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What Is the Summer Slide? And How to Stop It!
Read more →Over the summer kids can lose more than two months of what they learned during the school year. It’s called the “summer slide”, or “summer learning loss”, and it’s what happens when kids hang off the end of the couch all summer and their times tables fall out of their heads along with everything they learned about punctuation.The summer slide is a problem. It’s a problem for kids and it’s a problem for the nine out of ten teachers who have to spend the first month of school re-teaching everything the kids learned the year before. And while a month...
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We Can Mail Your Mail Order Mystery Any Way You Like
Read more →We don’t expect you to stay in one place during the summer, so we can make your mystery work for you. Normally we send one installment a week for six weeks. But if the kids are going to stay with the grands for a few weeks, or if you are going on a family road trip, or if the cousins want to solve a mystery together at the cottage, we can pack up your mystery all in one box and ship it to you all at once so you can decide when and where to hand out the clues. Just...
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Bigfoot Likes Candy? We Examine the Latest Evidence.
Read more →Ever wonder what you would make for Bigfoot if Bigfoot came for dinner? Well now we know: Dessert.A North Carolina woman who has seen evidence of Bigfoot living in the woods behind her house says she leaves food and she knows what they like to eat. “I take them things mostly like candy, cookies. They love peanut brittle, chocolate, peanut butter sandwiches," said Vicky Cook from Shelby, North Carolina, who has been seeing giant Bigfoot footprints around her property for the last several months. "They don't like apples and bananas."Don't believe us? You can watch the remarkable interview with Vicky Cook on WCNC.Bigfoot...
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Start Your Screen Free Summer Now with a Mail Order Mystery
Read more →We don’t have to tell you how scary it is to read all the articles and reports about kids and screens - the increased rates in depression and anxiety, the online bullying, the negative impacts on growing kids’ brain development. Bill Gates didn’t let his kids have phones until they turned 14. When Apple launched the iPad Steve Jobs wouldn’t let his kids use it. Those tech CEOs knew what we all know, but have so much difficulty doing anything about: technology is addictive. When we first started Mail Order Mystery we asked some big questions about how, or if,...
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This Pirate Treasure Belongs to You, Yaar!
Read more →These here pirates in pyjamas are Riley on the left and Skylar on the right. This photo was one of the entries in the photo contest we ran a few months back.We love it so much we had to share it. Look how THRILLED these girls are to solve their pirate mystery and open up their long-lost treasure!Did you know that you, too, may have a long-lost pirate ancestor with the same last name as you? Did you know that this long-lost pirate-ancestor stashed long-lost pirate treasure that most likely belongs to you, as long as no double-crossing scallywags...
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Mysteries Make Fantastic Father’s Day Gifts!
Read more →Dads love Mail Order Mysteries. It’s a fact. Well, not like a scientifically proven fact. But an anecdotal fact for sure. We’ve heard from enough Dads that we are confident when we say that Dads love Mail Order Mysteries. In fact, some Dads love Mail Order Mysteries so much they would be happy to do them all by themselves and leave the kids right out of the equation. But we do not recommend that you leave the kids out of the equation. Because when you give Dad a Mail Order Mystery for Father’s day, everybody wins. Dad gets something fun to...