Parenting

CARSON, CA - MARCH 29:  Mia Hamm looks on as her daughter plays with a ball prior to the match between the Washington Freedom and the Los Angeles Sol at The Home Depot Center on March 29, 2009 in Carson, California. (Photo by Robert Laberge/Getty Images)

Mia Hamm Talks About Raising Active Kids and Staying Fit as a Parent

How do you raise active kids and stay fit as a parent while keeping a smile on your face? This is not a trick question, it’s something I ask myself regularly. To me an active lifestyle is part of a happy life because when you exercise your body feels better, you’re less stressed and you [...]

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Learning how to read a map, an essential life skill for children

No GPS? No Problem. Teaching Kids How To Read A Map

Have you ever gotten lost? If you have, you know it’s not fun – sometimes scary – and one of your main concerns is probably that your kids never get lost either. Or that if they do get lost, they can find their way out. One obvious solution is to accompany your children everywhere and [...]

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Where My Wellies Take Me

Creative Inspiration – Into the Mind of Author Michael Morpurgo

What makes children creative? What makes them come up with something that captivates them or others? Or as defined by neuroscientist Rex Jung, what makes children create ”something both novel and useful”? Books are a great source of inspiration for kids as they take them into worlds where anything is possible, spurring their creative minds to imagine [...]

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Recycle Reborn.

Recycling Is A Beautiful Thing – On The Afterlife of Plastic Bottles and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Do you ever wonder what happens to a plastic bottle once it’s empty, drunk, enjoyed to the last drop? If all goes well it goes to a recycling facility and finds a new life as a different object. That’s the happy princess ending. If all goes wrong it goes to the dump or even worse, [...]

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Archery at Dynamo Camp. Photo courtesy SeriousFun

Where Seriously Ill Children Can Enjoy the Outdoors and Raise A Little Hell

As a mommy blogger who writes about the outdoors, I rarely think about good health as a pre-requisite for the outdoors. The outdoors just is. It’s out there. It’s out there and yet sadly, it’s not accessible to everyone. When I was contacted by SeriousFun Children’s Network to raise awareness about their cause, I was both humbled [...]

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