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1.	Bookmarks: 15	Make Playtime A Bonding Time For You And Your Kid Toys are a kid’s best friends. They entertain him and give him hours of fun and enjoyment. They educate him by introducing him to the world around him and by engaging him in mind enriching activities that hone his imagination, motor skills, hand to eye coordination among many others. Toys especially the educational ones indeed play an important role in your kid’s developmental progress.But even so, toys can never take the place of parents. Toys can never be substitutes fo...
2.	Bookmarks: 1	The Classical Home Schooling Option Home schooling is an attractive option to consider for many parents. The program offers many advantages over learning in traditional schools. Home schooling also provides more one on one teaching time where the teacher can focus on the student as opposed to handling numerous students at the same time. This will allow children to obtain quality instruction.Students of home schooling also benefit from having a very comfortable and familiar environment for a classroom. Home-...
3.	Bookmarks: 4	Nurturing Creative Children: Dr. YKK Quotes Nurturing Creative Children is one of the little treasures Dr. YKK has put together in his quotes series. Dr. YKK has collected insights, observations and thoughts about creative children from respected educaters, leaders, politicians, teachers and parents around the globe that will unzip your mind. Sources include, for example, Thomas Edison, Anne Frank and Plato.
4.	Bookmarks: 8	How Do I Find The Best Homeschool Curriculum? Being a parent is a huge and very important job! You provide your children loving care for their physical needs as well as their emotional and spiritual needs. You are the one they look to for love, help, care and concern. You fix boo-boo's, read stories and chase away scary closet monsters at night. You play games, tell stories, and if you are like a lot of parents, you prepare and then send your children to school.But wait! You have made the awesome, wonderful, and some...
5.	Bookmarks: 1	Acting Camps: Preparing Your Young Actor or Actress for Industry Success Helping your young acting hopeful prepare for a successful acting career can be an incredibly rewarding experience for the parent. All parents like seeing their children being creative, expressing themselves, and, most importantly, having fun. There are some very simple pointers you can follow that will have a powerful impact in the immediate sense and create long-term opportunities for the professional acting success of your son or daughter.
6.	Bookmarks: 13	Utilizing Resources If parents utilize all the resources they have available to their child, they can guarantee their child’s home school success.
7.	Bookmarks: 7	Try Educational Games All parents want their children to grow up having lots of fun. Parents provide opportunities for their kids to participtate in sports and clubs of all kinds. If they are able, parents fill their home with toys and games to keep their children entertained and happy with things that are safe for kids to do. Parents should, however, see to it that their children have more than just fun. Childhood should be a time filled with learning and trying new things. Parents can combine th...
8.	Bookmarks: 1	The Use Of Books And Computers In Home Schooling Learning is never-ending for even as adults, people continually learn new facts and things every single day. In today's modern day and age, new techniques and additions are making both teaching and learning challenging as well as interesting. For parents, who are home schooling their children, it is of utmost importance that the student's particular needs, interests and abilities should be taken into consideration before deciding on what method or technique of teaching is to ...
9.	Bookmarks: 6	Important Aspects Of Home Schooling Some 26% of parents in each of the American states consider home schooling for their children over normal school classes. This is because of the benefits both the parents and the children get as a social being. Home schooling gives them the chance to be free of old school days with pressure and daily assignments. Due the old set up, many members of the family have become isolated from each other allowing them just a few precious times with their loved ones.There are four ...
10.	Bookmarks: 20	How Do I Determine The Length Of The Home School Year? Homeschooling is a practical alternative or replacement to schooling institutions. In conformity with your state laws concerning this kind of education, children study and learn under the parents’ supervision. Parents have several explanations and justifications why they need or want education at home. They have concerns regarding the safety of their children, the quality of education that is offered in public schools, the expensive cost of private schooling and the strug...
11.	Bookmarks: 0	Homeschooling - Shape Your Child's Future Schooling at home is called homeschooling. This is where children are educated at home, either by their parents, or by private tutors. Homeschooling has become popular these days especially with kids whose parents have a shifting job.
12.	Bookmarks: 0	Educational Games For Babies 6 To 12 Months By six months of age your baby may be sitting unassisted, her coordination skills are growing in leaps and bounds, and she will soon be crawling, standing, and then walking. Six to twelve months is a fun time for parents and babies. Play a variety of games with your little one and watch her quickly master new skills, like language skills and fine and gross motor development.Between 6 and 9 months your baby will love to experiment with simple cause and effect relationshi...
13.	Bookmarks: 6	Choosing The Right Educational Video Games For Your Children Video games are among the most popular toys today. Children of all ages spend a lot of time engrossed in the latest action-packed video console or computer game. For this reason, it is important to choose video games that are educational, rather than those that contain violence or other content not suitable for children. There is a host of video games on the market perfect for children. These games incorporate education into the fun of video games, giving both parents and...
