Blogiversary Contest (May 2009)

PhD in Parenting is one year old and I want to give you a chance to celebrate with me by winning some great prizes.

Important!! I have been told that some people cannot see the instructions on how to win the prizes at the bottom of this page, so I reposted the instructions here: Re-post of Scavenger Hunt Questions.

What you can win

There are some fabulous prizes to give away! I’m very thankful to the companies that donated these prizes for the contest. I’m sure you’ll agree that they are great.

Prize # 1: Beautiful Ring Sling from Sakura Bloom WINNER: Melanie C.

Sakura Bloom is donating a Silk Essential sling in Licorice~Slate which usually sells for US$198.  Dedicated to making the world’s finest baby carriers out of exquisite natural fibers – Organic Irish linens, Indian dupioni silks, and southeast Asian wild silks – Sakura Bloom is committed to simplifying and beautifuing modern parenting. All Sakura Bloom slings are made in the USA; these are hand-crafted artisan baby slings with simple, classic lines that will last from the newborn stage through the toddler years.

Sakura Bloom slings are available directly from Sakura Bloom as well as many international retailers, including Belly Laughs in Canada.

This prize is available to participants in Canada and the United States.

Prize #2: Enhance-me magical photo portrait WINNER: Amy B.

Enhance-Me creates Magical Photo portraits from your snapshots – Imagine Your Child In The Most Magical Of Places!

The owner of Enhance-Me will work with a winner to create one of my magical photo portraits created in any theme of their choice. The winner then receives via email upon their approval a high resolution version of the portrait which they can print as often as they wish.

This prize is available to participants worldwide.

Prize # 3: Digital Subscription to Mothering WINNER: Kelly N.

The next prize is a digital subscription to Mothering Magazine donated by doudou bebe. This digital subscription, which looks like this, gives you everything you get with a paper copy of the magazine, without having to wait for it in the mail. Published bi-monthly on the same schedule as the print magazine. It is valued at $15.

Mothering celebrates the experience of parenthood as worthy of one’s best efforts and fosters awareness of the immense importance and value of parenthood and family life in the development of the full human potential. As a readers’ magazine, Mothering recognizes parents as the experts and wishes to provide truly helpful information upon which parents can base informed choices. Each issue contains philosophical inspiration and practical advice about family living. Topics are as diverse as circumcision, vaccinations, organic foods, childhood illnesses, home birth, ear infections, parenting teens, web site information, midwifery, and homeopathy.

This prize is available to participants worldwide.

Prize #4: Funky Fabric from Pink Panda Fabrics WINNER: Amy M.

You don’t have to sew with “old lady” fabrics anymore! Pink Panda Fabrics is a new online Canadian retailer of funky fabrics. They are donating 2 yards of any fabric as a prize. Perfect for making slings and other baby carriers or for your other sewing desires.

This prize is available to participants in Canada and the United States.

Prize #5: Set of 5 of Biogreen Bottles (two sets to be won!) WINNERS: Slee F. and Krista S.

BioGreen Bottles, manufactured by California Springs – are is the first fully recycled, biodegradable, recyclable water bottles that actually break down into beneficial compounds once their “useful” life is over.   The compound is FDA approved for food/water contact, has no smell or taste, and it does not begin to breakdown until it hits the “chemical soup” of a landfill. The bottles currently are available on Amazon.com for the general public, and they are in talks with mass retailers for Q3 of 2009.

The winners will get a set of 5 bottles: two adult size, one mid-sized and two child-sized bottles.  This set is valued at $30 to $40.

This prize is available to participants in Canada, the United States and Mexico.

How to win

The way to win these fabulous prizes is to participate in the PhD in Parenting Scavenger Hunt.

Here is what you have to do

• Read the questions below
• Browse, search, and read through the blog to find the answers to the questions below (most answers can be found on the blog, but some might require some educated guess work)
• E-mail me at phdinparenting at gmail dot com with:
  • Your answers
  • Which prizes you want to be entered into the draw for listed in priority order (you can enter your name for as many prizes as you like, but there will be a maximum of one prize per person, so I need to know which one you want if you end up being chosen for more than one)
  • Which country you are located in
• For each of the prizes, the person with the most correct answers will win. If more than one person has all of the right answers, the winner will be randomly selected.
• Send in your answers by June 7, 2009 at 9:00pm EST

The Scavenger Hunt Questions

1. Which famous feminist is my daughter sitting next to in a picture?
2. What was on my son’s birthday list?
3. What month did I blog every single day?
4. What song do I have in my head at work?
5. What country did I visit where attachment parenting hasn’t really caught on?
6. Name one of the principles of attachment parenting
7. Which well known breastfeeding advocate blogger went silent over the past year?
8. Which post of mine has by far the highest number of page views? (more than 3 times as many as the second most popular post)
9. Which gender is being discriminated against in day cares where I live?
10. What is the topic of the BlogHer Backtalk episode that I participated in?
11. Which pump/bottle manufacturer did I complain about?
12. Did my daughter have chicken pox or mosquito bites?
13. Which company says that breastfeeding is allowed except if it poses a safety hazard?
14. Where did I nurse in a Mei Tai?
15. Which baby carrier has lasting value?
16. What scares me more: germs or chemicals?
17. Which organization did I criticize for their stance on co-sleeping?
18. What are the four reasons I listed why punishment isn’t effective?
19. What was the theme of the carnival that I hosted in April?
20. How many calories does a woman burn on average if she breastfeeds for 3 years?

Have fun and good luck!