Homeschooling and Unschooling- Life Learning.org

Homeschooling, Unschooling, Video Game and Board Game Resources

Finally Gave in and Playing Candy Crush… ARGH

September 15, 2013 by Lisa - Homeschooling Mom Leave a Comment

candy crush logo

What a scam!!!!! And no wonder it is biggest money making app of all time!!! Candy Crush gets you hooked and then blam you are practically forced to pay money to continue playing.
It is very similar to Bejeweled and Bejeweled Deluxe where you swap items to make a row or column of 3 or more.
The biggest difference is instead of being times you only have a set number of moves. This can be EXTREMELY frustrating. I found looking up tutorials and walkthoughs for Candy Crush o to be quite helpful.
Here si an excellent site, Beat Hardest Level In Candy Crush with Gaming Moms

Free Candy Crush App for Android :
Candy Crush Levels Help Guide

Candy Crush Guide ebook: Candy Crush Saga: The Sweet, Tasty, Divine and Delicious Guide to Playing Candy Crush Saga – Tips and Hints!

Many times I have exhausted all my Candy Crush moves and am given the option to pay $$$$ to continue or wait half an hour for more candy Crush lives. You get a new Candy Crush life every half hour.

What I end up doing because I REFUSE to pay money to play these dumb games is play Words with Friends or just bail completely. I can only imagine people getting caught up and getting nickel dimed into bigger and bigger money.

Tips and Hints for Winning Candy Crush

Here are my most useful Candy Crush Tips so far:

If you are reading this post and looking for ways to win at Candy Crush they you presumably understand the concept of the game.
Here is a quick explanation of the Candy Crush and how to play :
Match 3 or more like candies in rows and columns with set number of moves and various obstacles.

1) Jelly Squares on Candy Crush
When on jelly levels there are two types of jelly squares one transparent and one more opaque.
Clear Jelly squares by making a match with one of the candies in the square.
The more opaque stones you need to “break” the stone layer to get to the jelly square underneath.
To do this you need to make a match NEXT to the stone square.

Here is a big tip for clearing jelly squares and naming you Candy Crush levels is to make sure you clear the ones tucked away in corners and along edges of top and bottom as soon as you can. This is where I would get stuck until I started clearing them away.

2) Timed Levels on Candy Crush
No big revelations here- In timed level you only have specific amount of time to clear board. Whe in a timed level really focus on getting candies by making combo matches and more than 3 matches in a row.

Candy Crush Combos
– The best combos to look out for are matching two rows at once. You can do this by matching 3 across and 3 down in a T shape ( 3 candies across and then 3 down with candy in center) or an L-shape 3 down then 3 across.

Types of Candy and What they Do in Candy Crush

1) First type you see is
Red- Jelly Bean
Yellow- Lemon Drop
Orange-lozenge
Blue- Lollip
Green = Square ( I call this a chiklet)
Later you see purple which like a grape cluster.

Color Bomb= The one that looks like a chocolate sprinkle timbit. Earn by matching 5 candy in a row.
You activate by switching with another candy and it will clear all candies of that color on the board.

Striped Candy- earned by matching 4 candies in a row.

Striped Candy + Striped Candy:

Effect: Activates both candies- one across the board going up and other down.

Striped Candy + Wrapped Candy = A Striped Wrapped Candy.

Effect: Becomes a GIANT and clears 3 rows and 3 columns across and down.

Striped Candy + Color Bomb =

Effect: Transforms all candies of that color to Striped Candy, then they all activate.

Wrapped Candy + Wrapped Candy = Clears 24 candies from the board.

More Candy Crush General Tips

Ignore the flashing suggestions. I am convinced they give you made moves on purpose so you have to buy from them. I wish there was a function to turn off.

Save you “power” candies for combination rather than just using on their own. It wont matter so much in early levels but you need to get in the habit of saving them.

On ingredient levels work on vertical moves and moving them down.

I will keep adding them as I discover :-)

Filed Under: General Homeschooling and Unschooling, Video Games Tagged With: candy crush, facebook games

Stuck in WebKinz World Customer Service Hell…

December 21, 2007 by Lisa - Homeschooling Mom 11 Comments

Argh. I am so tired of bad customer service. I am currently dealing with bad service from WebKinz World.