14.	Bookmarks: 1	After School Activity for the Hyperactive Child ADHD refers to attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder. Most children who suffer from this disorder suffer from attention problems as well as hyperactivity. Parents of such children are well aware that inattention and hyperactivity continue throughout the day. Keeping such children busy after school hours can be as difficult as keeping them safe during the school day.
15.	Bookmarks: 1	Adhd After School Most forward-thinking teachers and instructors understand how to meet the special needs of children with ADHD. Unfortunately, many parents don't. ADHD is an acronym for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Children with ADHD struggle with attention problems, as well as hyperactivity. Teachers are trained to help ADHD kids deal with their personal obstacles and meet their learning potential. However, parents can often find it difficult to keep children safely occu...
16.	Bookmarks: 0	Why Reading Aloud To Your Child Is Important Okay, so your child loves to watch television, play video games, surf on the Internet, and listen to music. And there's nothing wrong with those activities, as long as they're used in moderation. Most parents would also love to see their kids participate in more constructive activities -- like reading children's books -- but the trick is to get your little ones to actually sit down and crack open a book a few times per week. One way to start is by sitting down and readin...
17.	Bookmarks: 0	Texas Schools Offer Diverse Magnet School Options Students attending Texas Public Schools have many choices. They literally have a plethora of magnet programs to choose from. Depending on their grade level, they can choose to attend a school that focuses on providing the 3 Rs with a slant; the Arts, Science, Technology and Foreign Language are all examples of the different types of Texas Schools kids and their parents can choose from. But what is a magnet school, anyway? A magnet school is a one that, while meeting t...
18.	Bookmarks: 3	Online Degree Program Scores With Video Game Enthusiasts When high school students spend hours playing video games, parents ofen say its a waste of time. However, these video game players, or gamers, can now find professional opportunities to complement their interest.
19.	Bookmarks: 6	Mysteries of language development in children You can don the mantle of a teacher to optimize learningSince ancient times, parents have held a child’s hand and taught him or her everything they know. Skills and ways to earn a living were handed down from father to son and mother to daughter. In the fast paced and ever changing world of today, you must know how a child learns in order to help it develop appropriate language skills.
20.	Bookmarks: 12	Home Schooling Is Loaded With Fun Activities There are many reasons why parents choose homeschooling for their children. A lot of times this choice is made by parents who are dissatisfied with the way formal education is being run. Also by those who are concerned about safety issues. In addition, there are those parents who wish to freely instill some religious values in their children, while some feel that having their kids taught at home helps tighten their family bond.Nowadays, there has been an uprise in the...
21.	Bookmarks: 8	Hats Off To Technology: Five Reasons Why The next time you send an e-mail to your family, plan a vacation online, or send a photo of your newborn to your parents, you may want to tip your hat to technology.
22.	Bookmarks: 0	Being An Involved Parent Of A Child In Miami Schools Being a parent of a school aged child has never been an easy task. And with all the choices facing young people these days, the job is getting even harder. But a new program run by Miami Schools is trying to alleviate some of the burden on parents with a number of programs designed to keep parents informed on some of the most important issues facing young people in the Miami Schools.Parent Academy in Miami SchoolsThe Miami-Dade Public County School system runs a year-...
23.	Bookmarks: 0	Orlando: The Haven City For Tourists Did you ever sit down with your family to plan your next vacation and then realize that you just couldn’t find that special somewhere where the parents and the kids, and perhaps another relative or 2, could all find something interesting to do?And on top of that, maybe you’ve been to all the interesting places within your travel budget anyway? Well then you probably haven’t been to Orlando, Florida. Otherwise you’d realize that even Orlando ‘V-V’s’ (Vacati...
24.	Bookmarks: 0	Will High School Rankings Affect Your Future? With all the emphasis on mandatory testing and national standards it’s no big surprise that high school rankings have been getting a lot of attention. American high school students face a global economy, high technology demands, and the reality of living in a capitalistic society without the benefit of a solid financial education. Parents, teachers, and students look to high school rankings to help them evaluate their school’s progress and to consider moves to new areas....
25.	Bookmarks: 0	Questions Rising Concerning Spending Of Funds By The Mayor And The New York City Schools Mayor Michael Bloomberg and New York City schools Chancellor Joel Klein, together, have made sweeping changes within the New York City schools. Yet, many are questioning their intentions and spending of funds.Creating smaller class sizes, especially in the elementary grades, has long been a priority of most parents, teachers and advocates in New York City. Many states and cities have passed laws requiring smaller classrooms, such as the state of Florida.Studies have r...
26.	Bookmarks: 0	Proposed Budget For The New York City Schools In June 2006, the city announced a proposed operating budget of $14 billion for the New York City schools. Parents and educators are still waiting pessimistically to see the final cut.Though this year’s unveiling of the New York City schools budget was received more peacefully than in recent years, the city’s past track record makes optimism difficult. Last year’s proposed budget was drastically different after the final cuts were made. Students returning to school last S...
