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5 Tips To Get the Family Outdoors and Unplugged

March 26, 2020 by Melissa Chapman 15 Comments

Tips To Get the Family Outdoors and Unplugged

5 Tips To Get the Family Outdoors and Unplugged Studies show that time spent on entertainment media by today's children averages more than 7 hours a day.* (*Kaiser Family Foundation  Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8-to 18-Year-Olds.) That's pretty close to every minute a child isn't in school or sleeping! Are your kids starting to look like glassy eyed zombies? Are they constantly … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Parenting Tips Tagged With: Bonding with your kids, Melissa Chapman, Outdoor Fun For Kids, parenthood, parenting older kids, parenting your kids, raising kids, Staten Island Family fun, unplugged play

Tips to Plan a Family Game Night

December 6, 2019 by Melissa Chapman 11 Comments

Tips to Plan a Family Game Night

Tips to Plan a Family Game Night is a sponsored post. Thanks for supporting us and the brands we love. Everywhere you look people are glued to their phones and tablets. Children and loved ones constantly hear,"Just a minute" or see distracted heads are buried into connected devices. This is why I am loving the opportunity to share Tips to Plan a Family Game Night. There is nothing that FORCES you … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Kid Gear Tagged With: Tips to plan a family Game night, unplugged play

Tips for Unplugged Play: The Ultimate in Quality Family Time

February 28, 2019 by Melissa Chapman 22 Comments

Tips for Unplugged Play: The Ultimate in Quality Family Time

Like all parents I'm intent on providing my children with every possible recreational opportunity; I've done the kiddie gym, music and movement classes and even splurged on high-tech gadgets and games. And more than ever I am ready to institute these Tips for Unplugged Play: The Ultimate in Quality Family Time.  I have had occasional lingering thoughts about instituting more old-fashioned … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Family Fun, Featured Tagged With: Melissa Chapman, Motherhood, parenthood, raising kids, Staten Island weekend activities for families, the Staten Island Family, unplugged play

How do you nourish your kids hearts and minds?

March 29, 2018 by Melissa Chapman 37 Comments

It's the question that plagues me as a parent... How you nourish your kids hearts and minds? And here's my truth- as a parent- it feels at moments that I may very well be swallowed whole by all the laundry that awaits me , which continues to mound on my son's bed or the never ending dust bunnies that cover every last nook and cranny of my house which scream to be cleaned. And in the face of all … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Parenting Tips Tagged With: Bad Mother, Melissa Chapman, Mommy musings, parenting, the Staten Island Family, unplugged play

Scoop Adventures: Make your own Red Velvet Ice Cream #Recipe

August 5, 2015 by Melissa Chapman Leave a Comment

In her new book, SCOOP ADVENTURES: THE BEST ICE CREAM OF THE 50 STATES [Page Street Publishing, March 2014, $19.99], ice cream maker and blogger, Lindsay Clendaniel, shares the amazing recipes she picked during her travels across the country sampling ice cream from specialty shops and restaurants for her blog, Scoop Adventures. The 80 deliciously adapted recipes Lindsay discovered were … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Delicious Recipes, Family Fun, Featured Tagged With: Kitchen Adventures with your kids, Make your own Red Velvet Ice Cream, Scoop Adventures, unplugged play

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