Carnival of Family Life

Wel­come to the Car­ni­val of Fam­ily Life, hosted at On the Hori­zon for the first time!

Make your­self a nice, hot cup of cof­fee, cocoa, apple cider, tea or what­ever else suits your fancy. Then get com­fort­able because it is going to take you awhile to read this week’s excel­lent entries!

Giv­ing Thanks

Suzanne presents Thanks Giv­ing at Adven­tures in Daily Liv­ing.

Holly Ord presents The I’m Thank­ful For … Day at Men­strual Poetry.

Jenn presents the only fic­tional work sub­mit­ted this week, Thanks­giv­ing at Mom’s at Mixed Metaphor.net.

Super Saver presents Giv­ing Thanks to My Par­ents at My Wealth Builder.

Sil­i­con Val­ley Blog­ger presents “a Thanks­giv­ing post I wrote last year which I’ve con­tin­ued to reflect upon in recent days,” enti­tled Things More Valu­able Than Riches at The Digerati Life.

Robert Bach says, “The turkey comes home (work) to roost” in pre­sent­ing Jour­ney of a Turkey at Kin­tropy In Action.

Fam­ily Lifestyles, Life Choices, and Ventures

Chris­tine offers “cheap ways to see great films!” via Film vs. TV, Why We Opted to Turn the TV Off, plus Fru­gal Tips for Movie at Me, My Kid and Life: An Amer­i­can Sin­gle Mom Liv­ing in France.

Renae presents I Quit Read­ing Bet­ter Homes and Gar­dens at Life Nur­tur­ing Edu­ca­tion.

Loraine Law­son presents A Com­mu­nity Makes Time for Fam­ily at Time for Fam­ily. She says, “School and com­mu­nity take up the major­ity of your child’s time which makes it hard for fam­i­lies to relax and con­nect. But one com­mu­nity decided to call a time-out by estab­lish­ing a weekly fam­ily night. I dare you to try it!”

Fred Black presents Dust Off Your Tutu! at Fred Black: Inter­net Busi­ness Blog.

What­Works­ForUs presents Bliss Like This at What Works For Us.

Fam­ily Rela­tion­ships, Self-Improvement, and Faith

Marco Richter presents Help Your­self to a Bet­ter Rela­tion­ship at Self Improve­ment Empo­rium.

Car­ole G. McKay describes “how par­ents can teach us some­thing about our­selves and how to grow even long after they are no longer able to imple­ment change in their own lives” in Hold­ing On at McKay Today.

Hueina Su presents The Bal­anc­ing Act: My Radio Inter­view at Inten­sive Care for the Nurturer’s Soul. She observes: “These days, work-life bal­ance seems to have become an impos­si­ble dream for most peo­ple. This radio inter­view will help you gain new per­spec­tive and pro­vide you with strate­gies for bet­ter time man­age­ment and more life balance.”

James DeLelys poses an age-old ques­tion, “What is Love?” at Heal­ing Through Words.

Leisa presents The Real Thing at Down With the Kids.net. Every par­ent will relate!

Jenny-up the hill presents It Is Well at Up the Hill Gang.

Lori Prokop presents How Do I Let Go of Neg­a­tiv­ity from the Past? at Raleigh Pinskey — Brand­ing Pub­lic­ity PR, offer­ing this intro­duc­tion: “Every­one 30 and older regrets a ton of stuff – mis­takes we’ve made; things we’ve said; ways we’ve han­dled rela­tion­ships. We’ve all had painful expe­ri­ences that we can eas­ily recall. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to over­come them.”

Edith presents 99 Life Lessons Learned from Quit­ting Cor­po­rate Amer­ica at Edith Yeung.Com: Dream. Think. Act.

e-Mom explains how “mean­ing­ful com­mu­ni­ca­tion will help you achieve The Purpose-Driven Christ­mas” in Sim­plify the Hol­i­days with­out Say­ing “Hum­bug”! at Chrysalis.

Pinyo Bhulipongsanon presents Pub­lic Dec­la­ra­tion at Moolanomy, declar­ing, “Show­ing your affec­tion is more impor­tant than you think. I pub­licly declare that I will hug my par­ents every day.”

“New par­ents often find that their sex lives have changed. Some find they no longer have one,” accord­ing to Kate Bag­gott, who presents Has Sex Really Left the City? at Baby­lune.

War­ren Wong pro­vides “some prac­ti­cal tips you can use now to feel bet­ter and be hap­pier” in How to Feel Bet­ter and Be Hap­pier at Per­sonal Devel­op­ment for INTJ’s.

David B. Bohl presents The Secret of Father­hood at Slow Down Fast Today! He explains, “I was read­ing Dana Glazer’s (Direc­tor of The Evo­lu­tion of Dad) post For Char­lie, on His 4^th Birth­day the other day. I really liked it, and it unearthed a mem­ory of mine: That of writ­ing a sim­i­lar let­ter to my son shortly before he left home for college.”

JHS presents The Rem­nants of My Mis­spent Youth at Col­lo­quium.

Fam­ily Health and Diet

Fit­Buff presents What Is Healthy? at FitBuff.com’s Total Mind and Body Fit­ness Blog, not­ing, “What is healthy? At first, this may seem like an easy ques­tion to answer. How­ever, when you actu­ally stop and think about it, it’s not easy at all.”

Jared Hoyl­man presents The Price of Hap­pi­ness at DadThing.com.

