Thanks again to everyone who posted as part of our Blog Blast sponsored by Capital One (who, along with national consumer advocacy group Consumer Action, sponsors the Moneywi$e eLearning tool, a great resource for getting down to business with your budget and finances). Tremendous thanks to Capital One for offering up a Kindle and a few VISA gift cards to help our lucky winners get this school year off to a roaring start!
Everyone else, thank you for writing such helpful and entertaining posts - lots of good tips out there! We’ll have more Blog Blasts coming up, so get on our mailing list if you want to hear about them first. Which of course you do, right?
Times are tough: we’ve scaled back on our fun shopping trips, and we’re clipping coupons for everything from cereal to shampoo. But with our kids heading back to school, we can’t avoid hitting the stores for supplies, sneakers, and everything in between.
If our kids are old enough to go to school, then they’re old enough to learn that money doesn’t grow on trees. We want to hear your ideas on how parents can turn back-to-school shopping into a teaching moment.
This week, we’re working with Capital One to get the word out about the talking to kids about budgeting and finances. Capital One and national consumer advocacy group Consumer Action sponsor the Moneywi$e eLearning tool, which includes a section all about talking to kids about money. Plus, check out @TeachingMoney on Twitter to get bite-sized family-focused financial tips.
Here’s how to participate:
Write a post on your blog about how we can teach our children about financial responsibility while shopping for school. Post anytime this weekend - Friday, August 21 to Sunday, August 23 and include links to:
Posts must be at least 300 words, and URLs must be linked using anchor text within your post. Be creative! And make sure to disclose (in your own words) that this post was written as part of a Parent Bloggers Network Blog Blast.
Send your blog post link to parentbloggers@gmail.com and we’ll round them up on our blog. Don’t forget a clever or unique post title!
What can you win?
We’ve got a Kindle and a $150 VISA gift card - perfect for back to school shopping - to give away at random to one extremely lucky blogger! Two randomly chosen runners up will each receive a $150 VISA gift card too.
Check out all the posts below! We’ll announce our randomly drawn winners on Wednesday.
We’ve been quiet for a few months, enjoying a hot, busy summer, but we’re excited to be rolling out a few new things for the Fall.
Stay tuned for the first of several upcoming Blog Blasts with amazing prizes (a Kindle? Oh yes!) along with the same interesting writing topics that we hope will compel you to participate (and tell your readers and fellow bloggers).
We’ve got the first SEO webinars uploaded to Vimeo and will be adding the recent webinars from Tracey Clark (Photography) and Rita Arens (Writing) very soon. And we’ll be adding to our current library of webinars soon, so keep your eyes peeled for your invitation.
We feel strongly about our role in supporting the blogging community by offering FREE resources that you might not otherwise have access to. And we’re thankful that we’ve had sponsors, like Hooked on Phonics (and hopefully others) who were willing to help us out.
When we read to our children, they always want to see the pictures. So it’s not surprising that we gravitate to blog posts that use photos artfully to emphasize and enhance interesting subjects and compelling writing.
If you’re a shutterbug, you’ll want to check out this month’s PBN webinar with professional photographer, published author, and blogger Tracey Clark of “Mother May I”. She will offer tips on taking and editing photos and incorporating them into your writing. Whether you take on-the-go shots of your kids or you break out the tripod and wide-angle lens for full-fledged photo shoots, you’re sure to learn something new with Tracey!
When: Thursday, June 18 at 10am PDT/1pm EDT
Where: Right at your very own computer
How: Email us at parentbloggers AT gmail DOT com to confirm your plans to attend. We’ll forward an official invitation with all of the registration and login details. Let us know if you don’t get it or have any difficulties.
While registration really is a piece of cake, please email us before the actual date of the webinar so that you don’t miss a single minute.
Even if it turns out that you aren’t able to attend, that’s okay! You can always check out the recorded webinar on our Vimeo page afterward.
Any questions, drop us a line. Looking forward to having you join us on Thursday!
