Honest Tea - Iced teas that are certified organic, 100 calories or less per bottle and just a tad sweet! As parents, we're concerned about how much sugar our kids are consuming yet we know they want flavor in their drinks. Here's a great option - Honest Tea products! They have a HUGE line of products including Honest Tea, Honest Tea Glass Bottles, Honest Kids, Honest … [Read more...]
Charlotte’s Closet – Look like Cinderella for a Fraction of the Cost!
Too Many Parties and Not Enough Dime? If you've got teen and tween daughters, you have parties to contend with. Whether she's going to Bat Mitzvahs or homecoming or sweet 16's or even if she's graduated to PROM!, at some point you're going to have to dole out dollars for a dress (or ten) for her. And while one isn't bad, if she's on the party circuit you could easily go broke … [Read more...]
Zact Mobile – The Smart Smartphone for Your Tween #Sponsored
Should You Get Your Tween a Smartphone for Christmas? Disclosure: We participated in a campaign for Mom Central Consulting on behalf of Zact. We received a promotional item as a thank you for participating. #MC One of the questions we hear from a lot of parents of teens and tweens is that they're not ready to give their kids a smartphone. If your tweens are begging you for … [Read more...]
A World Without Heroes Video Discussion
I had a wonderful conversation with Stacey Seguin, owner of paloozaonline dot com. She is a regular reader of tentotwenty and agreed to participate in a video chat about our respective perspectives on Brandon Mull's A World Without Heroes. Be sure and read my review of the book here, and let us know your opinion of the book in the comments section below! If you like our … [Read more...]
Princess Academy – A Review
Published: 2005 It's About: Fourteen-year-old Miri lives in a mountain village, where the community works together quarrying stone. Word arrives on Mount Eskel that the prince will choose his future bride from among the eligible daughters of Miri's village, but the girls have only one year to prepare themselves for proper princess etiquette and so must attend a princess … [Read more...]
The Hunger Games Trilogy – A Review
The Hunger Games, published 2008 Catching Fire, published 2009 Mockingjay, published 2010 I’m going to treat my review of these three books as a collective whole, as I do not see them as separate stories, but rather as one contiguous tale told with two lengthy bathroom breaks. Please be forewarned, there are SPOILERS. It’s about: Set in a … [Read more...]
