The Individual Guide

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Safety regs must obviously be the paramount concern in getting a seat for your baby, but the style variations aren’t just cosmetic, and you need to understand what the exact effects of your selection will be before it’s final. The standard is set by major brands (Cosco, Safety 1st, et cetera) and this standard has led to a range of products designed for babies of under 12 months — capable of supporting a maximum capacity of about 20 pounds. Keep in mind, when choosing between potential chairs, to set your preference between rear facing chairs and more flexible seats so as not to choose a chair out of line with your needs. The best of these seats are designed to double as baby carriers, making it less problematic to move from house to car without waking your baby. Want a chair your baby won’t grow out of so fast? What you need is a convertible product. Useful throughout the age bracket in which these seats are called for, the higher price they go for is due to their being useful for longer. Reviews should tip you off that these chairs are harder to carry.

All chairs are distinct, even inside their categories, and it’s here that review sites can help you as they’ll highlight all the features of each chair, assuring you can choose the greatest seat on the market. With their independent nature reviews like these are known as being free from bias, so you can depend on them. Larger children can trust a booster chair while they weigh between around thirty to eighty pounds. Be it via the five-point harness, or via the employment of the car’s safety belt: booster seats secure using one of two methods and either may give your little one greater comfort, accordingly it’s smart to actively check how it feels before you buy. As you’ll note while reading the convertible safety seat reviews, child booster chairs tend to come with assorted extras to make it easier to concentrate on your driving by distracting your toddler. It’s our hope that this brief overview has shortened the process of choosing the right seating for your baby as the decision ahead is an important one. Begin by examining child seat and convertible car chair ratings to find the best on offer.

Big Foot Relay. Have the children add 2 shoeboxes with them. Tape the hats onto the corners, then cut a one-inch-wide and four-inch long slit in to each one top. Have the contestants slip their feet into the slits in the boxes and race.

Name-It Ball. Have players form a circle. Grant one player a rubber ball. That player selects a category, such as “candy bars.” He or she then bounces the ball to another player in the circle, who must get the ball, posit an item from the category, such as “Snickers,” and keep the ball mobile to the next player. If the player can’t name an item, holds the ball too long, or repeats an item, he or she is out.

Cross Step. Draw a ten-by-ten grid on the sidewalk or patio with chalk. Have each player stand on a different square. One at a time, each participant must move to a new square after crossing out the square she or he was once standing in. The magic is that players cannot step into a square that is populated or crossed out. If a player cannot move to a different square, he or she is out. The game continues until one player is left.

Blind Snakes. Set up a number of sprinklers in between a starting line and a finish line. Have the kids try to run from one end to the other without getting sprayed. Have one of the kids control the faucet, turning it on and off at random. Honor ribbons to the youngsters who play the most forethoughtful without getting wet.

If you’re in a current position where you’ll inevitable have to choose among baby pushchairs, strollers, and prams, your definitely aware that there’ll be a wide variety to choose from. The fact that there are a lot of available pushchairs to choose from, deciding on which pushchair is more suitable and durable can be a very difficult experience.

This whole process becomes even more difficult if you’re expecting your first child, as you haven’t been through any of it before.

Although clear to some parents, those who hastily purchase a pushchair instead of a pram soon realise their error. The one major decision is how young the baby is at the current time.

New-born babies don’t need to recline so a stroller is not needed right away. Additionally, what is your primary desire for purchasing a push chair or pram? If you use your pram daily, or if you want it on a holiday. For holidays light weight strollers are ideal but they are not ideal for daily use, so the best option is to buy a complete travel system.

Your budget plays a big part in making your preference if you havent yet started shopping around, also youll soon learn about just how much the price can very between different brands. For more information about pushchairs and the difference a good designer can make check our website.

Plenty of durable push chairs are priced reasonably, but there are also some designer brands that stand out in the pricing arena. But, as long as you are a smart shopper and look carefully, you will end up with push chair that will last for a very long time, and so be worth the money spent on it in the end. It’s important to compare prices before purchasing.

