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50 Things You Can Write About on HubPages
If you are stuck and don't know what to write about, maybe some of these ideas will help to unstick you. Whether you're a blocked writer, or just need a journal prompt to get you started writing again, this list will give you plenty of ideas.
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Learning Online: My Experience With Western Governors University
Online schools are springing up every day. With all the choices, how do you know if you're making the best one? This is my personal thoughts and experience with the best online university, Western Governors University.
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Valentine's Day Gift Ideas For Boys
Valentine's Day is often thought of as a special day for females. It is a day to show your love and appreciation to anyone, though. If you have a son, it would be fabulous for you to surprise him with a special token of love on this day, too. ...
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Valentine's Day Gift Ideas For Girls
Little girls love Valentine's Day. These are some great ideas for Valentine's Day gifts for the little girls in your life.
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How To Make a Master Grocery List
Now that you know the importance of having a master grocery shopping list, it's time to make one for yourself. This is a super easy task that should not take very much time at all. You can have your master grocery list done in these three easy steps.
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Why You Need to Have a Master Grocery Shopping List
Let's face it, the economy still stinks. So if you're going to save money, you're going to have to be a savvy shopper.
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How To Make An Online Advice Column Blog
How to set up your advice column online the easy way. Plus tips on how to get started writing an advice column or becoming an advice columnist online.
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Fathers Day Presents - Black & Decker Ready Wrench
Every Dad needs their own set of tools. If your Dad is like most, he probably loans out socket wrenches to friends or family, then doesn't get half of them returned to him later. Then he ends up with a tool bag missing many of his essential tools. ...
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Fathers Day Presents - Black & Decker Cordless Drills for Dads
Father's Day is just around the corner again. Many men tend to be tough to buy gifts for on special occasions because they generally rarely want anything. And when they do want something, they go out and buy it for themselves. So coming up with...
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How to Write From Your Heart
Have you ever wondered why some authors seem to get more reaction from their writing than others? Do you also struggle as a writer to receive feedback, or even just to get a simple reaction from someone else about your writing? One of the most...
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Happiness Is a State of Mind
If you have been unhappy, you might be thinking by now that happiness is an illusion and you will never be happy. In a sense, you're right. Happiness fleeting and can never be permanently attained. Are you scratching your head yet? You are probably...
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4 Ways to Deal With Negative Thoughts
Stop thinking negative. Life is good. You control your thoughts.
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How to Teach Your Kids to Help
As a parent, one of the most important responsibilities you have to your children is to teach them life skills. One skill every child needs to know is how to be helpful to others. This is a tiny stepping stone towards them learning how to be...
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Positive Affirmations for Women
Are you unhappy? Do you cry yourself to sleep some nights because you are so miserable? Do you wish your life wasn't so messed up, and question the point of living life that way? If you answered yes to any of those questions, you aren't alone. There...
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How to Balance Your Time When You Are a Busy Mom
Kids crying, phone ringing, someone knocking at the door.... It's no wonder why many moms feel overwhelmed much of the time. Being pulled from every angle and needed by many people all at once is frustrating and too much for even the best...
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How to Start Writing a Non-Fiction Book
A common misconception among a lot of people is that in order to be able to honestly call yourself an author, you have to have a book published with a big-name publishing house. Not true.
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Valentine's Day Ideas For Boyfriend
Need ideas on what to get your boyfriend this Valentine's Day? Check out these gift ideas.
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How To Write Quality Content
Do you have a desire to write, but are unclear as to what qualifies as "quality" content? Maybe you've been reading writing tips and advice from writers around the Internet, but you still don't really understand what makes writing good. Here are some of the best tried-and-true tips that will show...
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Parenting Advice: Why You Need to Let Your Kids Help You
Many parents often have concerns about forcing their children to do too much early on. Other parents believe children should have certain responsibilities to teach them about becoming a respectable citizen in their home and community. Where do you...
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Buy Classic Christmas Movies
Some of the best Christmas movies you could ever watch are the ones that are now all but forgotten.
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How to Stop and Prevent Yourself From Burning Out
Are you experiencing burnout? If you're tired, frustrated, or angry, chances are you might be pushing yourself beyond your limit.
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How to Rediscover Yourself
If you are finding yourself at a loss as to who you are, the following tips will give you some simple, but proven ways, you can begin to rediscover who you are again.
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Causes of Burnout
Nearly every adult faces burnout at some point in their life. Whether it is caused by work, family problems, financial issues, or childhood trauma, burnout is a very real and serious issue. Those who struggle with it most are people who find it difficult to deal with stress on a regular basis.
