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If you are aimlessly buying Christmas presents for people with hopes that just one of those things will please them, then you need to read this article. It would be a great idea to get them a gift card and let them choose what they really want and then you can spend the rest of the day enjoying each others company.

year after year, Christmas continues to get more extravagant Christmas is time for picking up piles and piles of wrapping paper and trying to figure out how to fit gifts in cars, even though every year we swear that the next year we will be better prepared. When we are gift buying for adults, do we really need to go bonkers? Kids get excited for gifts, but adults buy for themselves what they want to have most of the time.

The problem is that most people don’t know what everyone wants. The theory seems to be that if you just buy a lot of stuff for a person you will please them because you increased the odds. If you really want to go all out for someone, then do some research first. Ask people who would know what they want. Ask the person a few probing questions throughout the year so when gift time comes you will have something to go on. Hopefully, this will keep you from buying them useless trinkets and gadgets. There isn’t anything wrong with a gift card when ideas elude you. These can be personalized by including a few ornaments or hand-baked cookies or even a personalized card telling them that you wished that they have the last say about their gift. Spending time with friends and family is more rewarding than any presents could ever be.

Though many people agree that gift cards are impersonal, isn’t it more impersonal to buy someone a gift they don’t need or want? Gift cards are a terrific last-minute idea if your inquiries didn’t result in any answers. For the most part people either don’t know what they want, or they don’t know how to express it. There are plenty of ways to please this group, too. Here is a great site for some Christmas gift ideas for everyone.

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Past life regression could uncover the reason why we have problems with people in our current lifetime or why we are concerned of certain situations. You have girlfriends around you in your current lifetime that you will have extraordinarily met before, now just imagine being proficient to find out what happened and what your relationship was to them at that past time and remove blocks that plague you in your current time and even unearth talents and bring them into your present lifetime. Past life regression, also known as PLR, is spectacular.

When you are having a past lifetime regression, aka PLR, session you regress to the lifetime you most need to know about in your present time. This is excellent and will often point out an enormous deal about your present lifetime and help you should to go forward with a greater understanding of yourself, your life and the sisters around you. Go to AnneJirsch.com for Past Life Regression Therapy.

You should also uncover why you are the person that you are, now that is astonishing. If you adore nature maybe you were once working on a farm, if you savour to travel perhaps you were a gypsy. Instead of minimising our strengths we embrace each of them.

Each experience is marvellous and unique. Others have discovered places they had lived in before and ?knew? where to go.

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Ivy League PhilanthropyThe Ivy League schools are composed of athletic institutions in the North Eastern United States including, but not limited to: Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University. These institutions have high standards in education.They are also very civic minded. They usually hold charity events every year for various issues including global warming, human trafficking, and human rights violations.As of 2002, a total of $571 million has been collected from various philanthropic organizations affiliated with the schools. Top of the list is the Bill and Melinda Foundation, committing $246 million. The lowest donation is still a whopping $13 million, from Golzueta Foundation. Other foundations include the Walton Family Foundation, Annenberg Foundation, Carnegie Foundation of New York, Lily Endowment, New York Community Trust, Ford Foundation, W.K Kellog Foundation, William and Flora Hewitt Foundation, Oberkotter Foundation, MBNA Foundation, Danforth Foundation, and the Pew Charitable Foundation.The owners and or founders of these organizations are usually alumni or honorary members of the Ivy League institutions; two good examples of which are Bill Gates who was enrolled at Harvard University before he created the Microsoft Company, and the diplomat and billionaire Walter Annenberg who is an alumna of University of Pennsylvania.

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Everyone I can think of hate buying ” unique birthday gifts for him “ and then they make a crazy rush at the last to the nearest retailer to buy a ” unique birthday gifts for men”. Of course the special gift they purchase then have definite pleasure assessment. But no worth to the beneficiary because you did not put any contemplation into the purchase of the unique gift.

