Theme: “Food, Glorious Food!”

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The BeingSavvy blog has new posts every day, bringing you our wit and wisdom, our favorite books, toys, activities, web resources, articles -- basically, the best of our thinking as Savvy parents.

Being Savvy spotlight

1. Five Easiest Green Changes
2. And They Slept Happily Ever After: Using Art to Tame Nightmares
3. Tips for Choosing "After-Preschool" Activities and Classes
4. SavvyPicks: Travel Tricks of the Trade
5. The Joys of Sand and Water Play

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• The Whole Wide World
• Our Preschoolers' Passions
• Becoming a Good Citizen
• Essential Experts
• Holiday Memories
• Starting the Year Off Right
• Life Is What We Make It: Happiness & Parenting
• Our Preschoolers' Passions
• Snapshots of 2009
• Merry & Bright
• Holiday Memories
• A Good Series
• Giving Thanks
• Snapshots of 2009
• How Do Things Work?
• Building a Parent Community
• A Good Series
• The Infinite Possibilities of a Single Piece of Paper
• First, You Take a Piece of Paper...
• Building Things (and Knocking Them Down)
• How Do Things Work?
• A Little Light Entertainment
• Simplicity
• The Infinite Possibilities of a Single Piece of Paper
• First, You Take a Piece of Paper...
• This Land Is Our Land
• A Savvy World Tour
• Summer Nights
• Summer Movies
• Summer Essentials
• This Land is Our Land
• Food, Glorious Food!
• Tough Subjects
• What Do People Do All Day?
• Summer Movies
• Movin', Jumpin', Groovin': Your Physical Preschooler
• Small Green Steps
• Food, Glorious Food!
• Spotlight on Savvy Parenting
• Spotlight on Savvy Parenting
• Give Me the Beat, Boys and Girls
• Garden Science
• Movin', Jumpin', Groovin': Your Physical Preschooler
• Let's Play Math
• Resolutions and Reflections
• Celebrating Rituals and Routines
• Because a Great Book ...
• Nurturing Imagination
• The Social Life of Preschoolers
• Down by the Shore
• Escapes, Real and Imagined
• All About Me and Mine
• Life is Art; Art is Life
• It's Easy Being Green

Savvy Picks for December, 2008

Our top ten posts about the wonders of rituals and routines:

1. A Season of Rituals
2. Savvy Welcomes Betsy Brown Braun on Helping Keep the Fa-La-La in the Holidays with Your Children
3. Savvy Picks: Best Children's Books of 2008
4. Savvy Welcomes Lyn Colwell and Corey Colwell-Lipson on Greening the Holidays
5. Teaching Your Child About Giving Instead of Getting at the Holidays
6. Homemade Gifts to Make with Preschoolers
7. How to Keep Rituals a Bit Flexible, a Little Lively, and a Lot Unexpected
8. Savvy Welcomes Ginger Carlson on How to Give Experiences Not More Things
9. Inspired Indoor Activities for the Shortest Day of the Year
10. Holidays Are Delicious

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