| 7 Easy Ideas for Organizing Kids Artwork |
7 Easy Ideas for Organizing Kids Artwork
by: Maria Gracia
In school, kids are encouraged to create, draw, color, paint and build. These activities can certainly stimulate children, and help them grow.
Very often, these masterpieces that your children create are brought home and proudly displayed. But what do you do when all of the artwork begins to take over your home? Here are 7 great...
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| Parenting - The Irrational Vocation |
Parenting - The Irrational Vocation
by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
There are some grounds to assume that a cognitive dissonance is involved in feeling that children are more a satisfaction than a nuisance. Why do people bother with parenting? It is time consuming, exhausting, strains otherwise pleasurable and tranquil relationships to their limits. Still, humanity keeps at it: breeding. It is the...
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| Math or Magic? |
Math or Magic?
by: Kenneth Williams
As someone once said: "There's an easy way to do something, and an unlimited number of difficult ways".
Take simple division, for example:
Suppose you need to divide 43 by 9.
The answer is 4 (the first figure of 43) and the remainder is 7 (4 + 3).
Similarly 35 divided by 9 is 3 remainder 8.
In the Vedic system we use the natural properties of...
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| How To Potty Train In Two Days |
How To Potty Train In Two Days
by: Carrie Lauth
Ah, potty training! Go to a local bookseller and you will find dozens of books on the subject. Search the Net and there are thousands of websites with information on how to do it stress free. There are even people who are capitalizing on a parent's frustration with potty training by offering to do it for you, for a hefty sum! I honestly can't...
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| Teaching Children Good Manners |
Teaching Children Good Manners
by: Rexanne Mancini
Last week in my newsletter, I mentioned that my children knew how to behave in nice restaurants because they had been exposed to the atmosphere at an early age. My idea of well behaved might be different from yours, however, I think there are certain basics that are important and universal.
When my daughters were babies, we would take them...
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| Remember The "Generation Gap"? |
Remember The "Generation Gap"?
by: Douglas G. Burkland
The techniques of managing relationships between parents and their children is as old as.. well, parents having children. It's not an easy job, either for the parent or the child. But, the key to any relationship inside or outside the family is the ability to relate; to have an empathy that allows us a slightly special way in which we...
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| New Mom...New Baby...New Debt?? |
New Mom...New Baby...New Debt??
by: Susan Koiner
Ah, there is nothing like being an expectant mom. Along with your expanding waistline comes the ever growing list of products for you and your new bundle of joy. Preparing for a new baby can be a costly experience, especially in the areas of clothing and nursery furniture. The good news is that it does not have to be!
Let’s talk about...
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| His Toy, Her Toy |
His Toy, Her Toy
by: Jennifer Gove
I remember when my daughter was born. Visions of her and I dressed in pinks and purples sitting in her lacy pink room playing dolls danced threw my head. A year later my son was born ;My husbands vision of sports and trucks revved around like mad men threw his manly mind.
Those dreams were simply that dreams. Little did I know there are lessons for...
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| Mutants or Clones? |
Mutants or Clones?
by: Jeffrey D. Murrah, LPC
In a single dose of children's television, I was bombarded with themes of mutants, cyborgs, evolving and the digital world. These words intimidated me at first, until I learned what the shows were talking about. I wondered how this prepares children for living in the 21st century. The answer hit me when I came across the saying, "Don't...
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| Breaking the Cycle of Emotional Blackmail |
Breaking the Cycle of Emotional Blackmail
by: Jeffrey D. Murrah, LPC
Family decision-making is an intriguing phenomenon. Many factors become part of the decision-making process. Emotions play an important part in this activity.
Parents and children each use emotions to steer decisions favorable way to themselves. Using emotions to influence decisions develops naturally.
The use of...
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