27.	Bookmarks: 0	Living With Christopher This article discusses how autism causes anxiety among children who have this condition and stress to their parents who are trying to cope with their children's needs.
28.	Bookmarks: 0	Be Thankful For Your Mittens I have loved playing outside in the winter for as long as I can remember. I've always loved bundling up into as many layers of clothes as I can and then shoving my way into the warmest coat, mittens, hat, and scarf that I can find. As a child I spent as many hours as I could outside. I remember my parents having to call me to come in when dinner was ready or when it was about to get dark. I would reluctantly obey and enter our mudroom to take off my clothes and dry my soaking...
29.	Bookmarks: 5	Online Automotive Supplies When you were a kid, there was a neighbourhood mechanic who took care of all your family's automotive woes. Maybe you would tag along with your parents to the corner garage, where fan belts, spark plugs and tins of coolant were the extent of the supplies needed to get back on the road.Times have changed and today, the automotive supply business has grown to become one of the world's most profitable industries. Automobile manufacturers are constantly under pressure to chur...
30.	Bookmarks: 0	Are Stay-At-Home Moms Better? Can we really have it all… a career, the good life and parenthood? Can parents afford to raise a child on one income? How can new parents decide whether to work or stay home with the kids.Kristie Tamsevicius, author of I Love My Life: A Mom’s Guide to Working from Home says that the answer has never been clearer. Since September 11, 2001, people are going back to basics. Fueled by frustration with their current work environments, people long to spend more time at home wit...
31.	Bookmarks: 0	Your Ticket To Financial Freedom Now days it is nearly impossible today for the average family to thrive on a single income. However, the skyrocketing cost of child care makes it difficult for both parents to work. Fortunately, the internet has made making money online a suitable income option without the need for commuting or day care.Making money online means much more than entering contests and sweepstakes; it is not uncommon to see a professional create a home business in computer programming, accoun...
32.	Bookmarks: 0	Mothers And Kids Deal With Anxiety “Perfect Madness: Motherhood In The Age Of Anxiety” is a good study on the effects of society and the pressure it places on parents. However, it only touches upon test anxiety, which is an increasing problem among schoolchildren.
33.	Bookmarks: 0	Work from Home: Successful Internet Businesses There are large number of individuals who wish to work from home. The number one wish of many parents is to be able to stay at home with their children and still make a living. Although many individuals are unaware, there are a large number of existing work at home internet businesses that need assistance or individuals can even develop their own.
34.	Bookmarks: 0	The Fear Of Stuttering I am someone, who from what my parents have told me, started to stutter when I was four years of age. I have to say that I hated having a stuttering problem and was determined that I eventually would be able to have the confidence to say whichever words that I wanted to, in any situation. There were you see a number of words which I believed I just could not say and I also found it difficult to talk when I felt under pressure. After living with the stutter for eighteen years, I finally mana...
35.	Bookmarks: 0	Growing Number Of Parents Urging Contacts-Wearing Kids To Have LASIK Vision Correction It's normal for parents to be concerned about their children's health and well-being. But Tammy Crane, mother of 21-year-old Garrett, took a more active route--something she could do for her son that would have both of them worrying less.
36.	Bookmarks: 0	Preparation for Child Custody Court Ordered Mediation In Child Custody disputes Mediators help collect complete information about each parent and organize this information in a useful way. During mediation all history of both the parents is extremely useful. All aspects including childhood, past divorces, past history, parent’s history, parents’ martial status, siblings, relations with siblings, history of crime, domestic violence, etc. are also taken into consideration. You as a parent must be prepared to show yourself in the best p...
37.	Bookmarks: 0	Blaming Our Parents Is Easy It’s easy to blame our parents for how we are:How can I be successful and happy when my father always told me I wouldn’t amount to much?My mother was never a role model for a happy, healthy woman.No one ever showed me love when I was a child, so how can you expect me to have good relationships now?I was sexually abused by my father so everything’s wrong with my life now.No one ever expressed emotions in our family; they still don’t, so don’t expec...
38.	Bookmarks: 0	Backoff From The Baseball Coach With the regulated top of any season of baseball, the parents have the high hope that their child is principal with the success of team. It with a degree is true. The success of the team depends on each player. The problems emerge between the prospects for the parents, the players and the trainer.
39.	Bookmarks: 0	Martial Arts: The Number One Way to Combat Bullying? As parents, we do everything we can to protect our children from harm and to provide them with the skills they need to be healthy, successful adults. The problem is, we are not with them all the time. What our kids do at school is sometimes a mystery to us. Are they polite to their teachers? Do they participate in class? Are they bullying other kids? Are they being bullied? There is something you can do to help get them on track to be successful in school and to avoid the bully-trap – ...
