{"id":1745,"date":"2009-12-17T13:28:03","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T22:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parentingteensblog.net\/?p=713"},"modified":"2009-12-17T13:28:03","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T22:28:03","slug":"t-8-days-and-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/2009\/12\/17\/t-8-days-and-counting\/","title":{"rendered":"T-8 days and counting!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. Today&#8217;s the last day of school before vacation for my rugrats, and others around the country are being let out tomorrow &#8211; and you know what that means&#8230; only a few days left to shop, and also? The kids will be HOME for TWO WEEKS.<\/p>\n<p>I give it less than 24 hours before I hear the first &#8220;I&#8217;m bored!&#8221; But that&#8217;s Ok, because I&#8217;ve a WHOLE LIST of &#8220;Honeydos&#8221; for when they&#8217;re silly enough to say such things. You know, &#8220;honey, do this&#8230; honey, do that&#8230;&#8221; &#8211; it works for more than just husbands! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>One thing I&#8217;ve noticed about the kids as they enter pre-teen and teen years, is that while the presents get smaller, they&#8217;re more expensive! But here&#8217;s one for your (and my!) girls who are ages 8-14!<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/newmoon.jpg\" alt=\"newmoon\" title=\"newmoon\" width=\"600\" height=\"363\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-714\" \/><\/center>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s called the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmoon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">New Moon Girls<\/a>&#8220;, and there is an online community and a bi-monthly print magazine, too. The chats are moderated, and there&#8217;s a staff member online at all times to ensure the safety of the girls. It&#8217;s an ad-free space that&#8217;s by girls for girls, where they can share their thoughts, opinions, poetry and artwork in an environment meant to help boost their self-esteem, positive body image and confidence.<\/p>\n<p>You can get a 30 day free trial, and then it&#8217;s just $29.95 for a full years access, which includes the bi-monthly magazine too. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmoon.com\/magazine\/samples\/Nov-Dec.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">You can see the current magazine here.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>You know me, I&#8217;m all for safe and positive places for our girls, where they can express themselves and be the strong amazing people we know them to be! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmoon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">So check it out today<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. Today&#8217;s the last day of school before vacation for my rugrats, and others around the country are being let out tomorrow &#8211; and you know what that means&#8230; only a few days left to shop, and also? The kids will be HOME for TWO WEEKS. I give it less than 24 hours before I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138,140,155,160,171],"tags":[254,707],"class_list":["post-1745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-daughters","category-gift-ideas","category-holidays","category-pre-teens","tag-new-moon-girls","tag-pre-teens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}