Being a new parent is a very exciting time. The Internet is a great place to find parenting tips. Glancing through my Associated Content publications, I decided to put together a compilation of parenting tips that I have written for parents since I joined. Just click on the parenting article title that you would like to read. It will then take you to the parenting article on Associated Content. Feel free to comment on the parenting articles as well.
Beginners Guide to Selecting a Baby Bottle : Choosing a baby bottle can seem a little confusing at first. Use this article to learn all about choosing a baby bottle. Selecting a bottle is important whether you are nursing or using baby formula.
Parenting: Stay at Home Decision: The decision to stay at home is determined by the special needs of the child; breastfeeding issues; costs and quality of alternative care.
Tips for the Family Wash : Family wash can be made simpler by having separate hampers, pinning socks together and other tips.
Entrepreneurship and Businesses for Teens: Pets, thank you cards, lawn service and many other opportunities are available for entrepreneurships and businesses for teens.
How to Encourage Good Public Behavior in Children: Giving positive rewards and setting a good example encourages good public behavior in children.
How to Clean Crayon Marks Off of Walls: How to get rid of those work of arts in crayon.
FluMist is Having a Better Response in Children Then Traditional Shots: New England Journal of Medicine report shows that FluMist is effective and safe for children in reducing flu.
How to Be a Parent and a Writer: For those that freelance learning how to be a parent and a writer can be quite a challenge. The good news is that you can find the balance to be a parent and a writer.
How to Help Teens Avoid Bad Food Habits: More then ever, it is important for parents to take an active part in helping to avoid bad food habits that many teens are adopting today.
Friday, July 11, 2008
Little Child Poem
Little child is a poem that is written in free verse poem style. There is a rhyme in the poem though. However, there is no meter for each stanza of the poem. I hope that those that read this poem will enjoy it.
Little Child
Little child of the night,
So powerful,
Yet full of fright.
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Little child of the wind,
So mighty and strong,
Fitting in to blend.
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Little child of the day,
Your voice silent,
But.. you do have a say.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Little child of the star,
Looking to heaven,
Knowing I’m not far.
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Little child of the moon,
Sharing time with friends,
Talking midnight til noon.
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Little child of the water,
Whispering secrets to the sea,
Nothing left to barter.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Little child of God,
He hears your prayers,
You are loved by me and by God.
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Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Secret MySpace Layouts Tips: Free Tips to Creating the Perfect MySpace Layouts
If you are not already familiar with MySpace, it is a social networking site. MySpace has been around for a while now. In fact, so many people use MySpace that there are jokes running around about Tom. There have been numerous clone MySpace sites that have emerged and even MySpace off-shoots. Part of having a MySpace is the ability to customize MySpace with a layout. There are lots of MySpace layouts that you can select from. You can even create your very own MySpace layouts for your use or to share with others on MySpace.
Here are some tips to get you going for your MySpace layouts.
MySpace Layout Tips: Keep it Colorful
When someone visits your MySpace page, they want excitement and color. Keep your MySpace profile colorful and you will attract more repeat MySpace visitors.
MySpace Layout Tips: Have Up Pictures
When you do your MySpace layout put up pictures. You don’t have to use pictures of yourself on MySpace. You can put up pictures of your pets, your yard, other friends and so forth.
MySpace Layout Tips: Don’t Make the Background Too Busy
Some people have a real problem with busy backgrounds on MySpace. You can’t even read the text that is on their MySpace profile. What good is the MySpace profile if no-one can read what you wrote on it? Don’t make the background too busy on your MySpace profile.
MySpace Layout Tips: Put up a Play List
Play lists are popular on social networking sites. They are especially popular on MySpace profiles. Put up a play list that others can listen to while they check out your MySpace comments, your MySpace profile and the other stuff in your MySpace area.
MySpace Layout Tips: Organize Your MySpace Layout
If you organize your MySpace layout, people can look at your MySpace profile better. This makes it a lot easier for people to find your MySpace layout as well.
MySpace Layout Tips: Add Extra Features
Whenever possible add extra features to your MySpace profile and MySpace layout.
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Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Easy DIY Home Improvement Party Tips Throw a DIY Party to Get Help with Big Home Improvement Projects
Are there repairs to your home that you are putting off because the task is just too big? Think about it for a moment. Perhaps, you need a new paint job on your home? One of the best ways to get motivated is through a DIY home improvement party. You can have the help of friends and family help you with these big projects. Here are some easy DIY home improvement party tips to get you started.
