Items tagged “Education & Development”

Chicago Market - Living and Giving Green - Chicago, Illinois (7/22/10 - 7/28/10)

Jay Cohen of Puzzled Inc. shows off some signature wooden 3D puzzles, glow-in-the-dark puzzles, and other unique offerings for 2010.

Chicago Market - Living and Giving Green - Chicago, Illinois (7/22/10 - 7/28/10)

Angie Wyatt shares information about colorful world of Timmy the Tractor with The Giggle Guide®.

Chicago Market - Living and Giving Green - Chicago, Illinois (7/22/10 - 7/28/10)

Clay Rice talks to The Giggle Guide® about his new book “The Lonely Shadow” and the amazing silhouette work that has been a Rice family tradition for three generations.

Reading bedtime books to children has been a parental routine for generations. However, in today’s media rich world, children are more likely to spend their evening hours camped out in front of a TV, video game, or computer. Help hibernating parents and kids re-awaken to the wonderful world of reading! Stock up on engaging books that entertain children, while keeping parents’ yawns at bay. The Giggle Guide® periodically recommends outstanding children’s books worthy of addition to retail bookshelves. This month’s selection, Bears! Bears! Bears!, is sure to generate some big family bear hugs!

Vegas Kids - World Market Center - Las Vegas, Nevada (8/2/10 - 8/6/10)

(LAS VEGAS)—July 15, 2010—World Market Center Las Vegas will have some of the country’s premiere trend forecasters provide attendees with a road map to the hottest and most vibrant selections of the year August 2 – 6. The programs, tailored to the offerings of Summer Las Vegas Market, will also highlight top items from the Gift + Home and Vegas Kids shows.

Mixing rainy days with children can be a recipe for disaster. When kids are stuck indoors, they get antsy, loud, and BORED! Cooped up kids are dangerous to family health, as they push just the right buttons to drive parents crazy, or at least to distraction. Retailers to the rescue! Help families quickly cool down the kids’ cabin fever with entertaining products from The Little Experience, eebee, GIANTmicrobes, and Buckyballs. With a surplus of tedium tamers on hand, your business will be on your customers’ list of “fun places to go,” and they will happily spend extra time and money in your store.

Baby Shop Hop announces the Baby Shop Hop, coming July 15 - August 15, 2010
www.babyshophop.com

Baby Shop Hop invites all Retailers (and Manufacturers) with online stores to participate in the mid-July Baby Shop Hop, a unique online event that is guaranteed to grow your business AND give back!

What is an online Shop Hop?

Contact: Amanda McKinley / (303) 817-8720

Shop Hop Productions announces the Baby Shop Hop, an online shopathon that provides Baby Industry Businesses a guaranteed way to grow their business while giving back to the community, and gives Shop Hoppers a reason to shop for a cause.

Contact: Amanda McKinley / (303) 817-8720

What’s Kickin’ is a contemporary boutique for the “Hot” mama-to-be and baby!

What’s Kickin’s owner, Carrie Cervantes has hand picked from the best designers in the industry, to provide for all pregnancy and baby gift fashion needs…

What’s Kickin’ Maternity and Baby Boutique is guaranteed to make any woman feel beautiful and comfortable during her pregnancy and beyond, carring a nice selection of nursing bra’s, how to books, diaper bags, and gifts; as well as a fantastic selection of baby/clothing accessories that are fun, edgy, and colorful!

“You have a gifted imagination,” is a praise-worthy complement that young children used to hear a lot from teachers and parents. Before the current home computer, video gaming, and iPod revolution, generations of kids were inspired by dawn-to-dusk outdoor neighborhood adventures and creative play with blocks, models, “army” men, tea parties, crafts and board games. Enthusiastic about these “good ole’ days” of playtime powered by active imaginations, Lisa Pearce and Wendy Scarbrough, both kids at heart, opened their Gifted Imaginations store last year. The store is a kid’s dream playroom filled with traditional wooden toys, puzzles, games and more.

Linda Byerline, matriarch of Happy Heinys, the family-owned-and-operated business that for over nine years has designed and manufactured reusable cloth diapering products, . . . quite simply does not take crap from anyone! I’m happy to know this highness of Heinys, as I greatly admire her commitment to environmental issues and natural parenting, her compassion and actions that help others at home and abroad, her support of made in U.S.A, pride, empowerment of other working mothers and her super-mom powers as a there-for-them wife and parent. Plus, seeing her makes me, well, happier!

I love working in the children’s business, but over my 30-year career in advertising, marketing and journalism, there have been a few truths about children’s apparel and juvenile products manufacturers that I wish would change. Many key people wear too many job hats, so their focus shifts from designing, sales, shipping, manufacturing, managing and more so quickly that the workday speeds away. That often means that the marketing hat sometimes makes no headway!

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