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Teach Your Kids About Life, Build a Fire

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 Posted in Family Relationships, General Parenting | 1 Comment »

As a follow up to my post on the Five Dangerous Things for Kids to Do here's just a handful of things your kids (and you) can learn from an evening under the stars building a campfire.  You can wrap ...

Rogue Review: Ultimate Guy Toys, The PlayStation 3

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 Posted in Entertainment, Rogue Reviews | No Comments »

Product: Manufacturer: Date Reviewed: The Rogue Rating: PlayStation3 80gb Sony 8.15.08 Four 1/2 stars I'm now officially changing the phrase "The best thing since sliced bread" to "The best thing since PS3."  This thing is awesome.  Aside from the video games, it's a great BluRay player. I'm not a ...

Rogue Review: Dusty the Talking Vacuum

Friday, September 12th, 2008 Posted in Rogue Reviews | 1 Comment »

Product: Manufacturer: Date Reviewed: Rogue Rating: Dusty The Talking Vacuum Hasbro 9.9.08 FIVE stars You can read this review later.  First, go out and get this toy.  Our daughter is 21 months old and was getting tired of her younger toys; so we got this for her on ...

When Mom is the Target: Protect Yourself from Theft

Monday, September 8th, 2008 Posted in General Parenting, Health | No Comments »

Last September, I got a call from a number I did not recognize.  Sometimes I'll let unknown numbers slide over to voicemail since I've got just about everyone I've ever known or done business with in my phone, but today ...

Five Dangerous Things For Kids to Do

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 Posted in General Parenting | No Comments »

When I saw this video, I instantly realized how great of a job my parents did with my sister, brother and me.  We grew up in a rural area where my grandfather gave me my first pocket knife when I ...