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Thanks again to everyone who participated in our last regular Blog Blast, sponsored by Pull-Ups Training Pants! Congratulations to our five lucky FlipCam winners, chosen at random by Random.org:
There’s nothing like potty training to send a parent over the edge - we’re all familiar with situations where we (or someone we know) refused to leave the house for fear of an accident and pooping in the potty is cause for celebration. Whether it was just a rite of passage or your arch nemesis, we want to hear your potty training stories - the good, the bad, and the stinky.
Speaking of potty training stories, we’re teaming up with the Pull-Ups brand and The Potty Project , a series of webisodes following the real life potty training adventures of six families with one goal: bye bye diapers.
Have you ever wondered, “When do I start?” or maybe “How long will it take?” Visit The Potty Project to follow these families towards potty training success and check out the tools and resources available to help parents (and kids) make potty training easier and fun!
Here’s how to participate:
Write a post on your blog about your potty training tales! Post anytime this weekend - today, May 22 to Monday, May 25 and include links to:
Make sure to send your blog post link to parentbloggers@gmail.com and we’ll round them up right here - so give your post a creative title!
What can you win?
Maybe you want to capture your own real-life potty project. Well, we’ve got FIVE Flip Video Cameras to give away at random (whoo!), plus a package of Pull-Ups training pants for each of the first 15 bloggers to send us a link to their post.
NO PRE-SCHEDULED POSTS. You’ve got to publish your post, copy and paste your permalink, and email it to us - anytime after 12:01am ET on Friday, May 22. Placement in the first fifteen bloggers will be based on the order in which we receive your emails, not the date/time stamp on your posts.
And thanks to all of you who participated in the Windex “Your Best View” Blog Blast (and shared your awesome pictures in the Flickr Pool). The winner of a $250 Visa Gift Card (picked at random via random.org) is Erin from The Many Days of the DiCarolis Family and her post “The View from the Top.” Please email us at parentbloggers@gmail.com to claim your prize!
For more information on blog blasts, as well as other exciting opportunities, add our feed to your reader or sign up for our mailing list!
We all savor those moments of contentedness when what we see before us isn’t a sink full of dishes or the amount due on our credit card bill, but a sight that’s truly a pleasure to behold.
It might be those bulbs you planted last fall that are finally blooming and you can see them from your kitchen window. Maybe it’s a rare moment when your children are happily playing together or a photograph album filled with vacation memories. Or perhaps it’s not even a concrete image at all, but your outlook on life or how you feel about your family. Tell us about your best view - what you envision when you’re happiest.
For many of us, our best view is right here at home. So this week, we’ve teamed up with Windex to introduce their new Outdoor All-in-One glass cleaning tool. It’s a quick and easy way to help see your best view more clearly.
Here’s how to participate:
Write a post on your blog about your best view and upload your photos to our Flickr pool! Post anytime this weekend - today, May 15 to Sunday, May 17 and include links to:
Make sure to send your blog post link to parentbloggers@gmail.com and we’ll round them up right here, below - so give your post a creative title!
What can you win?
We’ve got a $250 VISA gift card to award at random, plus a Windex Outdoor All-in-One starter kit for the first 20 bloggers to send us a link to their post.
NO PRE-SCHEDULED POSTS. You’ve got to publish your post, copy and paste your permalink, and email it to us - anytime after 12:01am ET on Friday, May 15. Placement in the first twenty bloggers will be based on the order in which we receive your emails, not the date/time stamp on your posts.
We all savor those moments of contentedness when what we see before us isn’t a sink full of dishes or the amount due on our credit card bill, but a sight that’s truly a pleasure to behold.
It might be those bulbs you planted last fall that are finally blooming and you can see them from your kitchen window. Maybe it’s a rare moment when your children are happily playing together or a photograph album filled with vacation memories. Or perhaps it’s not even a concrete image at all, but your outlook on life or how you feel about your family. Tell us about your best view - what you envision when you’re happiest.
