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Sharing Resources
We at Parents for Parents™ magazine are always on the lookout for resources that will make parents' lives easier and families' lives better!
Career, Employment and Business:
Childcare:
Coaching:
- www.christinekinney.com
Christine Kinney is a mother of two and a professional life coach who works with moms to empower them to take control of their lives and create a life they love. Go this website to read articles, sign-up for a free newsletter and to read Christine's blog.
Finance:
Fitness and Nutrition:
- www.AlwaysYourWeigh.com
Lori Grant, Professional Weight Loss Coach will help you make changes, lose weight and keep it off. Having lost 100 pounds and kept it off since 2000, Lori understands how your weight can hold you back and wants to help you change your weight and your life.
- www.strollerstrides.com
Total fitness for moms with their babies.
- health.discovery.com
Discovery Health channel has "I Lost It", "Living Fresh", and more. Their website has more information on these and other shows.
- fittv.discovery.com
FitTV channel has many shows on weight loss and nutrition such as Buff Brides, Diet Doctor and Ultimate Goals. Their website has more information.
Gifts and Unique Products:
Health:
Meals:
Here are the places offer prepped dinners. They work similarly, but for more details, here are the links:
Parenting Tips:
- www.mom-matters.com
Addresses important and practical parenting issues via 10 minute videos (webisodes).
- www.workitmom.com
Great online community for working mothers. Tons of great info on work/life balance, parenting, recipes, entrepreneurship, etc.
Party Planning:
- www.mykidsregistry.com
A site "dedicated to children's birthday parties and special events."
- www.evite.com
A site for planning and emailing invitations for parties, gatherings, etc.
Regional Info:
Things to Do Inside of the House:
Things to Do Outside of the House:
- www.gocitykids.com
For information on things to do on any day of the week, here is a site that keeps tracks of all events for children in your area.
- www.PiercePress.com
If you are in the Metro-Boston area, and your goal is to find an interesting museum for visiting relatives, an accessible nature hike, or an indoor playspace where you can let the kids run wild, you're sure to find it in the Compleat Day Tripper available through Piece Press.
- http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/kidscorner3.htm
Lots of online games (coloring, memory, puzzles, etc.) to learn about animals.
Toys:
Those of you who are looking for great non-tech toys, these companies have some of the best:
Parenting TV Shows:
- health.discovery.com/centers/kids/kids.html
Discovery Health channel has many shows geared towards parents - Kids Healthworks, Yummy Mommy, Birth Day, Pregnancy for Dummies, Baby Baby, House of Babies, Adoption Stories, Runaway Moms, and more. Their website has more information on these and other shows and other good parenting information.
- tlc.discovery.com
TLC (The Learning Channel) has some shows as well: Surviving Motherhood, Bringing Home Baby, A Baby Story and more. Their website has more information.
Children Program TV Channels:
In addition to well-known PBS station, there are TV channels that has children programming:
- tlc.discovery.com
TLC (The Learning Channel) has Peep, HI-5, Hip Hop Harry, The Magic School Bus, etc. Monday through Friday from 6:00 am to 9:00 am ET. They have a sister channel called Discovery KIDS. Their website has more information.
- www.noggin.com
NOGGIN channel shows young children shows 24/7 like Little Bear, Dora the Explorer, Maisy, Franklin, etc. Their website has more information.
- www.nickjr.com
NICKELODEON channel has Nick Jr for young children like Dora the Explorer, Go Diego Go, Blues Clues, Backyardigans, etc. at different times of the day. This channel has the most commercials of all the channels listed in this section.
- www.sproutletsgrow.com
PBS SPROUT channel has 24 hour, 7 day a week showing of Sesame Street, Sagwa, Dragon Tales, Kipper, etc.
If you would like to add a resource to this list, please go to the Contact page and pick "Suggestion" as the topic. We love hearing from you!
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