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- Thanksgiving Tips: Best Way to Travel with Kids - Associated Content
- PeepShine features handmade kids' clothing - Wausau Daily Herald
- Playing Kinect with Young Kids: Exercise Patience - TheHDRoom
| Thanksgiving Tips: Best Way to Travel with Kids - Associated Content Posted: 07 Nov 2010 07:46 AM PST Traveling over the Thanksgiving weekend is a trying time for adults, and can be much more so if kids go along. Parents should consider some tips that offer various ways to make the  It's no longer over the river and through the trees to grandmother's house we go. Thanksgiving travel may require getting to your destination by air. This has always been an ordeal for families, but now with crowded schedules, long lines and enhanced security, it can become a nightmare. 1. Into the air: If you'll be flying with kids, do everything possible to make them comforable. Get started with plenty of spare time, and be and methodical in getting to the airport, parking, getting through security and to the waiting room. Be aware of all the security regulations. Games, snacks and nap time for the kids can make it all a bit easier. 2. Ride the bus: If your Thanksgiving destination is within two or three hours of home, consider a bus ride. Some cities have very efficient and a low-priced corridor bus trips that take you from downtown to downtown terminals. For example, check ou Philadelphia-New York City, Boston-New York City, San Diego-San Francisco and others. There are no long airport schedule waits, heavy security, baggage check and everything else uncomfortable flying has become. On the bus, the kids are not strapped to seats and there's more than blue sky and cloud scenery outside the windows. 3. Hit the road: If you and the kids go by car, you have the freedom stop for potty breaks and meals along the way. You can also load the car with snacks, water, games and stash the baggage in the trunk. If there are two adults, you can share driving chores. If your Thanksgiving road trip is for over 200 miles, you can overnight in a motel, allowing for rest and change of clothes. 4. Take the train: This type of traditional Thanksgiving journey is similar to riding a bus, and it gets you from downtown to downtown. Additionally, on the rails, you and the kids have more room to walk around, eat in the dining car and generally enjoy the scenery. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| PeepShine features handmade kids' clothing - Wausau Daily Herald Posted: 07 Nov 2010 02:24 AM PST A new clothing store in downtown Wausau is home to children's clothes you can't find anywhere else. PeepShine, which opened Tuesday on the lower level of Washington Square, is the creation of Patti Kittel, a longtime seamstress who has taken her ability to sew and created custom garments/clothing for children. The store will carry a variety of children's clothes, all of which are handmade by Kittel, who has 25 years of professional sewing experience. The quality of the clothes is what makes her products stand out, she said. "It's as nice or better than something you can get at Macy's," she said. Kittel decided to open the store after first selling her handmade clothing at craft shows and on the 400 block of Third Street for the past two years. Through word of mouth -- she has done no advertising -- the clothes quickly increased in popularity. The biggest question she kept receiving was, "When are you going to open a store?" While she had planned to wait longer, increasing orders made it hard to operate out of her home any longer. "I had outgrown my kids' bedrooms for storage of gowns and sewing and everything," she said. The clothing will include play clothes, rompers, jumpers, christening gowns and dresses. Play clothes will cost $15 or less, while the gowns will range from $35 to $50, she said. Kittel said she has more than 300 patterns that she can use to make an array of custom clothing. And if she doesn't have what a customer wants, she can make it. While children's clothes are the store's main focus, Kittel also makes bridal gowns and formal wear. For her, quality is the focus, and that doesn't change for her bridal work. "I require two or three fittings for a bridal gown," she said. "When you're paying for something, I want it to fit perfect." The store also will carry some apparel for women, including vintage clothing that she reworks to add a modern touch. Handbags, necklaces and some gowns are available, too. Kittel said she located her store downtown for several reasons, but it's largely because of the foot traffic and access to office employees who might need her alteration services. Because the store is in the middle of downtown, it's easy for people working in the city to drop off a pair of pants or a suit that needs to be altered. (2 of 2) And as for the name? Kittel said she called her son "peepers" and her daughter "sunshine" for years. Both pushed her to open the store, so the name is a combination of the nicknames that she hopes pays them the respect they deserve. The store will be open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday, with the exception of Wednesday, when PeepShine will close at 5 p.m. For more information, call 715-218-6868. -- Jake Miller, Wausau Daily Herald What's up with |
| Playing Kinect with Young Kids: Exercise Patience - TheHDRoom Posted: 07 Nov 2010 10:17 AM PST November 07, 2010  Playing Kinect Adventures' River Rush mode with my preschool daughter made me feel like I was careening down a river in real life. Sitting in a small confined raft, approaching a drop with no idea if it's 10 feet or 100 feet and wondering if you'll make it out alive or be laughing with glee on the other side. Kinect for Xbox 360 can be an extremely rewarding experience with young kids, but it can also push one's patience to its breaking point. River Rush is a lot of fun for my daughter. She loves all the jumping up and down to make the raft act like a cricket avoiding an angry shoe. It's physically engaging for her, which is a plus for me, and easy enough that she can grasp most of the simple body controls: jump to make the raft jump and lean left or right to steer the raft. Her favorite part comes after the ride ends and Kinect displays three photos snapped of me and her playing. It's like the final drop in Disneyland's Splash Mountain only you won't need a change of clothes afterward. A little camera even appears on-screen right before the snapshot so you can smile or strike your best - or worst - pose. Taking it another step forward into the social realm, Microsoft allows you to upload any of the scores of pictures you'll accumulate playing Kinect Adventures to KinectShare.com where they can be posted to Facebook or emailed to friends. Here's my daughter and I having a blast: For every fun River Rush game there was one filled with frustration for both of us, part of the Kinect learning experience for preschoolers, kindergarteners and other young kids. The Kinect hardware requires a large room to work with two players, a selectable option versus a regular sized room during the game's boot-up sequence. My room where Kinect is installed is plenty big so I'm playing under optimal conditions. Even with a large room there are finite boundaries to where the camera can keep its "eye" on both players. Moving just a little too far forward or back flashes a warning on the screen and then ultimately disconnects that player from the game. My daughter was getting frustrated with me continually telling her to move back or forward a little, and I grew tired of her not grasping the concept to stay in one spot. Another Kinect Adventures game where my daughter and I struggled to play cooperatively is 20,000 Leaks. This game puts the players into an underwater glass half-box where fish swim by and strike the glass creating leaks. Each player covers one side of the box which is three-dimensional including a front, bottom and sides. Leaks can occur pretty much anywhere on the box. My daughter was struggling to pinpoint the leaks within the three-dimensional space, especially the ones involving your feet on the floor. Sometimes she wouldn't move up far enough in the confined space to get the ones on the front glass, and other times she wouldn't reach far enough to the side for those leaks. After several attempted failed in-game coaching attempts I tried to reach over and plug the leaks on her side. The idea to "cross bodies" is about as reliable as "crossing streams" in Ghostbusters: you don't know what's going to happen. Kinect didn't particularly care for my actions and on two occasions actually "switched" our position. I'm trying to compensate and get the positions righted while plugging leaks, my daughter's getting frustrated and now leaving the Kinect area and our game is basically a bust. There are many rewards to enjoy with young kids while playing Kinect that reach far beyond Xbox 360 Achievements. Exercise patience, be vigilant with instructions and understand that there are limitations to Kinect that your kids may take some time to understand. What have your experiences been like playing Kinect with young kids? Share your Kinect with kids experiences in the comments section below. - Dan Bradley This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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