I worked in service industry most of my life and I currently work as a marketing consultant and I really appreciate when I get great customer service and I am especially annoyed when a company gets it so wrong. I have been dealing with a ridiculous customer service problem with the popular WebKinz toys and online pets. My daughter and her friends love them. She has 20+ of them- most she has bought with her own money. I usually buy these for birthday presents, etc.

Huge WebKinz Trading Card Fiasco and Disappointment

This week she bought a Webkinz Pony and for a change she picked up a pack of the Webkinz trading cards. She jumped out of her seat in the car ride home screaming that she won a free online webkinz and that only 1 and 36 win.
As soon we go in the door she is telling her dad about it.. raced to computer and started yelling that ti wouldn’t work, etc could I help. I went over and entered all the info- and sure enough got the error message “this code all ready in use” ARGH. We went to contact section and filed a ticket… this was a few days ago.
We do something called joys and concerns at dinner and light candle for our “joys” and “concerns” and this was her joy…

Bad Experience With Webkinz

I got email yesterday from the company:
After some investigation, we have concluded that there is an issue with your Secret Code. In order for us to receive all your previous information you MUST REPLY TO THIS EMAIL and provide us with the following so that we can investigate further.

1. First name of the user

2. Date of Birth of the user (yyyy-mm-dd)

3. State or Province/Country of the user

4. Pet Type

5. Secret code

6. Contact Name (This person must be an adult)

7. Contact Phone Number

8. Sequence Number (This is printed on the top left side of the opened Webkinz tag or on the back of the tag, above the UPC code on the tag. This number could be up to 15 digits long) (Not applicable to Trading Cards)

9. UPC code (this bar code is printed on the fabric tag sewn to the Webkinz Plush Toy) (Not applicable to Trading Cards)

10. Place of Purchase (Store Name, City, State)

Thank you,

Webkinz Customer Support

Note that it was a trading card that was issue- a 2.95 purchase. It was made with her allowance and she is REALLY wanting me to fix this. She is convinced now that WebKinz is tricking kids, etc… although I have assured that they don’t do that kind of thing, etc. I have already wasted too much time on this. This should be a no brain-er for Webkinz- just send another code.

So, then I write back saying- this is a trading card- not the webkinz stuffed animal. Can you PLEASE help me …

Here is next e-mail I received:

Hello,

Thank you for your question. You asked us about problems with your Webkinz Trading Cards.

If you have purchased packs or boxes of our Webkinz Trading Cards, and you find they are damaged or defective in any way, please return the sales receipt, all contents, and packaging to:

U.S.A.
Ganz
Attn: Trading Card Product Replacement
#043
60 Industrial Parkway
Cheektowaga NY 14227-9903

CANADA
Ganz
Attn: Trading Card Product Replacement
One Pearce Rd.
Woodbridge, Ont.
L4L 3T2

Be sure to include a letter detailing the problem, along with your first and last name, your Webkinz User Name, your address information, and a phone number in case we need to contact you for any reason.

If you find that a single card is damaged when you open a pack, please send the damaged card(s) and packaging, along with your letter, to the address listed above.

Thank you,

I am surprised they didn’t ask for DNA sample. This is for a $2.95 trading card and for an ONLINE pet!

I honestly would drop it if she wasn’t so upset and excited about the win. I will report back on all of this.

Am I nuts here? or Am I just victim of consumer road rage??

Filed Under: PS3 girls Tagged With: candy crush, facebook games, spelling

December 2007- This Month’s Books is Mitch Albom’s Just One More Day

December 14, 2007 by Lisa - Homeschooling Mom Leave a Comment

Widely popular author of best-selling books, Tuesdays with Morrie, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, and The Five Jerks You Meet on Earth , this is Mitch Albom’s lastest, For One More Day.
This the PERFECT gift to give anyone. I bought a few copies to have as an “emergency” gifts and I have also given as hostess gift.
It is sad but very moving and bittersweet. I read it fairly quickly and wish I could have slowed down to savour.