Don’t forget that you will be using the pushchair for several years so you will be viewing it as well as be seen in it daily. With the variety now available to choose from you must decide if you are looking for a rugged all terrain 3-wheeler, or perhaps a contemporary in either a 3 or 4 wheeler will suffice.

Saying my ADHD son doesn’t wake up well would be like saying Old Faithful is a pretty big geyser. This child, age 10 and with severe ADHD, wakes up like a rock.

Morning has always been a difficult time for us, even before the ADHD diagnosis. He whines. He grumbles. He shrieks. He goes back to bed. It’s like having two of me in the house!

I have come up with a morning routine that takes into account his ADHD and the fact that he’s not only tired and grumpy but hasn’t had his ADHD medication yet. This routine might not work for everyone, but maybe you can use it as a starting point for a routine with your ADHD child. The main thing, I think, is to have a routine.

Before I wake my ADHD son, I start the shower and put his clothes on the bed where they’re easy to find. I wake the ADHD monster, usher him into the bathroom, and wait.

If I don’t hear him get in the shower after a couple of minutes, I go in and prod him. I know his ADHD makes him distractible and he’s more than half-asleep. After a few minutes of shower time I urge him to finish up, then I tell him when time’s up.

Even with ADHD, my son does a pretty good job of taking his own shower most of the time. Sometimes he has shampoo in his hair when he gets out, but usually he’s clean.

Because of his ADHD, he doesn’t sleep well, or enough. He catches up on his sleep on the weekends. So during the week I let him put his clothes on and get back in bed for 15-20 minutes before he brushes his teeth, takes his ADHD medication, and puts on his shoes and socks.

While Jack’s back in bed catching up on ADHD-deprived sleep, I get his sister in and out of the shower and dressed.

When it’s time to brush teeth and take ADHD medicine, I wake Jack again, usher him back into the bathroom, and lay out his medicine and toothbrush. I stand there as much to make sure he brushes his teeth (he forgets) as to make sure he takes his ADHD meds. Then he puts on shoes and socks and gets ready for the bus.

When I make Jack’s lunch, I fix him a “snack baggie” of dry cereal, usually frosted shredded wheat. I put this in the top of his lunch bag and he eats it on the bus. This makes up for the fact that my ADHD son can’t wake up enough for breakfast.

Again, this routine may not work for everyone with an ADHD child. But the point is to have a routine. It’s what helps my son get up and get going every morning, in spite of his ADHD.

Angie Dixon is a writer and ADHD mom of an ADHD son, Jack. For a free report on helping your ADHD son, see Angie’s site “That’s My Son!” at http://www.Raising-the-ADHD-boy.com

Try these one-of-a-kind kids party hat ideas for your next kids party. Create a colorful cast of characters with a few bits of paper, paint, glitter and glue.

From fancy bonnets to sombreros, wizard cone hats to princess crowns. Learn how to make them all with simple craft and homemade materials.

FANCY TISSUE PAPER BONNET

Have child sit to be “fitted” for their bonnet. To form the hat’s crown, place three pieces of 25 to 30 inch wrapping paper and/or colorful tissue paper on child’s head. Newspaper works fine too. Make sure the right side of the bottom paper faces down, so the underside of the hat will have color/pattern too. For a taller hat, place a rolled newspaper ball on child’s head before fashioning bonnet.

Arrange the papers at different angles so the paper points are fanned out in different directions. Wrap masking tape around the child’s head a couple of times at approximately ear level. Next, trim or roll the newspaper up to form the hat brim.

For a derby hat, roll to within an inch or two from the band and add a feather. To make a floppy bonnet, glue a ribbon sash over the masking tape band and add silk flowers. For a sombrero, add a fringe of paper or fabric to the edge of the brim.

Encourage children to further embellish their hats with paint, markers, ribbon, crepe paper, silk flowers, fabric, gift bows, pompoms, buttons, sequins, etc.

