced to become a detective and find his family when he is accidently taken to the P-O-U-N-D. King knows there must be a mistake and he is determined to find his family when a boy and his mother adopt him and start to call him Buddy. In addition to trying to... |
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1 Zany Zoo/1 Zoo Loco |
In this simple story, a boy sneaks into the zoo before it opens for the day (“while you stood here waiting, with nothing to do.”) and, in Seuss-like rhyme, leads the zookeeper on a wild chase. In sequential order ten cages are opened, releasing a menagerie of very active animals. Finally fed up... |
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Girls Gone Green |
This is a hip, almost magazine style book filled with stories about girls and young women who have “gone green.” From celebrities, like Alicia Silverstone who discusses her vegetarian diet, to average kids like Abbe Hamilton, a Girl Scout who inspired her troop to reduce waste, the book is chock... |
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Gracias Thanks |
We have so much to be thankful for and this picture book catalogs many of the wonderful things in a lyrical way. From the “sun that wakes me up so I don’t sleep for years” to “the bees that didn’t sting me” and “Mom, who found my homework in the trash,” Mora focuses on blessings that are... |