40.	Bookmarks: 0	Martial Arts and Childhood ADHD: Overcoming Symptoms The symptoms of ADHD can be devastating for children. It is especially hard for school-age children who feel isolated and don’t know how to express what they are feeling. They can become quickly behind academically and socially, which leads to lack of self-confidence and depression. Symptoms of childhood ADHD can include inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity. One way parents are helping their children is by having them train martial arts. It is a great way to alleviate these sympt...
41.	Bookmarks: 0	Learning To Ride The Greatest Toy Ever The bicycle has to be one of the greatest toys ever. This is a toy that gets used a lot,lasts along time,and is available in many varieties. Considering that,the bicycle is probably one of the best values ever.Teaching a child to ride the best toy ever is easier than most parents think. Every parent is proud in wanting to see there child ride there new toy.One of the easiest methods in teaching them to ride is to start them out on a scooter. The whole concept of being clo...
42.	Bookmarks: 10	Today's Military High Schools There Not Just For Troubled Teens Anymore Military high schools today are claiming they are not the “punishment” places they used to be. Remember hearing the phrase, {or maybe you actually were told this by your parents}, “If you don't straighten up, your going to military school.” Today, military schools in general want to change their image, and they don't take teen's who don't want to be there anymore either. Many young people have graduated from military high school every year, and they want to dispel the my.
43.	Bookmarks: 23	Successful Way To Homeschool Your Children Starting a homeschool will involve a lot of research, investigation, studying and making inquiries before a homeschool begins. Parents who are looking into homeschooling to educate their children should find state and local homeschooling groups, as they will provide the best kind of information on homeschooling in your area. On the internet, parents can also discover homeschool websites wherein it allows you to ask and discuss your options about homeschooling, as they wil...
44.	Bookmarks: 4	Info And Resources About Online Home-school Today’s educational system is much different and many parents opt for the choice of homeschool for their children. In a family where one of the parents is foregoing a career to stay at home, using some of that time to homeschool their children is an appealing idea.The practice of a parent providing homeschool to their child is growing in popularity every day. It gives the parent a chance to be completely responsible for the education of their child. It also allows the par...
45.	Bookmarks: 1	Information About Home Schooling: Is It Suitable For Your Child? There are a lot of parents who would like home schooling for their child. But they are afraid because they don’t exactly know if they can be their children’s teacher. They also need to find out if home schooling is suitable for their child and if there really is a need to home school their child. Of course most parents would like to have their children educated in school. The school is such a good place for learning practical skills and application.Home schooling is effic...
46.	Bookmarks: 10	Home Schooling: Its Advantages As the years weigh on, more and more parents are losing confidence on the educational systems be it in a private or public school. There is the sad reality of unqualified teachers, classrooms that are overcrowded, the use of outdated resources such as textbooks and references plus the concern of safety with school violence and drugs being rampant. These negative factors have given rise to the emerging popularity of having children homeschooled.At the start, parents transf...
47.	Bookmarks: 7	Home Schooling As The Solution To School Violence Home Schooling, also known as home education, is defined as the education of children at home, generally by parents or guardians instead of in a public or private school. It provides children with a different learning environment rather than that in public schools or private schools.Violence in schools has been dominating the headlines lately. More and more parents fear for the life, safety and health of their children. Home school seems to be a better alternative than se...
48.	Bookmarks: 4	Deciding On Home School Preschool The decision of whether or not to send a child to preschool is a personal choice largely dependent on adequate and affordable programs in a particular area. While some areas provide district funded programs designed to prepare children for kindergarten, others offer only private preschool programs that come at a price. However, there is also the option of home school preschool that allows parents to prepare their children for kindergarten while controlling the environment and...
49.	Bookmarks: 0	Let The Baseball Coach - Coach At the on set of any Baseball season, parents have the high expectation that their child is key to the teams’ success. This to a degree is true. The success of the team depends on each and every player. Problems arise between the perspectives of the Parents, Players and the Coach.We each have our own self image which is likely quite different to how the rest of the world sees us. This also applies to our vision of our children. Crushing the ball for Dad in the back yard i...
50.	Bookmarks: 0	Baseball-Coaching the Youth of Tomorrow Coaching our youth is a delicate practice that needs to be taken with the kids self confidence at the heart of the teaching. These days, parents and coaches alike want to win so bad, they put undue stress on the kids that can have a negative effect.
51.	Bookmarks: 0	Teen Chat : 5 Choices You Can Make Today! Hi Teens:As a teen, you naturally want more independence from your parents and the freedom to go places you want and do things you like. Since your parents are responsible for you until you are on your own, part of their job is to decide whether or not they feel comfortable when you do certain things like staying out later, going to parties, and being with people they don’t know. At times, you may not think you have any choices at all. As a result, you may feel frust...