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Mommy Burnout - How to Prevent Mom Burnout
As a mother, you have a huge responsibility to care for your child. You must provide a loving atmosphere and nurturing environment, in which your child can learn and grow. This heavy responsibility can become overwhelming sometimes, and make you...
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Black Friday Shopping--Deal or No Deal?
Black Friday is the day everyone thinks they will get the best deal on the perfect Christmas presents. But do you really? Are Black Friday ads deceitful, or are you truly getting good deals?
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How to Write a Love Letter to a Family Member
A romantic love letter will spark the flame in your relationship. Writing love letters is easy, if you are willing to set aside time to write. If you want to know how to write a love letter, keep reading for helpful tips...
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Give Noah Biorkman His Dying Wish
Noah Biorkman, a little boy who changed a lot of lives.
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How to Make Homework Fun
Is your child fighting you about homework? I offer five little tips to help get through those homework woes.
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Why You Should Make Homework Fun
Homework assignments are the worst part of school. You can make homework fun for your child. Here are some reasons why you should...
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Tom and Jerry - My Favorite Cartoon Characters
Is Tom and Jerry a violent cartoon? This article explores the controversial debate of violence in cartoons.
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Why Every Mom Needs a Break From Kids
Are you a worn out mom? That's okay. Every mom needs a break now and then. Here are some of the most important reasons why.
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4 Ways to Encourage Your Child
No matter what age your child is, he will always need encouragement from you, his parent. Did you know that? Your child depends on you to provide them with this form of nurturing throughout their childhood. For some parents, giving a child...
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The Day I Learned an Important Parenting Lesson
Being a mother is not an easy job. Or, it doesn't come easy for me. I don't have the benefit of pulling from my own childhood, so I am learning this job one day at a time. And even though I have been a mom for ten years now, it does not get any...
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My Favorite Author--Julia Cameron
I first started writing as a child. A teacher involved me in creative writing exercises, then encouraged me to enter creative writing competitions. This nudge towards writing laid the foundation for me writing for years to come. Through my high...
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Happiness—How to Stop Looking for Happiness
Are you on that elusive search for happiness? Have you found what you are looking for? Or do you find yourself only seeming to spin in circles, running from one thing to another and still feeling sad?
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Happiness—Finding Joy and Pleasure in the Little Things in Life
Happiness seems to be such an elusive thing for most people. In fact, many set out on searches for happiness, yet cannot figure out what makes them happy. Better yet, they come to realize that they aren’t even sure what happiness really is. ...
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Simple Strategies to Achieve Work Life Balance
Do you find yourself struggling to maintain any sense of balance between work and home? Maybe you've shaved some of your work hours, only to find that even though you have more time at home, it is creating problems for you at work. Or maybe you...
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Ideas for How to Be a Better Mom
Most women have some fears about whether or not they will be a good mother. This is very normal. More commonly, women who did not have a very good relationship with their own mother tend to feel like they might not be a good mother themselves...
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Keep Deadlines—It Really Is That Important
We all deal with deadlines in some form each day. How we deal with them and whether or not we utilize them to further promote our own productivity is key to personal success. However, some people don’t view deadlines in this manner. Rather, they...
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Three Tiny Steps to Happiness
Are you unhappy with your life? Do you feel like you’ll never be happy again? There are some things you can do to bring yourself back to a happy place in your life, but before we can cover those steps, there are some important questions you need...
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Positive Affirmations Are Self-Esteem Boosters
Need a boost to your self-esteem? Try using some of these positive affirmations to give yourself a mental lift when you're feeling down.
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How To Be Nice To Yourself
Does it seem like you are constantly the brunt of someone’s joke? Do you feel like nobody takes you seriously? Are you tired of feeling like you are nothing but a doormat to some people? Before you can expect anyone else to show you an ounce of...
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Choose a Positive Attitude and Keep Focused
Your attitude plays a huge role in every aspect of your life. Whether you exude a positive spirit, or you are constantly negative, your attitude speaks volumes. In fact, your attitude can make the difference in how focused you are, as well....
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5 Ways to Deal With Depression
If you are depressed, get help. Don't wait. Here are a few ideas to help you deal with depression while you seek the assistance of a medical professional for your depression.
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Productive Family: Why Family Meeting Matters
It is important to have family meetings on a regular basis. This article offers some advice on how to conduct family meetings.
