Sonicare toothbrush for kids

Getting little kids to brush their teeth is a never ending battle for parents everywhere. I have experienced the gamut from reluctant cooperation to sitting on a screaming kid and forcing a toothbrush between their tightly clenched teeth. (not even kidding!)

The Sonicare toothbrush for kids has helped stop the screaming and hiding in our household. They like the vibrations and music, they know nothing about the added plaque removal.

The Sonicare toothbrush has an ergonomic handle and two vibration levels, low for kids age 4+ and high for kids 7+, with two different sized heads for the two age groups. The toothbrush has a timer that gradually increases in length until children are brushing for the recommended two minutes. After a length of time a little tune plays telling the child to move to a different area of the mouth, ensuring they get to all the teeth. For the kids' entertainment there is an interchangeable front panel to keep giving a fresh look to keep them interested.

The Sonicare for kids is designed to bring kids to independent tooth brushing from parents help.

Trinity and Sam have really enjoyed brushing their teeth since we have been using the new toothbrush! I'm sold!

You can buy a Sonicare For Kids at Walmart, Amazon and Target.

I wrote this review while participating in a blog tour campaign by Mom Central on behalf of Sonicare and received a free Sonicare For Kids toothbrush to facilitate my review.

Microsoft Student Review

I was given the opportunity to review Microsoft Student with Encarta Premium 2008. Are there any products I review that I don't like? Yes, but it is NOT this one.

I played around with the features a bit, then I brought a couple of children into the mix. We had some competitions going to see who could get the tests (disguised as games) correct with the least amount of tries. The games, which are all educational, are limitless. I really have no idea how many there are.

We played a game about matching animal sounds with their animal. Easy, right? Do you really know what a Panda sounds like? How about a whale? Or a mountain goat? It gets more difficult as you play. There are all sorts of gross and icky bugs to learn about. We enjoyed all the different games teaching about states, such as jigsaw puzzles, match states with flags or capitals.

So there are lots of fun things. But what about the real stuff, like trigonometry? OK, I have absolutely no idea what trigonometry is, other than some sort of math, so I put my brilliant 18 year old son on the task of testing the software. He was none to keen on giving it a try if I liked it.

Pretty soon I heard some things coming from his reluctant body. "Hmm!" "Whoa." "No way!" "Sweet! It just told me two ways to solve this problem!" "Ha! I finally found a problem it couldn't solve!"

After an hour he walked away and gave me his verdict. Decent. That means it is beyond fun and helpful and is full-fledged awesome, for those of you who do not speak teen.

There are math tools, science help, search areas, help with several foreign languages, graph learning, and even several very wonderful tools for learning to write essays and many others works. I plan to use it to learn to write better blog posts. But I can't promise anything.

My final verdict is that this is amazing and worth far more than the $49.95 retail value. This would be great for your struggling student or your dedicated student. Or for your average blogger!

You can purchase Microsoft Student, which comes with a 75 minute tutor.com trial, for download instantly or the order the discs.