The premise of the book is :

For One More Day is the story of a mother and a son, and a relationship that covers a lifetime and beyond. It explores the question: What would you do if you could spend one more day with a lost loved one?

As a child, Charley “Chick” Benetto was told by his father, “You can be a mama’s boy or a daddy’s boy, but you can’t be both.” So he chooses his father, only to see the man disappear when Charley is on the verge of adolescence.

Decades later, Charley is a broken man. His life has been crumbled by alcohol and regret. He loses his job. He leaves his family. He hits bottom after discovering his only daughter has shut him out of her wedding. And he decides to take his own life.

He makes a midnight ride to his small hometown, with plans to do himself in. But upon failing even to do that, he staggers back to his old house, only to make an astonishing discovery. His mother—who died eight years earlier—is still living there, and welcomes him home as if nothing ever happened.

What follows is the one “ordinary” day so many of us yearn for, a chance to make good with a lost parent, to explain the family secrets, and to seek forgiveness. Somewhere between this life and the next, Charley learns the astonishing things he never knew about his mother and her sacrifices. And he tries, with her tender guidance, to put the crumbled pieces of his life back together.

Through Albom’s inspiring characters and masterful storytelling, readers will newly appreciate those whom they love—and may have thought they’d lost—in their own lives. For One More Day is a book for anyone in a family, and will be cherished by Albom’s millions of fans worldwide.

The books was recently filmed as a made for TV movie, produced by Oprah Winfrey ( I also watched the movie and wasn’t nearly as good as the book- sorry!)

For One More Day

Filed Under: General Homeschooling and Unschooling Tagged With: candy crush, facebook games, PS3 girls

This Sounds Promising- Ricki Lake’s Documentary “The Business of Being Born”

December 10, 2007 by Lisa - Homeschooling Mom Leave a Comment

I heard Ricki Lake , of the FIRST Hairspray fame.. talk show host etc on the radio last week. I was never a fan- she is just a celebrity that is under the radar for me. However- I was surprised by a few things she said in the interview. She is out promoting her movie- a documentary called The Business of being Born, opening wide January 9, 2008. There are many pre-screening available- you can visit site to check.
The Business of being Born:

Birth: it’s a miracle. A rite of passage. A natural part of life. But more than anything, birth is a business. Compelled to find answers after a disappointing birth experience with her first child, actress Ricki Lake recruits filmmaker Abby Epstein to examine and question the way American women have babies. The film interlaces intimate birth stories with surprising historical, political and scientific insights and shocking statistics about the current maternity care system. When director Epstein discovers she is pregnant during the making of the film, the journey becomes even more personal. Should most births be viewed as a natural life process, or should every delivery be treated as a potentially catastrophic medical emergency?

Ricki Lake is executive producer of the film. I though “oh God.. here goes a celebrity telling people how to have a baby…” and prepared myself to be annoyed and hear the usual prattle about hospitals, nannies and bottle feeding.
I was quite surprised. This is what I heard in her interview.
– She is a BIG proponent of home births siting statistics about the dreadful infant mortality rate in United States. They have the 2nd highest rate of infant mortality in the world- Ricki Lake blames hospital germs, etc for this.
– She had a home water birth.
-she used a mid-wife
-because of breast reduction surgery in 1991 she bought she was not able to supply enough milk for her so- she used a milk bank. BRAVO!!!

– She was candid, SMART, funny and honest. I am now considering myself a fan and will make a point of seeing this movie and promote it as best I can. I am quite excited to see it.

Filed Under: General Homeschooling and Unschooling Tagged With: candy crush, facebook games, PS3 girls

Best Breast Pump – Recommendations For Breast Pumps and Pumping Breast Milk

March 27, 2006 by Lisa - Homeschooling Mom Leave a Comment

The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding : Seventh Revised Edition (La Leche League International Book)

Breast Pump Recommendation

I have tried several different breast pumps – on an occasionally use basis and then when my son was born prematurely I used 2 different medical grade pumps until he could nurse on his own. I also have a several friends who for various reason have pumped milk exclusively. I even know of one woman you pumped for a year- and her one- year old still has enough breast milk pumped to last another year when she will switch to soy milk!
I have used Medela electric, Medela pump-in-style and manual breast pump. I used Avent Isis pump ( this is a manual breast pump) and the ameda and Medela hospital grade breast pumps.