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3 Simple Steps To Healthier Living
Are you still struggling to figure out how to be more health conscious? Not really sure where to begin or what to do? Scores of people make big plans as new year’s resolutions to lose weight or get healthy. Far too few of those actually seem to...
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How To Be More Disciplined
How disciplined are you? This article gives four steps to a more disciplined life.
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The Importance of Giving Back
If you constantly stand with your hand held out, you will miss out on a lot in life. The key to experiencing joy is to be more giving.
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Why You Aren’t Successful
If you have been struggling, trying to find your way to success, only to be met with failure and heartache, there could be a good reason why. When was the last time you took a look at your track record? Have you examined your actions, to try to find...
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The Power of Follow Through
A common pet peeve among many is the lack of follow-through. Whether you are a business owner, work outside the home, or are an aspiring entrepreneur, you need to learn the power of follow-through. It can completely change your outlook on business...
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How To Eat An Elephant
Are you struggling to figure out how to make it through to the end of a project? Do you feel overwhelmed by your responsibilities and don’t know what to do about it? Feeling anxious about things you have to do will not make your tasks any easier...
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How To Balance Your Responsibilities
In a time of ever-shifting roles, it is imperative to understand the importance of creating a balance among your responsibilities. Balance helps keep a fine-tuned ship running on course. Without it, you are much more likely to become overwhelmed and...
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The Importance of Developing A Personal Vision for your life
Walking through life with no purpose or direction can be a dangerous thing. You waste a lot of time trying to figure out who you are and what you should be doing. Developing a person vision can drastically change this for you. A vision will help you...
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How To Stop Putting Everyone Else First - Don't put others before yourself
Do you have trouble saying no to others? Do you feel like you have to do everything you are asked, so you don’t make anyone mad at you? Are you tired of feeling like you are a door mat? If you keep putting everyone else before yourself, you are...
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Choosing The Best Goals for Life
If you are like most people, you started off the new year by setting some new personal goals. Did you set so many goals that you are now beginning to already feel overwhelmed by the enormity of them? Is your list of goals so long that you don’t...
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How to Make the Best of a Bad Situation
Are you stuck between a rock and a hard place? Do you feel like your world is caving in and you just don’t know where to turn or how to get yourself out of the situation? Sometimes life deals you a card that you don’t want to play. When that...
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How to Have a Breakthrough - Get Personal
Looking for a personal breakthrough? Don't stay stuck in the rut you've been in. Find out how to have that personal breakthrough you're needing and looking for.
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Life Lessons for Moms
Little lessons every mom needs to know.
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Don’t Try to Be Perfect Just Be You
Are you a perfectionist? Nobody is perfect. So just be yourself. Be you.
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How To Be Kind To Others
Can you remember the last time you acted out of kindness toward someone? Has it been so long that you don’t even remember if you’ve ever done so? Times are crazy and life is so fast-paced right now that it’s easy to zone out and never see...
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Common Insecurities (and How to Change Them)
Every person in this world has something they are insecure about. Even the most confident person secretly has something they feel unsure about. Most of the time, those who hold these secret anxieties hide them well enough that others around...
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Choose To Live In The Moment
Everybody's busy these days. Sometimes you need to make a conscious choice to slow down and enjoy the moment you're in.
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Make The Best Of A Bad Situation - How To Make It Good
Have you ever been involved in a situation where you said to yourself, “I can’t believe this is happening to me?!”? I’m sure you have—we all have. So what do you do, when faced with such a position? Do you know how to make the best of a...
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It It Worth Following Your Dreams?
What is your dream? Is it something you’ve wanted your entire life? Is it a fresh dream, one that was recently birthed in your heart? Everyone has a dream, but not everyone attempts to reach their dream. Is your dream worth following...
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How To Follow Your Heart
If you have wanted something literally your entire life and you finally have the opportunity within your grasp to attain it, don’t walk away from it. Far too many sell themselves short and think their time has passed. It is never too late to go for your dreams.
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How To Pretend To Be Someone You're Not
Despite the suggestive title of this article, you should never pretend to be someone you aren’t. It is a dangerous game and one that always leads to trouble in the end. As such, this article is one of more of a satirical nature. So, here are some...
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How To Be Yourself
If you have ever tried to fit in with a crowd, then you know how draining it is. You have to talk and dress and act like everyone around you, because the second you step out with your own opinion, the crowd looks at you like you are crazy. Children...
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How to Live in the Moment
Do you find it difficult to enjoy the simple things in life these days? Have the stresses and problems of your life and the world brought you to your knees, and now you can’t seem to find the courage just to be happy that you are alive today? If...
