If your kids want to dress up as a Pokémon for Halloween (or someone else in your family does), you may want to buy costumes right now. Pokémon costumes will likely become a hot commodity before too much longer.
Kids will soon start asking their parents for Pokémon costumes, and the most popular ones might sell out quickly. Here are some links to cute Pokémon costumes for your family.…
Parents want their kids to do well in school, and Workman’s Big Fat Notebooks can give kids a hand in earning good grades. They’re a great add-on for middle schoolers who have textbooks, and a fantastic substitution if your kid doesn’t have textbooks.
I don’t know how it is in your local schools, but my daughters, in 1st and 7th grades, don’t have any textbooks.…
Along with all the work from home email scams going around, there are some actual opportunities for moms and dads to work from home. You can do some of these jobs and tasks with kids around. Some, you’ll need to do when the kids are in school or otherwise occupied.
These options vary from actual jobs, where you’re an employee or contractor, to tasks you can do for money in your spare time.…
We visited my parents in Western Pennsylvania last month and had a blast at DelGrosso’s Amusement Park in Tipton, PA, which is a few miles from Altoona.
DelGrosso’s offers a water park and a ride park, and we visited only the ride park. Admission to the ride park is free if you want to buy tickets for rides.
This post may contain affiliate links; please read my disclosure here.…
If you’re looking to buy a new smartphone before your kid heads back to school, have I got the perfect phone for you. Check out the Samsung Galaxy J3 (2016) from Boost Mobile for an inexpensive yet fully featured smartphone that costs as low as $30 a month.
The international-capable, 3G/4G LTE/Enhanced LTE smartphone runs Android 5.1 Lollipop on a 1.2 GHz quad-core processor for zippy performance and smooth, error-free usage.…
I remember visiting the Carnegie Museum of Natural History at least once when I was a kid, or maybe a teenager. Suffice it to say that it was a really long time ago.
I particularly remembered the huge selection of dinosaur skeletons, and that’s what I mainly looked forward to seeing again with my kids. Recently, we visited my parents in Western Pennsylvania where I grew up.…
Do your kids have some spare time during school break? How about getting them involved in helping you get some stuff done around the house?
Older kids may groan at the idea of helping with household chores, but you can still make many tasks fun. Lots of younger kids are so eager to please that they’ll insist on helping with chores that are way beyond their capabilities.…
If you’ve been paying any attention to the news and the outside world, you’ve probably noticed that Pokémon Go is the latest game craze. And what’s fueling the mania isn’t just nostalgia for Pokémon games of the past.
It’s getting people – mainly young people, but grown-ups of all ages too – out of the house. You can’t play Pokémon Go sitting down or even from anywhere in your home or office.…
HealthyWage, the company that pays people to lose weight, just announced a new program that’ll pay you to play Pokémon Go! HealthyWage’s new Summertime Stepping Challenge pays cash to participants who increase their footsteps.
This means you can make a tidy profit if you increase your daily steps from playing Pokémon Go or just by doing more walking in general.…
I first noticed Pokémon Go headlines last week, one of which caught my eye because it said the game was getting teens to leave the house. I’d wondered why my pre-teen daughter suddenly went out on her scooter more often, for long periods of time, even on days when it was extremely hot outside.
I’d felt grateful that she was enjoying some outdoors time, away (I thought) from her gadgets, and also getting some exercise.…