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January 2009
Theme: “Resolutions and Reflections”
We Resolve to Be Green
Living well, with our families thriving, all of us breathing easily and laughing loudly. Whatever your resolutions for this new year, we imagine that some of these ideas underpin them. And perhaps what underpins all of our resolutions -- or at least what should serve as their foundation -- is living lightly upon our planet. We've turned to one of our favorite teams of experts, our Savvy city
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Savvy Welcomes 3 Green Moms with Three Best Ways to Live Green This Year
Being Savvy is delighted to bring you three fresh new ideas for real-life ways to switch easily and happily to green living this year, all from the clever crew behind 3 Green Moms . Enjoy! ******************** Inaugurate 3 green resolutions in the new year.... Keep it Fresh, Hip and Simple! FRESH - Here's a fresh idea....reduce your use. Did you know 20 million plastic baggies are thrown
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A Playlist of Sunny Songs for Cloudy Days
It's cloudy out there. It's cold. It's rainy, snowy, windy -- in short, the weather is foul. And we're cooped up with a bunch of overactive preschoolers, just wishing more than anything to feel the sun. We'll have to wait a while for sunny days (unless we live in Hawaii or some other unfairly blessed place), but we can still sun-worship from home with these sun-kissed songs that kiddos and
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Wise Words about Making a Parent's Love into Useful Currency
As we spend our winter days reflecting on and resolving through our daily parenting triumphs and challenges, we return for inspiration to Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish , quoting their own hero, Dr. Haim Ginott : "I do not discount the power of love. Love is wealth. But even with material wealth, we often find that large sums need to be broken down into small currency. In a phone booth a
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The Big Picture Out of Preschool: What Does Kindergarten Readiness Really Mean?
As the new year turns, parents of four and five-year-old preschoolers are looking back and looking forward and thinking: can it be that there is only half a year of preschool left? And then we're onto...kindergarten?! And each one of us is also thinking: is my child ready for this? Am I ready for this? Even though kindergarten is not necessarily so very different than a good pre-k
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Savvy Picks for December, 2008
Our top ten posts about the wonders of rituals and routines:
- A Season of Rituals
- Savvy Welcomes Betsy Brown Braun on Helping Keep the Fa-La-La in the Holidays with Your Children
- Savvy Picks: Best Children's Books of 2008
- Savvy Welcomes Lyn Colwell and Corey Colwell-Lipson on Greening the Holidays
- Teaching Your Child About Giving Instead of Getting at the Holidays
- Homemade Gifts to Make with Preschoolers
- How to Keep Rituals a Bit Flexible, a Little Lively, and a Lot Unexpected
- Savvy Welcomes Ginger Carlson on How to Give Experiences Not More Things
- Inspired Indoor Activities for the Shortest Day of the Year
- Holidays Are Delicious
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