As soon as the quake in Japan happened, I knew what I had to do- write a post that would share age appropriate ways to talk to kids about the current events happening on the other side of the globe and provide resources about how to help children understand something that still seems so unreal,…
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Kids on Facebook? Safely: Family Online Safety Made Smarter
After making it my personal mission to educate parents about online safety issues and to help find tools that are helpful, I’m excited to be working with Location Labs on spreading awareness about Safely, a revolutionary online safety product designed to maintain family internet safety and security by monitoring cyberbullying, cyberstalking, and helping kids protect…
Geeks Unite: Raising Money for Robots by Kelly Whalen
I don’t know how I first met Kelly of Centsible Life but she’s one of those people who you feel like you’ve known forever. Perhaps it is because we have many blogging friends in common, we can always find each other online to ask the other’s opinion, or because she’s just plain wonderful! Kelly recently…
No Princess Fights Alone- Join the Army Against Cancer!
Amie from MammaLoves created this rockin’ button in honor of my friend Susan (aka WhyMommy). Yes Susan! My friend who is undergoing a clinical trial to rid her body of cancer in the soft tissue surrounding her lungs and who created an amazing partnership between LympheDIVAs and Crickett’s Answer to provide breast cancer survivors with lymphedema garments. Yes,…
Heart of Haiti Aids Haitian Artisans with Sustainable Income From Handcrafts
Tomorrow marks the one year anniversary of Haiti’s devastating 7.0 earthquake that killed an estimated 230,000 people, injured 300,000, and made 1,000,000 homeless. The earthquake caused major damage in Port-au-Prince, Jacmel and other settlements in the region and over the 12 days that followed, the country experienced at least 52 aftershocks measuring 4.5 or greater. Despite the devastation and the recovery efforts,…
Can’t Afford Lymphedema Sleeves? New Help For Breast Cancer Survivors
This amazing venture by two DC blogging moms (who I am so thrilled to be calling friends!) was announced yesterday. This post is cross-posted from Toddler Planet. Are you or do you know a breast cancer survivor? Please read today’s post and pass it on. If you can’t afford to purchase a lymphedema sleeve, gauntlet,…
Yahoo! How Good Grows- Ripples of Kindness Program
As a member of the Yahoo! MotherBoard, I was provided with $100 to start ripples of kindness as part of Yahoo’s How Good Grows program by surprising strangers and inspiring them to do nice things for others too. I thought for a long time about how I might want to use the money and decided…
Giving Back to My Community with Donations of Zhu Zhu Pets, Leapfrog Toys, and Books from Scholastic and Sandra Magsamen
While we live in DC Metro suburb that often appears on lists proclaiming us to be among the “most wealthy” and “most highly educated” in the nation, our county has pockets of poverty where families struggle to put food on the table, send their kids to school in ill-fitting shoes, lack supplies to complete homework,…
Feed it Forward with Restaurant.com
One of the best parts of the holiday season is the feeling you get when you give a gift to a loved one that you know they will truly enjoy. However, in these tough economic times it’s not always possible to give to all of the special people in your life – no matter how much you’d…