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How to Let Kids Be Kids
By Judith Newman
... There's a good chance that your child is, right now, making his own Harry Potter broomstick out of a stick he found in the backyard ... and he might prefer it to the pricey vibrating plastic version you were thinking of buying him. Childhood experts and those who have studied the stressed-out are weighing in on the ways we can help our children reclaim simpler pleasures.
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TheOnlineMom.com offers parents and consumers a guide to the top-rated, age-appropriate, kid-tested and parent-approved tech toys and gifts.
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Teach Your Kid Confidence - from Birth
By Cynthia Ramnarace
Even Babies Can Be Confident. What can you do when your child is an infant to help him develop the confidence to "try, try again"?
Create a predictable routine. When your baby knows that after having his bath he'll be fed and then go to bed, he doesn't have to worry about what's going to happen next. Instead, his mind is free to focus on mastering new skills, such as how to get his belly up off the floor so he can crawl.
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Single Mom Dating Tips
Ms. Single Mama advises on How to meet men as a single mom and date them, The good stuff: falling in love as a single mom, The not-so-good stuff: breaking up as a single mom.
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Directory of Financial Aids for Women 2007-2009
It's been more than 30 years since the first edition of the Directory of Financial Aids for women was first published in 1977. In the years since then, the directory has tripled in size, quadrupled in access, increased in detail, and expanded in scope. The 2009-2011 edition identifies billions of dollars in financial aid and funding that has been set aside primarily or exclusively for women. This is more money than has ever been available before!
Cutting Grocery Costs without Cutting Nutrition
Simple, healthy, and affordable ways to weather the rising price of food
Karen Collins, R.D., American Institute of Cancer Research
Grocery prices are projected to increase again in 2008 – that’s following 2007’s highest annual increase in 17 years. But surviving these tough economic times doesn’t have to mean sacrificing good nutrition. Some simple strategies can help you cut food costs and eat more healthfully, too.
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91 Ways to Save on Almost Anything
Here's how to stretch your dollars -- and pinch your pennies 'til they scream -- while you feel little or no pain.
by Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine
Want to save a buck? How about a few hundred or a couple thousand?
We took a look at eight spending categories in your budget and identified dozens of ways you can keep more money. Whether you need to plug leaks in your spending, learn where to find the best deals or even trick yourself into shaving expenses, we've got something for everyone.
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10 Tips for Improving Your Family's Eating Habits
With today’s busy lifestyles, families don’t always eat as healthfully as we would like. But by practicing healthy eating habits at home, you can make it easier for your family to eat right. Try these 10 tips designed to encourage healthy eating habits:
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Still Going It Alone addresses issues common to women who have been at the task of single parenting for some seasons. These unique women now face the prospect of sending their children off to college, to a distant career site, or to be married and must continue to fulfill their ever-altering parental role. Moms with grown children also realize the need for wise financial planning and career re-assessment. Each single mom understands they may never re-marry, that growing old and retiring alone is a very real possibility. For many, the future looms in uncertainty. This resource book will provide practical hope and continually redirect women to the source of all comfort, God and His word.
How to deal with economic stress
Stressed about the economy? You certainly aren’t alone. According to a recent survey from the American Psychological Association, 74% of Americans say work or money cause them stress and anxiety.
The thing is, stress has a huge impact on your body. It can cause headaches, impair your immune system, disrupt your digestive system and can even affect heart function.
Here are some stress-busters you can start today to help curb your symptoms.
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Hosted by Ryan Seacrest American Idol returns for its much-anticipated ninth season in January 2010
Emmy Award-winning talk show host Ellen DeGeneres will join American Idol as the new fourth judge sitting alongside Simon, Randy and Kara. As the new judge, Ellen will offer her own unique perspective to the contestants throughout the competition.
This season, joined by rotating guest judges including Victoria Beckham, Mary J. Blige, Joe Jonas, Neil Patrick Harris, Shania Twain and Kristin Chenoweth, the American Idol judges visited Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles and Orlando in their quest to find performers worthy of the "Golden Ticket" to Hollywood.
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Kristin Chenoweth to Guest-Judge American Idol
American Idol is going to get Wicked good: Kristin Chenoweth is the latest star to join the rotating panel of celebrity guest judges, People reports.