For many of us, our best view is right here at home. So this week, we’ve teamed up with Windex to introduce their new Outdoor All-in-One glass cleaning tool. It’s a quick and easy way to help see your best view more clearly.
Here’s how to participate:
Write a post on your blog about your best view and upload your photos to our Flickr pool! Post anytime this weekend - Friday, May 15 to Sunday, May 17 and include links to:
Make sure to send your blog post link to parentbloggers@gmail.com and we’ll round them up on our blog - so give your post a creative title!
What can you win?
We’ve got a $250 VISA gift card to award at random, plus a Windex Outdoor All-in-One starter kit for the first 20 bloggers to send us a link to their post.
NO PRE-SCHEDULED POSTS. You’ve got to publish your post, copy and paste your permalink, and email it to us - anytime after 12:01am ET on Friday, May 15. Placement in the first twenty bloggers will be based on the order in which we receive your emails, not the date/time stamp on your posts.
From inherited traits like big brown eyes or a not-so-well-endowed figure to those quirks and pet peeves that rubbed off on us over time, for better or worse we’ve all got a little bit of our mothers in us.
For this Mother’s Day Blog Blast, we want to hear what your mother handed down to you. Did you get her eyes or her smile? Are you both terrified of spiders? Has she passed along heirloom jewelry or antique furniture to you? Tell us what parts of your mother are now a part of you too.
We’re honored to have JOHNSON’S® Brand as our Mother’s Day Blog Blast sponsor again this year. Their second annual Celebrity Hand Me Down charity auction runs from 7 pm PT on Thursday May 7 through 7 pm PT on Thursday May 14, featuring items donated by celebrity moms Gwyneth Paltrow and Jessica Alba. All proceeds will benefit the new global JOHNSON’S® NO MORE TEARS® Clean Water initiative via their well-known charitable giving site, Baby Cause.
Here’s how to participate:
Write a post on your blog about what your mother handed down to you. Post anytime this weekend - Friday, May 8 through Mother’s Day on Sunday, May 10. Please include links to:
Make sure to send your blog post link to parentbloggers@gmail.com and we’ll round them up on our blog - so give your post a creative title!
What can you win?
We’ve got two $250 VISA gift cards to award at random. Also, we’ll be giving a JOHNSON’S® product package filled with goodies for moms to each of the first 15 bloggers to send us a link to their post.
NO PRE-SCHEDULED POSTS. You’ve got to publish your post, copy and paste your permalink, and email it to us - anytime after 12:01 ET on Friday, May 8. Placement in the first fifteen bloggers will be based on the order in which we receive your emails, not the date/time stamp on your posts.
Writing well is the best revenge. You might recognize that saying from widely-read blogger and writer Eden Kennedy’s shirts. But when it comes to blogging, writing well isn’t only the best revenge. It’s also the best way to find new readers and keep them coming back for more.
If you want your words to be read and appreciated, you’ll want to tune in to this month’s PBN webinar with author, editor, and blogger Rita Arens. She’ll provide attendees with simple tips to help develop your signature writing style and voice, plus help you tweak all the nitty gritty from back in grammar class. Whether you’re looking to dive into the world of freelance, or just generate more traffic on your blog, her advice and insight will be invaluable to your writing process.
When: Wednesday, May 6 at 10am EDT
Where: Right at your very own computer
How: Email us at parentbloggers@gmail.com to confirm your plans to attend. We’ll forward an official invitation with all of the registration and login details. Let us know if you don’t get it or have any difficulties.
While registration really is a piece of cake, please email us before the actual date of the webinar so that you don’t miss a single minute.
Even if it turns out that you aren’t able to attend, that’s okay! You can always check out the recorded webinar on our Vimeo page afterward.
Any questions, drop us a line. Looking forward to having you join us on Wednesday!
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Speaking of potty training stories, we’re teaming up with the Pull-Ups brand and 