52.	Bookmarks: 0	Home Schooling or Not? Public school educators often worry that the children of such people will not learn necessary social skills. But home-schooling parents said their children learned how to deal with other people just fine, particularly with the many adults they encountered when they visited the library or went to church or did chores around the neighborhood.
53.	Bookmarks: 0	The Importance Of Qualified Home School Teaching Many parents, faced with inadequate schooling for their children or a child’s particular educational needs that a district can not effectively handle, choose instead to home school their child. Home schooling – when done appropriately and responsibly – can be enormously effective in educating children in particular situations. However, qualified home school teaching is paramount to achieving results.Parents choose the option of home schooling for a variety of reasons. In ...
54.	Bookmarks: 0	Why Should People Learn Spanish? I remember the first time I visited Mexico. It is a beautiful country. I was young so naturally, I went with my parents. None of us could speak more than a few words of Spanish. We had a vague idea of how the Mexican currency worked, but we were clueless when it came to how much to pay people at restaurants and the shops. Let’s just say it was an interesting experience (and I’m sure we were overcharged a number of times). Oftentimes, it’s when you have to go without it th...
55.	Bookmarks: 0	Marriage Saving Advice: Have A Soul Connection With Your Spouse Even If All Seems Lost Many of us realize that marriage is not the easiest relationship in the world, but why is it so hard? Unless we adopt children, the only relatives that we get to choose are our spouses. Seems like it should work out, right? We can not change our parents or choose new siblings, but marriage-- ahh that's a whole different thing.Marriage brings out the best and the worst in a person's character and shows us what we are capable of doing, both positive and negative. This speci...
56.	Bookmarks: 0	15 Muscle Building Rules For Skinny Guys And Gals! (Part 1) WHY CAN'T YOU GAIN WEIGHT? Though there may be many reasons why you may be thin, the most apparent reason is because of your genetics. If your parents are naturally thin or have a small body frame, then you will most likely have the same small body type. To some degree, your size can also be controlled by your metabolism. If you have a difficult time gaining weight of any kind (fat or muscle) then you most likely have a fast metabolism. That simply means that your bod...
57.	Bookmarks: 3	Exam Nerves And Hypnosis One of the biggest problems for today’s students is exam nerves. When it comes time to test what they have learned in their classes, exams simply present huge problems. It does not matter how well prepared the student is. After twenty hours of studying, the student could still be nervous about the exam. Exam nerves are a normal thing, though. They begin at an early age, as parents put pressure on students to perform well in school. From that performance pressure was born a wh...
58.	Bookmarks: 0	4 Reasons Why You Should Homeschool Your Child A recent survey indicated that nearly 30% of American parents are seriously considering homeschooling their children rather than sending them to school. Home schooling is a different way of education for many parents. It allows children to be educated at home free from the daily school assignments and pressure. It also allows more bonding time between the child and the parent fostering closer relationships.There are 4 main reasons why you should homeschool your child....
59.	Bookmarks: 0	Steroids: Could Your Child Be Next? Players that are guilty of taking steroids are not only cheaters, you are cowards. ...Show our kids that you're man enough to face authority, tell the truth and face the consequences.” — Donald Hooton of Plano, Texas, who testified before Congress that his son, Taylor, a high school baseball player, committed suicide in 2003 after steroid use.Does your child use steroids?Of course not.That's what concerned parents want to believe.Yet scores of young people ar...
60.	Bookmarks: 8	Helping Your Teenager Deal With Acne Advise for parents of teenagers on dealing with acne.
61.	Bookmarks: 0	Peer Pressure and Depression The days in the life of a depressed person,me.Always trying,always trying to see things different ways.Very hard to be positive sometimes.
62.	Bookmarks: 0	Mind Control Tutorial Mind control is a process of making any individual loose their control over their own thinking and behavior. Many mind control experiments are done through physical force and violence. You should not confuse Hypnotism with mind control. The two are different terms.Mind control can be enforced by religion, politics, parents’ behavior etc. Mind control has been related to two syndromes. They are Battered person syndrome and Stockholm syndrome. Battered person syndrome is no...
63.	Bookmarks: 0	Build Your Self Esteem Some people seem to have been born with a great deal of self-confidence. This is not really the case, although a healthy self-esteem does stem from childhood. Young children who are influenced by caring parents and other adults who take the time to instill a sense of self worth will grow into confident adults.Children who do not grow up in a positive atmosphere, will likely suffer the pain of low self-esteem in adulthood. They will feel badly about themselves and lack the...
64.	Bookmarks: 0	Some Long Island Schools Students Just Want To Go To Work All parents have big dreams for their children. Fame, fortune, happiness, security, love, confidence, success, and a good education- to name a few. Parents of Long Island Schools students have dreams like these, too. A lot of these kids are told as they grow up that college is what you do after high school, end of discussion. Of course, most if not all parents would like to see their kids head off to college. But let’s look at the big picture; not all graduating seniors w...
