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October 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment

One of the areas of this site that we really want to develop is our review section.  We want to be an honest resource for parents and part of that is providing product, site and resource recommendations.  Unfortunately, as we previously wrote about, we are parents with very little money so it makes it difficult for us to go out and buy merchandise just to write a review on it.  That is why we are hoping that companies out their that serve the family market will help us out.

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We can provide reviews and post press releases to our site if we think the content serves our community.  We can also provide you with a personalized review of your product or service in exchange for a free copy of what you want us to review.  Please bare in mind that our reviews are honest.   If you send us something for free but we don’t think it’s a good product, our review will reflect that opinion.  If you are willing to take the risk, please contact us or send us your sample.

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