Book, product review

The Barefoot Book Of Children @BarefootBooks #StepInsideAStory

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What A beautiful book this is!!  TheBarefoot Book of Children is a playful, powerful and thought-provoking celebration of both the big ideas and the everyday moments that show our common humanity. Including Where Are You? Homes. Special Places. People. Families, Bodies. Hats. Clothes. Hobbies. Play. Work. Baths. Food. Languages. Names. Feelings. Special Days. Treasures. Faith. Love. Stories.

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A book with beautiful drawings and a everyday, every child story line. Beautiful  life stories connecting us all because these stories are about us. The children will see themselves in these stories and some stories will be new to them. That’s when we talk about it and say how we feel about it.  Diversity and acceptance. Beautiful. Every child has a story.

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community, Family, Time of the Season, Travel

New York Fall Foliage Report #NoFilter #ILoveNewYork #ISpyNY

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LOVE the color of Autumn!! Fleeces,  boots, fuzzy socks, early sunsets and tea.  Pumpkin Spice and everything nice  is  back.  And Falls’ magic hour has begun. Mother Nature has the best box of crayons!

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These perfectly crisp weeks are precious so to make the most of the season, New York State has created a Fall Foliage Report that provides the latest news on where to find the leaves at their peak moments around the state. Think bright, bold and beautiful, bursting with reds, oranges and greens. Promise it will be a #NoFilter selfie.

Go out and smell the Autumn breeze and enjoy the change.

arts/craft, product review

DOT TO DOT NYC #DOTTODOTNYC @CityLab

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As a child I always loved to paint.   Paint by numbers, that is.  I would paint cats, dogs, landscapes and always thought my drawings were the next best thing to a Picasso.  I did forget how much I enjoyed painting by numbers.  However I recovered my memory of my love for number painting when I received the sketch coloring book Dot To Dot NYC.

Dot To Dot NYC is a sketch by number coloring book as created by Narae Kim

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Sketching by numbers is a lot of fun!  A little different then painting by numbers but even more interesting to complete.

The special thing about Dot To Dot NYC is it gives you the opportunity to draw epic New York City landmarks (revealed and completed by you).  I Love NY! <31286470098_500mae-evening-2010

Crayons or markers that’s all you need to visit the rides of Coney Island, the towers of the famous NYC skyline, the commute along the Staten Island Ferry, the wilderness of the Bronx Zoo, and many more NY land marks…

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Dot To Dot NYC is not just for a rainy day, you can enjoy this celebration of the Big Apple as a keepsake of your visit, or spend your hours connecting the dots and inch yourself closer to your Broadway dream!  As a native New Yorker Dot To Dot NYC gives me the opportunity to really get to know the city I love.

The book is the creation of the Seoul-based artist Nara Kim. She visited New York City in 2012 and was smitten. The press release beckons New York lovers to arm themselves with drawing supplies and turn abstract clusters of dots into the city’s iconic skyline.

Book, product review

The Kraken’s Rules for Making Friends By Brittany R. Jacobs #POWkidsbooks

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The Kraken’s Rules for Making Friends by Brittany R. Jacobs is a story of  a Kraken who did not have an easy time making friends.  Actually, the Kraken had no friends.   A Kraken is a terrifying sea monster and had a bad temper and always caused destruction which made the other sea creatures flee from the Kraken.

 Poor Kraken all he wanted was a friend.

The Kraken  tried many ways to get some friends but nothing really worked for him.  310dresses_updated                        Poor Kraken!

Making friends seemed impossible.  Until he meet the Great White Shark.  He wondered why The Great White Shark had no problem making friends.  So the Kraken asked”Excuse me, Shark,” said the Kraken.  “How Do you get all those fish to like you?  I mean, You’re a shark!”  And so the story goes as the Great White Shark lends a helping fin to help the Kraken make some friends by giving him some rules to follow.

The Kraken’s Rules For Making Friends on sale October 11th, 2016

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product review, Video

Crest #HealthierSmilesProject #RobLowe

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Last week I had the pleasure to attend the launch of the Crest Healthier Smiles Project with actor Rob Lowe. Kids with poor oral health are 3 times more likely to miss school and that’s not OK. The Crest Healthier Smiles Project launched a nationwide education program with the PTA and teamed up with Feeding America to donate toothpaste to those who need it most.

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The Crest Healthier Smiles Project is a nationwide education program about the importance of a good oral care routine for kids and regular visits with dental professionals.

  • Kids with poor oral health are nearly 3 times more likely to miss school (Source: 2008 North Carolina Child Health Assessment).
  • More than 51 million school hours are lost each year due to dental related illness (Source: 2000 report from Surgeon General on Oral Health in America).
  • Kids with toothaches are nearly 4X more likely to have a lower GPA (Source: 2012 Los Angeles public school survey amongst disadvantaged kids compared to kids without toothaches in the past 6 mos.).
    Rob Lowe talked about the Crest Healthier Smiles Project, his experience as a dad of two teenage boys, his mom’s experience as a high-school teacher and his upcoming projects.

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    Simply take a picture of your smile and upload it to Twitter, Instagram or Facebook with the hashtag, #HealthierSmilesProject and for every photo uploaded by October 31st, Crest will donate 5 tubes of toothpaste to Feeding America. Smile and share.

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