CONE-SHAPED WIZARD OR PRINCESS HATS

Roll a heavy weight piece of paper into a cone shape. Tape or staple to secure. Trim bottom edge if necessary to give it a nice rounded shape. Decorate the hat with paint, glitter, and other embellishments. Use gift wrap or scrapbooking papers for specific themes.

For a princess hat, run a piece of tulle through the top of the hat, or hot glue some maribou (boa) trim to the bottom. For a wizard hat, use a solid color and decorate with foil moon, star and planet shapes. Glow-in-the-dark stars would work great too.

Poke a hole in each side of the hat along the bottom edge. Run a knotted piece of ribbon or lightweight elastic through each hole to hold on child’s head.

LITTLE PRINCESS HEAD WREATH

Cut a piece of cellophane wire to fit your child’s head. (This type of wire has foil shapes attached to it and can be used to decorative a package instead of ribbon) Take several pieces of curling ribbon, curl on end then tie to the back of the headband. Use bright complementary colors that will look really
pretty flowing down your little girl’s back.

NEWSPAPER SAILOR HAT

Take one large newspaper sheet folded in half. You can also use wrapping paper for a pretty patterned hat, or plain paper to decorate on your own. A 16 x 19 piece is the right size to fit a child’s head.

Lay the rectangle on the table and fold each side evenly at a 45 degree angle to meet the middle crease. This makes a pointed top. Fold the bottom edges up, each to their own side, overlapping the two triangles. Tape to hold if necessary. Open up to try on your homemade hat.

VISOR HAT

Visors are an popular type of party hat. Inexpensive foam visors with an telephone-cord type band can be purchased from craft stores. They come in many bright colors and can be decorated with glitter paints and pre-cut foam pieces such as flower and bugs.

Make your own visor by cutting out the center of a paper plate to make a band to fit on the child’s head. Then cut the round plate center into a half-circle and staple it to the band. Decorate as desired.

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Patricia B. Jensen is a mother of three and kids party enthusiast. She is the webmaster and owner of Kids-Party-Paradise.com - a complete resource for kids party ideas including invitations, cakes, decorations, games, costumes, favors, and food.

For all the latest party news, read her Kids Party Blog.

My Dad’s Weird (Unlike Me)

Three! I was just three mouse clicks away from hacking into Bayfield High’s computer system when…

BOOM!

My bedroom rocked. What was that? Earthquake? World War Three?
A shock wave (or maybe just shock) toppled me out of my computer chair. I almost landed on Fang, my dad’s deaf ferret. Fang hissed and spat.

Then I smelt smoke.

‘Nnnnno!’ I cried. ‘Dad’s blown himself up! Again!’

I rushed to his rescue. Almost. For my earphones were still connected to my stereo, my left foot snagged in the jumble of power cables under my desk, and Fang took out my other leg with a biting crash tackle. I tumbled through my door into the hall, bringing down my chair, stereo and something that made a nasty, tinkling crash.

I looked up. A cloud of smoke rolled down the zigzag hall, shrouding a shadowy figure. Out waddled… a Frankenstein possum. ‘Ack,’ he coughed, and scratched his stitches.

More movement behind. Out lurched… my dad! Splattered with globs of fire-extinguisher foam, his eyebrows smoking, but alive.
Damn him! Why did Dad have to worry me so much? Causing worry was supposed to be my job!

Somewhat mad, I let rip a big Vietnamese rice burp. But my dad didn’t notice, not even when I kicked my guilty door shut. He just swayed and smoked in the hall like a black dog on a hot tin roof, eyes bug-wide open, beard half shaved, the hair on his head part gone, part pointing in every direction (looking for the missing crop circle perhaps). Luckily, when he gets blown up like this, my dad wouldn’t notice if I’d rented out my room to a homeless family (I hadn’t, but there’s a future money-making idea…).

I should point out that my old man normally has only a few kangaroos missing from his brain paddock, by which I mean he’s only partly a mad scientist. He’s actually a pass mark single father and a very clever inventor who’s invented clever inventions like the laser toaster (banned in every state), the wallaby wheelchair (zero sales) and chocolate flavoured toothpaste (his bestseller to date). That’s where I inherited my brains from. (Have I mentioned I’m brilliant yet?)

