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  Time to Play: Get Prepared for Winter

  From Guest Blogger on January 17th, 2012

  We’ve been lucky in New England with not having any snow yet but we know it will come. At the end of October I get prepared for winter so it doesn’t catch me by surprise but it’s never too late. When you’re not prepared, it can make snow days very long and stressful. Scrambling for [...]

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  Time to Play: 10 Ways to Reinforce Preschool Learning

  From Guest Blogger on January 10th, 2012

  In an age when public and private preschools are nearly impossible to enroll in, it can be frustrating and down-right difficult to think of new and fun ways to reinforce learning and introduce important skills at home. Preschoolers are hungry to learn though and nearly everything in your home can be used to reinforce important life [...]

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  Time to Play: 5 Things to Do When You Don’t Know What To Do

  From Guest Blogger on January 5th, 2012

  As a parent there are so many times where you get stymied by the day to day issues that you have to do that it becomes hard at times to take time out of that schedule to be able to simply be present in the lives of our children. With that in mind I wanted [...]

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  Time to Play: Stay on Track for the Holidays

  From Guest Blogger on December 20th, 2011

  As I sit here struggling with a slight case of writer’s block, staring at the pack of P90X DVDs sitting next to my laptop, it finally hits me… I need to remind myself how much I need to stay motivated to continue on in my workout program, through the holidays, through all the yummy meals, [...]

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  Time to Play: Holiday Traditions

  From Guest Blogger on December 13th, 2011

  The traditions we hold near and dear to us during the holidays can mean as much to us as the holidays themselves. They provide a sense of comfort, and security, and we know they’ll remain the same regardless of life’s unpredictability. Traditions can create such strong bonds and lasting memories that they’re often intuitively passed [...]

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  Time to Play: A Sense of Humor is Key to Holiday Survival

  From Guest Blogger on December 6th, 2011

  It was one of those December nights before Christmas, when all through the house, people were screaming. I keep the calendar for our family of 10. It resembles a quilt this time of year. Every little square is colored with frantic scrawling and exclamation points. Last year was no exception. With 5 of the kids [...]

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  Time to Play: 5 Ways to Tame the Gimmies at Christmas

  From Guest Blogger on November 29th, 2011

  Christmas is such a magical time of year. It seems that everyone is just in a better mood and there is a feeling of hope and love in the atmosphere. With that said, there can also be a bad case of the “gimmies” going on in your house. What are the “gimmies”? That’s when your child needs [...]

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  Time to Play: Teaching Children to Give

  From Guest Blogger on November 22nd, 2011

  When I was a little girl, money was tight. Not just tight – think choosing between food and electricity, tight. We learned fast where all the best food pantries were and how to buy a loaf of bread for 20 cents. When Christmas came around, my mom’s heart sank because she knew there was not [...]

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  Time to Play: Surviving A Picky Eater This Holiday Season

  From Guest Blogger on November 15th, 2011

  I never thought I would end up with a picky eater. Unfortunately, my 4 year old takes one look at my dinners and proclaims, “I don’t like that!”. He has quickly learned that I am not a short order cook and he will be eating what the rest of us are having. Over the past [...]

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  Time to Play: 5 Ways to Play Football with a 5-Year-Old

  From Guest Blogger on November 8th, 2011

  After watching 300-pound grown men pound each other on the football field on TV for an hour, my 5-year-old and I instinctively run to get our shoes and meet each other in the backyard. It’s half-time on TV, but it’s game time at Chen Field. Seeing all the raw power and athleticism, and most of [...]

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