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Positive Parenting Might be your Style

Parents today have a plethora of parenting styles to choose from. Have you figured out what your parenting style is yet? If not, then perhaps Positive Parenting might be your style. Positive Parenting is a style that is intended to lessen stress and form healthier relationships between parents and their children. It is not an authoritarian parenting style. Other phrases that have been used to describe Positive Parenting include: positive discipline, gentle guidance, or loving guidance. Physical punishment, such as spanking, is absolutely not a part of Positive Parenting. It isn’t about “teaching your child a lesson”. Instead, this parenting … Continue reading →

Get Your Labor Started Naturally

If you are nearing the end of your pregnancy, you are probably wondering whether and when your labor will begin. If you are overdue, and you are nearing the date when you would be induced you may also wonder whether labor will start on its own before then. If you are interested in trying to give things a nudge in that direction, there are a few things that you can do if your prenatal health care provider says that it okay to do them. It is essential that you ask your care provider first because each pregnancy is different, and … Continue reading →

The Freedom To Work When It Works For You

One of the best things about working from home is that you have the freedom to choose a schedule that works best for you. This great post by Richele McFarlin is a good example of how someone who works from home can adjust her work hours as her needs and the needs of her family change over time. Since I work from home, I have that same freedom and I have been able to create a schedule that fits both my needs and the needs of my family. My primary occupation is that of stay – at – home mom. … Continue reading →

Signs of Dyslexia Start Before a Child Learns to Read

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A study done in Italy found that signs that a child has dyslexia appear long before the child starts to learn how to read. Typically, in the United States, dyslexia is not considered until young children begin to learn to write and read. The Italian study found a new way to help with dyslexia. However, the treatment may not work with children who communicate in English. Dyslexia is a type of learning disability. A person who is dyslexic will have problems reading because his or her brain does not properly recognize and process certain symbols. Those symbols include letters of … Continue reading →

How to Trace Your Ancestors

There is a page on Facebook that is called “How to Trace Your Ancestors”. It seems to be designed to help new genealogists learn how to do some basic aspects of genealogy, how to get started, and what to do. A closer look at the links on the Facebook info page raise some questions about how good this really is for brand new genealogists. Genealogy is a hobby that is growing in popularity. As such, there seem to be new genealogy websites popping up all over the place. It isn’t unusual for these types of websites to try and attract … Continue reading →

What Your Facebook Page Can Tell Your Insurer

Most people don’t really take the time to think about the potential implications of the things that they post into social media websites. Insurance companies, however, are very aware that they can learn a thing or two from your Facebook page, and from what you tweet about on Twitter. This could have an affect on your insurance. Social media is something that many of us have become incredibly comfortable with. People use Twitter to tell people where they went for lunch, and what they ate. Often, this includes a link to a photo, so people can see what your lunch … Continue reading →

Container Gardening: Keep Your Plants Happy in the Winter

Here, there’s a chill in the air. The season is turning a corner, and even though fall comes relatively late this year, it definitely feels like the season is changing. For those of you who live in apartments or simply have a lot of container plants, fall is a season to think about cold weather care strategies for your plants. Plants that live in the ground have a few advantages over plants that live in containers. In places where it rains a lot, the rain will trickle down into the soil. Rainwater will become groundwater or river water. Not so … Continue reading →

Walk in Your Ancestor’s Footsteps

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Were any of your ancestors in the Civil War? There were more than two million soldiers in the Civil War. The majority of them fought in the battlefields located in Virginia. There is a new program called “Walk In Their Footsteps” that lets you track where your ancestor actually fought at. You can take a tour through those places if you visit Virginia. “Walk In Their Footsteps” is a website that has been launched by the Virginia Sesquicentennial of the Civil War Commission. The website is highly interactive. Before you even start to dig into the resources it holds, you … Continue reading →

Let GoPhoto Help You Scan Your Family Photos

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Do you have a box of old family photos that you have been meaning to archive, but haven’t gotten around to yet? There is a company called GoPhoto that can help you scan them, put them online, and even share them with your relatives, for just twenty-eight cents a scan. This could be the quick and easy solution that many genealogists are wishing for. You might be someone who gets a lot of pleasure out of searching through archives, finding birth certificates of ancestors, and photographing their headstones. This doesn’t necessarily mean that you will also enjoy sorting through a … Continue reading →

Some Signs That Your Child May Have ADHD

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ADHD is something that you have probably heard a lot about. A quick Google search will bring up tons of articles that mention ADHD. This is a neurobehavioral disorder that has become rather well recognized by doctors, educators, and the general public. As such, you may have heard a lot of information, and a lot of misinformation about it. How can you tell if your child might have ADHD? There are some signs that could indicate that your child may have ADHD. However, since many of these symptoms are something that a child who does not have ADHD may experience … Continue reading →