65.	Bookmarks: 0	The Best Environment In Formal Education It is a great task of parents of today's generation to establish a fixed curriculum standard in getting their children started for a valuable formal education. The home handles the informal education of each individual from the time he is a toddler, after which parents may choose the kind of school, that will later be a trademark institution linking him to wherever his objectives and goals bring him.There are many highly exclusive schools for either gender. Educational se...
66.	Bookmarks: 3	Building Confidence in Your Retirement Future In the next 10 years, the first wave of America's 76 million baby boomers will be retiring. Since today's retirees are generally healthier and more active than their parents, they are looking forward to living longer and spending more time playing with grandchildren, pursuing hobbies or even trying new careers.
67.	Bookmarks: 6	How Teens Can Make Cash Teenagers are always looking for ways to make cash. With the high cost of designer clothing, NFL sports wear, music and movies, parents simply cannot afford everything that a teenager wants. Most teens know that the only way that they can get the things they want is to make cash. Unfortunately, many states have changed the driving laws to only allow drivers over the age of eighteen unlimited privileges. This makes getting cash much harder for the average teenager. Here are so...
68.	Bookmarks: 3	Cheap Summer Fun For Kids Entertaining your children when school is out for the summer can become quite expensive, especially if you enroll them in pricey summer camps for a large portion of the time. However, many parents feel that the alternative is to have their children sulking on the couch while moaning about how bored they are, especially if friends are all attending camps. Actually, there are plenty of ways to have cheap summer fun with your kids. Why not try a few of these budget friendly idea...
69.	Bookmarks: 2	Caring for Elderly Parents: 5 Tips for Avoiding Caregiver Burnout Our youth-centered society turns a blind eye to the unpleasant and inevitable reality that all of us age and die. This leaves both caregivers and care recipients unprepared. Learn how to open your heart to others without putting your own at risk.
70.	Bookmarks: 4	Are you or your elderly parents moving to an Apartment from a house? Here's Help So you're moving to an apartment, what do you do with all your favorite things you can't live without? Are your parents elderly and you're downsizing them? Sure you can't take everything, but you probably can manage your/their most valued pieces. Here's some valueable tips. Not moving? Lots of FREE interior decorating and Interior design articles on my site. Gardening and Landscaping too!
71.	Bookmarks: 2	Age Doesn't Matter! Hearing is the main function of our ears. Listening, on the other hand, is using our ears in order for our minds to receive information. Listening skills are important in almost all aspects of work, not to mention leisure. In leisure, we are fond of listening to our favorite songs and poem. Even back when we were so young, we'd sleep late just to be able to listen to the happy ending to the story our parents would read to us. As you can see, we've been listening and at the sa...
72.	Bookmarks: 4	Transform Your Backyard Into A Taco Garden As A Fun Family Activity Many parents across the country are looking for ways to get their children to eat better, get outdoors and be more active. Gardening is a great solution--especially when you grow something kids love like a veggie taco garden.
73.	Bookmarks: 11	Kindness And Community: Beating The Snow This week snow hit the UK and it was amazing to see how those little flakes of ice, caused so much trouble. Within hours the schools were shut and parents couldn’t go to work as there was no one to look after their kids. The roads become like ice rinks and travel became difficult. The news channels did their usual sensational newsflashes with the snow being the headline as the UK just ground to a halt.All while this madness was going on, something incredible was beginning...
74.	Bookmarks: 0	Promotional Products Industry Goes 'above And Beyond' Lead Ink Regulations The promotional products industry topped $18 billion in sales in 2006. As one of the larger promotional products distributors in the country, Absorbent, Ink. takes the welfare of our customers very seriously. We strive to work with environmentally conscious suppliers who manufacture and produce the safest products in the industry, and have been very pleased to see our industry take our environmental concerns seriously. A recent article titled “Recalls have Parents on Aler...
75.	Bookmarks: 0	Tennis And The Ugly Parent Syndrome Article discussing ugly behaviour of parent(s) towards their tennis playing children.
76.	Bookmarks: 48	Pursuing Your Post-Retirement Passions Online Ten years ago, computer literacy was an issue with older Americans. My father was insistent that one of those machines would never be seen near his desk. So we bought him one for Christmas and let the instruction manual drag him in. Now he paints with it.It seems that resistance to computers is largely a thing of the past among most of us these days. They are a part of everyone's life, and grandparents are no exception. The ease and simplicity of email has spread computer...
