Monthly Archives: March 2007

The Top Ten Security Tips for Halloween

With autumn comes a time to relax and start enjoying quality family time. Halloween is one of those special occasions where parents and children can share unique and magical moments.
People are getting more concerned with potential threat and want to assure the maximal security for their loved ones.
Allow me to review with you the top [...]

Home Matters – Changing What’s Wrong

Are things not going as well as you’d like in your life or at home? It’s a common problem, but where is the answer for how to fix what’s wrong? Almost all of our problems start right in our own heads. Over the years I have found a way to get to [...]

Can This Happen To Your Family?

I would like to introduce you to the Blaine family. A typical family with typical problems in today’s world.
Tom, 39 is the head of the human resources department of the local school district. His good friend, the business manager, is embezzling money. He has to fire him and hire a replacement. The secretary messed up [...]

Tween Demon ‘Spa Day’ Birthday Idea – Your Twelve Year Old Daughter Will Love It!

Ahh, the tween years. Has it really been 12 years since the little bundle came home from the hospital? New parents think that if they can only make it through potty training and toddler separation anxiety, the rest will be a piece of cake. As a parent who has lived to tell the tale a [...]

The 5 Traits of Baby Boomer Business Owners

As a practitioner and student of Small Business Marketing, I was recently contemplating ways to enhance my business. I found it fascinating to realize that over 95% of my customers and hot prospects were Baby Boomer’s who own a small business.
With this group identified as my target demographic, it was important to understand them better. [...]

Eating You Out of House and Home

What shows up uninvited and eats you out of house and home?
It’s not your relatives; it’s termites. These tiny insects can slip through the smallest cracks in your house and start eating all the wood in your home, until they turn your beloved refuge into a pile of sawdust. Capable of causing more damage than [...]

Discover the Benefits of Breastfeeding

Along with the satisfaction of doing what is best for your baby, the benefits of breastfeeding for your children should convince you that it is at least worth a good effort to try it!
According to the latest research, here are some of the many benefits of breastfeeding for your baby:
* Breastfed babies are not so [...]

Helping Students With Homework

Homework causes more headaches for parents than it does for children. Some parents worry because their children don’t seem to do enough while others are concerned because they do too much. And most parents want to able to help their children more effectively.
Homework is very much a part of secondary education however primary schools vary [...]

5 Preschool Activities For Grandparents Day

As with most holidays, school will use Grandparents Day as a special activity for the class. This can be especially true of preschool, where there is as much focus on social activity and every day life as there is on learning the functionalities of reading, writing, and arithmetic. However, with so many different [...]

Not On My Watch – Observations On Oversight

After more than 40 years of wandering in the vast wasteland, some parents have decided to make the TV set a controlled substance in their homes. I am one of them.
But it’s a workout. Pulling the average American child away from just a few of their 1,680 minutes of weekly television viewing burns as many [...]