Your Superpowers: Dream It, Achieve It

New book helps teenagers transform their lives   Junior high and high school is tough few years for just about everyone.  It can be difficult going to school, trying to fit in, and trying to make sense of all the changes in life.  Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a roadmap that helped teens [...]

Solving The Biggest Problems – Write it Down, Then Take a Break, Sleep On it, and When the Time is Right, Trust Your Gut

Jim Jensen believes that when you unleash the power of your subconscious mind, that unbelievable breakthroughs can result.   His new book, Beyond The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, builds on the work of Dr. Joseph Murphy, and offers compelling evidence about the relationship between our conscious and subconscious mind. Here is a set of [...]

Ghost Buddy 2 Mind if I read your mind? new reading for kids and contest coming up!

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I just got the new book in the mail and I am ready to check it out …are you??Ghost Buddies 2 is coming soon and I am ready to go are you? I am excited, I love children’s books and getting my kids and my students interested in reading too!! More to come soon!! Laureen

Raising Generation Tech

Technology is a part on our kids life today and how can we as parents help our children prepare and learn/ moderate technology today! Thsi is a great book that can help us with that.   With the growing risks associated with raising children in the digital age (e.g., Internet Addiction, Facebook Depression, Online Bullying) and the recent McAfee report finding that 23 percent of parents are overwhelmed by modern technologies that their children use, it is more important than {Read More}

Helping Your Kids Get Better Grades

With school around the corner for most I love sharing ways to help your kids get better grades and make my job as a teacher easier!     Teacher and school administrator Gary Howard has been helping children get better grades for over 35 years.  What he’s proven to parents, students, and teachers, year after year, is that very little improvement is possible unless you can teach the children HOW TO LEARN in the first place.   He’s created a {Read More}

Mommy Mixology review and Giveaway

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  How cute is this book?? Mommy Mixology,  I love it! The names of the drinks alone are so funny and now I can make one too. I am the worst on making drinks, I just throw things together and hope they come out. Now I have a cute book with fun drinks just for moms!! And i have a great group of mommy’s to share it with too!! What I love is that Janet is a blogger too!! Check {Read More}

Five Year Old’s Adventure Story Teaches about the Hazards of Lying

Five Year Old’s Adventure Story Teaches about the Hazards of Lying   Joshua L.  Mask is a creative high-spirited six year old growing up in Lafayette, Louisiana. You’d never guess that he’s a published author.   Last year, his parents took him to the county fair, where Josh won a stuffed animal dragon by tossing an impossibly small ring over the neck of a Coke bottle. This victory prompted him to make up the story of Griffin – a dragon. {Read More}

Should pregnant women sleep on their left side?

Should pregnant women sleep on their left side?   Dr. Linda Burke-Galloway—a board-certified ob-gyn, an advocate for quality healthcare and patient safety and author of The Smart Mother’s Guide to a Better Pregnancy says that sleeping on the left side or right side is fine, but that sleeping on your back should be avoided.   “Our organs and tissues require oxygen to function. Without it, they essentially die. Blood from the lower part of our body flows back to the {Read More}

Dude You’re Gonna Be a Dad!: How to Get (Both of You) Through the Next 9 Month

About the time my wife and I learned we were pregnant with our third child, I realized that my pregnancy threat level—or how panicked I felt internally about having additional children—was only canary yellow instead of Creamsicle® orange. (Or was it the other way around? I was never quite sure which threat level was more, well, threatening.) I wasn’t overwhelmed by that mixture of panic, joy, and bile, and I even skipped my ritualistic calculation of how many years this {Read More}

The Five Meat Smoking Commandments By Ted Reader

The Five Meat Smoking Commandments Chef Ted Reader’s brings on the smoke and the flavor with these tasty tidbits   Meat smoking is becoming very popular in local restaurants this season, and Chef Ted Reader has come up with these five easy tips from his new book, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Smoking Foods, to help you get rolling the first time you fire up your smoker, and every time to follow.   1.      Be prepared: As we have always {Read More}