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Babies might not be old enough to have any candy on Halloween, but no one can deny the cuteness of a baby in a costume.
If the weather’s nice, why not dress up your baby, pop her in the stroller, and take her for a walk around the neighborhood while everyone else is out trick-or-treating [...]

Just because it’s cold outside doesn’t mean you can’t have fun in the water!  Imagine spending a cold fall or winter day at the largest indoor water park resort in the Dakotas! The WaTiki Water Park in Rapid City, South Dakota has fun for everyone in the family.
Open year-round, the waterpark has over 30,000 [...]

Our special guest today is Elizabeth Kathryn Gerold-Miller, a Long Island, New York mother of four who blogs at The Divine Gift of Motherhood and (in her free time) writes as The Long Island Motherhood Examiner.   If you didn’t catch her first guest post here at The New Parents Guide, check it out now!

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Around here, we just love Halloween. 
It’s one of my husband’s favorite holidays–I think he loves it more than the kids do!  When Halloween falls on a weekday, he comes home early from work and immediately tells the kids to put on some comfortable shoes, because “we’re going to trick-or-treat until you can’t walk anymore!”  [...]

If you’re in Arizona and are looking for a wonderful place to take children (or grandchildren) up to age 10, why not try Enchanted Island?    Located in the heart of Phoenix’s Encanto Park, Enchanted Island has rides, activities, food and fun for kids of all ages.
Enchanted Island is offering a special fall rate of [...]

Does your family enjoy the great outdoors?  Even if your kids are too young for Brownies and Cub Scouts, you can still enjoy camping fun at Yogi Bear’s Jellystone Park!  Whether you prefer to bring your tent or RV, or rent a cabin, a parked RV or even a yurt, you’ll find your favorite kind [...]

It’s October, and if you have toddlers or preschoolers, you know what that means.  It’s Pumpkin Patch Time! 
Any child old enough to be able to walk is going to love a trip to the pumpkin patch.  We’ve gone on preschool and kindergarten pumpkin-picking trips many times with our three children, and there’s a Cub [...]

My family has been involved in Cub Scouting (and later, Boy Scouting) since our oldest, now an Eagle Scout, was a first-grader.  And now that my husband is in charge of the Cub Scout pack, I’ve taken on some responsibilities as Mrs. Cubmaster.  My duties include monthly trips to the Scout Store to pick up [...]

There’s no better time than autumn to visit the Memphis Zoo!  There’s a special event planned in October–the Zoo Boo–on the weekends of the 16th and 24th, but you can enjoy seeing more than 3,500 animals on any day of the year.   Through the end of October, the zoo is open from 9 to [...]

I think that just about every little boy goes through a phase where he’s fascinated by dinosaurs.  Many little girls do as well–in my house, the “Land Before Time” videos were enjoyed just as much by my daughter as by my two sons. 
The Dinosaur Museum in Blanding, Utah displays fossils from around the world, [...]