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THE JOY OF FAMILY LIFE  by

 Dr. Noelle Nelson 		4/5/2008 at 10:37
Your house is a zoo - literally. It’s not just the dog, the cat, the three hamsters and the goldfish, heck, they’re downright neat compared to the human animals inhabiting your humble abode - three kids and a mate. You come home at night and all you see is mess, mess, mess. Everywhere clothes strewn, half-empty glasses, plates with sticky something stuck to them, books, papers, chewed pencils, DVDs, game-boys, nothing in its place, except your children and spouse who are everywhere in the place, making yet more - mess. You barely set down your things before gathering armloads of displaced belongings, and endeavor to restore some small measure of order to your chaotic universe.

By the time you sit down to dinner, you’re frazzled, even more worn out than when you came home from a strenuous day at work, and little in the mood for conversation or liveliness. You scarcely have the energy to mutter "Use your fork, not your fingers," "Milk is for drinking, not for blowing bubbles," or "Quit feeding your brussel sprouts to the dog." Later that night, finally buried in the safety of your bedclothes, when your mate breathes sweet somethings into the crook of your neck it’s all you can do not to swat him/her away, like some errant fly.

Ah, the joys of family life. Well they would be - or could be, if you changed your focus. You see, anything you focus on grows. You focus all your attention on everything that is awry ...
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PROFESSIONAL CAREGIVERS FULFILL MANY FAMILY NEEDS  by

 Chris Robertson 		4/5/2008 at 10:36
Three or four generations ago, people who needed short-term help or long-term care depended upon a network of extended family members. Several generations lived under the same roof or within walking distance, and were available to act as caregivers to those in need.

Of course, times have changed. Today, family members can live hundreds or thousands of miles apart, our parents and grandparents can work well into their golden years, and those of us who are single working parents or working couples have demanding schedules. Thankfully, when we need help with our own family or with our extended family, professional caregivers are there to lend a hand.

Types of Caregivers

Broadly speaking, there are three categories of professional caregivers: non-medical home health services, home support services, and child care. Home health service caregivers are helpful for adults and children who are convalescing, the developmentally challenged, people with disabilities, and the elderly. Services can range from private duty nursing to live-in caregivers to medication supervision. For example, if your spouse has recently had surgery, you may need a caregiver for a few hours each day while you’re at work. Similarly, a caregiver can help your mother or father continue to live independently by providing her or him with incontinence assistance, transportation to doctors’ appointments, or physical therapy exercises.

Those who provide home support services can help in a number of areas. For example, they can help with meal planning and preparation, personal shopping or errands, and even do laundry and light housekeeping. They can also ...
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EVEN WITH FAMILY INFLUENCES, YOU MAKE THE FINAL DECISION  by

 Len Stauffenger 		4/5/2008 at 09:52
Nobody gets into life without a family. At a minimum, one mom and one dad are requisite. If you got folks who loved and supported you, that’s your lot in life. If you got folks who did not love and support you, that’s your lot in life. God is not unloving, so you wouldn’t ever be asked to handle something you could not handle. If your family is a challenge for you, it’s because you can handle it.

Let’s talk family now. I have a concept of what family should be: these are the folks who know me, love me, accept me, are always supportive, applaud my successes, support me when I falter, adore my children, never criticize, look for ways to help me. Is that what your concept is? Now I wrote that sentence tongue in cheek because that is not what some families do. Many families are critical. Some are downright destructive.

What is important is how you handle your own ideas about what you want your family to be. Our initial relationship with our family is one of dependency. We are little kids and we are dependent on our parents for emotional, physical, spiritual and financial support. We need that. Unlike animals in the wild, we humans aren’t born as self-sufficient. We are not made to stand, walk, and nurse within hours of being born. We have families who help us to unfold the skills and strengths to eventually take care of ourselves.

Because of this early state of dependency, ...
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PREPARE FOR EMERGENCIES "AS A FAMILY"  by

 Allan Wright 		4/5/2008 at 09:51
We have all heard about the six steps to becoming a safe family, but given the different world that we live in today and the many brutal winter storms that have been marching through much of the country, I believe these steps are well worth another look.

The steps are:
1. Write a disaster plan
2. Write an evacuation plan
3. Learn about safety plans at work and school
4. Prepare for fires
5. Assemble disaster supplies
6. Learn lifesaving skills.

As each one of these steps is important; we will look at them individually.

Writing a disaster plan:

There are a few things that I consider important under this first step.

When a disaster strikes, all of your family members may not be together in one place.

Your family should select two places to meet in an emergency situation. This is an easy task. Get the family together and let everyone make a suggestion.

· In case of a household emergency, such as a fire, pick a spot in the neighborhood to meet and make sure that everyone knows exactly where that spot is.

· In a more widespread emergency, when all of your family may not be able to get home, or you must evacuate your neighborhood, pick a second place outside of your immediate neighborhood and make sure that all family members knows the address and phone number.

