You make a claim to not be excessive in your quest for clean but when you'll only flush in the public rest room with your flip flops and your kids are only allowed to open public potty doors with their sleeves others may beg to differ.

Summer, with all its travel and inevitable germ filled pit stops, may force you to admit you care about clean. Declare yourself queen of the bacteria beaters and slip Potty Mitts onto little fingers so that when kids are balancing on unknown seats they aren't picking up undesirables. Since the mitts are disposable, kids can go pee pee neatly then grab onto the knob and walk proudly out the door, trashing any would-be cold causers with the gloves.

You'll still cringe when it's potty stop number three and your destination isn't even in sight, but at least you now carry an arsenal and your out of the germ-a-phobe closet.

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Graduation is in the June air.

It comes in all forms for all different families. Some have kids graduating from bottles to full fledged food eaters. Others are going from pre-school to the big leagues of elementary school or even elementary to middle.

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