10 Minute Solution

10 Minute Solution is a fitness Wii game based on the popular fitness DVD series of the same name.

10 Minute Solution, the videogame, lets users customize their workout in ten minute blocks while getting feedback and tracking progress.  The workouts consist of the user’s choice of cardio boxing, mixed games, and step aerobics at varying levels of difficulty. This game is compatible with the Wii Balance Board for feedback but can be played without it.  
 
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The Nursing Mother's Companion Breastfeeding Diary

Most new mothers gain a sense of security in tracking their newborns' feedings and diapers. In the pages of The Nursing Mother's Companion Breastfeeding Diary by Kathleen Huggins and Jan Ellen Brown, mothers will find an inspiring quote and timely, practical advice from two long-time lactation specialists for every day of the baby's first two months. Journal space is provided for writing down memories, milestones, or questions and concerns to share with the baby's doctor. More than a log book, The Nursing Mother's Companion Breastfeeding Diary can become a keepsake of those first precious weeks shared by mother and child.

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Nemours BrightStart! A Parent's Guide to Reading Readiness

Nemours BrightStart! A Parent's Guide to Reading Readiness
Gryphon House, 32p, Isbn-087659318X

One of the joys of being a parent is watching your child learn new skills and reach new milestones.  Learning to read is one of the milestones that parents eagerly await and often worry about.  Parent everywhere what to their best to help their children prepare for reading success.

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Win Money for Back to School!

Want a chance to win a $150 Back to School Gift Card from Amazon? Spend 5 minutes taking this anonymous survey from Unicast about your Back to School shopping, and you can win one of 10 prizes. But don’t wait too long – the survey closes 8 pm ET Fri. Aug. 20. Winners will be emailed on Monday Aug. 23.

Here’s the survey: http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22B385KB4BX

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Printoons: Noah's Ark: Storybook Activity Kit

Printoons: Noah's Ark: Storybook Activity Kit

Wondering what a Printoon is?

Well, Printoons are unique characters created with your own fingerprints because no two fingerprints are alike. Children from ages 5 and up can create fun and wild artwork that that is special like them just by using their ink fingerprints and a few simple lines drawn with a pen to create various characters in the stories.

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Who's In Charge Anyway

Who is in Charge Anyway?: A Lesson in Growing Up With God

Sitting around a camp fire on a beautiful star-lit night, the garden gang is talking about their favorite memories. Antonio recounts the Garden Olympics, but admits he was a scrawny kid-ant whose parents did not think he would ever amount to much. Flo confesses she used to be shy and introverted. Turns out all Hermie and Friends' adventures are made possible by the things that happened to them as kids.

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Book Review - The Classics: All You Need to Know

The Classics: All You Need to Know, from Zeus's Throne to the Fall of Rome
Reader's Digest, 176p, Isbn-1606521322

The thought of ancient civilizations is enough to make anyone groan. Between long hours of tedious mathematics and years of droning Latin classes, it's no wonder that the Greek and Roman societies are most often thought of as dull subjects from school. The Classics, however, flips this long-standing opinion on its head, revealing the clever humor and impressive technological and scientific advancements made by these societies. Between the ninth century B.C. and the seventh century A.D., these great civilizations thrived, leaving behind a legacy felt in every part of the world-from language to medicine, from art to architecture.

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My Purple Toes

My Purple Toes
24 p, Isbn - 0984455647

Inspired by a trip to a nail salon with his teenage daughter, first time author Blair Hahn wrote My Purple Toes, a creative children's board book that tells a true account of a father's experience navigating life with purple painted toenails.

Throughout the book, children can look for dad's purple toes in various environments and also find a friendly frog that hides on each page. My Purple Toes features imaginative, cheerful illustrations from Charleston-based artist Tate Nation on a board-style book that offers durability ideal for young children.

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Feature - My Teenage Werewolf

What’s more challenging in the life of a woman: being a teenager … or being the mother of a teenager?

Just yesterday she was our sweet-tempered, smiling little girl. She thought Mommy was a saint and a genius, beautiful, beneficent, and all-knowing. Now Mom is an enemy, a barrier—or at the very least the font of all things embarrassing and uncool. And the erstwhile Miss Sweet Pea is … a werewolf? Who is this new headstrong, mercurial, mascara-wand-waving girl?

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Coming Soon - A CSN product Review!

I'd previously had an opportunity to receive a CSN store product for review and now I'm getting to do it again! As you know, CSN Stores are one of the largest growing specialty retailers online, and have 200+ Specialty Stores that carry everything from home furnishings to cookware to more obscure items like water pumps and birdbaths.

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