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Guest Post: Our Hearts For Hearts Girls Party

Guest post from http://cumminslife.blogspot.com Have you heard of Hearts For Hearts Girls dolls?  Hearts For Hearts girls is a charitable doll line and fashion collection from Playmates Toys that seeks to empower girls to become agents of change in their communities, their countries and around the world.  Right now they […]

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HP for Back to School

As you may know, I’ve recently sent two of my four children off to universities this summer. Outfitting them, for what is the first time they have lived on their own, has been quite the experience. We have basically set up two other “households” with everything we think they will […]

Mom Talk® Radio

Back-to-School

On this week’s episode of Mom Talk Radio, Maria spoke with: Madeline Levine, Ph.D., a psychologist, consultant, educator and co-founder of Challenge Success at the Stanford School of Education, and author of Teach Your Children Well: Parenting for Authentic Success. Mayo clinic physician Dr. Philip Hagen and Aviva CMO Chris Jones […]

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Getting Organized

On this week’s episode of Mom Talk Radio, Maria spoke with: Organizational/hoarding expert Leslie Josel talks about getting ready to go to college and how to organize the dorm room. Adrienne Appell from the Toy Industry Association tells us about “Make a Stand for Kids.” Mark Gregston, author of Tough Guys […]

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Lessons Learned as a Grandfather

By H. F. Parkhurst After many years and being a grandfather, I’m learning to consider children as young people. They’re bright and shiny pennies filled with the wonder of discovering the world. They rush this way and that as though they’re on wheels and are filled with a never-ending supply […]

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Five Lessons Learned about the College Search

I knew the day would come eighteen years ago when I welcomed three babies into my life within twenty short months – the anticipated days when I would have to send my children off to college. The departure started recently when I said goodbye to my oldest son at the […]