Doris Chua presents Soft Drinks and Tooth Decay posted at Doris Chua: Organ­ics & Your Health.

Pickel presents Billing Codes May Pre­vent Autism Screen­ing at Dis­cussing Autism.

Aparna tells us that “water, the best of all nat­ural resources, not only refreshes, but also heals, puri­fies and cures” in Water to Cure Minor Ills at Beauty and Per­son­al­ity Groom­ing.

Here’s an arti­cle you will want to book­mark or print and keep handy next time you travel. Sagar presents Top 50 Vegan and Veg­e­tar­ian Restau­rants in the World at Trav­el­hacker.

Expec­tant par­ents will find Anna’s arti­cle, 5 Rea­sons to Not Cir­cum­cise at Our Fam­ily Vil­lage extremely interesting.

mom & dad present Heli­cobac­ter pylori Rears its Ugly Head at raising4boys.com. Never heard of Heli­cobac­ter pylori? You’re not alone, so you should def­i­nitely read this arti­cle and learn about it.

Fam­ily Playtime

MomG presents Why the recent mas­sive toy recall doesn’t scare us posted at The Par­ent­ing Diaries. It’s an inter­est­ing arti­cle and one that’s sure to gen­er­ate some con­tro­versy, since MomG announces that she does not give her child toys: “We don’t need toys to enter­tain our kid. We are her toys!”

Grace describes “vis­it­ing a theme park that’s his­tory in the mak­ing!” in A Visit to Dubai­land at
Sandier Pas­tures.

Hol­i­day Shop­ping and Gift Giving

For those of you who are shop­ping for toys this hol­i­day sea­son, Tiffany Washko presents a
Lead-Free Toy Guide at Nat­ural Fam­ily Liv­ing Blog.

Abel Cheng lists this year’s Hot Toys and Who Is Play­ing With Them at Par­ent Won­der.

“Have you ever seen some­thing in a mag­a­zine and thought, ‘Oh, I can make that for Christ­mas and I know just who I can give it to’?” How­ToMe says, “That hap­pened to me this week and I can’t wait to tell you how my $5 invest­ment turned out” in How To Sew a Warm­ing Scarf at How­ToMe.

“Hol­i­days and birth­days always come as such a sur­prise, don’t they?” asks Rolf F. Katzen­berger. He tells us about “gifts to avoid, gifts you can do your­self, and appro­pri­ate times to start” in GPD: Get­ting Presents Done at Evomend: Time­less Resources for Per­sonal Orga­ni­za­tion.

Kevin Heath presents Christ­mas Crafts for Kids at More4kids.

“Grand­par­ents love gifts made by the kids.” So Stephanie share with us a great gift idea that works “even when mom isn’t very crafty!” Read An Easy and Fru­gal Grand­par­ent Gift at Stop the Ride!

Par­ent­ing Tips, Guid­ance, and Anecdotes

Karen Shan­ley presents Of Brick Walls and Petty Tyrants at her self-titled site.

Laura presents Name Police Karma at Adven­tures in Jug­gling, a humor­ous descrip­tion of her effort to influ­ence the selec­tion of a name for her unborn grandchild.

Mandy presents Teach­ing Your Child Patience at Build­ing Blocks Blog, acknowl­edg­ing that it will “take lots of patience — on your part.”

Car­ole Fog­a­rty presents Nine Things You Don’t Know About Your Children’s Bed­room at The Healthy Liv­ing Lounge. “If your chil­dren have trou­ble sleep­ing, rest­less nights, wake up feel­ing tired, com­plain of aches and pains, foggy think­ing, gen­er­ally feel unwell or con­stantly ill then the solu­tion to any of these ail­ments could quite well be found lurk­ing some­where in your son or daugh­ters bed­room,” she writes.

Karen Alonge offers “a sim­ple strat­egy for sooth­ing your baby that also helps him learn to calm him­self” in Get­ting Baby to Sleep Longer at Night at Advice for Par­ents.

Eric Ellen presents How to Get Your New­born Baby to Sleep through the Night: Apply­ing Dr. Karp’s Five S’s at Hus­band­hood.

Dawn Adams presents Eaves­drop­ping at Day by Day Home­school­ing.

An Ordi­nary Mom presents Sched­uled Down Time with the Kids at An Ordi­nary Mom.

Carol Holder presents Flow­ers at Can’t Holder Tongue. Just when you think you’ve heard it all, your kids will sur­prise you, as Carol explains.

Jaimie presents It’s Hard to Watch Your Child Be Bul­lied at Hug Twice.

Paidtwice presents Why Can’t I Trust Our Pro­gram­ma­ble Ther­mo­stat? at I’ve Paid For This Twice Already … remark­ing, “Some­times I am very silly about tech­nol­ogy!” Aren’t we all? If you have ever fought the “ther­mo­stat wars” with your spouse, you will empathize.
Christina presents Sesame Street is Inap­pro­pri­ate for Small Chil­dren. (pause) Huh? at Solo Mother say­ing, “When I found out that the orig­i­nal episodes of Sesame Street have been deemed inap­pro­pri­ate for young chil­dren, a lot of things about me started to make more sense.”

Fam­ily­Briefs presents Cre­at­ing Order in Your Dis­or­der at Fam­ily Briefs.com.

A giant “THANK YOU” to all the tal­ented writ­ers who sub­mit­ted arti­cles for this edition!

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