The most comfortable by far was the Avent Isis breast pump. I have this to be invaluable when my babies were tiny newborns I became engorged. This helped soften the nipple and they were able to get a better latch. If in the first few days of your milk coming in your baby-who previously had no problem- suddenly is screaming and unable to latch on- try expressing a bit of milk- you may be so engorged that baby can’t get a proper latch. Even with a lot of experience this happened to me a couple of times.

Filed Under: Homeschool Legal and Law Related Tagged With: candy crush, nintendo 3ds, spelling

More About LifeLearning.org


About Lisa- Unschooling Mom

Subscribe to RSS Feed

subscribe to LifeLearning.org feed

Subscribe to LifeLearning.org Homeschooling Blog Feed

Recent Posts

  • Finally Gave in and Playing Candy Crush… ARGH
  • Will I get the New Kindle Paperwhite Coming Sept.30 ?
  • How to Watch US Netflix in Canada
  • On a Kindle Reading Spree!
  • Great Price only 29.45 for Settlers of Catan in Canada- Amazon.ca

Categories

  • Attachment Parenting
  • Board Games-Board Game Reviews and Recommendations
  • Book Recommendations
  • Crafts for Boys and Girls
  • Food and Fun Recipes
  • General Homeschooling and Unschooling
  • Great Books for Homeschool Kids
  • Holidays and Christmas
  • Homeschool Legal and Law Related
  • Homeschooling and Literature
  • Homeschooling and Online Fun
  • Homeschooling Blogs
  • Homeschooling Science and Nature
  • Lesson Plans and Printables
  • Math and Homeschooling Ideas
  • Movies, Films and Cartoons – Homeschooling
  • PS3 girls
  • PS3 girls
  • Video Games
  • Worksheets
"

This Month’s Recommended Video Games

Professor Layton and the Last Specter
Rocksmith
Professor Layton for DS
Picross 3D for DS/Dsi
Zoo Vet: Endangered Animals
Scrabble for DS
Super Scribblenauts

candy crush

  • Homeschooling Times

facebook games

  • Breastfeeding Shirts and Unique Clothing for Breastfeeding Moms
  • The Homeschool Directory

Favourite Sites

  • How to Beat Candy Crush Hardest Levels
  • How to Get US Netflix in Canada Free Instructions

Homeschooling Sites

  • Hamilton Homeschooling Support
  • Homeschool-Unschool and Attachment Parenting Links

Most Popular Posts

  • A Good Series for Boys 8-12 years old- Bunnicula …
  • Bejeweled Blitz Hints and Tips
  • Best Nintendo DS and DSi Games for Girls ( 8-12 years old)
  • Free Printables and Worksheets : Spelling Lists By Grade
  • Free Singapore Math Worksheets, Printables and Resources
  • Really Good Apple Crisp Recipe
  • Symptoms and Treatment of Thrush When Nursing
  • This Months Current Most Popular Board Games

worksheets

  • Playing Settlers of Catan Online

Search

Google
Web www.lifelearning.org

Recent Comments

  • Lisa - Homeschooling Mom on Make Your Own Diaper Cream: Recipe for Calendula Cream
  • perfectessaywriters.net on New Version of Bookworm Adventures- Bookworm Adventures 2
  • mrs.w on Does Circumcision Lead to Lack of Empathy in Men ?
  • Group Halloween Costumes: Hundreds Of Group Costume Ideas To Buy Or Make Yourself! - The Fun Times Guide to Holidays and Parties on Hannah Montana Costume: Make Your Own Hannah Montana Halloween Costume
  • SuperMummy on Make Your Own Diaper Cream: Recipe for Calendula Cream

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries RSS
  • Comments RSS
  • WordPress.org

Copyright © 2018 · Metro Pro Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in