Meeting the family of someone you love and hope to have a long future with can be nerve wracking, to say the least. You know that you really click with your partner’s personality, but will the rest of his family be just like him or totally different? You have heard all about the family members you will meet (good and bad), but exactly what has your partner told them about you?
These are just some of the questions that run through your mind, increasing the insecurities and nervousness by the moment. Following are just a couple tips that should help …
Month: April 2022
A Happy Mom Is A Happy Family
Moms are so much more powerful than they realize. How they are feeling on a particular day can have significant effects on the entire family. A Mom can and does influence so many things in her environment. And that can affect how she feels, and in turn how the other family members feel.
When she is feeling good, happy, relaxed so are her kids. They have more energy, laugh more and get along better. On the other hand, if she is feeling frustrated or bogged down by all the things going on, the kids seemed to know that, and they …
5 Common Habits of Happy Families
What makes some families more happy than others? The short answer is they are aware of doing things that make them happy. They have probably taken the time to explore what they like to do, what makes the members of the family happy and importantly make the time to do those things more regularly than the things that they don’t particularly enjoy.
It sounds simple and it is. It is about not being lazy! People who are happy are more aware!
Aware of what you may ask, and that’s a great question. Individuals in the family are aware of what …
Celebrating Father’s Day – Lessons From Dad Are Important!
I love that we celebrate fathers passed and present. I lost my dad more than 20 years ago yet I think of him and cherish with gratitude the life lessons he taught me. Some lessons I learned long after he passed. Why? Because I wasn’t wise enough in my younger years to get the lesson. Reflection is good. Think about your dad, what he represents, what he stands for, what he taught you by his actions, his words and how he showed up each day in your home.
Here are 6 things dad’s can do that will leave a lasting …
Toxic Chemicals and Increase in Childhood Cancer
Toxic Chemicals and Increase in Childhood Cancer
Since 1975 cancer in has increased in American Children especially childhood leukemia and brain cancer. At the same time, approximately 80,000 chemicals have been produced in the U.S. to create commonly-used products. These include known carcinogens such as asbestos, formaldehyde, lead, cadmium, trichloroethylene, and vinyl chloride, with practically no government oversight.
The use of toxic chemicals has risen considerably in the last 50 years. They are now at a point where they are just about everywhere in the environment. Although it is not clear exactly why childhood cancers are increasing, an extensive amount …
The Call of the Quest – An Intuitive Call to Story
The Call of the Quest – An Intuitive Call to Story
Though I consider this month the dead of winter, it has been particularly warm these past few days, so my son and I spent a lot of time on the balcony doing our homeschooling.
This afternoon, he told me twice as he was waiting for me to come out there, that he had seen several geese. I promised we would look it up in our Animal Speakbook but then I began to read one of the stories on our agenda for today.
Within minutes, I, myself, heard the geese, …
Childhood Diabetes is Becoming More Common
Childhood Diabetes is Becoming More Common
When a child gets diabetes then it is named either juvenile diabetes or type 1 diabetes, most of the time. This disease causes the pancreas to not be able to produce insulin or affects the body’s ability to use the insulin it produces, correctly. Insulin is a chemical which allows the body to use starches, carbs and sugars. Kids who are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes are also considered to be insulin-dependent. They will have to take insulin for the rest of their lives.
Type 2 diabetes is more common in adults over the …
The Things a Daughter Should Know From Her Father
There are certain things that a father must teach to his daughter. These things are her tools when the time comes that she will be facing by her own the realities of the world. These things should be bear in mind whenever and wherever a child may be, in particular the daughters. These are the things that will make her grow responsible, mature and intelligent towards the things that she may encounter in the near future.
a.) Teach them to value their family because they are for eternity.
Fathers let your daughters know how much you love your wife because …
Asthma Research
Asthma Research
Asthma research is helping millions in the modern world. In the US alone, this disease gives nightmares to about 9 million children and 23.3 million men and woman.
Though the numbers are still on the rise, recent research seems to be the proverbial ray of hope that can end the woes of millions of sufferers across the world. Studies are being carried out in various parts of globe to understand and know the disease further.
Present-day treatments are exhausting, time consuming, and expensive. The diagnoses depend upon a number of trial and error methods. Until the time that …
A Northern Ireland Childhood – Patrick Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
A Northern Ireland Childhood – Patrick Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
Patrick Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle is an unusual, highly original account of life in a Northern Ireland Catholic household. Written from the point of view of Paddy, the eldest son, aged ten, of the Clarke family, it draws the reader through a particular experience of childhood.
There is a child’s wonder at the new. There are strange facts about the world to be unearthed and challenges to face like a man. But when you are ten, there is also always the rock of parents, …