Road Trip!!!  What a great way to have a captive audience...pack everyone up in the car and head off for an adventure!  Below are some tips on how to have a successful family summer day road trip!

There are many fun filled activities in your own backyard.  Expose your family to adventures and build family memories and communication skills. 

Summer time family fun...that is what it is all about. 

Family hikes, picnics, family reunions, family trips, etc.  Here are some fun fitness activities for you and your family.  So, let's us see who is the fittest....the kids or the adults. 

Many family memories will be made by playing these interactive games.  Take the time to laugh and have fun making and playing theses games with your loved ones. "Let the games begin!"

Parent and Child Family Fun and Games Resources Center

  Are you and your family off to the beach or pool this summer?  Find that great water proof beach bag with lots of pockets or get a new one.  You can even make your own as a family craft activity using plastic trash bag, duct tape and cord.  Once you have the bag, you will need to research the beach, pool and surrounding areas. 

Once safety research is completed, you will need to go over safety tips with your child.  The beach and the pool are can be excellent place to build those special moments with your family.  It will take some preplanning. Most of all, you will want to make certain that your loved ones are safe.

Parent Packing List Day For A Day At The Beach

During the pop-up storms or when it is just too hot to go out side, have you ever wondered what you were going to do to help entertain your child?  Or...are you tired of watching your child sit behind the computer playing video games all day?  Well, these simple activities will bring you and your child closer together.  The below activities will help open up communication between you and your child.  You will build special memories together that each of you will remember for life!  So, clear off the table and get ready to interact and build a relationship with your child!

1. Super Summer Stepping Stone

Items needed:

• Cement
• Disposable foil tray
• Disposable plastic knife
• Special small object gathered throughout the summer

1. Cyber bullying behaviors are growing across the world wide web like a pandemic. The behavior is personal and pollutes peace of mind. Nearly half of American tweens and teens are being impacted by it. As children's computer skills begin at younger ages, so do their cyber bullying behaviors.

1. 1. Software: Consider installing filtering and blocking software, but understand clearly that proactive parents are the only real deterrent and the best resource for bullying preemption.  Block incoming messages from bullies by email address and IP..
2. 2. Central: Keep your home computer(s) in easily viewable places, such as a family room or kitchen.
3. 3. Example: Model the behavior you want to see in your child
4. 4. Communication: Talk regularly with your child about on-line activities he or she is involved in. Ask if their friends have received mean emails and txt and IM.  Children are often more comfortable talking about issues indirectly.
5. 5. Set Limits: Set firm guidelines for cell phone and computer use and monitor that behavior. Research shows teens spending more than 40 montly hours online.

Summer Art Decorate your Bike Make A Flag

Most Americans will be attending a parade as part of their Independence Day celebration.

If your bicycle is going to the parade or you will be in the parade, we've provided supply lists and how to steps to turn bicycles, tricycles, and golf carts into a red, white and blue mobile display.  

Flag making is an excellent way to celebrate a special occasion during the summer.  The next activity lesson from the Resource Center is how to make your own flag.  Great fun for the entire family.

Bicycle Decoration Materials

•        Red crepe paper streamers

•        White crepe paper streamers

•        Blue crepe paper streamers

•        Scissors

•        Tape

•        Bicycle, tricycle, golf cart or wagons make wonderful mini floats

  Independence Day Art Activity For 4th of July

Parent Tips Independence Day July 4th For Kids and Family

Personal Paper Fireworks Display  

 MATERIALS   NEEDED

2. Crayons of various colors, one must be black

When To Use : Who and Whom

Grammar and word use reminders, tips for the busy professional from the Resources Lesson Center .   Which is right?  

Who and Whom are two easily confused words.  

Question: For who/whom should I take this to the office?

Who & Whom Resource Rule:
Use the he/him method to decide which word is correct.

• He=who
• Him=whom

How To Reheat Pizza

 Looking for a solution for the soggy pizza problem?
Try this -- Heat up leftover pizza in a non-stick skillet on
 top of the stove, set heat to med-low and heat
 till warm. This keeps the crust crispy. No soggy
 micro pizza.

How To Have Perfect Deviled Eggs

Summertime means picnics. And picnics and parties call for deviled eggs.

About America’s Memorial Day

Memorial Day was originally known as Decoration Day because it was a time set aside to honor the nation’s Civil War dead by decorating their graves.  It was first widely observed on May 30, 1868, to commemorate the sacrifices of the Civil War soldiers, by proclamation of General John A. Logan of the Grand Army of the Republic, an organization of former sailors and soldiers.  On May 5, 1968, Logan declared in General Order No. 11 that: