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How Parents Can Teach Digital Citizenship for Kids {Free Curriculum}

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It's so important to teach digital citizenship for kids within our own homes! Parents, read on to discover great digital citizenship lessons, games, and curriculum for you to use as you teach what is digital citizenship for kids to your children. This conversation is sponsored by Google for Education as part of ...

How to Organize Your Spice Cabinet with Dollar General

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Dollar General for IZEA Worldwide. All opinions are 100% mine. Here's a fast, easy way of organizing spice cupboards and spice cabinets in your kitchen thanks to products from Dollar General! We've lived in several apartments in our 10 years of marriage, and there is always something the ...

6 Ways Online Grocery Shopping Keeps Me on a Budget

If your monthly grocery budget is tight, then consider online grocery shopping! Below are six reasons why it's been the key to grocery shopping on a budget. A few years ago, my husband and I put together a monthly budget for our family. We review that budget every month and adjust as needed. Our budget allows us to buy just about anything we ...

How to Completely Digitize Photos, Journals, and More So They’re Safe in Disasters

I'm a sucker for old photos, old letters, and old journals. I love the tie they are to our past, our personal family history, of eras gone by. It was a very rare occasion that my mother actually opened up our trunk of old family photos and let us rummage around in them, as well as look through our old family film slides. Once or twice my dad ...

How to Get Young Kids Learning Math – Zap Zap Kindergarten Math App Review

You'd think that with a husband who is earning a PhD in Mathematics Education our kids would all be budding math geniuses. But, that's not the case... And it's not because I hate math or wasn't good at math in school. I, too, enjoyed math and did fairly well in the subject. Teaching it to our kids in our homeschool has been slow going ...

The New Way to Reduce Kids Paper Clutter (And Still Keep Their Memories)

This post is sponsored by Keepy. All opinions of the Keepy App are my own. I think I broke her heart the day I told her we had to get rid of some of her papers.As I pulled out armful after armful of random papers stashed in the back of the closet, all I saw was the clutter and mess. I asked both of my twin daughters to help me sort through the ...

Learn How the ShopKick App Will Change the Way You Shop

The ShopKick app is one of my favorite money saving phone apps because it is extremely easy to use and fun! If you like being rewarded for shopping, then you need to learn how to use ShopKick! We currently live very close to a large Outlet Mall and other retail stores. Sometimes my husband and I like to head out with the kids to get some fresh ...

How to Save Money on Groceries Without Ever Leaving Home

I hate grocery shopping. And it's not even because I have four kids that join me when I go. The main reason for my disdain is the high grocery bill at the end and still feeling like we don't have any food a few days later. My frugal nature encourages me to find ways to save money on groceries. I clip coupons. I shop sales. I stockpile when the ...

The Affordable Online Early Learning Curriculum for Young Kids: ABCmouse.com

Want an honest review of ABCMouse.com? Curious about the ABCMouse.com Free Trial? Then read on! You may or may not know this about us, but we are homeschoolers. We recently completed our first official year of homeschooling as our daughters ended their kindergarten year recently. Only, we haven't actually stopped schooling them. Our year has ...

Forget Peek-a-boo; Let the Kids Play Speakaboos!

This post is sponsored by Speakaboos, but opinions are mine. Enjoy. My daughters just turned six and we are heading towards the end of our first homeschool year. As kindergartners we've been focusing a lot on reading, writing, and books. But, my daughters are still not fully reading books on their own (yet). They can read books with simple words ...

How New Moms Can Get in a Post Pregnancy Workout

This post is sponsored by Johnson & Johnson 7 Minute Wellness for Expecting and New Moms™ and The Motherhood but post-pregnancy workout and exercise opinions are my own. Consult your doctor before starting any new exercise routine. You are a new mom, or rather a mom with a new baby (and perhaps a few older kids besides). This means you aren't ...

24 Best Educational Apps and Websites for Kids

It's crazy that something that I do each and every day can be so hard to teach my children. But I don't remember how I learned how to read, and chances are you don't either. I was not an early education major in college. I never learned the methods of how teach reading. I only recently learned what a CVC word is (consonant-verb-consonant like ...