November 2011

A Survey and A Free Christmas Sweet Treats Recipe Booklet

November 27, 2011

Since coming back from my trip to Blog World Expo I have had so many ideas about what I would like to do here on Planning With Kids. But before I begin, I wanted to get your thoughts on the blog and I have a created a survey to find out! I know it is [...]

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Christmas Gift Ideas For Kids

November 25, 2011

This post is part of my 10 week Christmas Preparation Plan for 2011. This originally was planned to be a post for Christmas gift ideas for boys, but I had a number of readers email and ask could I include Christmas gift ideas for girls too. So I have collated a list based on age [...]

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All Wrapped Up

November 23, 2011

There have been a number of lovely people recently, who have bought the Planning With Kids book as a gift for friends or family after having bought the book for themselves. I so enjoy reading that they found the book so helpful, they want to share it with others! So in the festive spirit, from [...]

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VTech Storio Review + Give Away!

November 21, 2011

Thanks to all who entered – Kim was the winner and has been notified – “The little girl who lives next door, her parents are alcoholics and don’t believe in Christmas”. This post is sponsored by Nuffnang. We have had the Vtech Storio for less than a week and I can already see it is [...]

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Books For 13 Year Old Boys

November 16, 2011

This post is a combined effort from me and my soon to be 13 year old son. He listed titles he has read over the last year that he thinks most 13 year old boys will like and gave me a brief description of each. (And in the true form of a teenager some of [...]

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Sugar Coated Peanuts

November 13, 2011

I was really looking for a recipe to make what we used to call Vanilla Peanuts. You know those reddy coloured sugar coated peanuts? As a kid we would have them every Christmas and loved them. I still quite like them even though I know they are a peanut simply encrusted in sugar! I couldn’t [...]

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Christmas Gifts For Teachers

November 11, 2011

This post is part of my 10 week Christmas Preparation Plan for 2011. In my Christmas in July series I posted tutorials for some handmade gifts that would suit teachers as well as other friends and family. In today’s post I am highlighting bought gifts that I think would work well for teachers. It isn’t [...]

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Getting Ready For School

November 8, 2011

Recently I have had a few emails asking about getting kids ready for school. I have written about it a number of times on the blog, so thought I would collate all the posts in the one spot, to make it easier to find the information. My overall philosophy with getting kids ready for school [...]

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Fish Burger Recipe

November 7, 2011

This week’s recipe post is actually from Heart Foundation. They have recently set up Mum’s United, which has the overall goal of helping to create healthier families in Australia: Mums United, have taken all of the confusion out of healthy eating and activity advice, by offering simple changes that can make a real difference to [...]