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Setting Up Your Child’s 1st Savings Account {Kids & Money Series}

April 1, 2013 by Mackenzie 3 Comments

Setting Up Your Child's First Savings Account; #kidsandmoney #savingmoney #money

Last month I shared with you how we are beginning to establish allowance money and chore money for our oldest son.While we are still ironing out the logistics as a family, one thing is sure, we want the boys to learn the value of saving. Once they receive this money, I also shared with you how we split the money [...]

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Pre-Reading with Leap Frog’s Tag Junior! {Giveaway Included}

March 16, 2013 by Mackenzie 35 Comments

Studies show that the more children read, the better readers they become. In one study, children who read 20 or more minutes per day scored in or above the 90th percentile; those who read less than 10 minutes scored below the 75th percentile.

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To Give or Not To Give an Allowance To Your Kids? {Kids & Money Series}

March 1, 2013 by Mackenzie 1 Comment

To Give Or Not To Give Allowance To Your Kids- Kids and Money Series

My husband and I go back and forth on what we want to do financially for our kids. Some people say that giving the kids an allowance is the way to go. Some say, no allowance and they have to do chores to earn money. Some people just give their kids money when they need [...]

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Make Your Own Save, Spend, Give Jars {Kids & Money Series}

February 19, 2013 by Mackenzie 7 Comments

Make Your Own Save, Spend, Give Jars; Kids and Money Series Activity 1

“Touchdown!” Is the first word that comes out of my oldest son’s mouth when he sees coins. For him, coins are superior to paper money because they trigger the “touchdown” and cheering sounds to roar from his football shaped bank. A few months ago, his football was becoming rather dangerous on his nightstand because of [...]

Filed Under: Counting & Numbers, Fun-N-Learning, Kids & Money Series Tagged With: genworth financial, kids and money, spending money, teaching kids about money

Play to Write-Write to Read: Week 10

October 11, 2012 by Mackenzie 4 Comments

Welcome to Week 10 (our final week)! If you are joining us for the first time, I encourage you to first read Play to Write-Write to Read: Week 1. Then, be sure to come back and join us for this week’s play group activities! Welcome back! What a great couple weeks it has been! We [...]

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Play to Write-Write to Read: Week 9

October 4, 2012 by Mackenzie 2 Comments

Welcome to Week 9! If you are joining us for the first time, I encourage you to first read Play to Write-Write to Read: Week 1. Then, be sure to come back and join us for this week’s play group activities! Welcome back! We are so glad you joined us again this week! Just a [...]

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Play to Write-Write to Read: Week 8

September 26, 2012 by Mackenzie 6 Comments

Welcome to Week 8! If you are joining us for the first time, I encourage you to first read Play to Write-Write to Read: Week 1. Then, be sure to come back and join us for this week’s play group activities! Welcome back! I can’t believe we have been together now for 8 weeks! Time [...]

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Play to Write-Write to Read: Week 7

September 19, 2012 by Mackenzie 11 Comments

Welcome to Week 7! If you are joining us for the first time, I encourage you to first read Play to Write-Write to Read: Week 1. Then, be sure to come back and join us for this week’s play group activities! Welcome back! We are so glad you joined us again this week! Were you [...]

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‘B is for Butterfly’ {Toddler Reading Readiness}

September 14, 2012 by Mackenzie Leave a Comment

‘B is for Butterfly’ was the second in our series of “Letter Boxes” for this year. Letter B seemed to get a lot of love from both Big Brother and Little Brother as many of their favorite things begin with B! Books, balls, breakfast, beach, bananas… the list goes on! As you will notice, we [...]

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Play to Write-Write to Read: Week 6

September 12, 2012 by Mackenzie 5 Comments

Welcome to Week 6! If you are joining us for the first time, I encourage you to first read Play to Write-Write to Read: Week 1. Then, be sure to come back and join us for this week’s play group activities! Welcome back! Just a reminder those of you who are joining our Play Group [...]