Yet unlike me, my dad is also somewhat weird. Especially at… normal things. For example, he works very strange and too long hours, sometimes wears his shirts backwards (like now) and, when cooking, has been known to burn water (which explains why we eat a lot of Vietnamese take-away) (which I don’t really mind) (burrrp).

If you think I’m being too critical of my dad, well, I have to be, because I’m the Organised One. It’s hard enough starting high school, topping every science test and preparing to wrestle with puberty, without worrying if my dad is going to blow himself up inventing a fart magnifier at nine in the evening. He just needs to get a faster car and a social life. (If he married Ms Trang from the Vietnamese restaurant on the corner, we could have discount take-aways every day.)

Even more embarrassing, my dad’s way too soft hearted. Every week he comes home from his long walks with yet another run-down, half-dead dog, cat, bat, galah, possum, kangaroo or homeless crazy person he’s scraped off the expressway or retrieved from under the electrical wires. Healthy animals are gross enough, let alone splattered or electrocuted ones.

So our house is too pitiful for me to invite any friends home (don’t believe any other rumour you might hear). The only good thing about Dad being such a softie is that I can almost always con my way (especially if I use goo-goo eyes or guilt him out about my lack of a mother (but that’s another story (and not really his fault (Aren’t brackets fun?))))…

VROOM!

I jolted with surprise as hall fans kicked in, blowing away the smoke.

‘Erasmus!’ My dad focused on me at last.

‘That’s my name,’ I replied, casually waving away my burp fumes. (In case you readers haven’t guessed, I’m also the hero and teller of this story (a story that is 95 % true).) ‘What went boom this time?’

‘Who boom?’ My dad flicked at his burning ear hair. ‘Oh, that boom! Well, I wanted to celebrate, so I decided to light up a cigar. Unfortunately, in my excitement, I failed to notice the build up of methane caused by the close proximity of a certain flatulent camel named Abdul.’

I began to untangle myself. ‘So camel fart gas caused your lab to blow up? Cool!’

‘There was a fire, but I put it out.’ My dad suddenly looked right at me. ‘How’d you get that black eye, Erasmus?’

‘Oh… that?’ I fingered my still-sore cheek. ‘Ah… cricket ball. Hazard of being small and hating cricket, I guess.’

‘Hmm…’ Dad raised one smouldering eyebrow.

I quickly changed the subject. ‘Um, you said you were celebrating something?’

‘Yes!’ My dad jolted back to his happy state. ‘I’ve finally finished it! The Nobel Prize will be ours!’

‘I’m happy for you, Dad,’ I yawned. ‘But I’m busy, um… e-mailing my stockbroker in Singapore.’

‘Your fiendish schemes can wait, Raz. You simply must see my latest invention!’ With a smile almost off his dial, my dad ignored my frown and picked up my roller chair, indicating I should sit. I grumbled, and sat. ‘Let’s roll!’ Dad laughed, scaring the one-eyed cat skulking outside the toilet door.

I sighed and figured I’d better play along. After all, my dad did pay my generous pocket money, and he was pushing me down the zigzag hall at speed, and I did love speed. Plus I didn’t want him to check my room too closely. Besides, he seemed so excited, even I was becoming a bit interested.

‘Eeeeh!’ My dad imitated a car braking as he pulled my chair to a skidding halt. A bandaged puppy slid by, her three legs skittering. We were outside the secret door, beyond which a solar powered escalator led to my dad’s even more secret lab in the basement. Normally, I wasn’t allowed down there (though I had snuck in before (roughly 367 times)).

‘Are you ready, Raz?’ My dad grinned. ‘Ready to see the most amazing invention in the history of inventions?’

I humoured him, and nodded. A willy wagtail with a bandaged wing plonked in my lap. ‘Stupid bird. Poop in someone else’s lap.’ I stood up. ‘Let’s go, Crazy Dad.’

