Super Parenting

 

Hey hey, all you future Super Parents! Are you ready for a super-duper journey into the world of raising an amazing Super Kid and a super awesome human being? Buckle up, because being a Super Parent means you're in for a wild ride filled with joy, discovery, and plenty of high-fives! First things first, being a Super Parent isn't about flying through the sky or lifting cars. Nope, it's about using your heart power to guide your Super Kid to greatness. 

Super Hero
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Just like superheroes have sidekicks, you'll be your kid's trusty sidekick, helping them learn, grow, and conquer challenges. Picture this: You're like a master explorer, showing your Super Kid all the wonders of the world, from fascinating bugs in the backyard to incredible stories in books. A super-duper part of being a Super Parent is teaching your Super Kid about kindness and empathy. It's like handing them a magical mirror that shows them how their actions can make the world a better place. You'll have chats about sharing, helping others, and spreading smiles like confetti. And don't forget, you get to sprinkle a little bit of fun into every lesson! Now, let's talk about the importance of super communication. 

The Gamer
by GKDStore

Just like superheroes have secret codes, you and your Super Kid will develop your own special way of talking and listening. You'll be the go-to person for giggles, heart-to-hearts, and even those tricky conversations about big stuff. Super Parents know that talking openly helps their Super Kids become super smart about life. Oh, and guess what? Being a Super Parent also means being a master of super organization. You'll help your Super Kid manage schoolwork, hobbies, and playtime adventures. But don't worry, it's not all serious stuff! You'll also make time for crazy dance parties, silly dress-up days, and building epic blanket forts. So there you have it, future Super Parents! 

Up-Scope-Submarine
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Being a Super Parent means filling your days with love, laughter, and life lessons that will help your Super Kid shine bright in this big ol' world. Get ready to unleash your superpowers of patience, kindness, communication, organization, and fun – because you're about to embark on the most incredible journey of raising a Super Kid and an extraordinary human being!

Create your own children's book

 

Create your own children's book, free. Make your child's story into a book or collection of story books. You can even develop and have printed for you other book ideas too.

Comic Books For Kids

Comic Books For Kids

A comic book can make a cool birthday party gift for the guest of honor and their party friends as well. One of my affiliates has put together a set of comic books, especially for kids age 4 and up that I would like to share with you, Mrs. or Mr. Party Planner. In addition to this collection of children's comic books for your little girl are also all of your little boy's favorite superheroes that are bound to blend well with any superhero party theme. 

Like their favorite superhero movies, comic books can provide a great way to promote reading on a long journey, or as a break from schoolwork. When I was young, I was gifted my older brother's collection of comic books and was so excited by the technology and science in them I grew up wanting to learn about the magic of electronics and robotics. The biggest takeaway from reading comic books to me was that in a way comic books showed me how important my worst subject in school, mathematics, was.

The curiosity generated by my comic book reading is what drove me to explore the field of electronics which led to a thirty-five-plus-year job in High Energy Physics at Stanford University. To this day I still enjoy designing electronic circuits on paper using the math I learned to make sure they worked before building the real thing just like the scientific geniuses did in the comic books I used to read. I am living proof that comic books can fire the imagination in a positive direction.

When it comes to comic books for kids, I am not prepared to say that all comic books are good for kids, I hope that the collection offered by my affiliate will offer just as much proof that not all comic books are bad for kids. Unfortunately, for me when my mom gave me birthday parties, or when I attended a birthday party of a friend, comic books were not one of the party favors. Talk about someone whose mind would have been blown if comic books were a part of the birthday party, to say the younger me would have been excited would be an understatement!

Whether your child dreams of one day working on earth-shattering experiments like I used to, or she or he, dreams of unicorns, your job as the party planner is to make it all happen and my job, after retiring from earth-shattering, is to try to make your party planning job easier.

Charlie Brown, Peanuts theme birthday part

Snoopy, Charlie Brown, and the rest of the Peanuts comic strip gang are the stars of this post for their birthday party decorating possibilities! The entire wholesome, lovable cast of characters is featured on these Peanut comic strip invitations, posters, and banners for your next birthday party celebration.

Charlie Brown & Friends

You'll find greeting cards, invitations, Peanut comic strip party plates, luggage tags, and t-shirts everything you need to decorate and invite Charlie Brown, Peanuts comic strip style. Treat your party guest to images of Lucy and her 5 cent Psychiatry booth, the little dirt magnet Pig Pen, or Linus and his fateful security blanket. All of your favorite Peanuts character images are featured independently and in a group on dozens of different birthday party decorating ideas. 