Easy DIY Home Improvement Party Tips: Select the Project
Think about the type of home improvement project that you would like to do that requires the help of others. You can paint the exterior of your home. You could put up a storage building on your property. Perhaps you would like to install an outdoor water pond and water fountain?
Select the home improvement project that you would like help with. A DIY home improvement party is a great way to get help with these type of projects.
Easy DIY Home Improvement Party Tips: Pick a Date and Send Invitations
You will need to select a date and send invitations to family and friends that you would like to attend the DIY home improvement party. Ask for an RSVP so that you can have a rough idea of how many people will be arriving to help out.
You can create invitations online to print and mail. The other option is to send people an invite through the email or even just telephone them. Make certain everyone knows that there is plenty to do, even if they have no experience with the particular DIY home improvement project you are going to be doing during the party.
Easy DIY Home Improvement Party Tips: Organize Materials
Organize your materials in one central location. You should make certain to purchase everything that you will need for the DIY project prior to the actual party. Ask your friends and family members that are coming to work to bring along some of their tools. This will make it easier to get the DIY project done and save on expenses.
Have a designated area for the tools. Guests can share tools and supplies as they are helping you with the DIY project.
Easy DIY Home Improvement Party Tips: Crank up the Music
Pick some great music that you think everyone will enjoy. You can play virtually anything. Music that is upbeat and has a strong tempo will keep everyone motivated and moving while they are helping with the DIY home improvement project. The end product will come about faster if you have some great tunes already selected.
Easy DIY Home Improvement Party Tips: Make a List of Tasks
Prior to the DIY home improvement party, make a list of tasks for the project. Have some that are easy so the kids can get involved. Teen help and younger children help are valuable. It is a good way for them to learn and to have fun. Have guests select which tasks they would like to work on the most.
Easy DIY Home Improvement Party Tips: Great Food and Relaxation Time
Have easy and simple foods prepared your guests. You will need a cooler with ice and some drinks that everyone can enjoy. If the party is going to extend over a meal time, have everything already made so that you can quickly serve and get everyone back to work on your DIY project.
Easy DIY Home Improvement Party Tips: Plan to Have Fun
Even if the DIY home improvement does not get completed, you should have fun. You can socialize and really have a good time with your family and friends. Don’t become so focused on the DIY home improvement project that you forget to have fun. After all, a fun party like this can be repeated often.
Monday, June 30, 2008
Freelance Writing: Speed Write Articles with Customized Templates and Make More Money
One thing that I have learned as a freelance writer that time is extremely important. The amount of time that you spend per article can make a significant difference in the amount of potential money that you can earn. Researching the Internet on improving you odds of making freelance writing money, I came across the technique of using customized templates to speed up your article writing process.
What is a template?
A template is design that you can use over and over. For freelance writing, a template would be a document already set up in your word processing program for you.
What are the advantages to a template for freelance writing?
You can save yourself a great deal of time typing if you sue templates for your writing. For example, I always create my title, article description, and keywords for each of my articles. Instead of having to type these section labels, my template already has them there for me. I can keep my article format clean and usable without retyping over and over keywords, title, article description.
You will be amazed at how much redundant typing you do when you get into the field of freelance writing. The use of templates can save you a great deal of time.
The use of templates can help you stay organized in your writing. I recently joined a product review site. I set up a template in my word processing system that has labels for me to fill in the information for each of my product reviews. For example, the template has product name, product price, product features, product description, where I purchased the product, pros and then cons of the product. Having all of this in a template makes certain that I don’t forget something specific to put in a product review. It also saves time in typing out the information.
Are templates free?
I make my templates in Microsoft Word. They are free to create and have been very helpful.
When is it best to use a template?
I like to use templates for anything that has general format that I am consistently following. This enables me to keep my information organized. I also tend to forget less. It helps to generate ideas when I have a section to fill in for the template.