The former Pushing Daisies star will sit alongside Simon Cowell, Randy Jackson and Kara DioGuardi at the Season 9 auditions in Orlando, the magazine says.
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Fight against credit card rate hikes
by Gerri Willis, CNN finance editor
As expected, credit card issuers are raising fees and rates just before legislative restrictions take place next February. But you don't have to be vulnerable. Here are some alternatives to bank credit cards.
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Listing of Top Online Schools
Basic Legal Recommendations for Women
by Michele Howe
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According to Toledo attorney, Stephen Pennington, there are some fundamental legal concerns that every woman should understand, plan, and prepare for in order to best protect her financial assets in lieu of a possible divorce, death of a spouse, or for simple common sense financial survival.
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by Florence Falk
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The impact of cultural blockage on women's lives cannot be underestimated. For to the degree that we accept -- and abide by -- the rules of socially invasive, and false, doctrine about who we are and who we ought to be, we will continue to suffer from low self-esteem. The formation of self will be drastically, perhaps irrevocably, compromised.
There is, however, a power-laden alternative: to disabuse ourselves of shame and fear by outing its secret lair inside us. How? By first growing conscious of the emotional and spiritual hold these host energies have on us. This is exactly what Stephanie Gonzalez did after she was raped, as, little by little, her attitude, then her actions, began to change. For two and a half years Stephanie kept her rape a secret. Meanwhile, she was reading about case after case of rape in the newspapers -- and gaining strength and resolve. "Finally," Stephanie said, "I made a decision that turned my life around: I would no longer live with the crime -- or the secret. Instead, I would tell the public about my rape."
Stephanie called Barbara Goldman, the executive director of the Santa Fe Rape Crisis Center, and volunteered to tell her story on TV. After the program aired, Stephanie was inundated with calls from women and men who wanted to offer support and share their own stories. "They would say, 'This happened to me several years ago, and I'm going to get help.' Or, 'This happened to my mother, and my father hasn't been able to deal with it, and we all need to get help.' A woman who is now a district judge told me it had happened to her. The outpouring was incredible."
The experience of outing her secret transformed Stephanie. ''I'm not the same person," she says. "I don't feel ashamed anymore." By admitting to and uncovering her own invisible wounds, Stephanie went through a profound educational process. She was no longer content to accept a dysfunctional mode of social "behavior" -- that of the nice, obedient, and voiceless woman -- by silencing herself, or turning suppressed anger into self-disavowal, or allowing feelings of shame, guilt, and anger to translate into depression. Such acquiescence would have only created more inner emptiness. Instead, Stephanie's therapeutic work allowed her to confront her own secret shame in solitude. Indeed, that act was itself a form of self-assertion, and it permitted her to give a name to hitherto unknowable and inchoate feelings that had been choking off her sense of personal freedom. Most of us do not have to endure such terrible misfortune before embarking on the journey to selfhood; yet whatever circumstances bring us there, this is the same path every woman alone must travel. Indeed, once we step foot on it, we will savor the solitude that transforms our lives.
A Woman's Self
A woman's self is a strong, yet delicate, thing. I know this firsthand from the privileged space of my office, where I have a panoramic view of women's selves. Their appearances vary: outside, some are broken, tough, wispy, empty, hungry, ravaged, or ravenous; inside, all shine with the same hallowed light. Appearance isn't important. What is important is that no matter how faint the silhouette, these selves stubbornly persist. For the self insistently shows up, shape changing according to its need for camouflage and the degree to which it feels brutalized or neglected: in a word, unseen. To be unseen is, frankly, an intolerable form of aloneness. It means that we are invisible to others, or, if even vaguely visible, that we simply do not matter. Nothing is more devastating to a woman's self than that: for to be unseen by others means that we are truly unable to see ourselves. This is surely how Stephanie felt after the rape and before she was ready to come to terms with what had been inadmissible knowledge. But it is also a looming reminder to the rest of us who are quick to cast the first stone -- at ourselves.
The diminished self-esteem that leads us to fear, and then turn away from, the solitude we need for personal and spiritual nourishment, is a river fed by two tributaries. The first is the social and cultural tributary I explore in the first three chapters and that creates the climate whose air woman alone must breathe in every day. The second, equally important tributary concerns the development of our personal identity, which I will turn to next. It is important for a woman alone -- indeed, all women -- to understand how some of the fundamental experiences of growing up female -- from childhood through young adulthood -- affect the way a woman's sense of self evolves -- specifically in relation to our early experiences of being alone.
