8 Ways To Spend Time With Your Family
Spending time with young children is easy because they so often want to be as much a part of our lives as possible! Create time out of your daily routines for these simple activities making it Family time! 1. Have Dinner Make it a point to leave work or schedule work [...]
5 Fun Family Reunion Games
You've done the impossible and scheduled a time when the whole family can get together. Make this gathering one to remember with a few family reunion games. Not only are they fun for all ages, but they're a great way to elicit lots of laughter and create lasting memories. Make [...]
Lagoona Mall Announces Family Fun Fair at the Piazza
Lagoona Mall, Doha’s premium shopping and lifestyle destination launched its Family Fun Day at the Piazza running on every weekend from March 9th to 31st where exciting and entertaining activations await the whole family. The Piazza at Lagoona Mall transformed into a gigantic fairground-themed play area with loads of adventurous [...]
Is Soy-based Formula Safe For Feeding Babies?
Newborn girls who consume soy-based formula are more likely to experience "subtle differences" in some reproductive-system cells and tissues, compared to those who use cow-milk formula or are breastfed, researchers say. Mothers who do not breastfeed have long used soy formula as an alternative to cow-milk formula, often because of [...]
How to Help Kids Concentrate in the Era of Digital Distraction
When I was a child in small-town West Virginia, there weren’t many options for entertainment after school or on weekends: I could walk to a friend’s house. I could watch TV on our 13 fuzzy channels. Or I could read. And so I read, and read, and read—hours and even [...]
The Special Joy of Reading Children’s Books Through Grown-up Eyes
The new England primer, thought to be the first American children’s book, was published in Boston circa 1690. It remained popular into the 19th century, though I can’t imagine that any actual child read it with much relish. Here is one of the lessons from a 1777 edition (you will [...]