Top Reason to Work from Home as Freelance Writing Specialist: Make Money at Your Fingertips and Become a Millionaire
Top Reason to Work from Home as Freelance Writing Specialist: Potential to Earn Shared Revenue is Limitless
As a freelance writer, you have the potential to earn limitless income. You can post thousands of articles free for shared ad revenue. Look at me! I have 512 articles on Helium that were all posted free. I’ve been a member since October, 2006. I used to average 30 cents a day in shared ad revenue money and now make around a dime a day.
See I can really plan for the future with that type of work and that kind of shared ad revenue money! But hey the money never stops coming in. Unless of course they ban the account or the site shuts down.
Top Reason to Work from Home as Freelance Writing Specialist: Can Get Rich from Google Ads
Getting rich from Google is a great way to make it to a millionaire in the writing business. Did you know that the average person must have an account for over 6 months to even get to the minimum earnings? But that is alright. You can slave away for 6 months and SEO your work to hope that you get enough traffic and clicks to get Google money.
But wait! One little problem with Google is that when you start reaching the payouts, your account can suddenly be banned for invalid click fraud. That’s right! All that hard work down the drain.
Anyone can randomly and repeatedly click your Google ads and get your account banned for life. Google doesn’t block the ISP fraud clickers but bans the ad publisher.
Top Reason to Work from Home as Freelance Writing Specialist: Free Sick Days
Free sick days are a great perk for work at home freelance writers. Any day that you want to call in sick you can. The days are free. They are free from making a single penny because you don’t have paid sick time! So, definitely the free sick days is a real plus. You can stay in bed and worry about missing a writing deadline or getting nothing done and earning zero dollars for the day. See why they are called free sick days?
Top Reason to Work from Home as Freelance Writing Specialist: You Get Lots of Extra Time on Your Hands
Hey, did you know that when you become a freelance writer that there are now thirty-two hours in a day instead of twenty-four? Seriously! I mean after all, you have your writing goals and then you have a list of things that you need to get done with your writing. Suddenly you are the only one in the house that can mow the yard, cook, clean, answer the phone, help with homework, shop and of course errand run.
Now stop and look at it. The time that you write is only counted toward your day’s work. So it is great to be a writer and get lots of extra time on your hands! After all, we must right? How else do we write so much and get all these other things done?
Top Reason to Work from Home as Freelance Writing Specialist: You Get Paid Lots
I love getting paid so much as writer! I mean, my goal is around three cents a word. But in reality, most Internet freelance writers average around half-a-cent per word! I love getting paid so much as freelance writer.
Another perk is that as a writer, you can average around two bucks an hour! That is so wonderful for single mom’s supporting a family with all that extra time on their hands with the more than twenty-four hour days only allotted to freelance writers!
So, you might say that there are tons of writers on the Internet that make more than that. I’m here to tell you that there are tons more that make only that or less.
Are they bad writers? No!
Do they not work hard enough? No!
But just stop and think of all the people competing with article content on the Internet. Think of all the time spent editing, re-writing, social networking, reading other writers, researching, outlining topics and so forth.
Landing a steady writing gig that does not rely on volume of work is a gold mine in the world of Internet freelance writing!
Top Reason to Work from Home as Freelance Writing Specialist: You Get to Be Popular
Ok, I have to admit that having an audience that actually likes to read your writing work is a perk. It can be fun to come up with ideas that you think will entice your readers. It can actually be fun to sit back and read the comments.
I wasn’t one of those popular kids in school. I wasn’t even very popular in the neighborhood.
It is through my writing that I have become popular. I belong to one website that is for product review writing. I have over 300 friends there!
Can you imagine calling up everyone and saying, hey come over for a picnic this afternoon? I don’t have enough parking space for more than four cars at my house. That would be a mess. However, it does feel good at times to log into different writing sites that I’m on and feel like someone enjoys my writing.
Top Reason to Work from Home as Freelance Writing Specialist: Work in Your Pajamas
One perk of being a freelance writer is that you can work in your pajamas. What other job can you wear pajamas to? Ok. Don’t answer that one.
The majority of the time, freelance writers are doing life chores and errands. In fact, the advice is to get up and get dressed for a regular outside the home job when you are a writer.
Most of the time freelance writers are in their pajamas for one reason. They got dressed for bed. They felt the pressure to get one more article written. They slip off to the keyboard and three hours later they are crawling into bed praying that tomorrow they hit it big in the writing world.
They fall asleep with keywords in their heads. They remember someone on their social network list they forgot to comment on. The alarm rings. They begin yet again.
