I mentioned in a previous post, Theme Weeks for Summer Vacation, that I’d be printing a list of the various topics I’ll write about.  I’ll include activities and ideas for entertaining, informing, and educating your children throught these months.

June 21 – School’s Out – What can we do in our local area?
June 28 – Fourth of July and patriotic activities
July 5 – Beach and water fun
July 12 – Space and astronomy
July 19 – Travel
July 26 – Family Reunion time and Camp Cousin
August 2 – Picnics for day hikes and backyards
August 9 – Exploring the mountains
August 16 – Nature and the …read more

Kids are out of school here, sooner or later yours will be too. Are you prepared for the summer? Some of you may already have everything planned right down to the first day of school, or maybe your child is doing summer school or vacation bible school but this still doesn’t cover the whole summer. Some of you will still need to figure out what to do with them all day and how to keep the house clean with them being home. I have a solution.
Char, from Casual Keystrokes made a summer chore chart just for her kids one year …read more

Okay I’ve heard of kids getting those invitations for birthday parties and such at school. Normally mine go but one of us parents have normally stuck around until the end of the party. Course mom and dads, at least in the military basically hung out with the parents in the kitchen or living room until the mom/dad hosting the party let us know that it was time. Otherwise the kids were normally on their own or with certain parents doing games.
Life outside the military seems to be a bit different, last year when I hosted a party at the house …read more

Yesterday, June 16 is the official start of classes in most schools here in the Philippines (where I am!). So yesterday was my 5-year-old son’s first day at prep.
However in the United States (Europe and Canada too?) June is when school’s out. It doesn’t matter where I am in the world, here at b5media’s Health and Wellness Channel, we celebrate the school’s out month in this month’s Channel Theme Day.
The fabulous bloggers of Health and Wellness Channel has a lot of great things to say, I’m telling you!
Read on…

Who doesn’t look forward to school breaks? Both children and parents are so looking forward for the school year to end. I am a parent to a 5-year old who started going to pre-school and some day care of sorts since he was 2-and-a-half. Though not continuously: the first year we lasted only a month, the 2nd year 4 months, the 3rd year he finally finished the whole school year (yeeha!).
Now is the 4th year my son is attending school. He’s in prep now and is raring to go always. Today was his first day at school. We are in …read more