Sunday, February 24, 2008

Top Ten Things To Do with Your Child

Go to a Ball Game, Soccer Game or the Circus. Events like these give the opportunity of simple conversation. Perhaps your teenager like mine does not talk all, but there is a chance We go to Soccer Gamers and have purchased two season passes. This way my wife and I go at different times and with a different Child. These events by their nature open conversation opportunities where other events may not. A movie for example is not a place for interacting.

It's Your Day

This is something I heard while listening to a Tony Robbins tape. Have one special day for each child where they can do what ever they want within reason and budget. If you can, schedule a vacation day to do this. The older child will realize the importance of the event and the time was set-aside just for them. I would say: "Jacob this is your day what would you like to do" My advice is also to keep a hot list of things you heard in the past just in case the child says " I don't know"

Time Capsule

Just get some stuff together and bury it. Be around when the items are selected. This creates a lot of interaction and conversation. Don't know how to make one or what to choose? There are plenty of suggestions by a searching Google.

Letter Boxing

Letter boxing is a combination of hiking, puzzle solving and treasure hunting. Basically folks have hidden little boxes all over the country. In these boxes are logbooks and a hand made rubber stamps. You follow clues to the box. Once you find it you stamp their logbook with your family stamps and use their stamp in your logbook. For more information of this great hobby and pastime plus clues for boxes all over the United States: bipolar disorderletterboxing/

Rake Leaves in a Park

This works with the younger children up to 12 I would guess. Go to your local park with a rake and pile up those leaves. As you know children likes to jump in them. The beauty of the park trip is that you don't have to pick them up. We bring hotcauses of bipolars as well.

Wedding Album

Go though your wedding album or video. There are always a lot of questions and there is the closeness of looking at a book together.

Game Night

Turn the TV off and pick a game. It is that simple. At my house I have some of the colorful board games hanging on the wall like pictures. They are reminders of games we own. Try the game Apples to Apples it is a great game with a very slight learning curve. There are two versions to choose from.

Read Together

This might not work well with the older child but for those younger ones it is good also if you have them read to you. You can assess their reading skills this way.

Does Something On a Whim

Do something that is not planed. Do something you may not have done before or in a long time. Make it spontaneous. Go to the Zoo, Museum, Movie, Miniature Golf, and Ice Cream, Get a Pumpkin or go out to dinner. Just do it.

Dinner Together

In today's fast paced work and school schedule it may be a rare time where the family is together for a meal. Simply make it happen. The results will get you all in touch with each other's lives.

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How To Earn Money Online

I swear, my former housemate was the biggest dummy on the planet. His name was Amos, and he was the epitome of the word slacker. Most of the time, he would sit around and do nothing but smoke pot, while incessantly blasting reggae music is loud as the stereo could play it. I swear, one time we had to turn off the power to his room on the surge suppressor just to get some sleep, and boy, the dummy never even got wise that was us that killed the power. He made his living selling drugs, and incense down on Teleride avenue in Colorado Springs, where all of the hippies, street punks, and freaks come together and do, more or less, not a damn thing.

One of the stupider (although by no means, stupidest) things that I saw him do was to buy a earn money online kit off of the internet. This was one of those deals were promised him that he could earn money online by setting up his own business with things he already had. This was a look to draw people in because they didn't have to expend a lot of money to do it. It advertised it as if all that he would have to do was to sit back and watch the cash roll in. Of course, the this was old fiction and he got burned.

I mean, how could you earn money online selling crappy hand dipped incense? Who in their right mind could think that? He must have actually thought that there was a market for because in his own little world he thought it was cool. Like there weren't already a million other people trying to earn money online selling the same substandard products. Could you imagine trying to sell incense and a brick and mortar business where they can't even smelled the product, to say nothing of making money online with it.

It isn't even like he had a nice, or interesting web page. He just bought a stock web design out of a box, slapped it up on the Internet and thought that that was all it would take to earn money online.

To earn money online is much more complex than most people think and we try to explain that to him, but he'd just give us that blank, irritated look that was permanently affixed to his face. He was pretty much clueless about how the marketplace ran and he surely did not want to hear about how there were already enough people trying to earn money online, and failing at it, selling the same kinds of crappy things that he was. After a while we just gave up and let him do whatever he wanted because sometimes you get tired of banging your head against a brick wall, and he was our brick wall. People definitely to earn money online, but you have to have a clue first.
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