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How to Teach Your Child Responsibility - Teaching Children to Be Responsible
Responsible children become responsible adults and generally are more productive and content in their life. Responsibility doesn’t just happen to jump into children, though. It is a character trait that has to be taught and learned, beginning at...
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Parents, Are You Teaching Your Kids Bad Habits?
Children pick up on things a lot quicker and easier than you might imagine. Usually, they pick up bad habits much easier than the good ones. Parents often blame bad habits on other children. Many parents think their children learn these bad...
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How to Deal With Nosey Family Members
Do you have one of those nosey family members that think they know it all? Try some of these tips to deal with your nosy family.
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The Importance of Creating Lasting Memories
Creating memories with your family that will last forever is important, but so few people ever even consider it. Times spent with familiy are some of the most precious moments and memories you will hang onto forever. Finding ways to spend quality...
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5 Keys to a Long Healthy Marriage
Marriage is an equal partnership between two people. As you enter into marriage together, you take solemn vows and promise to love and care for one another as long as you both live. The sad reality is that there are many couples out there who give...
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The Secret to a Happy Marriage
Marriage has been given a bad rap by far too many people over the last few decades. With horrible success rate statistics, marriage became viewed as something undesirable by couples in love. In fact, many couples choose to remain unwed and simply...
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Tale-Tell Signs a New Mom Needs A Break
Do you have children? How can you tell when or if Mom needs a break? I can assure you that at some point, every mother needs some time away. Having a few hours alone can truly make a big difference in Mom’s attitude and countenance. If you notice...
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How to Stay Positive and Keep a Good Outlook During Down Times
When life deals you a hard blow in the gut, it’s mighty difficult to look up and smile. Hard times can get you down in a heartbeat and then drag you through the mud while you’re in the gutter. It is so easy to allow depression to consume your mind when you feel this low.
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Tips for Personal Success
Everyone feels that need to reach some pinnacle of success. Whatever success looks like to you, these quick and simple tips will help you reach your goals to success.
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Are Your Bad Parenting Skills Creating Monster Kids at School?
Are your poor parenting skills being reflected in your children when they are at school?
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Popular Jobs for Teenagers and Where to Find Them
Just about every teenager wants to get a job at some point and make their own money. It’s cool to have your own money. If you are a teen looking for a job, or if you have teenagers who want a job, there are lots of possible jobs. Here are some...
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4 Warning Signs of Marital Trouble - Is Your Marriage in Trouble?
While statistics show that both marriage and divorce rates have dropped in the last few years, according to DivorceMag.com, about 10% of the American population is divorced. Divorce happens for a reason, and it rarely happens overnight. It is a slow...
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5 Guidelines for Self-Love
If you don't love yourself, how can you expect others to love you? Here are five guidelines for self-love.
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Transform Your Flaws Into Powerful Muscles
Everyone has something they don’t like about themselves. Low self-esteem is usually what causes you to hone in on your flaws and focus on them instead of the good things about you. If you struggle with this, here are some tips to help you look at...
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What to do when you are unhappy with yourself and life
There are endless numbers of unhappy people in the world today. People literally go through life, as if they are a zombie, walking around in a daze. If you have been living your life like this, it’s time to wake up and snap out of it and do...
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How to Embrace Motherhood With Confidence
New mothers face many of the same hesitancies: · nervousness about becoming a mother · questions about what to do after your child is born · doubts as to whether or not you’ll be a good mother If you are...
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How to Cut the Strings From Your Children
Being protective of your child is not necessarily a bad thing. However, there must come a time when you let your child go and allow him to make his own mistakes in life to learn from. This article presents some important points every parent should consider. If you are having trouble cutting the...
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Help Your Teen Beat the High School Blues
Have you noticed your teen being a lot more stressed lately? Perhaps going to a new high school, or attending a high school with great diversity has created a stressful scenario for your teen. Facing these high school blues can be difficult, but if...
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How to Raise a Self-Disciplined Child
Every parent would like to think their child is a wonderful little angel when they aren’t around. Unfortunately, that is not always true. Sometimes children who are not taught to be self-disciplined tend to go a little “hog wild” when they...
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The Family You Chose Is Exactly the Family You Need
Have you ever felt like you are in the middle of a terrible version of a spoof movie and you can’t get out? Do family functions feel more like horrible reruns of Mama’s Family? Maybe when you got married, you didn’t think your in-laws were all...
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Chewing Gum for Weight Loss Instead of Eating
Chewing gum has been shown to be extremely helpful to those who are on a strict diet or are trying to lose weight. Read about it and see what you think.
