7 Ways Busy Families Can Volunteer
November 30, 2007
Volunteering together is a fantastic way to spend time as a family. Volunteering
–teaches kindness, compassion and respect.
–deepens family relationships. –gives kids a sense of empowerment.
–promotes learning about areas of interest, such as hunger, homelessness or human rights.
–doesn’t require a lot of time.
–is fun.
–changes lives.
An excellent resource for finding volunteer opportunities is “The Busy Family’s Guide to Volunteering” by Jenny Friedman (Robins Lane Press). Visiting www.volunteermatch.org can help you locat volunteer opporunities in your area.
Here are my favorite family volunteering opportunities:
1. PREPARE A MEAL FOR A HOMELESS SHELTER OR SOUP KITCHEN. Even young children can help with shopping, washing vegetables, pouring and mixing. Older children and teens can handle more complex tasks. Our family loves this one because it’s personal. Get large-quantity recipes at www.angelfire.com.
2. WALK, RUN OR SWIM FOR A GOOD CAUSE. We like our local CROP Walk, which fights hunger in our area and abroad. Other events fight such diseases as cancer and cyclic vomiting syndrome.
Kids can ask aunts, uncles, grandparents, cousins and neighbors to sponsor them — just don’t sent kids door-to-door without you! With hats and sunscreen, little ones can ride in a stroller or back-carrier.
How to Set Healthy Limits at Work
November 29, 2007
Back in college, I wrote for a five-day-a-week, award-winning campus newpaper. My skills were growing and I was earning a reputation as a solid reporter.
I was miserable.
If I wasn’t in class, I was out inverviewing sources or toiling in the newsroom. I missed seeing my friends at the dorm, got little sleep and swigged Maalox to get through the afternoons. And still my desk editor pressured me to be more productive.
Then an adult advisor gave me an insight I’ve never forgotten:
AN ORGANIZATION WILL TAKE AND TAKE AS LONG AS YOU KEEP GIVING. IF YOU WANT LIMITS ON WHAT YOU GIVE, YOU HAVE TO SET THEM.
This insight has come to my rescue over and over again. It didn’t matter what the organization was: a place of employment, a faith community, a volunteer group. Setting healthy boundaries on what I gave was MY job, and no organization would do it for me.
Not that it’s easy. Setting limits can be scary, especially when your job is at stake. Workplaces vary widely in their responses to employees’ attempts to set limits.
Because Every Child Is A Born Genuis
November 28, 2007
Graphology for Child development.:- Graphology is the science of understanding the human mind through person’s handwriting. When a person writes, the signal in the form of letters get decoded / printed on the paper by the fingers. Graphology aims at understanding & interpreting these signals through the writing. Using this we can know a persons mind so the thoughts, character and behavior.
Every child’s mind is programmed in the childhood by the influence of the male and female images in the child’s life usually the parents. By the help of graphology Parents can understand their children in a better perspective & will come to know there strengths, weaknesses, likes, dislikes, Skills way of thinking, health & influence of their parents on him and can mould them to enhance their hidden skills for becoming better loving responsible individuals of tomorrow.
Career Selection for child :-
Graphology (handwriting analysis) can help you & your child in selecting the right career (E.g. Engineering ? Electronic, telecom, Civil, Mechanical, Robotics, Medical, Art, Drama, Music, Etc) as per the interest, abilities, skills, creativity & expertise of a child.
It is also helpful to sharpen his creativity & intellect.
Secret Of Your Genuis Child
November 27, 2007
Here is a top secret to make your child genius or ot recognise his geniusness, it is as follows Graphology for Child development.:- Graphology is the science of understanding the human mind through person’s handwriting. When a person writes, the signal in the form of letters get decoded / printed on the paper by the fingers. Graphology aims at understanding & interpreting these signals through the writing. Using this we can know a persons mind so the thoughts, character and behavior.
Every child’s mind is programmed in the childhood by the influence of the male and female images in the child’s life usually the parents. By the help of graphology Parents can understand their children in a better perspective & will come to know there strengths, weaknesses, likes, dislikes, Skills way of thinking, health & influence of their parents on him and can mould them to enhance their hidden skills for becoming better loving responsible individuals of tomorrow.
Career Selection for child :-
Graphology (handwriting analysis) can help you & your child in selecting the right career (E.g. Engineering ? Electronic, telecom, Civil, Mechanical, Robotics, Medical, Art, Drama, Music, Etc) as per the interest, abilities, skills, creativity & expertise of a child.
Homeschooling - A Real Benefit
November 26, 2007
Homeschooling - A Real Benefit
by: Kris Koonar
There are so many problems with our schools today that it can be a difficult choice to put your child on that bus each morning and send them away to an institution where it is likely little or no learning will take place throughout the day. Consider homeschooling your child. There are so many wonderful advantages.
