Share healthy tips to get your kids ready for back-to-school for a $50 Target gift card!

Thank you for your interest in this blogging opportunity! We likely have reached our quota of the first 50 qualifying blog submissions.

Please feel free to post your links on this page after we have filled the first 50 spots, so we can share your blogs with the Transitions lenses team.

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Back-to-school is almost here, and it’s time to get focused on our kids’ health to get them prepared for the new school year. We’ve teamed up with Transitions Lenses on a new blogging program to ask you to write about your top 10 healthy tips to get your kids ready for back-to-school.

What’s on your back-to-school checklist? What does your child’s school require you to do to prepare your little ones for the new school year? Do you take your children to the doctor for a physical exam and necessary immunizations? Do your kids get a yearly eye exam and hearing test before the school year begins? During the summer do you make sure your kids are staying active and eating healthy? Do you teach them the importance of washing their hands regularly? We can’t wait to hear more about your healthy tips and tricks to get your kids ready for back-to-school in a blog post of 400 words or more. If this sounds interesting to you, please read on.

Transitions Lenses has provided us some background info, facts and tips about children’s vision health to get you going on your blog posts. An average of one in four children has an undetected vision problem, which can interfere with their ability to read and learn. Proper eyecare and eyewear are critical to performance inside the classroom and in everyday life. Undiagnosed vision problems are one of the major causes of learning difficulties in school-age children, because during their first 12 years, visual learning accounts for 80 percent of the learning process.

When vision problems are undetected, children often have trouble reading or completing their schoolwork. They may exhibit a lack of attention or appear to be fidgety during the school day, which can potentially be misdiagnosed as a learning disability. To learn more about protecting the health and wellness of children’s eyes and to locate an eye doctor near you, visit www.Transitions.com. Since 80 percent of what a child learns is through vision, it’s never too early to begin getting regular, comprehensive eye examinations by an eye doctor. Studies show that 50 percent of vision loss can be prevented with an eye exam.

We hope you’ll participate in this new blogging program. We're looking for quality over speed, so please read on.

How it works:
We are looking for fifty creative, original and authentic blog submissions of high quality. Create an original post on your blog, in 400 words or more (using your own words), sharing your top 10 healthy tips to get your kids ready for back-to-school. Include a thoughtful introduction, original content within the body of your post, and a conclusion. Check your spelling and grammar. You must also include the disclosure statement that is below in your post and install the campaign widget in the sidebar of your blog. Then follow the rest of the requirements below. We will review every post and select the first fifty qualifying submissions to receive a $50 Target gift card!

Highlights from your posts, tweets and tips will be collected and featured on http://transitionslenses.socialmoms.com, and distributed across the web for all to see. The blogging program starts on August 8, 2011 and the submission window closes at 11:59pm PST on September 6, 2011. We will contact the qualifying bloggers on or about September 13, 2011. Full terms and conditions are posted for your review at http://transitionslenses.socialmoms.com/terms.

Rewards for Participating:
The first fifty qualifying participants will receive a $50 Target gift card! See Terms and Conditions.

Requirements:

To participate, we ask that you:

Create an original blog post on your blog, in 400 words or more, sharing "top 10 healthy tips to get your kids ready for back-to-school." Please include a thoughtful introduction and conclusion in addition to the main body of your essay. Give it plenty of thought, and include content that your readers would like to hear about and can connect with! Short or poorly written posts will not be accepted. Copying and pasting does not count. Blank posts submitted to create a blog link on the discussion page will be disqualified. Don't copy another blogger's post or ideas. Plagiarism is grounds for immediate disqualification.
Participants must include the following disclosure as a footnote of their post:
“I wrote this blog post while participating in the SocialMoms and Transitions Lenses blogging program, for a gift card worth $50. For more information on how you can participate, click here.” (make sure you link to http://transitionslenses.socialmoms.com/about)

Install the campaign widget in the side bar of your blog

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Log on to your Twitter account, www.twitter.com, and send a tweet including a link to your blog post with the hashtag #transitionslenses.
Return to www.SocialMoms.com and post a comment on this discussion page in the comments section below, including an active link to your blog post and a direct link to your Twitter tweet. (You can click on the date/time link below your tweet to get the direct link to your tweet.)

If you have questions, please contact alysha@socialmoms.com.

Eligibility:
No purchase required to participate. You must be a legal resident of the 50 United States, the District of Columbia, have a personal blog and be a registered user of the www.socialmoms.com and www.twitter.com websites to participate and at least 18 years of age or older at time of submission. See Terms and Conditions. Please see SocialMoms FAQs for more information on blogging programs.

About Transitions Optical, Inc.
Transitions Optical is a joint venture of PPG Industries, Inc. and Essilor International. The first to successfully commercialize a plastic photochromic lens in 1990, today the company is a leading provider of photochromics to optical manufacturers worldwide. Transitions Optical offers the most advanced photochromic technology in the widest selection of lens designs, materials and brand names.

Transitions® lenses are the ideal everyday choice for healthy sight. They are clear indoors and at night. Outdoors, they automatically darken as light conditions change. Transitions lenses provide visual comfort, and enhance visual quality by reducing glare and enhancing contrast, helping you to see better today. Transitions lenses block 100 percent of harmful UVA and UVB rays – helping to protect the health and wellness of your eyes – so you can see better tomorrow as well. More info on Transitions Lenses: www.transitions.com

About Eye Didn’t Know That!
Transitions Optical created the Eye Didn’t Know That! program to help people of all ages learn more about healthy vision. The program was developed by a team that includes eyecare professionals, science and education experts, and Transitions Optical, Inc. The Eye Didn’t Know That! website offers materials for children, parents, teachers and eyecare professionals to use to teach and learn more about eyecare basics and the importance of eye health and regular comprehensive eye exams. The information includes fact sheets, games, quizzes, lesson plans and free downloadable materials. To learn more and to find out what makes your friends and family say “Eye Didn’t Know That!” visit www.eyedidntknowthat.com.

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