Creating Bald Cypress Bonsai Tree Shapes for Indoor Gardening
Indoor gardening is a pleasure that you can do virtually year round. The nice feature of indoor gardening is that you can do it in an apartment, condo or virtually any place that you live because there are no additional land requirements or landscaping obstacles. Those new to Bonsai Trees will find that the Bald Cypress Bonsai is a great choice for novice indoor gardeners. There are several things to keep in mind with the Bald Cypress Bonsai indoor gardening.
Getting Started with Bald Cypress Bonsai Gardening
If you want to completely from scratch it is best to opt for the Bald Cypress Bonsai tree that you sense or believe will contour into an exquisite piece of indoor gardening art. The Bald Cypress Bonsai tree can be located in the southern divisions of the US. In the southern regions of the US, it is fairly easy to come across the Bald Cypress Bonsai tree in nature. If, for some reason, you are not able to hit upon the Bald Cypress Bonsai tree or are not in the Southern region, it is best to try one of your local garden stores or perhaps a local nursery. One feature you should check for when selecting the Bald Cypress Bonsai tree is a tree with a tapered trunk. A juvenile, high Bald Cypress Bonsai tree is all right but it is important for you to have some general knowledge about the Bald Cypress Bonsai tree cutting process. Ideally, you should obtain your Bald Cypress Bonsai tree in late winter season or even early fall season. This will make certain that the Bald Cypress Bonsai tree is in the latent phase for when you conduct the initial trunk cut.
Cutting the Bald Cypress Bonsai Tree
Selecting which spot to cut the Bald Cypress Bonsai tree may be a tricky or challenging procedure for novices to this type of indoor gardening. Characteristically, indoor gardeners employ the rule that the height of the Bald Cypress Bonsai tree should be approximately six times the width base of the tree. Do not be alarmed when cutting the Bald Cypress Bonsai tree to fit the formula used by indoor gardeners familiar with Bonsai Tree sculpting. Initially, when you begin this type of indoor gardening, beginners may feel that they are destroying all of their Bald Cypress Bonsai tree's growth. The good news is that the Bald Cypress Bonsai tree will indeed bud out from this initial cutting.
Soil for Growing the Bald Cypress Bonsai Tree
The soil for the Bald Cypress Bonsai tree should be primarily grit and humus combined. You can place pine bark in the container to help it as well. You can purchase specific Bald Cypress Bonsai tree plant fertilizer and should follow the instructions on the container.
Growing and Watering the Bald Cypress Bonsai Tree
After the indoor gardener makes the appropriate height cut, it is important to keep the tree slightly moist. You want light for the tree but do not set it in direct sunlight. The Bald Cypress Bonsai tree will often grow slowly the first season of indoor gardening with it. However, the patience that you give to this wonderful tree will be well worth the wait. It can be very exciting as you watch the Bald Cypress Bonsai tree expand and grow. Keep your Bald Cypress Bonsai tree moist by lightly misting it each day to keep it from drying out and going into a state of permanent dormancy.
Pot for the Bald Cypress Bonsai Tree
The pot for the Bald Cypress Bonsai is the main way that the indoor gardener will display their beautiful sculpting. However, the pot is the life line of the Bald Cypress Bonsai tree and is important. The indoor gardening formula is that the pot’s width should be approximately two-thirds to three-fourths the height of the tree. The planting depth of the Bald Cypress Bonsai tree should be approximately one-third the depth of the pot. The pot’s height should be approximately the same diameter as the Bald Cypress Bonsai tree. Following this general indoor gardening formula will let you know when it is time to transplant your Bald Cypress Bonsai tree. Only transplant during the latency phase to decrease root shock and plant shock.
Pruning the Bald Cypress Bonsai Tree
Once you have done the initial cutting and shaping of the Bald Cypress Bonsai tree, you can trim and prune the bud growths to sculpt and create the ideal shape of the tree for displaying. Make certain to keep it moist and with good humidity. The Bald Cypress Bonsai tree will grow slowly, so do your indoor gardening sculpting slowly and with patience to create the perfect shape and natural sculpture that you want for the wonderful Bald Cypress Bonsai tree. If you prune too much, it will slowly grow back which makes the Bald Cypress Bonsai ideal for new indoor gardeners.
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