How do you throw a birthday party for kids (say, 8 or 9 up to 13-14 years old) without spending a fortune or wrecking your house?
Don’t do it!
Don’t host a party for your teens or tweens at your home! That is, unless you have live in cleaning staff and a budget that includes a […]
Your home is extremely important if you’re dating. Men love homes that are comfortable and make them want to spend more time there. It’s almost like a preview of things to come. And women love a man who’s got a sense of home and style, when they’re dating.
That’s where sectional sofas come in. There […]
Sometimes I feel like a spiritual slut. I don’t mean to be. It’s just my nosy nature. I have to peek into different ideas and philosophies just to see if there’s something there that I want. Sniffing around in the bakeries of the blessed. That’s what I do.
I was introduced to eastern philosophies by my […]
The best way to teach empathy to toddlers is to practice it in the home. If you and your spouse are empathetic, your child will have a better chance of developing empathy because it becomes the environment in which they are raised. It also becomes the behavior that is modeled for them. At toddler ages, […]
The wedding colors a bride chooses are one of the most important decisions to be made. The colors will affect pretty much every other decision regarding the wedding. Here are some tips and advice for considering and choosing colors:
* If you have a favorite color, use it.
* Consider what colors are flattering next to […]
Ironically, the trick to working together is to have good boundaries.
There are very few married couples who can live and work together without having problems. In fact, family businesses are notorious for success or failure, but little in between.
Here are some relationship tips that will help spouses who go into business together:
* Safe time. Have […]
I hit the brickiest of brick walls this week in recovery. It’s still early for me, just shy of six months. And as any of you out there who’ve done this know, it hurts.
I told my sponsor I feel like I’m standing in Minnesota in December–naked. She said, “Yeah, and you’re the one who took off your clothes.” […]
Want tips and advice on how to keep people from stealing your lunch, and the rules to good office refrigerator (and coffe pot) ettiquette? This one’s for you:
* Label your food. You can’t expect other people to know it’s yours if you don’t label it clearly.
* Don’t take anything that doesn’t have your name […]
The Super Bowl has become family entertainment where it was once he-man/cave-man entertainment. This means that there are more women and children watching the Super Bowl, more Super Bowl parties, and more people watching the Super Bowl, period. If you were an entertainer, wouldn’t you want this audience for your own?
There are two kinds […]
The way to teach children to be humble is to teach them respect and self-respect. If you can teach this, or raise children with these values, you will have conquered any problems or issues with self-esteem, humility, humble-ness, bragging, etc.
Respect is hard to teach because by the time people realize that they want it, […]