An out of town relative or friend may be your "family contact" place. If family members become separated, they should check with this contact as soon as possible. Everyone must know the address, phone ...
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MAKING HOME FOOD STORAGE AFFORDABLE  by

 Joseph Parish 		4/5/2008 at 09:50
You know that you need to store up on food in the event of an emergency however, there are always things that pop up and demand priority over your food storage dollars. The car may need fixing; the washing machine just died on you or the refrigerator is on the blink. If it isn’t one thing it’s another.

Here are a few tips on getting you started on your food storage program. To be effective your home food storage program should be treated as a regular budget item. Specify a certain portion of your income towards build up your emergency food supply.

When it comes to your budget there are also several ways you can provide a few extra dollars for your food storage. Don’t purchase new clothes for several months but repair those that you have. Use the money saved in this way for your food storage program.

Plan a vacation which is nearby this year. Go camping with the family instead of a Disney World adventure or the family cruise that you were thinking of. When you are planning activities for the weekend try to think of things that do not require a great deal of expenditures. Cut back on the fast food or eating out for several months.

In addition to budgeting your food storage needs you can also find additional funds that are just waiting to be used. As an example. Don’t forget that income tax refund check. You can store up on a lot of necessities with that. This ...
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TIPS FOR MAKING A FAMILY REUNION INVITATION  by

 Ron Victor 		4/5/2008 at 09:49
Family reunions will be more anticipated by every member if the invitation is made appealing. Making the perfect family reunion invitation should be the preliminary concern of the organizer of any family reunion. So that you will be able to create only best and most perfect family reunion invitation to match the event, here are the things that you should keep in mind:

Determine family reunion’s theme. Before organizing a family reunion, you have to decide when the event will take place. What is the significance about that event? Whatever be the case, try to pattern your invitation to match that theme. You can put relevant family pictures on the invitation and show your creativity.Decide what type of materials you are going to use. If you have decided on the theme and the layout, you should be ready on the exact paper you are going to use and how you are going to print out the design. There are a lot of choices available for you. You can either go for a simple paper or a specialty one. There are invitation kits available from craft stores, try to scan them and see which one best matches your idea.

Layout your designs. Conceptualize how the design should look like when it is finally printed on a sheet of paper. You can try adding personal photos in it as well as general pictures. Check out the programs that you can use. The software can really help you so much on layout and the graphical ...
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FAMILY ANCESTRY - DISCOVERING YOUR HISTORY  by

 Tim Warnoch 		2/5/2008 at 11:38
In the genealogy, the worker is preparing the history of one family for the benefit of the many descendants, while in an family ancestry history he is preparing a cross section of many a family for himself alone. In the former he is appealing to general family interest, while in the latter he is appealing only to his own fancy.

Definite form is recommended for an family ancestry history. Thus uniformity can be assured and the record of every person included will be arranged like the record of every other person in the history and its appearance and usefulness will be greatly enhanced. This form can be printed, which is preferable, or typed as needed. If it is typed, great care should be exercised to keep to the same arrangement throughout the work connecting family.

The temptation is, when the form is being typed as used, to omit those items for which it is known there is to be no need in connection with a particular individual, with the result that the whole sheet concerning family ancestry is shortened and the work is thrown out of its uniformity thus bringing the remaining items of the form in unusual places which will cause confusion.

The printed form is always to be preferred because there can be no change in arrangement of family lineage, and if any amount of work is to be done it will be found cheaper to pay the small additional cost of printing a form than to take the time to ...
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MEAL TIME MAKES QUALITY FAMILY TIME  by

 Wendie Pett 		2/5/2008 at 11:38
Nourishing your body through healthy meals can also nourish family relationships. Whether it’s in the home or at a restaurant, there’s a reason that people gather together around food. Why do you suppose this is? It may be because it’s a chance for them to become closer as family and friends as they share stories of their day and give words of wisdom and encouragement. It’s a chance for each family member to be heard and feel validation. If you use good listening skills, loved ones feel love and acceptance.

Keep the conversation focused on positive thoughts and save the lectures and heated discussions for another time. Mealtime shouldn’t become a dreadful scolding time that puts everyone off from wanting to be together. Laugh often, and laugh loud. It will keep you and your family happy, healthy, and everyone’s attitude heading in the right direction. Just don’t get too carried away by laughing so hard milk comes out your nose.

Since we live in such a busy and hectic society, family meals bring stability and comfort to a fast-moving family full of homework and extracurricular activities. Make sure to turn off the television or radio and put the telephone on vibrate so that this time is quality time.

