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Cover Child Photo Contest
We are looking for cover children for upcoming issues of outer banks child magazine! If you and your child are interested, please submit one photo of your child to photocontest@outerbankschild.com no larger than 1 MB.
All in Good Taste
Are you bored with the same peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch and goldfish for snacks? Try some of these creative and healthy lunches and snacks.
Books Suggestions
Enjoy some great reads for your children by age, easily found at the library or a bookstore.
To Clip - Or Not To Clip?
During lean economic times, there are lots of ways to trim fat from your budget. Making due with the clothes in your closet. Forgoing that summer vacation. Even — gasp! — getting rid of your cell phone. But you will always need to buy food, and groceries eat up a major chunk of most families’ monthly income. But what if you could bring home the bacon for a fraction of the cost? All while buying the same items? Serious coupon clippers do. And they save a cartload of cash.
Game Off? Maybe. Game Over? Never.
Okay, we caved. Foraging for yard sale items one Saturday, my six-year-old discovered a vintage Nintendo 64 and a whole box of games — for $5. Sure, his mom and I had been saying ‘no’ to more modern systems for months. But how do you keep a kid from buying the equivalent of an electronics antique? With his own allowance? My wife and I discussed, debated and decided we couldn’t. And with one reluctant ‘yes,’ we made our first choice involving our child and video games.
Geocaching
Don’t-cha surrender the booty just yet, matey! Thar be a new way to hunt doubloons for both pirates and landlubbers, as the 21st century offers a technological makeover for your classic “hide and seek” treasure hunt.
2009 Beach Survival Guide
It sounds so easy: fill up the car, set up camp, soak up rays, play in the ocean. But if you want to really relax this summer, it pays to put in a little prep work ahead of time. Here are a few easy suggestions to make sure your ‘day at the beach’ is just that.
Reading Menus, Adding Pounds
As children change and grow, their abilities and habits also mature. Infants and toddlers spend more time at home, making it easier for parents to plan meals and monitor snacking. Once youngsters start kindergarten, they’ll consume up to 50% of their daily calories at school, so make sure they step off the bus knowing how to eat healthy.
Music to Your Ears
Are the end of summer blues getting you down? No worries; jam on this fun and original guitar, made from recyclable materials, to send your blues sailing.
Waste Free Lunches
The easiest way to describe a “waste-free lunch” is to consider its opposite: a “disposable lunch.” A disposable lunch might consist of a sandwich wrapped in plastic, yogurt served in a single-serving tub and a commercially packed bag of chips. It could also include a juice box, a plastic spoon and a paper napkin. After such a meal, the plastic wrap, yogurt container, plastic spoon, chip bag, juice box, straw — pause, take a breath — straw packaging and napkin get tossed in the trash. A waste-free lunch, however, is an on-the-go menu that leaves nothing to discard. The sandwich and sides come in washable containers with a cloth napkin, reusable utensils and a drink from a refillable jug — all of which then comes home for washing and reuse.
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