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Valentines Day

February is a month of romance and is when we celebrate Valentine’s Day. The history of why we celebrate Valentine’s Day is a bit murky and there are different versions of the story.

My favorite is the one that says Valentine sent the first one to a blind girl he befriended while in prison.

If you’d like to learn more about Valentines Day, here are some sites to visit:

The History Channel
http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/valentine/

The True History of Valentine’s Day
http://www.sweettechnology.com/theme/valentine.htm

The History of Valentine’s Day
http://www.theholidayspot.com/valentine/history_of_valentine.htm

Fun Things You Can Do at Your Child’s Valentines Day Party
http://www.thefamily.com/kids/valgames.html

Safe, Fun Things for Kids to do
http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/val/

Here’s this months collection of interesting sites:

The Largest Decorating Site on the Internet

I ran across this site by accident. If you enjoy putting wallpaper borders around the top of your rooms, here’s the site for you. They have an extensive collection of borders including Barbie, children’s and Looney Toons.

http://www.lelandswallpaper.com/index.htm

Improving Your Vocabulary

Here’s an easy way to improve your entire family’s vocabulary.  Subscribe to “Word of the Day “Every day you will receive an e-mail with the Word of the Day, its definition and example sentences from literary works, newspapers, magazines and other published sources. It's a great way to build your vocabulary for school, work or fun."

http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/list/

Personalized Birthday StorySong

Here’s a cute idea, A personalized story, sung with your child's name 13 times. They claim to have over 7000 names available and even include stickers with your order.

http://www.mystorysong.com/index.php?action=home

Birthday Party Ideas

Here’s a great site that I wish was around when I was growing up.  It’s devoted to providing ideas for unique, memorable birthday parties.

http://www.birthdaypartyideas.com/

Kids and Finance

Several years ago, I volunteered, with other businesspersons, to spend a day with junior high school students to help them grasp the reality of being an adult. The students arrived one busload at a time and went from table to table where they experienced various parts of functioning in the adult world. I was sitting next to the person designated as a local bank. (I think I played the part of the IRS, but I don’t remember.) Each child received a bank account to use during the day.  They were supposed to be prepared for us.

I couldn’t believe how many of them couldn’t do simple math. They couldn’t believe that myself and the other adult could add and subtract, in our heads, upside down. It was really eye opening to see how uninformed they were about financial matters

Here’s a site that helps them learn about managing their money. (Oh yes, it’s done in a fun entertaining way.)

http://www.jumpstart.org/

Just for Little Ones

My last site is located in England. It provides a fun, educational environment for kids up to 9 years of age. The site includes sketchbooks, coloring books and games.

http://www.artkids.co.uk/main.htm

That’s if for February. Our thought and best wishes are with the families of our astronauts.

Ron Nixon
RWR Innovations
We Make Reading Fun Again!

Issue: 02/01/2003 ISSN #:  1543-9275  

Note: The websites in this newsletter are listed because I find them interesting and have value to parents and children. They have not paid money or given me anything to be mentioned.