MUGI – My Unique Gift Idea

Share.. If you did not read it in the Times, read it here. This year, the back-to-school shopping season is happening early. Birds, the worms are ready for you. Retailers and advertisers are pushing up the start of their sales and marketing campaigns devoted to stationery, children’s clothing, computers and other back-to-school merchandise. The reason [...]

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Share..One book publisher recently realized that children, even from the age before they can read, pick up cereal boxes from the breakfast table and scan the back of them for information and games. By replacing the games with an excerpt from a book, perhaps it will spark an interest in literature. Puffin is the publisher [...]

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Share..Born in Hong Kong in 1964, Jacqueline Fleming was raised and educated in Singapore and England. Having adventurous parents was a plus for an adventurous spirit – Jackie and her family traveled extensively during her formative years, and young Jackie began to form the well-fueled muse from which she would, in the future, draw to [...]

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Share..Every yogi parent would love to see their children do yoga, but beware, the surest way to get kids to run in the other direction is to force it on them, says Judith Hanson Lasater, an East-West psychologist and a yoga teacher. Realizing that children will rebel when forced into something, Lasater let her three [...]

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