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TruKid Presents: PROJECT ECO-CRAFT

Making good on our eco-friendly promise, TruKid is launching Project Eco-Craft, hours of fun for you and your kids to enjoy while doing your part to create a healthier planet. Not only do we use co...

WE ARE CHAMPIONS!!

We here at Trukid are proud to be a compact signer for the Environmental Working Group. The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics just came out with their report and we are listed as a Champion!! Please r...

TruKid, Helping Kids, Help themselves!

TruKid is on a mission to help kids help themselves! They tend to do this when it is fun or silly or anything that seems not like work. We created our  TruKid Earn-A-Star- Checklists to help kids k...

TruKid Plans for 2011

It appears that we are well into 2011 and TruKid is off to a flying start. With the weather so beautiful lately in Oakland, CA; one can only imagine that it is nearly Spring! That means Summer is n...

TruKid, the kids, school, activities. What did I Miss? Yikes!

I manage all of my life "ok" most of the time. I now discover however, with my 6 kids in school full-time things are a bit more difficult. More schedules & details to manage; afterschool activi...

Final Holiday Accounting: kids handmade gifts were Fantastic!

This is the follow up blog detailing the experience and expense (and my time) with the kids making their own gifts for each other this year. Even as I wrote the initial blog and what each kid was ...

Holiday Gifts for Six Kids – Homemade Style

Holiday Gifts for  Six kids  – Homemade Style. It is that time of year again and I am trying to get my kids to think on the cheap for presents this Christmas. I also want them to get in the spirit...