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The Best of the Baby Blog for December

In honor of the December the best of the Baby Blog, we have to spend time looking at the host of articles available whether to comment on them or to write about them. We look at the issues confronting new parents whether it is their first child or their fifth. We look at the different challenges that confront parents of newborns, infants, toddlers and more. We here at the Baby Blog do our best to give you everything you could use or need to help with being a parent. Yet, every infant is unique and thus, every form of parenting … Continue reading →

Wheelchairs With Love, From America

The holidays are here, and if your kids are like mine, they haven’t a care in the world. They’ve written their letters to Santa–filled with requests for video games, clothes, toys, electronic gadgets and gizmos of all kinds. Their world is full of excess. They have never known real hunger, or real poverty. They have never known war on any personal level. They have never known what it feels like to be unable to move about freely. The Gift of a Wheelchair Today, as you read this blog, there are children on the streets of Iraq who are scooting themselves … Continue reading →

Author Update — Tamra Norton

I recently interviewed author Tamra Norton about her ground-breaking book, “Make Me a Memory.” In commemoration of Veteran’s Day, she is giving Families.com another exclusive interview to discuss the sequel, entitled “Make Me a Home.” A synopsis of the book reads: For the past eleven months, Allie has lived in Edna, Idaho—an okay place if you don’t mind living friendless and fatherless in Hicksville, USA. But it isn’t “home.” And how could it be with her dad in Iraq? Then Ivy Peterson moves to town and Allie finally finds the friendship and understanding she has desperately wanted. Edna is even … Continue reading →

Make Me a Memory — Tamra Norton

Chosen to be a book of the month for the state of Utah this last April, this charming middle grade book by author Tamra Norton tells the story of Allie, an eleven-year-old girl whose father is serving in Iraq. While he’s gone, she is going to live with her grandmother, along with her mother and little brother. Her mother needs the extra help because she’s expecting another baby, and she has difficult pregnancies. When the family arrives in Edna, Idaho, after a long drive from their old home in Texas, they are greeted not only by Grandma, but by Abe, … Continue reading →

Projects to Support Our Troops

People have differing opinions about the war, but most people agree that the men and women that make up each of our armed forces are brave individuals, worthy of our gratitude. If your children would like to support our troops, or you want to teach them ways to show gratitude, please consider sending some items through the Any Soldier program. You can send gifts, but your children can also make cards and write letters, which would mean a lot, especially to those soldiers that don’t get very much mail or don’t get any at all. That’s how the Any Soldier … Continue reading →

Operation Iraqi Children

A few days ago I posted an article about how the media tends to focus on the negative news coming out of Iraq while the positive tends to get overlooked. On that note I would like to bring to your attention a program called Operation Iraq Children in which US troops are helping to distribute much needed school supplies to the children of Iraq. In March of 2004 actor Gary Sinise (of Forrest Gump and CSI: New York fame) and author Laura Hillenbrand (Sea Biscuit: An American Legend) announced the launch of their program in order to bring attention to … Continue reading →