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Have you heard that Disney just released Tinker Bell to DVD and Blu-Ray? It’s a new movie that features Tink and all her friends in Pixie Hill the magical secret fairy hideaway in Never Land.
You’ll hear Tinker Bell (Mae Whitman) speak for the very first time, and unlock the magic of nature with her friends, Fawn (America Ferrera), Iridessa (Raven-Symone), Rosetta (Kristin Chenoweth), and Silvermist (Lucy Liu). The impressive voice cast also includes singer-songwriter Jesse McCartney as Terence, keeper of the pixie dust, and Academy Award winning actress Anjelica Huston as the voice of Queen Clarion.
Here’s a Tinker Bell preview along with cast interviews:
Just a reminder that you have until midnight MT on October 30, 2008 to enter my Quaker Oatmeal Living Proof contest for one of two chances to win a one month supply of Quaker’s heart healthy breakfast products.
As part of her WOW! Women on Writing Blog Tour, book author, Gayle Trent is doing a guest post on cake decorating with kids. I’m thrilled to have her posting here at My Readable Feast!
Gayle’s new book Murder Takes The Cake is a story about Daphne Martin, a forty-year-old divorcee who has started fresh in a new home with a new career, Daphne’s Delectable Cakes. Then Daphne finds her first client dead and the thrills begin! The book even comes with recipes.
Gayle also blogs at Fatal Foodies and loves to decorate cakes.
When I was asked why music and arts programs are a vital part of our children’s education, I remembered a video I recently saw of Barack Obama speaking to a school group in Wallingford, PA:
Obama summed up my feelings quite nicely:
Part of what arts education does is it teaches people to see through each other’s eyes. It teaches us to respect and understand people who are not like us. That makes us better citizens and makes our democracy work better.
What’s so funny ’bout peace, love and understanding?
He’s talking about empathy, and Obama’s not the only one advocating using art education programs to do this. In a 2006 Lancet essay, Development of children’s creativity to foster peace, Dr. Ashfaq Ishaq wrote:
The arts can aid a child’s holistic development, especially empathy… A RAND study noted that the communicative and personal nature of creative expression, accentuated through collective arts activities, can forge social bonds while supporting identity formation and cultural transmission.
By teaching empathy through music and art programs, we give our children the skills to succeed and live peacefully in a diverse world.
Many parents try to keep their kids believing in Santa as long as possible. One way to do that is by using a service like PackageFromSanta.com to send your children a letter from Santa Claus.
The Basic Package is just $12.99 if you order before November 1 and comes with free First Class shipping. Your child receives a personalized Santa letter printed right on on Santa’s custom North Pole letterhead with his real signature and official gold foil Santa Seal of Approval. It arrives in a bright green, shiny, metallic package personally addressed to your child, and has a genuine Santa Claus return address label and custom North Pole postage.
If you have more than one child, don’t worry, they will not receive the same letter from Santa. PackageFromSanta.com sends each child in the same household their very own, unique Santa letter since there are up to six different letters to choose from.
Are you involved with your child’s online life? Highlights Magazine and Glubble want to know. That’s why they’re inviting parents to participate in a short poll at Highlights.com.
If you’re like most parents, you want your child to ask permission before they get a snack or ride their bike to a friend’s house. So why shouldn’t they ask permission before visiting any site on the Internet? With Glubble, kids have to ask your permission to visit sites on the Internet.
What’s Glubble?
Glubble is geared to families with children under 12. Think of it like “Internet training wheels.” Glubble offers a safe online place for families where parents can be involved with their children’s Internet usage. By doing this, Glubble hopes parents can teach kids the how to use the the Internet in a positive and safe way.
Also, children are going online at a younger age. My five-year-old is constantly coming to me with requests to go to www dot something or rather and watching Sesame Street videos on YouTube with her dad. With Glubble, parents are able to choose web content for their kids the same way they choose books, television shows, clothes and movies. Glubble makes it easier for parents by packaging over 2500 kid-friendly websites like Discovery Kids or Sesame Street into “glubbles.” Parents can add to this list by easily adding sites they like.
Finally, you can see what Google search terms your children are using. What they’re allowed to search on can be filtered based on parent created lists as well. It’s also a way to find out what they’re researching for school. Think of it as a conversation starter, “So tell me more about your Greek mythology paper. Who’s this Zeus guy anyway?”
Best of all, there’s nothing like a warm bowl of oatmeal to start the school day off right, so why not enter my contest to win a big box of Quaker Oatmeal breakfast goodies to share with your family?
Bring a smile as wide as the eye can see with a personalized letter from Santa. Watch your children as they open one of the most unique ways Santa brings his special greetings in a personalized letter from Santa, delivered right to your children from the North pole.
Have you heard that Disney just released Tinker Bell
is a story about Daphne Martin, a forty-year-old divorcee who has started fresh in a new home with a new career, Daphne’s Delectable Cakes. Then Daphne finds her first client dead and the thrills begin! The book even comes with recipes.
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