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Best of HONOLULU Family 2014: Services

  Best Group for Stay-at-Home Parents to Check Out EDITORS' PICK » Field Trip Friends   Are you a stay-at-home parent who would like to jazz up your routine? Explore the outdoors with other stay-at-home parents. This clever parent-child education…

Best of HONOLULU Family 2014: Party

Best Party Entertainment Sure to Make a Fun Mess EDITORS' PICK » Hawaii Nature Center Photo: Kristin Lipman   Go play outside and celebrate your child's birthday fishing, hiking and building terrariums, looking for bugs or customizing nature notebooks (the…

Summer 2014 Book Recommendations

AGES 8 to 12 5,000 Awesome Facts (About Everything), by National Geographic Kids Reviewed by Honolulu Family reader Jill Hamasaki and her 8-year-old son Noah, of Salt Lake. If you have an 8-year-old son like I do, you know how…

Editor’s Page: Best Time Ever

Photo: Karen DB Photography Change is good. It seems like yesterday that PacificBasin Communications acquired one of the Islands’ most popular parenting titles and launched the new Island Family Magazine, but that was more than five years ago. In 2012, we…

Good Reads: May 2014

Book Recommendations for Your Keiki—from Preschool Through Eighth Grade, Plus a Little Something for Mom and Dad. These books and many others for all ages are available at your public library or you can place a request for titles. You…

Make Your Own Colorful Piñatas for Cinco de Mayo

Celebrate Cinco de Mayo. Create festive, individual piñatas that can be used as decorations, or colorful treat holders for partygoers big and small. Materials: Colorful tissue paper Curling ribbon Toilet paper tubes White glue Glue gun Tape Scissors Trinkets to…

Recipe: Baked Chicken Tenders

Baked Chicken Tenders Ingredients 1 packet Hidden Valley Original Ranch Salad Dressing and Seasoning mix 2 cups nonfat Greek yogurt 1 cup low-fat buttermilk 20 ounces fresh chicken tenders  1 cup whole-wheat bread crumbs Sliced almonds 1 teaspoon garlic powder Pepper Olive oil cooking spray…

Recipe: Breakfast Pizza

Breakfast Pizza Ingredients 1 tablespoon butter Chopped onion Chopped green pepper Chopped Canadian bacon 1 12-inch prepared pizza crust 8 eggs, beaten Ground black pepper Pace Picante sauce 2 ounces shredded cheddar cheese (about 1/2 cup) 2 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro leaves…

Good Reads: March 2014

Book Recommendations for Your Keiki—from Preschool Through Eighth Grade, Plus a Little Something for Mom and Dad. These books and many others for all ages are available at your public library or you can place a request for titles. You…

Parent Tip: Traveling With Children

Heading somewhere for Spring Break, but worried about the plane ride and keeping the kids entertained and your sanity intact? Traveling with my kids became MUCH easier when we added iPads to our arsenal. They are a recent addition to…

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