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People hate to wait. Have you noticed that? We hate to wait in lines. We don’t like to wait for our meals. We get angry about slow cars in front of us on the road and so much more.
This tendency of wanting things “now” has caused us to become complainers. We feel “entitled” to things when we have not earned them. And most of all, we are teaching our children to be complainers. They grumble over bad grades when they didn’t do their homework. Or, they want “rewards” in order to be motivated.
I sure don’t want to allow this type of society to take me and turn me into a complainer. I don’t want my children to learn to be selfish and demanding. I know that there are so many families searching and seeking to bring patience, compassion, joy and sensitivity back into their homes. Are you one of these families?
How can you raise grounded children in our “give me” type of world? I’ll tell you. You do it by withholding things from your children. Let them earn that new puppy by working for it instead of just giving it to them. Teach them patience by making them wait for their food at the table. Instead of allowing your children to gobble their food and run, make them wait until everyone is served. Eat together as a family and then insist that your kids help you clean up. That also teaches them service. Don’t reward your children with candy, money and gifts everytime they accomplish something. Instead, reward them with self-esteem and pride by giving them hugs and verbal praise. A child who feels good about themselves doesn’t feel the need to be satisfied with material things. And if they feel content and satisfied, they won’t complain.
I think people are ready for a change. That change can start with us as mothers. If you can find it in your heart to be more patient and less complaining, your children will learn that from you and adapt that attitude as well. All it takes is for us to desire these character goals and put them into practice daily. I don’t know if it will change a nation, but I know it can change my home. Let it change yours as well.

About the Author

~ Dionna Sanchez strives to maintain patience in her home in Idaho. She is Editor of EmphasisOnMoms at http://www.EmphasisOnMoms.com/

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If you are like most people today, you do not have a will. The
reasons for this failure are many, with the most common being
along the lines of “I don’t have enough assets to worry about”,
“I don’t know how to write a will”, or “Lawyers charge a lot of
money”. Here’s my answer to the last two - buy a software
package that helps you draw up your own will and follow the
forms. This software will ask you a series of questions and you
supply the answers. When you are done, you have a piece of paper
ready to be signed; witnessed and placed somewhere it can be
found in the event you die. As for your lack of asset objection,
that might be true if you live in a cardboard box, with only the
clothes on your back, as the last surviving member of your
family. If this does not describe you, than you do have assets
and you really should make preparations for dispersing them when
you die. As you can tell from the title, this is not about your
will except to relate as to why everyone should have one.
Instead, this writing is about your children. If you are
childless, keep reading because someday you may have children.
If you know you will never have children, keep reading because
someday you may be able to use what you learned here in a
discussion with someone who has children. The biggest reason
everyone who has children must have a will is because of the
children’s guardian. Essentially, a guardianship is an
institution created and administered by the court, making the
guardian a court-appointee. However, when you name someone to be
a guardian in your will, you make it difficult for someone else
to be appointed. If you don’t name a guardian, a judge will
decide who will raise and nurture your children. Most likely,
this judge does not know your family, nor does the judge really
have the capability to know if any of your extended family
members can properly raise your child. It is impossible to
stress how important it is for parents who die early to find the
right people for the guardianship job. They will be responsible
for the upbringing of your children. You should definitely
consider things like parenting skills, values, physical
environment (apartment/farm), and religion. Two important
questions to ask (and the answers): 1.What if the best person to
bring up your child physically is not the best manager of money?
While you are planning your will and your children’s guardian,
you can also plan to separate the functions of guardianship. To
do so, you first write your will appointing a “guardian of the
person” who will care for your children physically. Then, also
in your will, you name the person whom you appoint to be the
“guardian of the estate”. This person’s job is to dole out the
resources so that your children are not a burden on the person
or family taking care of them. 2.What if the guardian you select
is over flowing with love and values, but scrape the bottom of
the barrel each month to feed their own children? Everyone knows
that you do certainly do not intend to add your children to
theirs and cause them undue hardship. This leaves only one real
solution. Provide adequate financial resources for the guardian
to properly care for your children. At the least, you should
provide enough cash resources to feed and cloth your children
each month until they complete high-school. Many parents also
make an effort to provide the resources for their children to be
able to go to college. Most likely your own asset chart is a
little short for providing the amount of cash your children will
need or you want to provide after your death, consider using
life insurance. Term life insurance to be paid into a trust is
relatively inexpensive during the years your children are at
home. If you are leaving a trust with a significant sum of
money, you may want to appoint a “guardian of the estate” to
handle the finances separate from the “guardian of the person”.
This can remove the obvious temptation if someday the guardian
encounters personal finance difficulties. The estate guardian
and the person guardian must be able to get along, so it is
important you pick the right people for these positions. Even
more important is that if you do die early, your child will be
brought up in a loving, nurturing home you have chosen. After
all, you wouldn’t go through the difficult issues of estate
planning and guardian picking if you didn’t want the best for
your children. That best includes you making out a will, and
doing it as early as tomorrow.