For a little boy that has been known of since the late 1940's when his name was first mentioned in a super early Schulz comic strip, title Lil' Folks, finally making his debut in a Peanuts comic strip in 1950, Charlie Brown, and his Peanut's Comic Strip pals have become an American favorite, loved by many different generations of kids. So, it should come as no surprise that so many different people still want to party with any and all of these recognizable characters.

 

Charlie Brown has matured a little over the years from the first age I ever saw listed for him, (4 years old). Over the decades I believe Charlie Brown has reached the age of 8. His dog Snoopy and the rest of the Peanut's Gang are ready to generate smiles on the faces of the guest of honor and party guest. Just about all of the Peanuts comic strip items you will see from my Zazzle affiliate party location can be customized with a name, personal message, or your organization's name/logo.

So, if you're thinking about party planning, or it's your job to come up with this year's party decoration ideas; think about decorating your party with one of America's most lovable blockheads and the rest of his Peanuts comic strip friends.

Hosting a Virtual Birthday Party for Kids

 A virtual birthday party celebration for your little one is the perfect way to share their special day celebration with friends and family near and far. Due to Covid-19 celebrating a birthday party for your child in the traditional way carries some safety concerns for your child and others. So I say if you have such concerns why not use today's technology and still make your child's special day an extra day to remember?

Friendship cards
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Since there are more than a few different video-calling platforms available start by picking the video-calling platform you like and feel comfortable with. The different face-time providers have different participant limits some as low as 8 participants (Facebook Messenger) and others like Face Time allow up to 32 participants. Explore video chat apps like Bunch, Air Time, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger Rooms, whoever you choose do a little research on them (google it) even give the platform you choose a test drive by trying out the virtual provider yourself.

Once that's done it's time to start thinking about sending out invitations to the names on your guest list.  Use e-invites to reach the parents of the children on your electronic invitation list and do your best to explain the virtual concept to anyone not totally clear about a virtual birthday party idea. 

Choose a theme, if that idea appeals to you, decide on party decorations, and set up a loose schedule. Choose a craft or activity that can be completed by virtual party guests while video chatting. Be sure to give the other parents a heads-up about what supplies will be needed in advance. Depending on the size of the virtual part crowd you're expecting you can also safely hand-deliver or send out party crafts or supplies to each virtual attendee.

Since many of your child's favorite superheroes, fairy tale creatures, and princesses have turned to technology to keep them safe, and active, during these shelter-in-place days. And, also have access to the internet in their kingdoms and secret hideouts. Given enough warning, (and a costume if needed) it is totally possible to have your child's favorite character make a virtual appearance in your virtual party setting, on your child's special day.  Decide on a gift, and for goodness sake don't forget to sing happy birthday!

Another good virtual activity is sharing favorite YouTube videos or watching a movie as a group. Of course, the guest of honor gets to choose the movie on a streaming platform like Netflix Party all of the virtual party goers will be able to enjoy a motion picture together and at the end, after the credit roll, chat with each other about their favorite parts of the movie. Consider dropping off small packages filled with a juice box, popcorn, or another fun movie snack if the attendees live close enough to where you are or suggest these items when letting the other parents know what will be needed beforehand.

My favorite is a game of virtual Bingo Tabletopia is a platform that offers over 800 different board games to choose from. It's a good idea to choose, or have your child choose a few games in advance to avoid spending a large part of your virtual time browsing all of the available options.

Bring out the birthday cake, encourage your child to make a wish, and blow out the candles. Keep an eye on the clock and do your best to stick to your virtual birthday party agenda. The Goal as always is to make sure your little birthday bundle of joy feels special and safe. 

Plants vs Zombies Party Theme

 If you're thinking about having a Plants vs Zombies Party Theme then this post will help you find decorations, wallpaper, and wrapping paper that will totally fit your theme. My grandkids were in love with these creepy little dudes (talking about the Zombies) when they used to come to play video games here at my house and most of the information I have now, I would have loved to have had it back then, especially when it came to birthday party time. Anyway, between this game at a later version called Garden Warfare, I got to hear about and learn about all of the creepy Garden Warfare and Plants vs Zombies characters and why my grandkids liked them so much.

