NewsHerald.com: Meredith Bush plans on putting the $10,000 saving bond towards college – or maybe a car – if she wins the third annual Bubble Wrap Competition for Young Inventors. The 12-year-old inventor created a system for helping her grandmother remember what pills to take and when to take them using Bubble Wrap. “I made […]
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The Record-Courier: Meneley teacher Cathy Hackler, organizer of the school’s annual invention convention, said the event gives students the opportunity to problem solve and look at the world in new ways. “Students were asked to think about problems in their lives, or in the life of someone they knew, that could be solved with an
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Los Angeles Times: Painting a jungle mural from a kit in the bedroom of her new twin grandchildren was giving the artist in Patricia Newton a pain in the neck. Why was the lion frowning? What was with the toucan’s backward ankles? And, darn, that monkey was ugly! The former Walt Disney Imagineering designer couldn’t
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The Dallas Morning News: If there’s a tween girl in your household, chances are you’ve heard of the latest rage: magnetic bottlecap necklaces. What most Dallasites probably don’t realize is that they’re made right here, the brainchild of a Hockaday student. Maddie Bradshaw, now 12, was doodling one summer when she came up with creative
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USA TODAY: Reining in holiday spending gets complicated when your young children really believe that reindeer are involved. It’s one thing to tell teenagers that money is tight this year and there will be slim pickings under the tree. But kids who still believe in Santa Claus see Christmas a bit differently. After all, Santa
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When you have children, you end up with an endless supply of clothing. Nothing multiplies like piles of kids clothes when it’s time to do laundry. That doesn’t even account for the variety of styles that the clothing comes in. In this day and age, the children are almost as stylish as their parents. Laura
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Washington Post Magazine: Kendra LaDuca’s eureka moment came while she was pushing a grocery cart through the aisles of a Costco seven years ago. As she scanned the shelves, her infant daughter leaned over and started chewing on Kendra’s leather watchband. “She was slobbering on my arm, and I just let her because she was
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New York Post: Topher McGibbon’s 18-month-old enterprise, Kid Car NY, has a loyal clientele and a lengthy waiting list. But when he started out, McGibbon literally couldn’t give his services away. Kid Car is a taxi service designed for parents of infants and young children, offering minivans kitted out with professionally installed car seats and
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Northside Chronicle: Tapping into the inner child is important for every adult, just ask Florence Forrest. For about four years Ms Forrest has been manufacturing soft designer toys through her home business Flying Star Toys. “I make my products for the inner child in everyone, they are not necessarily for children who want to play
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As the times change, so do the styles we dress our babies in. When little blue bears were common place for baby boys, that is being replaced with a Rolling Stones t-shirt. Psycho Baby is on top of the shift in these styles as they continue to stock their store, online and offline, with a
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