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(The following is an actual email conversation between Newton Hightower, Director of The Center for Anger Resolution, Inc., and “Betty” the girlfriend of a rageaholic.)

Betty: I am a 35-year-old single woman who has been dating a man for three years who verbally and emotionally abuses me. I am called ALL kinds of names…”you’re a F-ing B, you’re stupid, F-ing crazy psycho, F-ing whore, F- you…” things of that nature. He is in counseling and has been for about three months. My question is can he truly change?

Newton: The answer is yes, absolutely! BUT, the prognosis doesn’t look good.

Let me disqualify myself here. First of all, I do not work with women in your position because it is like me trying to work with someone from a different planet…I just don’t get it at all. I used to be how your boyfriend is.

I would refer you to a female therapist who could teach you to put the PRESSURE ON YOUR MAN.

Then I would work with your boyfriend when he comes crying and begging, ‘Please, help me! I am about to lose the love of my life. She won’t talk to me. How can I get her back? She says I have to see you 3 times before she will talk to me.’

Putting the PRESSURE ON is pre-therapy.

When you do the pre-therapy, then I will do the therapy on him.

*DO YOU RECOMMEND LEAVING HIM?*

Generally, I would recommend you stay and learn how to stand up to him.

Staying with a jerk like that for three years means you probably cannot get out even if you wanted to.

Recommending that women leave usually doesn’t work. I have seen couples where the man has shot several times at the wife and missed, and vice versa. In neither case did they leave each other; they just left the therapy when I hit the ceiling.

*PRE-THERAPY INTERVENTION: 911*

Last week I suggested to a couple the pre-therapy change number (911). The girlfriend arrived a little early and reported things had gotten violent again. I suggested that she report the incident and call the police every time it happens.

She said, “I won’t tell him what you said.” I replied, “Don’t worry. I will tell him when he gets here.”

My colleagues often question the wisdom of this intervention of advising wives or girlfriends to have their men arrested, when they are together in my office.

Most men are trying to save the marriage or relationship when they come to see me. I tell their girlfriends, “Most of us men would rather go to jail than get divorced again…at least I would.”

I also do not challenge the men, but compliment them: “I know you are 30 years younger than me and could kill me with a single blow, so I hope you don’t take this the wrong way.”

“I can see that you are really committed to this relationship that you come here every week and pay a lot of money for me to recommend that she have you arrested.”

*FROM BETTY TO HER BOYFRIEND: A ST. PATRICK’S DAY GIFT!*

Okay Betty, you said it took him two weeks to give a half- hearted apology. Send him a St. Patrick’s Day Card that tells him it is his lucky day. You are going to give him a chance to make up for being a total jerk for three years.

1. First you will need a spoken apology that will bring tears to your eyes. You know, heart-felt with specific examples.

2. Then you can use a line my wife used to use: “That’s nice. Now what are you going to do to make it up to me? No, I don’t mean promises, but diamonds, vacations, things like that.”

AFTER YOU HAVE GOTTEN ONE AND TWO WRITE ME…BUT DON’T SEE HIM UNTIL YOU ACTUALLY HAVE THE DIAMONDS IN YOUR HAND OR ON YOUR FINGER.

