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July 2008
Theme: “Escapes, Real and Imagined”
SavvyPicks: Best Family Travel Resources
As you know by now in our meander through a month's worth of daydreaming about escapes, we truly adore getting away with our families. And we are daunted by it, too. When we do set our sights on different environs, we turn to the following essential resources for planning, packing, investigation and inspiration. Here are our Savvy-est picks for family travel resources:The Savviest Insiders'
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Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Still looking for an easy summer escape from the grind and the routine? There's one ready made for preschoolers and parents at every ball park in the country. Yup, these kids of ours really enjoy an afternoon at a baseball game. The pleasures are many: spotting favorite players, keeping score, hot dogs, popcorn and a little lemonade, perhaps a nice nap during the middle innings (we can always
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All the Way to China
When you can barely conceive of the other side of town, the other side of the world can sound awfully intriguing. We know certain small explorers who have imagined that they might be able to get all the way to China through a hole in the ground, if they could just dig it deep enough. They send their dolls and action figures down to check if there is a light at the end of the tunnel they
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An Escape on a Sugar Cone! Let's Have Some Ice Cream!
Nothing says summer like a drippy, delicious ice cream cone. Except maybe a drippy, delicious ice cream clutched in the mitts of your flush-cheeked preschooler! Consider it a newly declared national holiday -- go get an ice cream today! Chocolate dipped, sprinkles, banana split, cup or cone. Gelato, frozen custard, shaved ice, homemade, storebought. Just go!Looking for the absolute best ice
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Savvy Picks for October, 2008
Our top ten ideas for nurturing imagination in preschoolers:
- Pretend play and preschooler development
- Books that celebrate a child's imagination
- Savvy welcome Betsey Brown Braun on play as the work of childhood
- Top 10+ activities to nurture pretend play at home
- Savvy welcomes Jacque Grillo on nurturing imagination in young children
- Stories about toys that come to life
- Savvypicks for every knight in shining armor and his princess
- Nightmares - when make-believe is too real for peaceful sleep
- Putting on plays and puppet shows
- SavvyPicks for your favorite train conductor
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