Your Child Naughty or Nice This Year? Enter Contest to Win $5000 Holiday Shopping Spree

Holiday Contests

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Everyone who celebrates Christmas knows that Santa always visits the kids that have been good -- rather than naughty -- all year. So YoYo, Afterschool and Bookworm, a group of family-friendly sites from the folks at Diapers, are celebrating America's children with the best behaviors by hosting the ultimate The Goodest Kid Contest ever.

The Prizes
The Grand Prize winner gets a $5,000 Ultimate Holiday Shopping spree across all three sites to choose lots of toys, sports gear and books. Ten runners up each will win a $100 gift card to shop at those same online stores.

Here's just the tip of the iceberg of wonderful products shoppers have to choose from this holiday season

Image from Afterschool.com

Image from YoYo.com

Image from Bookworm.com

How to Enter
Visit thegoodestkid.com and submit a short video of your child bragging about their abundant good deeds, along with your kid's top gift pick from each site, creating a sharable wish list to help friends and family shop for the perfect gift. 

Each entry will be judged on three things: creativity, goodness of child's deeds and enthusiasm. Hurry and get started working on your child's presentation now because the deadline for video submissions is December 16th. Winners will be chosen on or around December 17 so the winning kids will be able to go shopping before Christmas.



30% Holiday Discount for All
With a wide assortment of toys (YoYo.com), sports gear (AfterSchool.com) and books (Bookworm.com), plus a shared shopping cart, this family of sites makes it easy for moms and dads to pick just the right item for any type of kid on their list, no matter the budget. All new shoppers to each site receive 30% off one item throughout the holiday season.

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Thanks to Online-Sweepstakes.com for including this contest in their directory of current giveaways.

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Holiday Gift Christmas Duck With Antlers Kids Toy Helps Fight Pediatric Cancer

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Aflac once again is giving back to the community for the holidays and is inviting the public to join in. This time they've partnered with cause marketing conscious Macy’s for the perfect gift this Christmas season: a cute limited edition plush Aflac Holiday Duck that comes complete with antlers, earmuffs and a cozy red scarf. Available in 6" and 10" sizes, the cuddly soft plush stuffed animal toy even talks, quacking "Aflac" when you squeeze it. Making this even more meaningful, this year's special do-good duck was designed by 16 year-old leukemia patient Monica Sandoval of Winder, Georgia.

Monica shows off her 2012 winning duck designs, Image from Aflac

The best part of all is that when you buy these you're not only giving a child or kid-at-heart adult a novel holiday present or stocking stuffer that they'll never forget. Come to think of it you might want to get an extra one of these adorable ducks for yourself. Pediatric cancer treatment and research also benefits because proceeds go toward both treatment and research at the participating children's cancer facility closest to where each duck is purchased.

The Aflac Holiday Duck retails for just $10 for the 6-inch duck and $15 for the 10-inch version. These are available at more than 600 participating Macy’s stores across the U.S. and online at AflacHolidayDuck.com -- but remember they are a limited edition and this is the only year they will be available. All net proceeds go to fighting kids cancer. Since 2001 the sales of the Aflac Holiday Duck each year have raised more than three million dollars.

Aflac Holiday Duck 

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Aflac Holiday Duck 2012 Limited Edition is adorable & for a great cause

You can help Aflac in their noble efforts even more by attending tonight's fun Twitter Party. @MommyBlogExpert is especially thrilled to be one of the panelists joining @AflacDuck and @SheSpeaksup for this good cause event to raise awareness about pediatric cancer and the Aflac Holiday Duck. We're also giving away some great prizes every 10 minutes this evening including Aflac Holiday Ducks and Macy's gift cards.  Plus, Aflac is donating $2 directly to pediatric cancer research for every Tweet with the #AflacKids hashtag during the party. 

I hope you'll join me because the more everyone Tweets, the more money will be going to help children with cancer. All details are below. The Grand Prize is a $250 Macy's gift card so make sure you RSVP and participate to be eligible to win. Good luck and I hope to see you there.

Twitter Party Details 

Date: Thursday, November 29


Time: 9 pm EST
Hashtag:  #AflacKids

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Don't know how Twitter Parties work? Have no fear.  Visit SheSpeaks Twitter Party 101 to find out exactly how you can play along at this must-attend event.

Aflac’s Corporate Philanthropy

Giving back to the community is an everyday part of what Aflac does and they have been passionately supporting the fight against childhood cancer for 17 years. Over the course of time, the extended Aflac family has given more than $75 million to childhood cancer through the company's relationship with the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. See this Aflac Pediatric Cancer Infographic for more information. In addition you can learn more about Aflac’s part in fighting pediatric cancer here.

