November marks the beginning of National Diabetes Awareness Month- a perfect time to raise awareness about a disease that affects more than 15,000 US children each year. Type I Diabetes develops in children and young adults and prevents a person’s pancreas from producing insulin, a hormone that enables your body to get energy from food. Difficult to manage, Diabetes requires constant monitoring and influences many aspects of daily life.
Sleepwear manufacturer, Komar, has created a fun way to raise funds to support the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) through its non-profit foundation, PJs For The Cure, pajama sets that directly benefit the JDRF. Through this program, Komar will donate 100% of all sales from PJs For The Cure to the JDRF to help fund diabetes research. With styles for both women and children, you can combine philanthropy with holiday gift giving! Komar aims to donate $1 million to the JDRF and they need your help to reach this aggressive, but not impossible goal.
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With summertime in full swing, most of us can agree that our daily ritual includes applying sunscreen. Whether getting the kids ready for camp, preparing for a day at the beach, or even just a quick jaunt to the playground, each morning starts with slathering sunscreen on every family member.
Shady Day Daily Sun Protection Wipes make applying sunscreen super simple and really quick. Moms can just smear on sunscreen using the convenient wipe, and kids find themselves protected against the sun’s harmful rays in seconds. The pre-moistened wipe has a broad spectrum UVA/UVB SPF 30 sunscreen and goes on mess-free. Also, the award-winning sunscreen wipes have no artificial ingredients and even moisturize – perfect for gentle baby (or Mommy!) skin.
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Many of us constantly strive to reach our “ideal” weights, while navigating soccer carpools, business trips and bedtime stories often get in the way of our achieving results. Healthy eating on the go and exercising suffer when schedules become busier, and sorting through the plethora of products and services in the market proves an overwhelming, time-consuming effort in itself. Now with the help of innovative products from underWAY and Smart for Life, we may finally achieve those ever-elusive weight loss goals.
The underWAY supplement drink, infused with a special HeroFiber and heart-healthy vitamins, works naturally to suppress your appetite and quench your thirst. One bottle delivers 9 grams of fiber nutrition, nearly one-third of our daily recommended allowance. It contains no preservatives, sodium or caffeine, with only 10 calories and 2 grams of carbs per 8 oz. serving. The soluble dietary fiber helps maintain normal levels of cholesterol, glucose and insulin and promotes slower absorption so we feel fuller longer.
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Starting first grade marks a milestone in every child’s life. While the prospect of learning and meeting new friends proves exciting for both children and their parents, embarking on something so new and unfamiliar can feel daunting, too. To help make this transition easier and more fun, young children in Austria and Germany are given a Schultüte, a cone made from sturdy, colorful paper and filled with treats and school supplies, as they leave home for the first day of first grade.
Born and raised in Munich, Germany, Vivian Lie was eager to share the tradition of Schultüte with others when she moved to the United States. In 2008, she founded KinderCone to spread the word about this 200-year-old tradition and to provide families with the opportunity to surprise their own children with Schultüten on their first day of school. Take a look at this video to learn more about KinderCone and the age old tradition of Schultüte.
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Teens and tweens today have grown up as digital natives. I know when my teens talk about what they're up to online, I feel as though I could use a translator. But just because our kids grew up familiar with the Internet does not necessarily mean they have learned safe online usage, which makes it important to find sites that can help.
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Asthe winter season sets in, many of us settle down into indoorhibernations. Staying inside away from the cold allows us more time forcreative inspiration. Crafting with family, friends, or even on yourown, can provide hours of enjoyment, relaxation and memories. Although,sometimes we could use some helpful hints for projects.
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As avid readers (and bloggers!) ourselves, we all appreciate the valueof the written word. Yet convincing kids that reading is not justmeaningful – but actually fun – can sometimes pose a challenge,especially as they get older and start to believe they read enough inschool. In fact, according to the 2008 Kids and Family Reading Reportby Yankelovich and Scholastic, despite 80% of parents wanting theirkids to read for fun, most kids claim there aren’t enough really goodbooks for their age group.
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These days it seems harder then ever to keep in touch will all of our friends and family members. Many of us have turned to the internet to keep in touch, but trading emails seems so impersonal and catching up on phone (especially long-distance) can quickly get expensive. TokBox is a new service that lets you talk with your friends over live video.
TokBox is free and simple to use; you simply sign up on tokbox.com and they provide you with a link. When you want to talk with someone, simply give them the link - they click and you chat. Another great thing about TokBox is that you can put it on your social network profile, blog, or personal webpage. Anyone can come to your page and see a "Push to Talk" button. They click it and connect to you in real time using live video and audio. With nothing to download, no costs or prepaid minutes, and complete privacy control, TokBox solves a number of the problems we all have staying in touch. Plus – video is so much more fun than simply talking.
Here's what MotherTalk reviewers are saying about TokBox:
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As Moms, we all participate in so many groups and activities that it can be hard to keep everything straight. From volunteering as a classroom Mom to coaching your son or daughter’s sports team, getting groups organized can feel like managing the unmanageable, taking up time in already jam-packed days.
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