77.	Bookmarks: 0	Why I Hate An Ear Infection Anyone who has experienced the privilege and the fear of bringing a new baby home from the hospital knows what a mixture of emotions you experience as a new parent with the responsibility and joys of having a new addition to your family. Only new parents know what it is truly like to have a lack of sleep and what it feels like to know that you were directly responsible for bringing a new life into the world. There is no greater joy in all of life than having a new baby, and y...
78.	Bookmarks: 0	Health Care Jobs Can Be Great As a young person, it is never easy to narrow down the long list of possible careers to a few options that might be most suitable for them. There are so many options for both men and women these days that the process might be a little bit overwhelming. Many times kids end up studying and doing something that they are familiar with because of their parents or friends. Health care jobs are definitely some of the best jobs to be had today. Whether you are a young person lookin...
79.	Bookmarks: 0	Grandma’s Herbal Remedies For Infants And Children Once upon a time, we used to turn to our parents or grandparents when something was wrong with our little ones. More often than not, now we turn to our doctors. Unfortunately, our doctors were never taught what our grandmothers learned from their mothers, methods that have been tried and true for centuries. Here is a not-so-complete list of some of my favorites passed down from my Grandma. ADD – Grandma didn’t call it this back then, but that’s probably what it was. Aside...
80.	Bookmarks: 2	Playing Volleyball In A Public Park Parents can find many interesting ways to occupy their energetic youngsters. Playing volleyball in a public park is an option that most youngsters enjoy. Some might not know all the rules of the game, but will enjoy learning how to serve the ball and enjoy the feeling that they get when they finally are able to serve the volleyball properly over the net.Playing volleyball in a public park allows parents to enjoy some of the benefits that their tax dollars create and pay f...
81.	Bookmarks: 9	History Of Chess I come from a family of golfers. Golf is the favorite recreation of everyone in my family, including my grandparents, my mom and dad, myself and my four siblings. Every year, we have a family reunion of sorts featuring all my relatives from my father's side. At those gathering, the entire clan always has a sportsfest wherein each of the different families take on one another in four key sports. We always win the golf competition. The others are volleyball, ping pong and chess...
82.	Bookmarks: 0	Children Learning To Play Golf Children are learning golf in school. Most schools recognize golf as a sport and have golf teams. They teach the kids the art of golfing with instructional videos and professional lessons. Parents sometimes send their children to golf schools if they express an interest in playing golf. Golf is a family sport if you want it to be. Besides learning school and at private lessons, some parents start their children off on the driving range and teach them what they know. More and ...
83.	Bookmarks: 0	Sandwiched Boomers: How To Nourish The Sandwich That Is You The Sandwich Generation is a term that has now made it into the dictionary. It fits an increasing number of Boomer women whose reality includes being squeezed between the demands of growing children and the needs of aging parents.A study by AARP and the National Alliance for Care-giving identified over 44 million Americans who are caring for ill adult family members, 60% of them women. According to the National Center on Health Statistics, about 80% of women in their 40...
84.	Bookmarks: 0	Refining The Golden Hour In one of the classic personal finance books, “The Richest Man In Babylon,” we are told that the way to wealth is to “pay yourself first.” That a portion of all you earn is yours to keep. Great words, and just as applicable to your life itself. In other words, out of every sixteen-hours of wakefulness in a day, one hour should be yours, and yours alone. Not your job, not your husband or wife, not your kids or your parents. One hour. Sixty minutes. Thirty-six hundred seco...
85.	Bookmarks: 0	How To Teach Your Children To Beat Stress We are sending our children into a future filled with stress and conflict. Parents and teachers have the responsibility to model behaviors and teach skills that will enable our children to be productive, accepting, healthy, and above all, resilient. 1. Self-understanding and acceptance Self-esteem is a realistic estimate of your own capabilities and worth. People with high self-esteem are productive, responsive, imaginative, and attentive to the needs of others. Encou...
86.	Bookmarks: 1	The 3 Little Known Secrets To Daily Productivity Whether you have a business that is based out of your home, or if you want to maximize your efforts at your job, there are 3 basic concepts that will ensure your success.By learning about and embracing these 3 simple – and free – success techniques you will not only increase your productivity, but you will maintain your sanity as well!SchedulingYes, you are busy. Everyone is busy these days. From stay at home parents who raise children full-time, all the way up th...
87.	Bookmarks: 0	Ten Top Organising Tips For Dyslexics Over the years I have had to find alternate ways of doing certain everyday tasks, so I developed various ways to cope with my Dyslexia, methods that have also helped thousands of others. Now I would like to share them with you.1)Highlighting Numbers and WordsI still use the method my parents had devised for me as a child for seeing numbers - colours! I use different highlighter pens for different items. Everything from everyday lists to spreadsheets can be prepared th...
88.	Bookmarks: 0	Stuttering Self Help I am Stephen Hill from Birmingham in England. I started to stutter at the age of four or five. My parents took me to a lot of different types of speech therapy, some in groups, some on a one to one basis. The kind of advice I was given to control my stutter or to overcome my stutter were varied.