Encourage all family members to participate in the meal preparation - from menu suggestions to the experience of preparing and cooking meals and cleaning up together. Children learn more by doing rather than watching, and it gives them a sense of being needed in the ...
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WHY HEALTH CUSTOMS MAKE SENSE FOR AMERICAN HOMES  by

 Jeanette Joy Fisher 		2/5/2008 at 11:37
It’s a long-held custom among many cultures to remove your shoes when you enter a home. In Asian homes, for instance, it’s considered a gesture of respect for your host and a way to honor a house’s purity and cleanliness. On the other side of the world, it has been considered impermissible to enter someone else’s home without removing your shoes since the 15th century. However, for some reason, that custom has never been universally accepted in America--but there are some good reasons for considering starting that custom in your own home. Here are just a few:

Removing your shoes can be seen as a symbolic gesture, meant to represent kicking off the cares and worries of the outside world when you enter the home. It’s a way to emphasize and honor the role of the home as a sanctuary--a place of peace and refuge away from the insanity of the world at large.

At a more practical level, there can be no doubt that removing shoes will bring less dirt and small rocks into the house, thereby lessening the chance that those stones will leave gouges in hardwood floors and dirtying up the carpets. You’ll also spend less of your time having to clean those floors if people remove their shoes when they walk in the door.

On the physical front, there is much to be said for the pure sensation of walking around the house in your bare feet and feeling the sensation of the hardwood or other floor coverings. As ...
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WHAT HAVING A LEARNING DISABILITY MEANS FOR YOUR CHILDS FUTURE  by

 John T.S. Murphy 		2/5/2008 at 11:37
It is human nature to plan for the worst.

We let our emotions run wild with thinking of all the hopeless possibilities of failure.

People do not intentionally want to focus on only the negative possibilities for their child. Yet, it comes all too naturally have these non-productive thoughts.

Raising a child is an emotional time of highs and lows. While growing up as a child is an emotional time of highs and lows. Combining this equation with learning disabilities makes the future look bleak.

I remember all talks that my middle school advisor would give me about my PERMANAT RECORD! When it reality, this permanent piece of paper had no barring on my future, other than how it shape my thoughts of the future.

What kind of world would we live in if our grades were really permanent? If you look back at my report cards, you would not be impressed.

Fortunately for all of us with learning disabilities, the future is brighter than ever.

The one lesson that is never taught to kids and parents is about planning realistically and practically for the future.

Have you ever actually taken a piece of paper and written out the worst case situation?

What does it look like? My assumption is this situation is not half as bad as you feel about it.

In the modern world our emotions are being played. Newspapers and Television station know that our body is best suited for 60,000 years ago. They know we are drawn to negative things. Instead of being a pawn to ...
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AN OVERVIEW OF PARENTING BOOKS  by

 Mike Selvon 		5/22/2007 at 11:50
The best parenting books are the ones that are written by those with a story to tell about their own experiences. It can be difficult to want to even look at a parenting book featuring authorship by a person that is not even a parent, as his or her advice is typically coming from a place of general ignorance.

As parents, it is common to wonder how a person with no child-raising experience is at all qualified to write parenting books. Instead, most parents want a book written by someone with knowledge of parenting and all of the trials involved in the most harmful and dangerous of life’s professions.

Many parenting books tend to take a viewpoint that looks at it as parenting from the inside out. This simple philosophy refers to the notion that authors of these books are reflecting on their own personal experience as a parent and are, therefore, offering parenting advice from someone experienced with parenting from the inside out. As someone who has been down many of the same roads before, parenting advice can typically be well-founded when it comes from an experienced parent.

Of course, not everyone that writes a parenting book needs to undergo systematic training for effective parenting. Often in lieu of systematic training for effective parenting, an author of parenting books may have a degree in pediatrics and may be experienced in child psychology. The author can then approach the prospect of writing parenting books from a position of expertise and not necessarily a ...
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HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR PARENTING SKILLS  by

 Mike Selvon 		5/22/2007 at 11:49
Raising a child is all about having good parenting skills and learning good parenting techniques. Without parenting skills, the duties of the average parent are reduced to simply struggling around with great difficulty. Of course, the realistic point of view of raising a child is that most parents enter their new role without a clue as to how to achieve their goals and are quickly looking for help.

So where does a parent go to learn good parenting skills? When all hope is lost, many parents find that they actually turn to their own parents for advice. Most parents end up raising their children in ways similar to how they were raised. While this aspect is often a sworn denial among teenage years, sung somewhat to the tune of "I will never be like you", the reality of raising a child often finds a different song of desperation is being sung in subsequent years.

When people are too proud to go to their parents for parenting advice, however, they often turn to other measures. Raising teenagers is typically one of the aspects of parenting that often drives people to drink, for one. Whether or not hitting the bottle is considered a significant or "good" parenting skill is still up for debate, but raising teenagers has been known to drive parents to some pretty unfortunate ends.

Through all of this desperation and despair, parenting skills are still possible. While a parent may have turned to drinking in lieu of asking his or her parents ...
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