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Beside-U Travel Bags – Safe, Secure and Fashionable #Giveaway
Beside-U travel bags are designed for both everyday use and travel use. Beside-U’s everyday, and travel friendly design makes these bags the perfect solution for any trip. They are attractive, reliable and just the right size for your personal or professional travel needs. Beside-U bags also feature a secure RFID ( Radio Frequency Identification) guarded pocket to protect your sensitive credit card information. That detail makes them my new favourite travel product. Let me tell you why. Beside-U Bags – The Name Says it All I love Tap & Go™, and Interac Flash Technologies. I use Tap & Go™ at stores where they have it available as an option. It’s fast and efficient.…
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Managing Your Child’s Kik Account
If you have a tween or teen, chances are good their phones have a KIK account. KIK is a third party messaging app, that allows users to send texts and pictures outside of their phone’s native messaging system. One of the many problems with a KIK account is that it’s difficult to track messaging by normal means. It is a private texting app that, in my opinion, is not extremely necessary if messaging and texting via the usual channels. What is a KIK Account KIK is an app that allows texting and photo sharing outside of a phone’s stock messaging apparatus. That means that normal means of looking at texts is out…
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Yearly Travel Check – Make All of Your Traveling Easier #travel
A yearly travel check can make all of your trips that much easier for the rest of the year. A yearly travel check in January is the perfect time to ensure that all of your luggage is in order as well as make sure your passports, insurance, and the like are ready for your next big trip, whether that’s a business conference or a family cruise. Yearly Travel Check – Cover Your Bases There are a few things you’re going to want to make sure are in order during your yearly travel check. By going over all of these things, you’ll be good to go on all your trips, and…
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Online Safety for Kids – 3 Tips to Keep Them Safe
Online safety is paramount for children. Kids that are old enough to use the internet are still too young to exercise adequate caution. That’s why it’s so important for parents to teach them how to make online safety a constant part of their internet experience. I could tell you stories already of both my kids stumbling across things I’d rather they didn’t see at all. It’s much too easy to accidentally type the wrong search term and suddenly be confronted with something completely inappropriate for children. Tweens and teens are no different. If you think that they know more than you about social media and engaging on line, then quite frankly…
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Netgear Arlo 4 HD Camera Set and Keeping Your Home Safe #ad #BBYConnectedHome
What’s more important than safety this time of year? Or any time of year for that matter? Knowing your home, or home office, is safe whether your loved ones are indoors, or out with you, can often be the difference between worry and peace of mind. That’s why this Best Buy exclusive Netgear Arlo 4 HD Camera Set is a must have for your connected home. I am a gadget girl at heart and anything that makes my life easier, with the help of great technology, makes me happy. This year I discovered a small gadget that synched with my iPhone and allowed me to check on my office…
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5 Home Safety Tips for When You Travel
Home safety is a big deal when you’re travelling. Your home can be targeted even during the daylight, so take a few precautions to prevent thieves from breaking and entering this time of year. By and large home safety during the holidays is all about prevention. Deter thieves from ransacking your house with a few simple safety tips. These 5 home safety tips will help you keep your home and your property safe while you’re away. Home Safety Tips to Protect Your Home When you’re away, home safety is all about making your home the absolute least desirable place to break into. When burglars see your home, you want them…
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After School Safety Tips To Keep Your Tween Safe
After school can be a bit of a scary time for parents. Our kids are home and sometimes we’re still at work, so we have to count on them to stay safe. This time can be a great test for their independence but it can also be a bit scary for parents. These safety tips can help keep your tweens safe until you’re back at home. [tweetthis]Some basic common sense safety tips that help your tween stay safe after school.[/tweetthis] After School Safety Tips – Basic Common Sense While all of these safety tips might be basic common sense, let’s face it. Tweens are at an age when common sense begins to…
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Carbon Monoxide Alarm Installation and Maintenance is Key for Family Protection
Carbon monoxide alarm installation is important for the maximum protective benefit to you and your family. Tragically, everyone has seen the stories on the news of families that simply don’t wake up. Entire households can die from carbon monoxide, a poison that many people don’t even know is in their home. Carbon Monoxide is a colourless, odourless and tasteless gas and it can be deadly. There is nothing scarier to me as a parent. Danger from carbon monoxide poisoning is not restricted to any one season. It can be lethal all year round. That’s why carbon monoxide alarm installation, maintenance and replacement are so important, and now is the perfect time to…
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Give the Gift of Fire Safety This Christmas
Shutterstock photo by Olga Kovalenko Fire Safety It’s the busiest time of the year. As soon as the snow falls the kids start building their Christmas wish lists and everyone rushes around trying to make the season magical. It’s a given, a tradition, and a blessing too to be able to share time with family, even to be able to afford to entertain, to create moments that are memorable and last for a lifetime. Everyone should be able to share the season with their family. With so much riding on the holidays every year it’s not hard to understand how things like fire safety get overlooked. The Kitchen Scenario: Has…
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Twelve Home Safety Tips for the Holiday Season
We had a strange event in our neighbourhood last weekend involving one of my children. A person we did not know pulled over at the side of the road where my one daughter was playing with a friend and started taking pictures of them. The girls had been out playing on their bikes, in daylight, after school. Normally I can see my child out front. That afternoon I couldn’t see her, nonetheless, I knew she was riding her bike, helmet on, safe on our street with a friend. But the safety I take for granted was taken away when the two girls came racing into my house to say a…