‘Look out,’ he warned.

I ducked, and a ferret in a mini hang-glider cursed past my ear. Crazy Dad grinned even harder and reached out toward his secret door.

From ‘Erasmus James and the Galactic ZAPP Machine’, by DC Green, published this August by Ibis for Kids (ISBN: 1920923551).

An award-winning fiction and non-fiction writer, DC Green used to travel the world for surf magazines. He lives on the east coast of Australia with one slightly crazy daughter and three very crazy cats.

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Do you think hardcore bullies deserve a “Clean Slate” at the beginning of the school year?

You don’t?

You don’t believe in a ‘clean slate’ for these students. You feel it only puts the students who have put of with them for years through yet another tormenting start to the school year.

Unless there is convincing evidence that these bullies have “changed” over the summer, you feel their history of bullying should follow them into the new school year until their behavior proves otherwise.

Immediately at the start of the school year, you should identify the hardcore bullies - Kids who you have tried repeatedly to stop bullying other students and who they continued right up to the end of the school in June.

I develop this plan over the summer and talk to the bullies on the first day of school or even have a conference with the bully and their parents to discuss the bully having a successful school year with a change of his/her behavior.

Create a plan for dealing with these bullies starting with the first week of school. Plan Ahead for Your Hardcore Bullies! You don’t want to let them loose on the other kids.

One idea could be to place them on a Behavioral checklist with specific behaviors dealing with bullying. It they are not marked with a positive check on those behaviors, they
receive a consequence.

Don’t let these hardcore bullies loose on the innocent students in your school in September. Have a bully-zapping plan in place to stop school bullying from the start.
Remember, all kids want to do the right thing. Some just need a little extra assistance.
Stop school bullying Now!

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There are many things in this world that you don’t want your baby to see. While you can’t protect them for their whole lives, you can certainly take measures to protect their innocence as infants. The best way to protect your baby’s innocence is to equip your child with knowledge and to actively confront any issues that arise.

Children start to absorb things from their environment at a young age, so its important to know what places to avoid and what to teach them about what they see. It’s common sense to stick to family friendly places and situations only, but sometimes these places only appear family friendly on the outside so be sure to investigate. Be sure also to research any daycare or babysitter - know who’s watching your kids. Check to see if there are any other complaints or lawsuits against the person or company.

When you’re out and about with your infant, sometimes you run into people that aren’t in the best of moods. When confronted with rude people, be prepared to stand up for yourself. If someone is swearing out loud repeatedly, chances are you aren’t the only one offended, so speak up and ask them to not use that language around your baby. You may be surprised at how quickly they apologize. As they get older, another important part of protecting your child’s innocence is the essential sex talk. Every parent seems to dread it, but there are ways to make it easier. The best advice is to not hit them with it all at once. Gauge how much they need and want to know before you start talking. For example, if your 3 or 4 year old asks where babies come from, the answer “from a mommy’s tummy” or “from a mommy’s womb” will suffice. When they want to know more, they’ll ask you.

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It is seemingly a common phenomenon that somehow spontaneously occurs to almost every teenager. It is the nothing thing. You can ask almost any question and the answer is “nothing”. What are you doing? Nothing. What will you be doing tomorrow? Nothing.

It is followed closely by the nowhere thing. Where were you? Nowhere. Where are you going? Nowhere.

And finally, the clincher…I dunno. What do you want for dinner? I dunno. When will you be home? I dunno. What is the name of the movie you are going to see? I dunno.

It seems like these teens are going and coming from ‘nowhere’ and doing and planning on doing ‘nothing’. Why? I dunno. Shrug. Who knows?

Well, fortunately, it is just a phase and soon enough, not only will they be quite willing to say where they have been, what they have been doing and for what reason; they will also be willing to tell you where you should go, how to get there and why.

Now, it may seem like this ‘nothing’ phase disappears from our lives as our hormones settle down a little and our neurons get back to work, but this ‘nothing’ thing sticks around. It is insidious. It sits there just below the surface waiting for the right moment to take over again.