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Barbie The Princess Pop Star Movie Review

Movies 

Weekends in December -- both Saturdays and Sundays -- Kidtoon Films family matinees presents the movie Barbie The Princess and The Pop Star on the big screen at select local Kidtoons theaters nationwide.

MBE partnered with Kidtoon Films for this post

In this musical animated girls fantasy film overflowing with songs, dance, fun and -- of course -- fab fashions -- Barbie takes on the role of Tori, princess of Meribella. She's a kindly princess who loves to sing and dance but isn't particularly into her royal duties.

Then one day her pop star idol Keria pops in to the kingdom and the two girls discover they are similar in so many ways. This includes possessing a magical secret gift that gives them the ability to look identical. But changing places, they realize soon enough, isn't all it's cracked up to be. 

What happens next is a story of friendship and working together when things go awry. A charming feature that I think moms and their young daughters particularly will enjoy together.

A sneak peek at this month's feature film ...

Free Kidtoons Movie Tickets
That's not all. Kidtoon Films is offering FREE Kidtoons movie theater tickets valid through 12/31/12 to all Mommy Blog Expert readers to celebrate another month's quality family entertainment theater program. Note: Limit of one ticket per family. 

Barbie The Princess & The Popstar Giveaway
In conjunction with this month's special movie, Kidtoons is providing a Barbie The Princess & The Pop Star Tori 11" Doll to be awarded to one lucky Mommy Blog Expert reader. See How to Enter below for a chance to win this wonderful toy for your child.
  
Don't delay. Enter this family-friendly giveaway and be sure to grab your free down loadable Kidtoon Films ticket (one per family) good through 2012 at the Kidtoons theater location nearest you. Plus download as many copies of the two complimentary fun Barbie coloring pages for your kids featuring this month's movie as you'd like at KidtoonFilms.com.

Barbie The Princess 
& The Pop Star Tori Doll 
11" Doll $25.99 value 
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Ends 1/2/13

HOW TO ENTER GIVEAWAY

Just leave a comment(s) below this post. Contest ends January 2, 2013 at 12 midnite PST and is open to legal residents of the continental U.S. only. One winner will win ONE (1) 11" Barbie The Princess & Popstar Tori Doll selected at random from all entries and will be notified via email. Winner must respond within 48 hours to claim their prize.

Required (Mandatory) Entry

Simply leave a comment below this blogpost saying why you want to win this prize. Don't forget to include your email address, Facebook and/or Twitter contact info in the comment section so the winner can be contacted.

Optional Extra Entries 
Earn extra entries to win for doing one or more of the easy options listed below. Just be sure to return to MommyBlogExpert (MBE) to leave an additional comment after each individual extra action you do to confirm so we can record all your additional chances to win.

1. Follow @mommyblogexpert on Twitter

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4. Follow @kidtoonsfilms on Twitter

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You can earn even MORE chances to win each time you TWEET the message below, up to 3 times each day. Don't forget to return to leave a comment on this post with the direct link right after every Tweet you do so you'll receive an entry for each of your RTs.

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For more than two years Mommy Blog Expert has hosted Kidtoons family friendly monthly movie giveaways. So I was really sad to learn that this is the last month that Kidtoons will no longer be offering their unique screenings program for children in select theaters across the U.S. Stay tuned on MBE for news -- as soon as it breaks -- about a total remix that will result in a new children's entertainment program replacing Kidtoons in late 2013 or early 2014.  

Walk down memory lane with me and take a look at all the wonderful past Kidtoons movie reviews and giveaways on MBE including: Spookley Square Pumpkin, Care Bears: Share Bear Shines, Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas, Barbie A Fairy Secret, Little Engine That Could,  Strawberry Shortcake: Sky's the Limit, Olivia and the Great Outdoors, Thomas & Friends: Hero of the Rails, Babar and the Adventures of Badou: Swing Into Summer, Candy Land The Great Lollipop Adventure, Sid the Science Kid, Spookley Square Pumpkin 2011, Thomas & Friends Day of Diesels, Olivia Wintertime Cheer, Dino Dan, Barbie in a Mermaid Tale 2, The Gruffalo, Sid the Science Kid Backyard Camp Out, The Wiggles Big Birthday, The Gruffalo's Child, Chuggington Traintastic, and Welcome to LazyTown.

Each Kidtoons giveaway is unique based on the monthly movie offering. But, they've always been family friendly and wholesome for children, so don't miss out on entering the current giveaway and seeing the film in theaters during December.

About Kidtoon Films
KidtoonsFilms.com, a division of Cinedigm Digital Cinema Group, began bringing popular children's brands and entertainment for kids 2-8 and their families to cineplexes throughout America in 2004. Including Kidtoons final film showing weekends this coming month throughout December 2012, a total of 91 features have been presented, bringing a friendly, affordable and interactive co-viewing environment to parents and kids to enjoy together. 

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