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The Most Popular Baby Names of 2016

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Every year, the Social Security Administration releases a list of the most popular baby names from the previous year. There is a list for names given to baby girls, and another list of names given to baby boys. In general, the lists change – even if only slightly – from one year to the next. The Social Security Administration uses specific qualifications regarding the names that end up on the list. Names are restricted to cases where the year of birth, sex, and State of birth (50 and District of Columbia) are on record, and where the given name is … Continue reading →

Top Ten Baby Names of 2013

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Parents who are trying to select a name for their baby might want to visit the Social Security website. Every year, they gather data from Social Security card applications and use it to determine the most popular baby names of that year. This might help you to pick a popular name for your child. Or, it could inspire you to come up with something more unique than the names that are on the list. How does the Social Security Administration go about discovering the most popular names for 2013? They looked at 100% of their records on Social Security card … Continue reading →

James and the Emerald Night Train

An eleven year old boy who has autism saved up his money for years in order to buy a very special LEGO set. Imagine the disappointment he must have felt when, after reaching the amount he needed, it turned out that he still could not afford to buy it! Fortunately, this story is one that ended in a very happy way. You’ve heard of LEGO. It is the company that makes little colored plastic bricks of different shapes that can be easily snapped together. The bricks can be popped back apart later on, and used to build something else. LEGOs … Continue reading →

Get a Free Drink from Peet’s Coffee & Tea

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One of the wonderful things about signing up with, or clicking “like” on, your favorite stores and brands is that you get to find out about deals, sales, and freebies before anyone else does! Here are a bunch of great deals that I found in my inbox. Peet’s Coffee & Tea is giving away a free medium iced or blended beverage, today only, August 1, 2012. To get this freebie, you have to print out the coupon, or put it on your mobile device, and show it to the barista. You also have to arrive at a Peet’s Tea & … Continue reading →

Even More After Christmas Sales – 2011

The after Christmas sales are still going on! This is the best time to pick up some deeply discounted Christmas decorations, or to purchase some of the things you wanted for Christmas, (but didn’t get). If you have already shopped your way through the list of sales from yesterday and the list from the day before then it is time to check out today’s list of after Christmas sales. Hot Topic is having a “Hot Mess Clearance Event”. You can save up to 75% off the original price of all items included in this sale. Apparel is going for either … Continue reading →

This is Boys on Adolescence

Once I saw a great illustration of the difference between men and women. It was grossly simplistic, of course, but like all great illustrations, it captured the core of so many things in a single image. Actually, there were two images. The first image was of a rectangular box. It was completely covered in dials, knobs, levers, and latches. The heading on the image was “Woman.” The second image was of the same rectangular box — but with only a single on/off switch in the middle. The heading on the image was “Man.” I remember laughing out loud when I … Continue reading →

Peaceable Kingdom: Sticker Kits

Peaceable Kingdom is know for making earth friendly, top quality, and fun products that children love. In addition to their creative learning games, cooperative games, unique birthday cards, and diaries they also offer stickers! My love for stickers has hardly diminished since I was a child. I still enjoy giving stickers to my children and love how excited they get over this simple concept. Over the years stickers retained their fun but have come a long way. Instead of simple sticky backed images children put on notebooks, folders and papers we see sticker activities and kits. Peaceable Kingdom had a … Continue reading →

Are They Twins or Just Siblings?

Usually, it is easy to figure out the proper kinship term that should be attached to the members of a particular family. Sometimes, though, things get a bit tricky. For example, if two babies are born at the same time to a mother who has two uteruses, are those babies twins, or just siblings? Genealogy is the study of family. Most aspects of genealogy are pretty regulated. The same kinship terms are used to indicate a particular genetic relationship in every family. For example, your grandmother is either the mother of your mother, or the mother of your father. This … Continue reading →

Should Girls Be Treated Differently?

I have often heard parents say that raising girls is harder. There is something about a girl that I think makes us want to be more protective. There is a special innocence about her that we want to see kept in tact. Don’t get me wrong, though. Parents want to protect their boys as well. I have two of them so I understand. But I think there is just an assumption that they will somehow make it. Girls seem to need more protection. So my question is should girls be treated differently than boys? In More Musings of a Mom, … Continue reading →

Chaz Bono Applies for Name/Gender Change

Chaz Bono, the child of ‘70s greats Sonny and Cher, has filed to legally his gender to male and his name to Chaz Bono according to TMZ. For those that haven’t been following this story, Chaz was born Chastity Bono in 1969. The only child of Sonny and Cher, Chastity grew up in the spotlight, often appearing on her parent’s television show. When Chastity turned 18, she came out to both her parents as a lesbian. She wrote in her 1998 “Family Outing” memoir, “as a child, I always felt there was something different about me.” Chastity also wrote that … Continue reading →