Adults…fully-grown, and supposedly fully functional, human beings will suddenly revert back to the “nothing, nowhere, dunno” phase when asked any question to which they do not yet have a prepared rationalization or excuse.

This is critical! It is not that they actually do not have or know the real answer; it is because they do not yet have a valid sounding excuse or rationalization prepared and rehearsed.

Parents know that their teens are practicing avoidance when they use these one-word dismissals. Somehow, we forget to apply the same wisdom to adult human beings, including ourselves.

Whenever we are called, by inclination or by circumstance, to do a little self-evaluation, the answers we get back to the questions we ask ourselves are often a whole lot of nothing, nowhere and I dunno.

So ask yourself this…why aren’t you living the life of your dreams? What comes back?

What’s the answer you supply to you? Is it some well-prepared and rehearsed rationalization or excuse? Or, is it some variation of nothing, nowhere, I dunno. The real answer???

I suppose it is ok to not answer others when they ask questions that you do not wish to supply the real answers to; but, you must be firm and resolute with yourself. Do not allow your mind to get away with giving you avoidance responses when you are after answers.

Do you truly desire to have a prosperous and abundant life?? If the answer is YES, then you must get specific. Stop allowing yourself to be satisfied with a whole bunch of nothing.

What are you doing? Why?

Where are you going? Why?

When will you get there? How?

© Leslie Fieger. All rights reserved worldwide.

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When you first come home with your new baby, there are so many new things to learn that it can be quite overwhelming. One priority, however, is to help your baby establish good sleeping habits. For a long time now baby has been sleeping in your womb, which is quite a restful place. The big, wide world is quite different, and it takes time for baby to learn to adapt. But the sooner you can help baby sleeping well, the sooner you can get some much needed rest yourself!

There are probably as many stories about what helps babies to sleep as there are babies - and the reality is that there isn’t one totally successful secret that works with all babies. However it’s very important to find a way to help your baby to transition between being awake and being asleep. Once baby can do this on his own, he will be able to fall asleep much more easily and with a lot less effort from you. Establishing a routine that baby associates with going to sleep. Use the tips below as a starting point, to try and determine the best way to help your baby through transition. And always remember to trust your instincts - it’s amazing how often they’re right.

One useful trick if daddy is around at bedtime, is called “fathering down”. Just before putting the baby to bed, daddy should cradle baby, with baby’s head resting on his daddy’s neck. Daddy should then talk to baby in a gentle voice. A male’s voice is much deeper than a female’s, and many babies find that deepness soothing, and so will transition into sleep more easily.

Another technique is called “wearing down”. No, this doesn’t mean playing with baby until he’s so exhausted that he falls asleep on the floor! The idea is for you place your baby in a sling or carrier - “wear him”, basically - and go about your regular household activities in the lead up to bedtime. This is particularly helpful if baby has been very active and is either too excited to sleep or overtired. Moving about with you helps to rock and soothe baby, and so calm him down in preparation for bedtime.

A more modern option is “driving down”. Most parents have heard of this trick, which basically involves putting your baby in his car seat and driving around for a while until he’s asleep. Unfortunately this is rather inconvenient and uses up petrol, but if you’re desperate, it’s worth a try - it has a very high success rate. When my children were babies, I often used to time driving somewhere or coming home so that it roughly coincided with the start of my baby’s naptime. Then once we were home I’d transfer my baby into his bassinet or crib, and he’d have a lovely long nap. I’ve been known to take the long route home for just this reason!

Although these techniques are generally successful, obviously you don’t want to be obliged to drive around with your baby every night just so he’ll go to sleep. The idea of these techniques is to start out with these more drastic techniques, to help baby learn the feel of going off to sleep, then gradually ease out of them. Replace driving in a car, for example, with being rocked in the bassinet. Always remember that learning to transition into sleep is a big thing for your baby to learn, and it probably won’t happen overnight. With patience and persistence, however, baby will gradually learn how to fall asleep by himself, helping both baby and yourself get a good night’s sleep.

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