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iPhone 5 Armband: Get it for Just $12

Plus get free shipping.

Buy an iPhone 5 Armband for just $12, a savings of 65% off the regular price of $35. Multiple colors available and free shipping included. Offer valid today only, January 14, 2013.

South Beach Diet Membership: 70% Off

Get six months for just $39.

Get a six month membership to South Beach Diet for $39, a savings of 70%. Includes recipes and personalized meal planner. Limit 3. Valid through January 29, 2013.

Peaceful Parents, Happy Kids

How to Stop Yelling and Start Connecting

Are you a screamer who wishes that you could just calmly and effectively help your kids without raising your voice? Maybe your own parents yelled at you all the time and you know you don’t want your child to feel the same way you did. Or maybe you don’t yell, but you use punishments like time-outs and taking away toys that just don’t feel right to you on principle. What can you turn to when your child won’t stop hitting or calling names?

Great news for Boy Scouts

It looks like there is movement in the right direction.

Ever since my family found out about how the Boy Scouts discriminate against gay boys and men, we decided to cease supporting them in any fundraisers or other activities that they do. I hate to say no to a kid working hard to earn his badges, but I think it’s important.

Parenting is not a side job

Our culture, however, loves to make it sound like one.

While reading Time’s list of 50 Best Websites of 2012, I cringed to find not only no blogs about attachment parenting, peaceful alternatives to discipline, or any kind of connection-building with children in the “Family and Kids” section, but instead a website called “Mommyish,” which features confessional type stories about parents who leave their infants for vacation or refuse to breastfeed just because

Give kids freedom to foster creativity

Locked up kids just can’t be creative—and then they can’t solve global problems, either.

If there’s a single trait that is valued most by leaders and scientists, business people and employers, it’s creativity. Everyone is born creative; we simply lose our creativity as we are forced to conform to societal standards. You there reading this—you are creative regarding something. Maybe it’s arranging flowers or planning parties, telling tall tales or building things with metal or wood.

Hot Sulfur Springs

Spectauclar views and seclusion in Grand County, Colorado

To continue with the theme of hidden gems while visiting Colorado, I’m going to let you in on a little secret: There are a lot more natural hot springs in Colorado than just Glenwood and Idaho Springs. Some exist at the end of long backpacking ventures, while others just seem to be hidden in plain view.

The 106th Millrose Games are going to be incredible

Solid running action to get excited about at this year's annual games

Though the Millrose games have seen some unexpected twists in their time, with none being as potentially damaging as losing their home at Madison Square Garden, they are still kicking. As we get set for the 106th running of the games, there is a lot of solid running action to be excited about.

2013 Seattle Wedding Show

Seattle's annual wedding show features everything blushing brides-to-be need for their big day

True, it's early January and the new year is young, but that's not the mentality of brides-to-be and prospective bridal retailers. Spring is the season of love and afternoon garden weddings all over the Puget Sound. Maybe you're a blushing bride-to-be. Maybe you're a future maid of honor. Maybe you're a future wedding guest. Or maybe, you are simply crazy about weddings and everything they entail.

Got the running bug?

Tips for new runners

 

More and more people are catching the running bug because of friends and family who are healthy, happy and running consistently. Those who are just beginning their running kick often wonder where to start. Speed, distance, gear and techniques are all important components to know and have before you begin. Here are a few tips for new runners.

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