A Year in the Life (of a Kids' Bank Book family)

Kids, Kids, Kids & Fun 

Don't Busters for Parents

One Simple Change = More Better Now Remove the word "don't"  (which is really a contraction of the verb "do" and the word "not"). So, the mantra is really to remove the word "not" from your vocabulary, but a...

Children's Books for Christmas Gifts for Kids

If you buy only one book for a child this year, this Christmas, this Holiday season, or this birthday, let it be one of these 2 new children's books by Dr. Wayne Dyer.  Why?  Find out below.

Birdwatching with Kids: NJ Backyard Birds

One of the easiest ways to involve your children in nature is Backyard Bird watching.  Here you'll find tips for teaching them about birds, and resources for you and your family to learn more & to have a new source of entertainment (that sur...

Law of Attraction for Kids

If you are like 10% of the adults who watched "The Secret" or attended/read Law of Attraction or Abraham-Hicks workshops/books, it has occurred to you that you want to pass this wisdom to your children, especially when it comes to...

Best Non-Electronic Christmas Gifts for Kids

Want your child to play with or to do something other than play a virtual golf game on Wii?  Or play something other than x-Box?  Or learn how to relate to people in a real face-to-face way rather than text-messaging?  Or actually be p...

Fun in Nature - or - Go Green  

whichever way you prefer to say it!

Amish Quilt Patterns of Lancaster County PA

I love Amish quilts. I love quilting too. As an eternally creative (and yet somehow logical) wife, mom, and lawyer, who loves quilting, art, gardening, baking, reading, hanging out with my husband, and playing with and teaching my daughter, I spend v...

A Compost List of Over 200 Compost Ingredients

Compost Happens with or without you.  But, you can make compost better, faster, and easier, and improve your garden, and help the Earth and your environment, and SAVE MONEY - all at the same time!This picture of a Swallowtail on a Dayl...

I want More Rhubarb

Here you'll find Rhubarb recipes, learn how to eat the rhubarb stalks - raw - right out of the garden, links to great Rhubarb resources, Rhubarb growing tips, and where to buy rhubarb to eat, and where to buy rhubarb to plant. Rhubarb brings togehte...

Soil Samples, Soil Testing - How to Go Green in Your Yard

Soil samples and soil tests are crucial to knowing what is in your garden soil - and more importantly - what NOT to add to your garden soil.  Lots of people add to the water pollution every year by adding chemicals (fertilizers) that the soil do...

I AM LOVABLE & CAPABLE - and so are YOU! 

IALAC: How To Change Your Life with IALAC

I Am Lovable And Capable (IALAC: pronounced: eye-uh-lack) I first learned about IALAC when I was about 17 years old on a youth retreat with a church. I thought that's nice, a handy little acronym, it makes sense, I like it, good. And I filed it away...

Who is your child donating to this Christmas season? 

Champ House - Cape Cod Massachusetts

Champ Homes are "Places of Hope, Built on Faith."  www.champhouse.org The residents and directors form a close-knit family, sharing our love and our spirituality with those who are less fortunate. We work tirelessly for our live-in resi...

Watoto

Watoto's Mission is to raise the next generation of Uganda's leaders by placing parentless children in families where the necessary love, care, spiritual discipleship and physical needs are provided. In 1994, Gary & Marilyn Skinner, who had started...