Since early age, my son has been a very active and curious boy. Right after he started walking by himself I was in trouble because every appliance with a door or buttons was a target for him. We realized that electric plugs were a high risk issue so we bought safety caps that could only be removed with a piece of metal. Sometimes when I needed to use a certain plug I used to remove the safety cap, use the plug and immediately insert the safety cap again. I must say that the safety caps I used were very narrow and for the few times I forgot to put them back after using the plug my son ended up with them in the mouth and this scared me a lot. Although it never happened to my son, it was very easy for a baby / toddler to chock with one of those.

I’m glad George DeCell invented SafetyCaps. Having a daughter himself that chocked with one regular plug, he, more than anyone, knew the urge to find a safe electrical outlet safety plug.

Safetycaps have the ideal measure (greatest diameter of 2 1/3″) and have air holes to prevent kids from choking. This is a totally safe product that can save your kids life.

One whole house can be totally protected with only $10.99 (or for $9.99).

Thank you George for invented SafetyCaps that are really safe.

Those following my blog know that English is not my mother language. I learned English at school but mostly through a Correspondence English course and later on a Language Institute where I got some certificates from Cambridge University (English as a Foreign Language).

Nowadays English is already incorporated in 3rd and 4th grade, my son could have attended on 3rd grade but he didn’t because those classes are after school and he had to stay there a couple hours after school classes twice a week and I thought it was too much, however I think English is a “must to learn” language nowadays.

Last year I found a great online English teaching program that my son could attend at home but we had to pay for it, I’m talking about: Globalenglishkids.com (best view with Internet Explorer). My son did the free trial of 7 days and he loved the course and keeps asking me to subscribe to the complete version.

I’ve been doing a little research online and out of nowhere, without notice, last weekend I was Stumbling Upon pages and I came across StarFall.com. This is an amazing learning site that caught immediately my attention as well as my son’s.

This site is ideal for those that, having English as their mother language, can have their first contact with letters, sounds, words and sentences. It’s useful for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, first and second grade.

I took a look around the site and I also find it very useful and even excellent for kids that want to learn English as a second language and it’s free. My son loves the site and it’s a deal that in September, when school starts, he will also start leaning English at home with this program. Once my daughter is already in kindergarten I hope she gets interested too and starts leaning English with her brother.

The site has also available the StarFall Store where we can find high quality educational products.

I posted about this Shoe Wheel on my Buy Better and Have a Better Life blog but I though about posting about it here too because this gadget can be very interesting to store our children shoes.

This seems to be very practical and easy to use.

• easy shoe insertion
• expandable pockets
• tension control
• holds up to 20 pair of shoes (depending on the shoes)
• mounting is required but the instructions are easy to follow

Take a look at Rakku Designs site for more details.

I found a great and simple site where my daughter (nearly 4) can do what she really likes: coloring.

Coloring is a very simple site where you can find a lot of interesting and beautiful drawings to color. Coloring is done by choosing the color we want and then pressing the area we want to color. It’s excelent for small kids because the coloring area is already defined and at a distance of one click.

Although I don’t want her to spend too much time only due to her young age, I let her color once in a while. She already has control of the mouse and can change the color of a zone if she doesn’t like to result.

Some interesting things around my feed reader:

• Leave Elizabeth a comment and tell her what the most sweetest Valentine was that you ever sent, or received. She will then chose the 3 sweetest and those will receive a Promotional code worth $29,99 to purchase a box of thirty customized Fruit Rollups from My FruitRollUps. The contest will end on January 29th.

• Tina makes me laugh with her Ebay addiction. Poor cat.

• Lisa wrote a post about a Autism that everyone should read and participate. You just have to watch the video and the band the Five for Fighting will donate $0.40 to Autism Speaks.

• This smile just made my day. She’s gorgeous.

• Thank you Elizabeth, your post Getting it “all done” is so true. There is always something missing, I really want to get everything done but sometimes (or most of the time) it’s not possible no matter how much I really try .

This is the Portuguese version for the game: BUZZ Jr.! Jungle Party Bundle

This game is absolutely funny and is good for all family member. My husband is not very fond of video games but he has already played it.

Usually we prepare a sofa for Dani, Catherine and myself and the three of us have a great time playing the game. I give Catherine a little help once we have to have fast fingers and we always laugh a lot specially when the monkeys receive with a coco or a electric shock. It’s really funny.

My daughter’s most used present is this one:

This is a multifunction table with a small stool. All items you see were included in the package:

• Color pencils
• Wax pencils
• Several color inks
• Rulers with numbers, letters, images
• Several cups with Play-Doh in several colors
• Puppets to play with Play-Doh
• blank sheets to color

If you lift the top of the table you will find a kind of drawer to put blank sheets and other items you want.

This was really a good choice and worth the money.