89.	Bookmarks: 0	Small Changes = Big Rewards From the minute we are born our brains are being programmed by adults, don’t do that, don’t do this, that’s right, that’s wrong, the list goes on. Parents all over the world programming their children’s minds with what they believe is right. Like a computer the information is stored in the memory and is repeated day in day out, over and over again. Once programmed it is sometimes hard to change our life we consider normal.
90.	Bookmarks: 0	How To Effectively Make Better Decisions In Life - Familyvision Column Ben danced to his own beat. He never listened to anyone, not his parents or his instructors. Ben’s motto was “I do it my own way.” As a consequence, Ben’s life was a series of bad decisions. He was unsuccessful in life. Nevertheless, Ben’s decision making never got any better. As the county guard shut the door to Ben’s cell, he ordered, “Lights out!” Ben screamed, “I’m the man! You can’t make me do anything.” The prison light goes ...
91.	Bookmarks: 8	Are You Addicted to Anger? Michael was raised in a home where anger was used to control. His parents used their anger to attempt to control each other as well as their children. Sometimes the anger erupted into violence and Michael and his siblings would get physically hurt. Michael never knew when one of his parents would suddenly become enraged, so the threat was always there.
92.	Bookmarks: 5	Work Can Be Fun Work is fun when it is part of our mission, our quest. Work however, loses some of its luster when it becomes part of the routine with little long-term value. Residual income opportunities have the ability however, to provide lasting financial security and keep work fun!It took me many years to understand a teaching of my parents that work is fun. It was a teaching that went well beyond my childhood imaginings in both concept, and reality.As I pursued a career, I ha...
93.	Bookmarks: 5	Reaching Forgiveness “How can I forgive my parents when they were so abusive to me when I was growing up?”
94.	Bookmarks: 1	Be Happy! Home is the Happiest Place to Live in Happiness is not far away. Happiness is very near. It is not outside. It is at home. It is in the family. Home is the happiest place to live in. The love of parents, brother and sisters, wife and children give us is priceless happiness. We also are happy giving love and affection to our family. The love of our family is selfless. To be happy we must learn to be happy at home and with our family. If we cannot be happy at home, we cannot be happy outside of it. The search of happiness outside...
95.	Bookmarks: 0	The Temptation Of The Critical Voice Each of us has an inner critic. There is no way to grow up in our society without having developed this inner critical voice – which comes from parents, teachers, peers, the media, and from our own conclusions.The problem is that this inner critic sounds like a voice of authority when in reality it doesn’t know what it is talking about. It is a voice based on beliefs that have been handed down through generations but that have no basis in fact.How often has this voice...
96.	Bookmarks: 0	The Secret - When You Can Walk On Water , Take The Boat ( Part 14 ) On one side of the room was a fireplace and across from that stood a piano, a gift from my wife’s parents. The piano bench was pulled slightly away from the piano. We’d been talking for just a short while when June turned to me and said, “The man sitting on your piano bench says that he’s here to help you understand new things.”Having known June for such a long time we should have been used to such comments,especially when only the three of us were there and I was t...
97.	Bookmarks: 0	New Age Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 15 ) Knowing that mother and father are the visible representatives of God, the householder, always and by all means, must please them. If the mother is pleased, and the father, God is pleased with the man. That child is really a good child who never speaks harsh words to his parents.Before parents one must not utter jokes, must not show restlessness, must not show anger or temper. Before mother or father, a child must bow down low, and stand up in their presence, and must not...
98.	Bookmarks: 0	Giving Love, Getting Love, Giving To Get Love. We need it from the moment we are born to thrive. We might survive but we do not thrive without abundant love. No wonder we work so hard to get it. No wonder we try to be perfect and do everything right to have control over getting love. No wonder we get anxious, angry or depressed when we do not get the love we need. No wonder we use numerous substance and process addictions to numb the pain when we feel alone and unloved.When we were little, our parents or other c...
99.	Bookmarks: 1	Mentally Passing A Driving Test Nowadays, driving is considered as a very important skill. You could use this skill in cases of emergencies or even for something as simple as getting a change of scenery. Some people learned to drive by enrolling in driving schools while others were taught by their parents or friends. In any case, you would soon require a driver’s license to be considered as road-worthy. This can be accomplished by passing a driving test.It is not surprising that you would become apprehe...
100.	Bookmarks: 0	Using Your Body To Strengthen Your Mind For thousands of years, physical disciplines like yoga, Tai Chi and Sufi Dancing have been said to increase mental and spiritual powers. If this is true, how might one explain this, and even better, how can we use this fact, practically, to enhance our lives as artists, business people, parents, and partners?First, we have to strip away the mysticism from the activity. Not that these activities have no esoteric aspect, but rather that we have to approach them on the most ...