3. Then you need to find out what he is going to do if he does this again.

4. Betty, if you need a telephone coach, there are lots of therapists out there who receive my newsletter, and will read this conversation. Maybe one of them could spare you two or three thirty-minute telephone calls. If you paid for the phone calls, they might donate their time.

About the Author

Newton Hightower is the Director of The Center for Anger Resolution, Inc. in Houston, Texas, and author of the new book “Anger Busting 101: New ABCs for Angry Men and the Women Who Love Them.” Visit Newton’s website for more anger- busting ideas and a free email newsletter filled with guest articles and tips for husbands, wives, and therapists. http://www.angerbusters.com
newton@angerbusters.com

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You won’t have to look hr to find close-up ideas - even everyday
household objets can make fantastic subjects Once You’ve trained
your eye to look for macro photo opportunities, you’ll find them
almost anywhere, even in objects such as stamps, coins, paper
clips, drawing pins and so on. The fact that you’re capturing
them from an unusual viewpoint makes shot of ‘found’ objects
interesting in themselves.

Macro tips

If your camera focuses poorly at close range, use the telephoto
setting to increase magnification. However, remember that this
will further reduce depth of field.

Attach a close up lens that screws onto the camera’s filter
thread (assuming your camera has one). Available in +1, +2, +3,
+4 and +10 magnification, many camera can be adapted with push
on systems that enable a close up lens to be fitted

Use a small or white silver reflector to fill in shadow caused
by overhead lighting or the camera itself

Boost the ISO setting to enable you to use faster shutter speeds
or smaller apertures. Shots will be noisier, but images will be
sharper with a larger depth of field

Use a tripod and cable release whenever possible to maximize
depth of field and eliminate camera shake and ensure accurate
focusing.

When using compact-style camera with an optical viewfinder,
beware of problems with parallax - an effect caused when the
viewfinder is offset from the lens. Although you may have
composed your shot perfectly in the viewfinder, the fact that
the lens is in a slightly different position means that the
composition of the finished image will be altered. The closer
you get to the subject, the more inaccurate the view through
viewfinder will be.

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These are two topics that strike fear in the hearts of all
parents: what will happen when my baby starts teething? How will
he respond when it’s time to wean him (from the breast)?

Teething

Teething is not a disease, but a condition of growth. It
shouldn’t be dreaded, but simply seen as an accomplishment of a
healthy, growing child. Most babies begin teething between 6-8
months of age, but as in all children, it may vary wildly. Some
babies are known to teethe as early as 2 months or as late as 14
months. Pediatric dentists agree that the longer it takes a baby
to teethe, the stronger and healthier the teeth are.
Additionally, the later the teeth take to arrive, the later they
will fall out and be replaced by permanent teeth.

Teething should not affect nursing in any way, unless your baby
begins chomping down on your nipple. While this is painful and
one’s natural response would be to yelp, if you can stay calm
and remove him from your breast while saying, “No, no!” you will
have a much better response and less biting later on.

Some babies will experience fussiness, irritability, increased
salivation, and a slightly raised temperature as they teethe. A
proactive dose of infant Tylenol will help greatly, especially
before bedtime.

Weaning

Weaning is defined by the process in which parents offer food
supplements in place of or in addition to mother’s milk. This
process begins the moment parents offer a bottle of formula or
when their baby first tastes cereal. It is a gradual process.

When weaning from breastfeeding, it’s typically easier to drop
the late-afternoon feeding first. Replace each feeding dropped
with six to eight ounces of formula or milk, depending on the
baby’s age.

Weaning from the bottle typically begins with your baby’s
arrival at his first birthday. Again, it is a gradual process.
Most moms wean straight to a sippy cup with great success. As
you replace each bottle (one at a time, though) with a sippy
full of milk, be patient. It will take time for your child to
catch on to drinking from one of these cups, and you don’t want
to unduly frustrate him in the process.

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