Through Bzz Agent, A website that promotes products via word of mouth advertising, I was able to try The Factor Tree. The Factor Tree is a math website geared towards kids in grades PreK thru 6th grade. My daughter, who is in 1st grade and I sat down to check out this website. From a child's perspective, my daughter did not like the website. We have done a few learning website as part of our learning this year. Most website incorporate games into the learning atmosphere, where this one did not. When you first register, you do a evaluation. My daughter gave up on that part and I had to encourage her to finish it. In the end, she said she did not want to do this website anymore and only kept working as long as I required her to. As a mom, I think the initial evaluation was a little long. It seemed to repeat questions and while I understand its gaged to see where you are there were alot of questions that I didn't think was appropriate for 1st grade level (ex. identifying shapes). One thing I did like about the program is it provided a testing atmosphere. I know that my child is really doing math geared items, where some of the websites in the past we have encounter I had my doubts. Overall, I would use this website in our learning, but just would not use it daily. Interested in trying this website out for yourself.  Visit The Factor Tree and enter the code BzzAgent for a free 2 week trial.

Here recently I hit a blogging milestone. I completed Kelly McCausey's Blogging Internship. If you have never heard of Kelly, let me tell you a little bit about her. She's a single mom of a teenage son, and internet entrepreneur. Kelly's motto, "Working at home whenever I want.

One of the things that really impressed me with Kelly is that she has created the tools to help mom's work at home.

In today's day in age, blogging is the big thing, right?

A lot of my friends and family look at me like I'm crazy when I mention that I blog. They have no idea what that's about, they just know that I'm internet savvy. Well until this summer, I wasn't nearly as savvy as I am now.

There are mom blogs of every shape and size these days. Mom's of all walks of life are blogging, and I was one of those mom's.

I always felt like I was missing something.

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