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A Few Avoidable Mistakes That Affect Weight Loss
Losing weight is rarely easy for most. It is always a lot easier and quicker to pack on the pounds, than it is to shed them. So if you are struggling to lose weight, you just might be making very simple mistakes that are hurting you. Read through...
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Put Your Goals to Work
If you have already taken the time to set goals for yourself, have you also applied action to those goals to see them come to fruition? Setting goals is important, but making sure you set reasonable goals that are doable is as equally important....
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4 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Wait to Follow Your Dreams
Is there something you have always wanted to do, but never made the time for it? Have you dreamed of the perfect career nearly your whole life, but never could quite seem to make yourself take that leap of faith? Following the dream of your heart...
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What to Do When You Feel Like You're Running out of Steam
Burnout is quite possibly one of the worst things you could go through. Burnout can occur in any situation, particularly with emotional attachments and highly stressful situations. When you become burned out, you feel tired and drained. You become...
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Live With a Thankful Heart
In this rushed world we live in today, full of desires and wants, it can be so easy to forget about or overlook everything we already have within our own hands. You can become consumed by the idea of having more “stuff” to the point that you are...
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Confidence and the Law of Attraction
Do you have total confidence in yourself and in everything you do? Have you taken that confidence and applied it with the Law of Attraction in your life? In this article, I would like to share some ideas with you about confidence and the law of...
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How to Deal With Conflict Between Loved Ones in Your Family
Family squabbles are the worst. If you have a fairly large family, you know how quickly these little riffs can escalate into major, all-out family feuds. There is usually one diplomatic person in every family. That person always receives the blunt...
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How to Develop Your Self-Confidence
Struggling with a lack of confidence in yourself? Find that self confidence you need today.
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Embrace the Power of You
Far too many people sleepwalk through their life, never fully realizing the potential and power they hold. If you are one of these people, I challenge you to wake up, take a good look at yourself, and embrace the true power—the power of you. ...
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Effective Daily Time Management Tools
How does your day usually begin? Do you start your day with coffee and a To Do list? Or maybe you kill a couple of hours before you decide to get dressed and get “something” done. Without an effective time management plan and time management...
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How to Change Yourself Within
If you are serious about improving yourself and living a fuller life through self-improvement, you can do it. Let’s take a look at how you can begin your transformation through changes within yourself.
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Little Things Matter in a Fizzled-Out Marriage
Has your marriage fizzled out? Have years of life changes—children, jobs, family, church—made you callous and cold towards your spouse? These things can happen without you even realizing it. It does not happen overnight, though. One of the...
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Fun Family Dinners: Have A Fun Family Meal Together
Are you finding it increasingly difficult to sit down to a meal with your family? Studies have shown that children who are involved with a family meal at least twice per week perform much better in tests at school and are more well-rounded...
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How to Deal With Rude Tween Behavior
Do you have a rude tween? Before their behavior spirals out of control get help. Find the solution necessary to build a solid relationship with your tween.
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Journaling Tips
Do you keep a journal? While journaling is a very relaxing form of writing and creating art, it is surprising how many people do not actively keep one. A lot of people shy away from keeping a personal journal because they think it is something they...
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Types of Personal Journals to Keep
There are so many more ways to keep a journal. To give you an idea of today’s journal, here are several types of journals you can keep.
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How To Make A Prayer Journal - Ideas To Keep You Centered
A prayer journal can be used as a place for you to express your inner spiritual thoughts, reflections, observations, and experiences. Most important of all, your prayer journal should become a way of aiding in a richer, deeper, and fuller spiritual experience. Let me share some ideas for prayer...
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How a Journal Can Help You
The majority of journal keepers are women. We women tend to enjoy taking the time to record our thoughts or life experiences. Whether you are a man or woman, keeping a journal is something you should seriously consider. There are many ways...
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Why Journal?
Journaling is deeply rooted throughout history. Ann Frank is one of the most noted journal-keepers of modern history. A Jewish girl, Ann Frank kept a diary of horrific sufferings at the hands of Nazis. This journal was later compiled and published...
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Journal Topics: What Things to Write About in Your Journal
If you run out of ideas, just start looking around and paying attention to the world around you and you will find them. Here are some ideas for topics to get you started writing in your journal.
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Are You Stuck in Negative Mode? Start Thinking Positive
Possessing a positive attitude is not always as easy as it might seem to be. Positive thinking is something you have to work diligently to achieve. Being stuck in negative mode is no fun either. You have a pessimistic viewpoint and can rarely find...
