Garry Marshall & his family explain Thanksgiving at Grandparents.com – Enjoy! 🙂
Garry Marshall & Family Explain Thanksgiving
November 24, 2009
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The Princess and the Frog Special Opportunity
November 23, 2009According to the News Release in the paper yesterday, an exciting extravaganza is set to celebrate Disney’s newest animated musical “The Princess and The Frog.” Walt Disney Studios is opening its Burbank gates for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see the studio which is normally not open to the public (not since the 1940s!). Also, all the Disney princesses will be there! Over 3.5 hours of family fun!
The Princess and the Frog Ticketing
1-800-Disney6
Nov 25 – Dec 13
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Reducing Toddler Behavior Problems
November 18, 2009Sometimes the best of our children or grandchildren get into what we adults would call ‘bad behavior situations.’ Sometimes it seems we’ve tried everything to straighten it out — but the bad behavior continues. Here is some interesting on-line reading to ponder over and to maybe give you some fresh ideas or concepts to try if you have a little one you are working with.
The Parents Zone: Reducing Bad Behavior
Childcare: Tyrant Toddler
ezinearticles: Controling Your 3-Year-Old’s Aggressive Behavior
Toddlerstoday: Public Discipline
ehow: Correcting Toddler Behavior Problems
about.com: Behavior Issues – The ABCs
about.com: Improving Behavior
about.com: Analyzing Behavior Issues
about.com: Child Happiness
Most of these links have many other links for further information.
about.com: More Behavior Issues
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Ethics for Toddlers
November 17, 2009Today’s radio commentary by Michael Josephson isn’t on his website yet. – It was about instilling ethics and building character in the very young by example and struck me as a topic for my blog tonight – but this story is close. – Or maybe today’s been such a bad day that this was the lesson and I don’t remember any more!
Here are some other interesting links to read up on how to help your toddler develop a good character:
Top 5 Principles For Helping Your Child Build A Good Character
Effective Character Building Tips
Character Building Lesson Plans
Most important is what your toddler sees you doing – actions speak louder than words – and whatever you do, your toddler wants to do, too!
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Memory Lane
November 16, 2009Today was fun sharing our weekend adventures with the people at work and friends on the phone. It was like a trip down memory lane. We’d jump from one of our weekend adventures to someone’s remembered adventure from long ago. Had all kinds of smiles and grins. Just like the adventures in Grandpa, Do It! I Do It, Too!, once triggered the stories flowed from one cherished memory to another. Rainy days, sunny days, cloudy days all had their special moments. It was a lot of fun!
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Great Weekend in Portland!
November 15, 2009Grandpa Ron and I had a great weekend in Portland with Austin, Bella, Madison and family! It had lots of surprises, twists and turns, yet it was a whole lot of fun and very insightful for us.
Austin is so much taller and so much more vocal! Bella is so much more a young lady as well – she’s four. I had fun one-on-one time with Austin on Friday while Grandpa Ron was serving jury duty. Then Austin, Bella and I went back to the Portland airport and picked up Grandpa Ron – practicing counting to a hundred and twenty five along the way.
Then on Saturday Bella and I went with Mommy to her Baby Shower while Grandpa and Austin went to the Vancouver, WA train station and watched trains move around.
Back in the hotel room Austin used the portable luggage holder as his own train. He climbed in, sat on the middle straps and showed us how he was moving his train – with air brake releases, clunking and sssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhh-ing and all. Sometimes he was the conductor and sometimes he was the engineer. It was a lot of fun watching his imagination at work. I do have pictures so I’ll get them posted – maybe tomorrow night. Now it is time to unpack and get to bed for bright eyes for work in the morning!!
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Library Visit
November 13, 2009Today Austin and I spent two hours at the library reading lots of different books that he picked out. The day was rainy so we stayed inside! It was a lot of fun! He would pick several books out and hand them to me. Then we sat in the Children’s Room and read them together. Then he picked out some more. We read them. Then I thought he was done but he pulled out a book he recognised from school called Ladybug Girl by Jacky Davis (Author) and David Soman (Author, Illustrator) and he wanted to take it home to show Mom. BUT I didn’t have Mom’s library card with me and he had to write his name to get his own card, so the librarian suggested we either put it on 3 day save or go up to the Reading Room to read it. Austin decided to read it NOW so we made it up the stairs to the Reading Room only after side-stepping for Austin to grab a transportation picture book and a horse picture book as well. So that was another hour or so.
At the end we signed a hard-cover Grandpa Do It! I Do It, Too book and donated it to the library – since it is HIS library after all. That was fun, too!
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Santa Monica Pier Now Terminus of Route 66
November 12, 2009Santa Monica is getting the moniker of the West Terminus of Historic Route 66. From the LA Times article: “The highway’s original end point in 1926 was at 7th Street and Broadway in downtown Los Angeles, according to Glen Duncan, president of the California Route 66 Preservation Foundation. A decade later, the road was extended to Olympic and Lincoln boulevards in Santa Monica.”
Here’s some fun stuff on Route 66.
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Polar Bears at the San Diego Zoo
November 11, 2009The San Diego Zoo polar bears are having fun. The polar bear trio, whose names are Kalluk (The Athlete), Tatqiq (The Princess), and Chinook (The Stalker), take turns in the Polar Bear Plunge. Here is the video cam. Learn some Polar Bear facts here. Here’s the Polar Bear Blogsite.
More info on the San Diego Zoo is here.
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Falling Stars
November 10, 2009This last weekend Grandpa Ron and I saw two falling stars! Seeing one is special so we were really surprised to see two. Then I did a little research and it seems we are in the midst of two meteor shower time spans – the Taurids and the Leonids. November 10th is the start of the Leonid Meteor Shower with the peak on November 17th. Gee, we could probably see many more if we sat outside and waited for them! Here’s lots of info from universetoday.com. Becky Ramotowski in San Antonio records: ‘Shooting stars’ come out to play in her blog today. Also check out Meteor Mark.
Meteorshowersonline has a scientific page on both Taurids and Leonids. Have fun!
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