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Its always important to reward good behavior, as doing so will give a child incentive to behave properly in the future. Learn about three ways to reward good behavior at home with help from the autho...
When Jodi Carolands daughter was 3, she yelped out a blood-curdling cry in the middle of the night. Caroland, a licensed professional counselor in Troy, Michigan, rushed to her daughters bedside and ...
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This is a feature Zynga throws on every now and then. Usually happens about once every month or so, but it is active now for a limited time. You can reallocate 50 skills for 50 RP or 10 skills for 1...
A new mission comes to us with great rewards, plus a secret district reward. This may breathe a little bit of life back into the way Zynga does things. Part 1: Easiest job ever for an event: 1 ener...
Hey yall, sorry Ive been away. New business venture tore me away for a couple weeks. Im going to try to get back into the informative nature of this blog. In continuing with their back-to-back-to-b...
One mission ends and another begins. This one is very time consuming and without careful planning, you will be spending Reward Points to finish this in time. 9 parts, lets get started. Part 1: Job ...
We havent had a gifting event for a while and this one comes along in celebration of the 4th of July. Once again, 3 gifts with 3 tiers of mastery and there is a Grand Prize. A little something diff...
Just cranking out these missions now, but Zynga seems to be getting more user friendly on these. Minimal ask for helps, NyC based and multiple options for looting the needs. 9 steps to this one and...
It was only a matter of time that the new family feature got built into an event. Here it comes in the form of an ice-as-many-as-you-can free-for-all. There are 4 levels of mastery to the reward, e...
The next mission is upon us and the "Ask Mafia" requests are back. Not a bad mission though. Out of the 8 steps, 3 are pretty quick and easy. Part 1: Start off small - 2 requests from your ...
Those of you who have been following this blog since I took over remember my spreadsheets I worked out for the first 5 districts of Brazil. With the release of districts 6-8 yesterday, here are the ...
Here comes the first Mission after Zyngas promise to not focus on so many "Ask Mafias" and spamming mafias events. I need to say that I am pleasantly surprised. Not a single ask for help or...
After months of speculation that the Precious Gems didnt actually drop in Brazil, it appears the rumors were correct. Precious Gems started dropping from Robbing in Brazil and are pretty plentiful. ...
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