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Why Fad Diets Are Bad
Fad diets have been around for years. They will continue to live on for years to come. Why? Because people are too lazy to lose weight the healthy way and live healthier lives. They would rather attempt to try some crazy diet that will never work. I...
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Is Stress Stealing Your Life?
Stress can cause great havoc in your life. People who admit to feeling stress on a daily basis often suffer from a multiplicity of health problems. Stress not only affects your thought process, but it affects your physical health as well. Perhaps...
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Instill the Love of Reading in Your Child
Does your child like to read? Would he rather sit all day and play video games instead of read? The electronic age of gadgets has seriously affected literacy among young people today. If your child doesn’t read much, you should consider the...
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Why You Can't Ignore Your Weight
Some time ago, I grew extremely depressed and restless. I couldn’t sleep at night and I was having trouble staying awake during the day. I went to the doctor and asked him if he would run tests to check my thyroid. He complied and when the tests...
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Are You Listening to Your Child?
Children seem to be suffering so much these days. Thousands of children around the world commit suicide, or attempt suicide, every year. The question that remains for so many parents is why? It is a sobering thought to know that pre-school aged...
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Tips for Connecting With Your Child
Parenting is tough. It is far from easy and the older your children get, it seems like the more challenging it becomes for parents. If you are having trouble with your child, perhaps part of the problem is that you don’t connect with your child...
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Babysitter Guidelines - Babysitting Tips
If you have children, chances are at some point you are going to either want or need to hire a babysitter. You can’t be with your children 100% of the time, even though you might want to or think you can. So for the times when you have to rely on...
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3 Super Simple Success Tips
Success seems to be elusive to so many people. Some spend huge sums of money searching for success. Others go on extensive monk-like retreats, hoping to find the meaning of success. And yet so many seem to end up empty-handed, still feeling as...
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Tips for Parenting Your Tween
Is your tween driving you insane? Growing up is hard to do. Try some of these tips for parenting your tween.
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Squash Procrastination
It has been said that procrastination is the number one killer of dreams. If you dream a dream and make a plan, but fail to follow through with your plan, then your dream is made of stone. Procrastination is something that can easily be...
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10 No-Nonsense Relaxation Tips
Do you feel like your world is spinning out of control sometimes? I am sure we have all felt that way at some point. The busyness of life can create tremendous stress and pressure on us until we feel like we might explode if we don’t get some...
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Easy Family Dinners
With a busy family, it’s difficult to find time to cook a wholesome meal, let alone sit down to dinner at the kitchen table with your family. When you get home from work, you’re tired. Then the kids come in and they’re tired and hungry. It’s...
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Parenting Mistakes to Avoid
If you have children, you know by now that there is no parenting book in this world that can ever prepare you for what parenthood has in store for you. Being a parent is challenging at times, yet rewarding as well. There may be times when you feel...
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Why You Need Family Time - It Is Important to Spend Time With Them
Spending time with your family is one of the most important things you could ever do.
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Improve Your Spirit
As part of improving yourself, I would be remiss in not mentioning the spiritual aspect of self-improvement. I’m not necessarily talking about religion in particular, but rather the process of connecting with a Higher Power. Have you ever felt...
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Improve Your Body
Integrated in self-improvement is your physical health. Some people enjoy focusing on improving their mind, but neglect their body. The two walk hand-in-hand and your body cannot be ignored. Physical health is extremely important. Increasing...
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Improve Your Mind
Do you zone out too much? Try these five easy ways to start improving your mind now. Don't let your mind go to waste.
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How to Deal with Anger
Anger is an intense feeling that can become extremely overwhelming if you do not learn or know how to control it. Worse yet, anger can consume your life, eat away at you, and cause you to lose out on a lot of joyful moments in life. Those who...
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The Truth About Being a Mom
Have you ever felt like you're a bad mother? Read this for five truths about motherhood.
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How to Use the Law of Attraction in Everyday Life
The general idea behind the law of attraction is that you call into your life whatever it is your thoughts are fixed upon. A positive attitude is essential to those wanting to apply the law of attraction to their life. Many people who practice...
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How To Keep Your Car Clean
As a mother of two young children, I’ve found it increasingly difficult to keep my new SUV clean. It’s not just the kids either. My husband is just as bad (if not worse than) as the children. I’m constantly cleaning up after all three of them....
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Why Personal Growth and Development is Important
Feel blah? Maybe it's time to work on yourself. This article gives you four good reasons why it is important to work on personal development for yourself.
