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The turkey may be trotting its way toward us, but it’s the holiday freight train coming at us at full speed that has most of our attention. Whether you’re planning your Thanksgiving menu or booking your holiday performances, visits with Santa or route of Atlanta’s best neighborhood light shows, we’ve got you covered. Keep reading for everything you need to know about the weekend ahead. Photo by iStock Book Your Holiday Shows Now Is it just us or is there a little extra jingle in our steps this holiday season? If you’re feeling festive and are ready to fill your...

Fact: Kids love to receive mail. Nurture your child’s developing brain with a baby toy subscription box of educational (and fun!) toys that build physical, social and cognitive skills. Here are 5 subscription services that make it easy for you by delivering age-appropriate developmental toys straight to your door. photo: Lovevery Lovevery Age group: Birth to 4 years What you get: With this Montessori-inspired subscription box, you receive a box every 2-3 months (depending on your child's age). Designed by child development experts, the toys inside are designed to build brain development and nurture and encourage your child at every...

As my regular readers know, I’m a round-one judge for the Cybils Awards in the Poetry category. Because of that, I’ve been reading tons of verse lately! I’m not allowed to share any details about our process for choosing the finalists, but I am allowed (and encouraged) to review the books as I read, so I figured I’d share four of them with you today. I hope these bite-sized reviews will be enough to feed your fiction addiction! The Seventh Raven by David Elliott Illustrator: Rovina Cai Published by Clarion Books on March 16, 2021 Genres: Fantasy, Retellings, Verse, Young...

Here are today’s deals on toys and fun kids’ stuff (11/10): Get Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Game for Nintendo Switch for $36.44 (BEST price!)   Walmart has a bunch of Disney Princess dolls (looks like they are Barbie sized) for $5. Get 3 Lite-Brite Ultimate Classics for $8.08 each shipped with Prime from Amazon. Add 3 to your cart and one will come off at checkout. Get these gaming headphones for $12 shipped with Prime from Amazon when you clip the $5 off coupon. Lots of great reviews! LEGO Classic Bricks and Animals Building Set (1,500 Pieces) — $29 from Walmart. Here...

The Trump administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced that it’s discontinuing or scaling back recreational, legal, and educational services for detained unaccompanied migrant minors. That means a loss of soccer games, a loss of English classes, and a loss of legal aid. The request will undoubtedly make life worse for the thousands of immigrant children detained in HHS facilities, but the department claims it does not have the funds to continue services and must instead prioritize “safety.” But let’s not kid ourselves. If Trump wanted migrant children to be cared for, they would be cared for....