Author: Erin Sluka

Giveaways, Infant Toddler Products, Kids

Suzy Snooze is a Smart Night Light with Sleep Soother and Baby Monitor

Erin Sluka

Welcome to the Suzy Snooze Review and Giveaway

As a busy Mom I do not fall asleep easily. I suppose you can say I relate to a busy Baby in just simply having nights where you cannot drift off so easily. I downloaded a meditation sound app and I can put my sleep phones on and hit play and I am out in no time. The specific sounds and music really do help put my body and mind into sleep zone and I sleep better now. The same idea can help your baby sleep better also.

Babies and toddlers have been going to sleep to music mobiles and lullaby toys for decades and I realize for myself that not just any white noise will do. It is a pitch, volume and tone combination that when done right puts you to sleep fast. The Suzy Snooze Smart Night Light, Sleep Soother and Baby Monitor with Audio from BleepBleeps has that perfect fall-asleep-fast soothing audio for kids (and adults too). Even my 10 year old is out fast with his Suzy Snooze!

  • Audio Baby Monitor on your Smartphone: listen in live with high definition, secure audio
  • Gets your kids to sleep at bedtime: A baby sound machine with ambient sounds for sleep, lullabies for kids, and a noise machine – Suzy is the cutest sound machine baby shusher.
  • Keeps children asleep all night: low energy LED night lamp stays cool to the touch and the soft, orange LED night light can also play sleep sounds (like a white noise machine baby shusher) with running music all night.
  • Tells your toddler when it’s time to get up! in the morning Suzy’s LED wake up light gently switches off and she raises her magic hat. That means it’s ok for children to get out of bed too.
  • Sleep enducing sound and music sequences
Buy your Suzy Snooze on Amazon

The Giveaway

1 lucky reader will win a Suzy Snooze of their own ($79.97 ARV). The Gleam giveaway is hosted by BleepBleeps. They will gather entries and contact winner. Giveaway ends on March 10, 2019. Open to USA ages 16+. Good luck!

Win A Suzy Snooze Smart Nightlight, Sleep Soother & Baby Monitor #17

Comment: I was sent a Night Light at a deep discount for feature. All opinions are my own

Books Reviews, Children's Books, Education, Healthy Living, Kids

A Self-Help Kid’s Coloring Book for Overcoming Anxiety, Anger and Stress

Erin Sluka
A Self-Help Kid’s Coloring Book for Overcoming Anxiety, Anger and Stress

Angry Octopus Color Me Happy, Color Me Calm

When a tool is in the form of books and toys it makes teaching emotional skills and mindset strategies much easier with kids. In a coloring book such as this you get fun lessons filled with simple strategies to self-soothe, manage anger, overcome anxiety and improve emotional intelligence.

Angry Octopus Color Me Happy, Color Me Calm is more than a simple coloring book. The pages are exercises to help parents, teachers, or counselors guide children ages 4-11 to manage BIG feelings.

Sometimes putting your feelings in writing or drawings helps us feel better. This is much better than tantrums, meltdowns, or outbursts. There are 76 pages and more below:

  • Dozens of coloring pages designed for children.
  • Underwater Scenes, Garden Designs, Angry Octopus, and Friends, and a Mandala.
  • Each coloring page is designed to help relax, motivate, and introduce an anger or stress management technique in a playful manner.
  • The variety of pages increases emotional intelligence while offering something for every skill level.
  • Each coloring page is on a separate sheet with light-hearted text on the opposite page.
  • User-friendly for children, parents, classrooms, homeschoolers, and private practice.
  • Perfect add on to the Stress Free Kids Curriculum and Lesson Plans.
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Find more books, music and activities by visiting Stress Free Kids

Comment: I was sent a copy of the book for review. All opinions are my own.

Apps, Parenting

Qustodio: Internet Parental Control App for all devices

Erin Sluka

Qustodio: Internet Parental Control App

We are in the thick of a booming digital world. It is all around us as we shop, communicate and learn. It is also a big part of our children’s lives as they communicate and learn as well. This is all new to us and we are the first generation of parents learning about this technology so that we can keep our kids safe and healthy as they are online.

Qustodio provides powerful monitoring tools and parental controls that do all of the thinking and tracking for us. Qustodio is for things like screen time, adult content and games. I use it for my 10 year old!

The best way for me to show you what Qustodio can do is to run down a few screen shots form my son’s activity summary. For this I am showing you his tablet activity during a weekend we went on a road trip to the coast and he was in the back seat with headphones.

I cannot see his tablet while driving and I cannot hear what he is doing when he has his headphones on for driving so Qustodio is great as I can see what he is doing right away.

Here you see that Anthony spent the most time watching YouTube videos and also looked at something on Amazon and Search (Google). The Facebook shows because a video he was watching had a contest he asked me to click and it took us to Facebook. He does not have a Facebook account himself. Because he does not have a Facebook account I showed you a Qustudio-branded shot of what the social media monitoring looks like a few photos up.

About that Google search I saw in his activity dashboard? I can see the pages he went to. Looks like he was looking at Fortnite articles.

Each time he was active on his tablet I can see where he was located. It’s like a little GPS tracker which is great when he is with friends and I can track his phone usage and see where he is as he uses his phone. The ‘unknown’ locations say that because we were driving to the coast and reception/GPS is spotty plus we are moving at highway speeds.

Once we got to our destination it picked up tracking again. What is the full list of Qustodio features?

  • Block inappropriate content with our smart web filters
  • Limit games and apps and block inappropriate ones
  • Track your children’s Android or iOS device on a map
  • Manage and limit your children’s screen time by device
  • Monitor their activity on social networks
  • Monitor and block your children’s calls on Android
  • Qustodio works on desktops, laptops, tablets and smartphones.

There are THREE plans to choose from. They range from about $4.50/month to about $11.40 for a large amount of devices in large families.

START HERE!

Comment: I was given a membership subscription for feature. Opinions are my own

2019 Valentine's, Food/Beverage, Travel

High Camp Flask is a Thermos Flask with 2 Magnetic Tumblers

Erin Sluka

High Camp Flask is a Thermos Flask with 2 Magnetic Tumblers

Living in Washington State we get some fantastic snow in our ski resorts in the Cascade Mountain Range. There are several resorts, but the one I have been to most often is Mt. Baker.

I went to college in Bellingham, Wa and Mount Baker was not a far drive. With snowboards in tow and friends from school we spent much time on the mountain. What made the trip more bearable on cold, winter days was a thermos flask and some Amaretto and Port. That sounds a bit off to me in my older days now, but being young and on a cold mountain that combination warms you from the inside out. No one ever really overdid it by drinking this. We would all just put a bit in our flask and take a drink on the lift chair when we needed to warm up.

Having a flask when hiking, skiing or working in the cold can be the difference from calling it a day or stopping only to warm up and keep going. Maybe you are more of a hot cocoa or coffee drinker, but no matter what beverage you take along this High Camp Firelight Flask keeps liquids hot or cold for up to 24 hours!

The Firelight Flask holds 750ml, the perfect size for an entire bottle of spirit or wine. The magnetic tumblers and flask are forged from BPA- and phthalate-free 18/8 stainless steel.They are built like your favorite bar glass with 6-Shooter designed grooves for a no-slip grip!

Visit High Camp Flasks to order yours today and get outside for the day (or night)!

Comment: I was sent a flask for original review. All opinions are my own