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Defining Your Success in Life
Have you ever felt lost? Hopeless? Totally without direction or focus in your life? Lots of people who feel cheated of success in their life feel just like this. Yet, they don’t know that a lack of success in life has led them to experience these...
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5 Keys to Living the Law of Attraction
Some people find the Law of Attraction is not something they can use or need in their lives. One of the main reasons why they feel this way is because they don’t fully understand how the Law of Attraction can help them live fuller, more productive...
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Success Tips from Spiderman: We all have an inner hero
Success is measured different from one person to the next. The way I define personal success is probably totally different from how you might define it. However, there are some basic common denominators to success that can help everyone both define...
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How to Establish Yourself as an Online Authority in Your Niche
You have chosen a niche. You are an expert in your niche. But you’re starting from scratch. Nobody knows who you are. If you find yourself in this position, don’t become frustrated or quit. There are measurable steps you can take to firmly...
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Silly Ways To Relieve Stress
Try some of these silly, but effective ways to relieve stress. If they seem childish, that’s because they are. But sometimes getting silly like a kid is exactly what you need to get rid of stress.
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Self-Motivation Tips
Have you ever set a goal to accomplish something, then eventually forget about your goal, or tell yourself it was useless and quit trying to achieve it? If so, you lacked the self-motivation you needed to reach your goal. Self-motivation is the...
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How Stress Affects Your Health
The kids are screaming. Your husband calls and says he’s working late tonight. You still have a ton of paperwork left over from your day of work that needs to be dealt with. Supper’s on the stove…burning. You’d like nothing more than to pull...
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How to Be a Happier Person
Are you a miserable person? Do you truly want to be happy? Here's how you can start walking the road to happiness.
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Plan for Your Child's Summer Vacation
Dreading summer? Try some of these tips for keeping your kids busy this summer.
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Productive Ways to Relieve Stress
We all feel stressed out at some point in our lives. Maybe our job overwhelms us. Or our family jumps from one crisis to another. Whatever the cause of stress might be, there are lots of different ways to deal with it. While there are well-known...
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4 Keys to Positive Thinking
There are many self-professed gurus of positive thinking out there today. From Norman Vincent Peale, to Brian Tracy, these gurus share their positive thinking lessons in a huge variety of books, videos, and seminars. Let me share a secret with...
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Seven Keys To Success
Have you ever wondered what makes a successful person a success? Do you feel like you are a success? When you accomplish something you’ve always wanted to do, do you feel like a winner? True success comes from within yourself. You are the only...
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How to Deal With Performance Anxiety in Children
Information on what performance anxiety in children is, and how you can help your child overcome performance anxiety.
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How To Set Important Financial Goals For Your Family
Have you ever thought about your financial status? Not just about how much money you have (or do not have), but what kind of financial security you’d like to have. If you never think about these things, you’ll never plan for them. If you never...
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How To Set Life Goals - Setting Smart Goals
Life goals are goals that affect your life overall. Unlike regular goals, life goals are those that could totally change the way you live, or what you do. Here are some tips for setting your own life goals: Look to the future. Plan ahead. Talk...
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Why Is Goal Setting Important?
Goal setting is a hot topic at the beginning of every year. However, after a few weeks—or for some, after a few short days!—most people seem to forget about all the goals they set for themselves. The biggest reason for this? Their goals most...
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Green Mother's Day Gift Ideas
If you’re still trying to come up with a brilliant Mother’s Day gift, why not surprise her with a green gift basket? You can make one up in very little time. This is the type of gift that keeps on giving throughout the year, too. ...
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More Mother's Day Gift Ideas
Mother’s Day is the one special day out of the entire year set aside for you to show your mother just how much she means to you. If you’re stumped for ideas on what to get for her, try some of these… Gift certificate for a full-body...
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How To Write Fresh And Unique Content
Are you facing writer's block? Do you feel like you can't possibly come up with any new or good ideas? Read this to learn how to write fresh and unique content every time.
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Preparing Your Child for a Big Move
Moving is a really big deal to children. There are some parents who don’t think much about picking up and moving their family. And even though your children might seem like they’re fine and happy with the move, they could be hiding a great deal...
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How To Revive A Lost Friendship
Here are some tips you can use to help revive lost friendship
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Ideas to Treat Yourself To Quality Time Alone
If you’ve been depriving yourself of “you” time, you should change that, starting right now. You might think you can’t squeeze in any more extra time for anything, let alone time to do something just for you. But you’re wrong. You can find time if you want to.