Baby Names - Choosing Trendy or Traditional
November 26, 2007
Lists of baby names are always fun to look at, whether you’re seeking a name for your soon-to-be-born baby boy or baby girl, wondering about the popularity of your own first name, or just curious about what baby names are currently hot.
What I find particularly interesting is tracking the popularity of baby names over the decades. In looking through U.S. government baby name lists from 1880 to the present, some amusing patterns emerge, particularly in regards to baby names for girls.
For example, in Victorian times Biblical names, such as Mary, Sarah and Ruth were very popular for baby girls. There were also many baby names that sounded very old-fashioned to me, as a kid growing up in the 1960s, including names like Martha, Alice, Bertha and Minnie.
From the 1920s to the 1950s certain baby names rose in popularity. For example, I went to school with many Susans, Debbies, Patricias, and Lindas. All of these baby names have since waned, to be replaced, by the 1980s, with fancier names such as Jennifer, Jessica and Nicole. When I was a children’s librarian in the 1980s my preschool storyhours were populated with little girls named Lauren and Jenny, and little boys named Alex and Matthew.
Family Meals: When Dinner Schedules Dont Match
November 25, 2007
Mealtimes together deserve an important place in any family. Around the table, family members connect, children learn the art of conversation, and a spirit of peace and thankfulness can flourish.
But work, long commutes, sports, music and religious education can make for hectic evenings. As a result, it’s sometimes impossible for the whole family to eat dinner together.
A solution: Snacktime!
You don’t have to resign yourself to family members’ going their own way all evening. Once everyone is home, a family snack can be a simple and effective way to connect.
Make it easy on yourself. A bowl of popcorn or a store-bought treat works fine. Brownies or cookies quickly made from a mix fill the house with an inviting aroma. During cold weather, our family enjoys sweets with a pot of peppermint or raspberry tea.
Add a bit of structure to the conversation to make sure everyone is included and peace prevails. For example, you might ask each person to name the best thing that happened in their day. Everyone else around the table then responds with a comment and a follow-up question.
How Being a Mom Makes You a Better Professional
November 24, 2007
“Becoming a parent can make you a better worker,” New York Times writer Lisa Belkins said in a recent column.
I’d always heard that becoming a parent made MEN better workers. The common “wisdom” said fatherhood made men more stable and better motivated.
Women, the old prejudice held, would become unreliable once children arrived. Motherhood would bring distractions and increased sick days on account of small, runny noses at home.
My own experience has been mixed. In my early days of motherhood, I concluded that each sleep interruption meant a loss of 10 points from my IQ the next day. And small, runny noses, fevers and upset tummies did indeed take a toll on my work attendance.
At the same time, I began to discover professional advantages to being a parent. For example, I had a whole new way to connect with other parents and with children.
When preparing children’s sermons for the various churches where I preached, I could tune in to preschoolers’ joys, questions and fears in a new way. As a hospital chaplain, I better understood the anguish of dying parents who were leaving young children behind.
Who Are Your Kids Talking To Online?
November 23, 2007
Studies have shown that:
1 out of 4 children were sent pictures of people who were naked or having sex?
1 out of 5 children were solicited for sex on the Internet
50% of people have made phone calls with someone the chatted with online.
Do you know what strangers are saying to your kids?
What can you do to protect your children from unscrupulous people in the Internet?
Today’s children, and specially teens, spend more time on the computer. Even though the Internet is nowadays the primary source of communication for them, it is also a dangerous place.
There are some unscrupulous people out there that would go to any extent to engage in indecent conversations and relationships with your children.
A study done with 1,200 teenagers revealed that 30% had been sexually harassed online and about 50% had conducted cyber love affairs, visited porn sites and read their parents’ e-mails.
Curiosity can be very dangerous. Even though this is normal at their age, curiosity can lead to giving out personal information such as names, addresses, phone numbers, school names and more.
At Last Announcing The Winner Of The Top Toy For 2005
November 22, 2007
At Last Announcing The Winner Of The Top Toy For 2005
by: Peter Legrove
Wouldn’t you just love to know.
On the market there are millions of toys now, so picking the Top Toy for 2005 would be quite daunting, and I would say a disappointment as everybody has their own favorites. This year the Toy Industry Association (TIA) Top Toy was something that very few industry insiders actually picked.
Here it is: the **Vsmile TV Learning System**. This electronic toy ended up with Toy Of The Year and Best Educational Toy Awards for 2005. Just plug it into your TV and away you go. It seems to be a cross between a video game and educational game and it should keep the kids happy for hours on end, or that is what they say.
I’m not really into anything that involves the TV, as I try to keep kids away from the TV. I prefer games where the kids are sitting around doing something as opposed to watching the box. So to be honest my kids or I have not tried it so I can’t comment on it.