When we take into consideration the many cultural messages that encourage a woman to think of herself as less than -- to not accept herself as she is -- together with the many assaults to the self that are personal and individual, we can begin to understand why the uncomfortable feelings we carry make us veer away from aloneness. The challenge to women alone is to confront these feelings so that we can enjoy the creative rewards of solitude.
The above is an excerpt reprinted from On My Own by Florence Falk
Published by Three Rivers Press, a division of Random House, Inc.; March 2008;
$13.95 US / $15.95 CAN; 978-1-4000-9811-8
Copyright © 2007 Florence Falk
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About Author:
Florence Falk, author of On My Own, is a writer and teacher, and has been a psychotherapist in a private practice for more than twenty years. She gives lectures and leads workshops across the country. Visit her at FlorenceFalk.com.
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9 Cash-Saving Tips That Pay Big Bucks
complaintsboard.com
The expression "a penny saved is a penny earned" doesn't cut it these days. But saving a few dollars here and there can add up...
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You May Have Too Much Debt But You Also Have Options
How Life Works
If you feel like you're in over your head with personal debt, you're not alone. Millions of Americans have become overextended, many as a result of easy credit and the recessions. Credit cards, medical bills, personal loans and raising interest rates do not make a good financial mix.
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Suze Orman's Recession Rescue Plan - helps you survive in times of financial crisis
OPRAH.com
Do you know what your family would do if you lost your job - or worse, your home? Financial expert Suze Orman is ready to help you
devise a recession rescue plan to survive - and possibly thrive - during this deepening financial crisis...
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Could fat babies mean fat toddlers?
A new study from Harvard Medical School found that babies who gained weight quickly had a sharply higher risk of obesity. The study
followed close to 600 babies and found those in the top quarter of weight for their length at 6 months had a 40 percent higher risk of
obesity by age 3 than smaller babies.
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The 10-Ingredient Shopping Trip
By Tara Parker-Pope and Mark Bittman
... In his latest “How to Cook Everything” segment on the Today Show, New York Times food writer Mark Bittman makes it
surprisingly easy to cook a week’s worth of dinners with just a 10-ingredient shopping trip.
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Finding last-minute tuition money
There's still time to find funds for this semester's college tuition. But you'll have to move quickly.
By Gerri Willis
It's only a couple of weeks or even days until school begins. And if you don't think you'll be able to get a handle on your college
tuition bill, here with your guide to last minute money.
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Short-term Payday Loans
econ4u.org
...Which are more expensive, late fees or short-term loans?...
A short-term payday loan can be a better option than overdraft fees, reconnect fees, late payment fees or a damaged credit rating when
the loan is repaid promptly. However, these loans are not suited for longer repayment periods...
Being realistic about budgeting can help avoid the need for short-term borrowing.
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Your Just-in-Case Emergency Plan
by RealSimple
Who do you call if you can't make it home in time to meet the kids' bus? Who do
you trust to take in your mail when you're on vacation? Who do you trust with
the extra set of keys to your house?
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How to save $10,000 in 2009
By Liz Pulliam Weston
If you were hoping for a list of small tweaks you could make in your spending to save $10,000 a year, sorry. The reality is that
$10,000 is a lot of money. And saving big money usually means making big changes in the areas where we spend the most, such as:
Housing, Transportation, Food.
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The Super, Sexy, Single Mom on a Budget
by Renee Rayles
A quick reference guide designed for the busy, single mom who has
little time to read while running the mom taxi, cooking dinner, helping with homework, and trying to fit in a date night every now and
then.
32 and Counting? Finding Your Happily Ever After Today
by Gi Gi
The author talks about the struggles a single mom goes through and the discovery that you can have HEAT (Happily Ever After Today) just
as you are, being single, taking care of your kids...
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Single Mothers &
Male Role-Models / Mentors
Single mothers carry an enormous load of responsibility, especially those having sole and/or primary custody of minor children. They
nourish, they nurture, they teach, they discipline, they shelter, they protect, and they provide… all without the assistance of another
equally-invested adult.
