With summer almost officially upon us, and a recession most
definitely here, lots of families are looking
for low-cost vacation ideas for the summer more
fun activity ideas, resources, and tools for you and your kids
This group is all about sharing ideas for fun, educational, real activities that we can do with our kids. We've all probably been in that place. You know the place. Stuck with the kids on a rainy day. Already went to the museum, pool, park this week and looking for something else to do. Have 2 hours before an outing, and the kids (and you) are sorta bored. Hopefully, you'll find something useful here. And please share your ideas as well!
As I dad, I love how to sites. Just give it to me straight. Here's mashable's list of top 10 how-to sites.
Some of these will be old news to you for sure, but I bet that you'll
find something cool in some of the newer video sharing sites - sorta
like YouTube, but focused on practical how to advice on just about
everything.
Check out Technorati's Top 100 Blogs,
based on their inlink-based methodology. As such, it's not surprising
that you'll find a lot of political blogs, blogs-for-bloggers, and
techie/webby/gadgety blogs in here amongst other
weird/interesting/off-the-wall blogs in niches you've never thought
of. Even the 100th rank has been linked to over 3,000+ times.
Check out Lifehack.com, a site dedicated to lifehacks - "the phrase describes any hacks, tips and tricks that get things done
quickly by automating, increase productivity and organizing."
PBS has put together a great guide to raising boys - covering
everything from masculinity to emotional intelligence. Plus, you can
submit questions to their experts (for example, this physician
responded to the boys playing as good guys versus bad guys thing).
Inspired by today's WSJ article (and subsequent conversation) on Mommy Blogger Extraordinaire Heather Armstrong, I wanted to share with
ya'll my list of fav www's for us dads. It's
true that compared to moms, we dads don't get jack. But actually, there are some great finds just
Something interesting happens to your sweet,
innocent children when they hit their preteen years. Not interesting like a new
version of your favorite arena rock song, though, but interesting like watching
Dr. Jekyll painfully transform into Mr. Hyde. Somehow the loveable,
heart-achingly sweet baby that you've given yourself over to raising becomes a
whole new person - one that you're probably not so excited about living with.
