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Young Love, Sacrifice and the Battle Between Good and Evil All Come Together in “Beautiful Creatures”

By Ranny Levy, President/Founder of Kids First!

Beautiful Creatures is a refreshing twist of the age old tale of young love, sacrifice and the battle between good and evil. When Ethan Wate, played by Alden Ehrenreich, meets a mysterious girl named Lena, he immediately falls for her. But Lena and her family have a [...]

Fun Genealogy Projects to Do with Grandkids

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By Colleen Sell

 

Learning about their ancestors makes history come alive for kids and enables them to learn more about [...]

Toys ‘N Tech: Winter Fun and Fitness

TOP TOY AND TECH PICKS FROM …

Cool Stuff to Help Keep You Fit and Healthy All Winter Long!

By Dan Nessell

 

With the holidays in the rear-view mirror, many of us will make a New Year’s resolution to be more fit and healthy in 2013. [...]

To GRANDkids a Picture IS worth a Thousand Words

By Debra L. Karplus, MS, OTR/L

Growing up on the North Side of Chicago, specifically West Rogers Park, was perhaps like coming of age in any other large metropolis. We attended Green School located on Devon Avenue, a newly-built school, erected to accommodate the [...]

How GRANDparents Can Survive the Fiscal Cliff

By Andrea Woroch

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know the so-called “fiscal cliff” negotiations are not going well. In anticipation of the possible plunge, consumer confidence plummeted recently to 65.1, the lowest it’s been since August according to USAToday.

Though tax rate increases should become effective Jan. 1, the IRS is advising [...]

Are Your GRANDkids Safe On Their Cell Phone?

Editor’s Note: If you are thinking of buying a cell phone or smart phone for your grandkids for the holidays or just for safety reasons, be sure they know how to use it safely. The following tips from Safety Phone will be must reading. (www.SafetyWeb.com)

Can you hear me now? According to research, 22 [...]

Help! My Grandkids Leave Their Toys Everywhere!

By Christine Crosby, Editorial Director, GRAND Magazine When my g-kids were little and came for a visit I’d let them be as messy as they wanted. They don’t live near me so when they visited it was open season on Grandmere’s house. I didn’t care how big a mess they made, I was just [...]