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Quick and Simple Organizing Tips
Organizing has never been one of my strong points. However, I have learned throughout the years that there are some easy things that anybody can do to stay organized. Perhaps the most important thing to remember about organization skills is that you...
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How to Save Money on Your Grocery Bill
Has your grocery bills sky rocketed lately? Try these tried-and-true tips on how to save money at the grocery store.
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5 Cures For Sadness - How You Can Be Happier
If you’ve been experiencing a deep feeling of sadness lately, there is something you can do to change that. You have to be willing to get up and pull yourself out of this slump though. Here are some ideas to help you out.
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4 Must-Haves For Your Family
Every family needs something fun to do together. There are lots of fun things that kids and parents can enjoy together. Here are a few ideas to jump-start your creativity: BOARD GAMES I don’t think I’ve met an adult or child that didn’t...
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Procrastination Busters
Do you walk around in a daze sometimes, feeling down and dumpy on yourself because you aren’t accomplishing all the things you thought you would? Procrastination is a mean booger that will trip you up every time if you let it. So don’t let it!...
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Warning Signs of Depression in Children
Is your child depressed? An interesting look at depression in children and how to know if your child might be depressed.
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Stop Stress Dead In Its Tracks
Does this sound familiar…? I’m so stressed out! I feel like I can’t breathe. My chest feels like it weighs a ton. If only I didn’t have so much on me right now. I’m so tired. My neck and shoulders ache. Why can’t I seem to get...
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Some Signs of Poor Low Self-Esteem - Confidence Lacking
Millions of people across the world suffer from poor self-esteem. Low self-esteem haunts people every single day. Often times, poor self-esteem begins during childhood and continuously plummets throughout adulthood.
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A Quick Guide to Meditation in the Workplace - Meditate at Work
Meditating at work is totally doable. For those working in stressful environments, meditation can actually make you much more productive at work and enjoy work even more. Here’s a quick guide to ways you can meditate at work.
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Ways Stress Hurts You
Stress affects you mentally and physically. Here are some symptoms of stress.
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Ways To Spend More Quality Time With Your Family
When you think of quality time with your family, does your heart start racing? Do you feel a weight in the pit of your stomach? Does your mind automatically begin thinking that there aren’t enough hours in the day to fit in more activity? If so, I’ve got some simple, but useful tips for you.
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Blog About Your Weight Loss
Trying to lose weight? Why not blog about your weight loss progress. Share your journey with others.
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How To Start An Advice Column Online
Do friends and family often ask you for advice? Do you find yourself often telling others how to solve their problems? If so, you could become the next great advice columnist!
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Quick Dinner Recipe Ideas for Working Parents
If you’re like most parents, your life is busy and full. You probably run from one event or practice to another, and that’s not counting work, church, or any other such activity. Many families today are fast food junkies for this reason...
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Simple Changes You Can Make To Save Time
Do you find yourself rushing through every day? Do you always feel like there just aren’t enough hours in the day to do what needs to be done? Many people think it’s hard to find ways to save time or make more time during the day. But it...
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Joy Stealers: 5 Things That Steal Your Joy
When you can understand the things that take away your joy in life, you’ll learn how to deal with them to create a more blissful state of mind and life.
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8 Ways You Can Encourage Your Child - How To Encourage Your Children
Children need a lot of support and encouragement. As they grow, they develop their own thoughts and opinions. It is important to remember that as a parent, you should encourage and promote this individuality, not squash it.
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5 Ways a Journal Can Help Heal Your Depression
If you are suffering from depression, there are things you can do to enhance your medical treatment. Along with prescribed treatment from your physician, journaling is one such thing that can help heal your depression.
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7 Fun Things To Do Together With Your Family
Is your family lacking some fun quality time together? Many American families today rarely see each other often, let alone come together for some fun family time. Sometimes you just need a push in the right direction to plan, so here are some ideas to help get you started.
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How To Get Your Kids To Eat Healthier
Make the change from junk food to healthy eating for you kids with these simple, easy tips. They'll be eating healthier in no time at all.
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Get Ready For Christmas
Christmas is just two weeks away. Are you ready for it? It's definitely the time of the year when stress levels rise. The hussle and bustle of the holiday season creates quite a stir. Don't get too wrapped up in shopping and cooking that you...
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How To Write A Book
Three steps to help you get started writing your first book.
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How to Create an Advice Column - Write Like A Columnist
Do you like to give advice to others? This article contains tips for creating an advice column online.