Five Great Baby Shower Gifts to make the new parents life easier

Expecting a new baby is a special time in the lives of a family. But, when someone blesses you with a special gift that makes the transition of bringing the new baby home easier, you thank them. In a homeschooling household, there is also the adjustment of planning the school day around the new bundle of joy.

Here's five gift ideas that will make the transition of bringing baby home easier for the new parents in your life:

Choosing a color for the new baby nursery, picking out new little clothes for baby, selecting educational and developmental toys that are best for baby - All of these add up to enjoyable chores new parents endure before welcoming a new baby into their household.  But, if you have been invited to a baby shower or know an expectant parent, what are the items that a parent truly needs for the new baby?  Following are five that will be appreciated and/or needed by every expectant parent.
For starters, a gift card to a carryout restaurant is a wonderful gift!  When parents bring a b... From: Five Baby Gifts Expectant Parents Really Need

Titanic explorers to bring 3D images to surface

Fascinating for oceanographers and history buffs or for your wide-eyed homeschool student, the Titanic will be viewed in a whole new light soon.

Explorers will create a 3D map of the vessel - Read more at"New Titanic Exploration to Create 3D Map of Wreckage."

July is National Blueberry Month - Find out their health benefits

Fun National months can make learning enjoyable. July is National Blueberry month!


Bake up some blueberry muffins, freeze some and eat them chilled for an afternoon treat in the heat, add some blueberries to your pancakes or mix up a blueberry smoothie.  However you like your blueberries, July is the time to enjoy!  July is National Blueberry Month in America.  This might just mean some hidden health benefits for you.
Though, July is known for more popular, well-known holidays in America such as Independence Day, it is also National Blueberry Month.  It makes sense that July would be named the month to represent blueberries because that is the month of t... From: Health Benefits of Blueberries

Whale watching trip turns into more than a field trip: Whale jumps aboard yacht

If you ever have the opportunity to take your children whale watching, it's an amazing learning experience. The entire experience is typically quite relaxing as you take a boat ride out into the ocean and then are directed as to where to look to view whales and their oceanic activity.

Recently, one couple who took a yacht trip of their own had an unusual experience. A 40 ton whale jumped upon their yacht & then just swam away.

Read more on this incredibly shocking experience and view video

New blog one-stop shop for children's events in St. Louis - Jae's Jampacked Days

There's a new blog in town - St. Louis that is! But, many posts may also include events that happen elsewhere or involve helpful parenting, childhood fun tips. The blog is:

Jae's Jampacked Days:



You can visit by clicking on the picture above! There's also a link at the bottom right of this blog (Teachable Scott Tots Homeschool blog).

Enjoy!

Spain wins World Cup Soccer

Watching a sports event you are interested in can be very educational. It's an easy way to draw attention to math skills, history of the game or the country winning, even foreign language skills such as German or Spanish, and many other skills your child may not otherwise be interested in. Today, Spain won the World Cup:

Spain wins World Cup

Amber Alert girl found ALIVE: Alisa Maier Louisiana MO

Just playing in her front yard with her 5 year old brother and several adults who went inside thinking the girl, 4 year old Alisa Maier, and her brother were close behind. She wasn't. A black car who had been seen in the area driving around, pulled up and the girl was gone in a blink of an eye.

Prayer and Amber alerts went out with search teams yesterday to no avail until early this morning. Someone spotted what they thought was a little boy wandering in a car wash in Fenton, Missouri which is several miles south of her home in Louisiana, MO. The girl who was abducted from her front yard was found alive early this morning. Though reports have not specified, the abductor must have cut the girl's hair as the person reporting the wandering child thought she was a boy with cropped dark hair.

The only witness to the abduction was Alisa's 5 year old brother who gave a really good description of the vehicle. It's a good thing someone taught this child his colors and numbers at a young age as he was able to identify the car had 4 doors and was black. They are still searching for the suspect who is said to have "darker skin and driving a black 4-door car with a noisy muffler, possibly a Ford Escort."

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Your family on bicycles Tour de France style

The Tour de France is a race that happens every year, as the name implies, in France.  It is a bicycle race at its finest and only involves the best and well-trained bicycle riders.  These riders' physiques are typically very muscular and look healthy which one can hopefully conclude is due to the nature of the sport.  As exciting as this race is, you don't have to qualify for Tour de France to benefit from bicycle riding.
There are many benefits to bicycle riding as a sport or for pure fitness.  For starters, you burn approximately 725 calories in an hour traveling 12 mph... From: Benefits of Bicycle Riding