Category: Kidd Stuff

Friday, November 27, is the unofficial/official start to the holiday shopping season. Stores open up in the dark hours of twilight enticing customers with slashed prices and bundled deals. Some stores slash prices so low that the store doesn’t even make a profit- it’s all just to get sleepy, discount hungry customers in their doors. …

  The NFL Code of Conduct states that “All persons associated with the NFL are required to void ‘conduct detrimental to the integrity and public confidence in the National Football League’. This requirement applies to players, coaches, other team employees, owners, game officials and all others privileged to work in the NFL.” In April of …

Since 1939, with the first national publication about Halloween, as well as the real beginning of the trick-or-treating tradition, Halloween has essentially been exactly the same, year after year. Kids and teens dress up in their favorite costumes, run around their neighborhoods knocking on doors asking for candy, and houses are decorated in orange and …

To start off, I’ll explain that Peace One Day is a non-profit organization that started out in 1999 with the objective of institutionalizing the date September 21st as Peace Day, which supports ceasefire and non-violence. The United Nations jumped on board in 2001 and used their influence to spread the word of Peace Day and …

Australia has always been a little ahead of our time (pun intended), and now they may have come up with a way to decrease the number of shark attacks in specific areas. Between the increasing reports of shark attacks along the Caroline coast and the sensationalism of such attacks by the media, we’re all feeling …

Social media has been developing faster than ever. The traditional “word-of-mouth” publicity has been replaced by “word-of-web”. Social media not only links you and your friends, but also provides companies an interactive way to communicate with consumers. The most active age group on social media is generation Y, also known as the Millennials, who were …

In school, Americans were taught that the first Thanksgiving occurred when the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock and shared a meal with the Native American Indians. However, some historians claim that the real first Thanksgiving was celebrated in St. Augustine in 1565, when the Spanish landed ashore and shared a meal with the native Timucuan …

Imagine feeling a gentle buzz on your wrist to notify you that you received a text message. Imagine working out and knowing your exact heart rate and how far you’ve moved immediately at your fingertips. Imagine running into the store to buy something in a hurry and simply swiping your wrist by the machine in …

With the arrival of October come certain expectations: people foaming at the mouth for Starbucks’ caloric pumpkin spice latte, the overabundance of yoga pants paired with Uggs, and the NFL’s breast cancer awareness campaign. This year I watched my favorite team, the Green Bay Packers, play against (and demolish) the Minnesota Vikings on October 1st, …