Games: How Nicole Lazzaro Makes a Difference With Tiltworldmaking a difference! • moms making a difference
Nicole Lazzaro is my hero in many ways. She is a pioneer of video games; she studied the psychology behind them at Stanford and created a consulting company, XEODesign, that provides leading-edge expertise on “first-player experience design” on the emotion and the fun of games…. She’s in
Community: How to Build a Library and Build Your Communitymaking a difference! • bettering communities
Bettering Communities—For a short period of my life, my neighbors remained nameless faces who smiled and waved as they quickly sped by my home. If I ever needed help, I would have to go to the “lady with two dogs who always works in her yard.” See, I didn’t …
Games: 4 Games and Apps with Real-World Benefitsmaking a difference! • bettering communities
If you think of video games as something that only teenagers do alone in their basements, there is a burgeoning body of research that refutes you. The average age of the typical gamer these days, according to a recent USA Today article, …is 37, and there are now more women
National Volunteer Week: How to Celebrate Volunteers & Teachersmoms making a difference • bettering communities
There’s a really good chance you are a volunteer or you are helped by a volunteer every single day! And as a parent, teachers make a daily difference in your life as well. This week (April 16-22nd) is National Volunteer Week. And May 7-15th is Teacher Appreciation Week.
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10 Bite-Size Ways to Grow Service for Earth Daymaking a difference! • tips for giving back
This week’s Season of Service challenge—to serve by growing something—is inspired by Earth Day 2012, which is this next Sunday. Take just a moment to think of one thing you can do to show your appreciation of your earthly home, or consult this list of 10 bite-size ideas that have…
Megan Faulkner Brown “Bakes a Difference” Against Bullyingmaking a difference! • moms making a difference
Megan Faulkner Brown has one sweet job. She is the founder of The Sweet Tooth Fairy, a confectionary known for its delectable cupcakes… and cakebites. A relatively new shop, it has seen great growth over the past few years, developing from a basement business to a franchise of nine stores
Africa: How Cook Stoves Are Making a Difference in Malawimaking a difference! • tips for giving back
As parents, we all want what is best for our children. Part of being a parent is protecting our children and making sure they live in a healthy environment. I recently traveled to Malawi, Africa where the country is increasing efforts to not only provide life saving pneumonia vaccines…
Act on Service: 10 Bite-Size Ideasmaking a difference! • tips for giving back
This week’s Season of Service… verb, Act, may seem kind of vague. To act can mean to do a lot of things, good or bad. We challenge you to think of and do one simple, bite-size thing, either from the list below or of your own creation, that involves the
Zen Mommy Suzanne Tucker Helps Others Accept Themselvesmaking a difference! • moms making a difference
It is perhaps cliché, but so very true, that out of the hardest moments… of our lives often come the most beautiful diamonds. Would that it weren’t so, that we didn’t have to be “cut” so. Would that we could designate an age, say 30, after which we could all
Service: How to Drive Your Way to Servicemaking a difference! • tips for giving back
This week’s Season of Service challenge is to do one small thing this week to help others that involve the verb “drive.” These can be things you can do while driving, about driving, to prevent driving, or involving memory drives. It’s not about organizing a big food drive… or blood
Find a geocache with your kids.
Date: Wed., May 30
Time: 2-3 p.m. ET
Book: Dad Rules by Treion Miller