When it comes to a party theme as I have pointed out in other posts nothing pulls your party ideas together like a good party theme so if this topic is on your party planning list let me share with you some of the little extras that just might come in handy. Things like wall decorations, wallpaper, and wrapping paper from my Kid's Party Blog Affiliate. There are several different kinds of zombie designs on the wrapping paper choices that are sure to bring smiles to your little party guest's faces. Kookie designs meant more to amuse than scare the fun out of you.

Plants vs Zombies
by GK Designs

Any of these cool zombie wrapping paper designs will help you set the party mood for this theme. Plants vs Zombies is a very popular video game and I was surprised to see how much fun the little fans of this game have bringing some of their plant and zombie characters to life with their costumes. With or without costumes enjoying the Plants vs Zombies theme seems to be great party fun.

There are Plants vs Zombie stickers that can be used to decorate presents, cups, even party guests.

Zombie Cartoon Classic Round Sticker
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The stickers are round and available in two different sizes, large is 3 inches in diameter and there are six stickers to a sheet, the small stickers measures one and a half inches in diameter and come 20 stickers per sheet. There are larger stickers, that are not round-shaped, that can also add to your Plants vs Zombies theme. The sticker that is shown below measures 3 inches long, and is 11 inches wide.

Guns vs. Zombies vs. Plants Bumper Sticker
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My favorite is the zombie wrapping paper because it can be used not only to cover a birthday gift but also to decorate a table, perhaps even some chairs. I see many different decoration possibilities when it comes to adding to a Plants vs Zombies theme. There are Plants vs Zombies party games, Plants vs Zombies banners, and birthday cakes, so whether you choose to look for Plants vs Zombies party supplies at Walmart or DIY some of your own have a beautifully creepy party for all of the Plants vs Zombie lovers you know and remember.

If your little zombie lover or plant lover would be excited and pleased to have their very own Plants vs Zombie theme birthday party, you will find a lot of the party decorations and party invitations you need right here. 

Charlie Brown, Peanuts theme

 Charles M. Schulz Peanuts comic is featured in this post for party, and room decoration ideas and to share a little fun history about the Peanuts comics and characters. It's believed that Schulz came up with the idea to name his comic strip Peanuts because back in the late 1940s Peanuts was a well-known term for children. In fact, when the Howdy Doody Show was first shown in 1947, they called their audience section for children the Peanut Gallery. The very first Peanuts Comic Strip was published in October of 1950 and the first- time people would read about good ol' Charlie Brown, Schultz's alter-ego in the comic strip. That would also mark the first appearance of Shermy and Patty in the Peanuts comic strip.

I grew up reading the Peanuts comic strip that used to come surrounded by lots of other comics I used to enjoy. Over the years I have had many of my questions about the Peanuts comic strip answered, questions like is Snoopy male or female? The answer is male which was confirmed in the November 1950 Peanuts comic strip. Another question was, why is Charlie Brown bald? I would later learn that Charles Schulz visualized his alter-ego, Charlie Brown, with very close-cut hair that only appeared not to be there. Somehow it did make me feel better knowing that Charlie Brown really did have more hair than the little curl of hair on his forehead I had always focused on.

Peanuts | Charlie Brown and Gang Birthday Banner
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How about you, did you ever have any questions about any member of the Peanuts comic strip family? If you're planning a Peanuts theme party of any kind, we can connect you with a banner like the one above, and given enough time your banner can be personalized to add that little something extra special to your party fun. There are also Peanuts theme invitations and greeting cards. Nothing ties together all of your great party ideas like a good party theme and this is one of the more popular party themes because the Peanuts comic characters span several different generations.

Charlie Brown and Gang Birthday Invitation
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There are also Charlie Brown and Gang Birthday Invitations to add to your Peanuts party theme idea and many other great party supplies for just about any party theme you choose. No matter how you slice it (the birthday cake) whether you are a fan of the 2015 motion picture, the Peanuts television shows, or like me, a fan of the old Peanuts comic strips, choosing to go with this theme is like choosing an American classic.

Peanuts
by GK Designs

With Charlie Brown and his Gang as part of your party theme, you will find a wide range of customizable merchandise that lets you re-live a lot of your favorite Peanuts character's most iconic moments. So, invite Lucy and her 5 cent psychiatry booth, Linus and his security blanket, the always dirty Pig Pen, Sally, in search of her sweet baboo, Charlie Brown and Snoopy to be a part of your Peanuts the comic strip party theme.