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Your 5-minute guide to protecting your identity
20 steps to protect yourself from identity theft, and seven ways to clean up things if you become a victim.
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TheOnlineMom.com offers parents and consumers a guide to the top-rated, age-appropriate, kid-tested and parent-approved tech toys and gifts.
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw
by Jeff Kinney
For those wondering why tween boys don’t read very much, the answer is that more books aren’t like this...
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The best financial advice ever
Prince Charming isn't coming. Live like a college student...
By Liz Pulliam Weston
If you're doing well financially, chances are you had help.
... If you're not doing well financially, maybe you're finally ready to hear some advice that could make all the difference.
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Find 7 More Hours in a Day
From O, The Oprah Magazine
• Handle things once
• Don't listen to the news first thing in the morning
• Make good use of waiting time
• Think "half-time"
• Be decisive and move on
• Lighten up on your cleaning standards
• Write it down
• Turn off technology during your high-energy time
• Monitor time-sapping addictions
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The Single Moms Little Book of Wisdom: 42 Tidbits of Wisdom To Help You Survive, Succeed and Stay Strong
by Cassandra Mack
Provides insight and encouragement for women who are parenting without a partner or who feel like they are.
This concise yet comprehensive book will motivate you to pursue your goals and
fulfill your dreams. It will provide you with reassurance as you walk the path
of single motherhood and offer survival tips and success principles that are
necessary to succeed, survive and stay strong.
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Tips on How to Take Care of Yourself During a Global Crisis
by complaintsboard.com
During these last few months, the stress levels have been on the rise, from people struggling with finances, to the banking stresses, to the swine flu projected pandemic. There is a lot of uncertainty, a lot of unnecessary panic, and a lot of overall fear...
For one thing, with the information overload that is being thrown in every which direction except straight leaves you wondering what is the truth, and what is not? ...
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How-To Never Look Tired - 25 easy tricks that replace sleep
by Wendy Schmid
That coworker’s voice is full of concern when she says, “How are you? You look tired.” But her sympathy doesn’t stop you from wanting to throttle her. Nobody wants to appear sleep deprived—and nobody has to anymore. “It’s easier than ever to not let exhaustion show on your face.
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AMERICA'S WORST RESTAURANTS FOR KIDS REVEALED
Eat This, Not That! Authors Grade 43 National Chains; 6 Receive an "F"
A year-long study of children's meals has revealed vast dietary differences among America's favorite fast-food and sit-down chain restaurants... and discovered that many of America's most popular chain restaurants are nutritional nightmares for America's children.
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Miss Manners
Minimalism is the cutting edge now. My decorator calls it Dorm Chic. Wait, you'll see, everyone will have this look in a year or two. And then maybe I'll go out and get myself some overstuffed chairs." ...
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10 Bad Habits That Lead to Debt Disaster
Little things add up fast. Learn from these mistakes and try these tips to start paying off your debt.
Sometimes the only way to stop a snowballing problem is to go back to the top of the hill and find out what started it. If you're up to your eyeballs in credit card debt, take a step back and recount your money missteps.
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7 Secrets to Raising a Happy Child
What Makes a Child Happy?
We all want the same things for our kids. We want them to grow up to love and be
loved, to follow their dreams, to find success. Mostly, though, we want them to
be happy. But just how much control do we have over our children's happiness?
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Do You Want To Know How Your Nanny Is Doing Her Job?
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We want to introduce to HowsMyNanny.com, a web service started in the Fall of 2006 by Jill Starishevsk, a nine-year veteran of a District Attorney’s Office in New York City who works in the Child Abuse and Sex Crimes Bureau. While on maternity leave of her second child, she developed this website.
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Alcohol Prevention Web Site for Middle School Students
The Cool Spot Helps Young Teens Resist Peer Pressure and Alcohol
Bethesda, MD – A new version of The Cool Spot, a youth alcohol prevention Web site, launched this week. The site, aimed at 11- to 13-year-olds, was created by The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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American Idol- The Phenomenon Continues
AMERICAN IDOL returns for the much-anticipated eighth season...
Hosted by Ryan Seacrest, the No. 1 hit series empowers contestants and viewers to share their voice in deciding who will be America's next singing superstar. This season promises to be one of the best yet with new talent, a new judge and plenty of surprises along the way.
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