Selling Children's Items on eBay
Finding items to sell on eBay is easy when you have kids - and what
could be better than de-cluttering your house of unwanted and outgrown
items while making money at the same time! People are earning hundreds
of dollars a month by selling kid related items. Here are some general
ideas to help you get started.
Cut your
monthly bills in half Every month you sit down to pay the bills and every month you wonder
how in the world you’re spending so much! This is a common scenario for
most families. The good news is there are a few things you can do to cut
your monthly bills down.
Living on one
income
There are many reasons why families live on one income, including a new
baby, being a single parent, one partner losing their job or perhaps by
choice, when one of you decides to be a homemaker and spend more time
with your children. Whatever your situation is, living on one income is
often hard and may mean that you will have to look carefully at home to
reduce your spending by making a few clever budget changes.
Saving
money on groceries
There are, essentially, two ways to save money on your
groceries: you buy less, or you pay less! But of course there are many
different ways to achieve these two aims. We provide some suggestions
below to get you thinking about how you might be able to start saving
money on groceries in your family.
Ideas For Sharing Stories
With Children
This two-part article discusses the ways in which stories and
storytelling play an important role in children's lives. Techniques are
offered for using stories to help develop children's verbal skills and
imaginations. This is part one.
Parenting Discipline - Teaching
Children Self Respect, Self Control and Empathy
For many parents, the words parenting discipline have very negative
connotations. There is the association with their own childhood and the
often unpleasant memories that thinking of discipline raises. Then there
is the association of the word discipline with ideas around corporal
punishment, with spanking, hitting and hurting children.
Who Owns The Problem; Parent or Child?
It is tempting for parents to assume ownership and responsibility for everything that goes on in the life of their child. However, when the parent jumps in too soon to solve the problem or give the answer, the child never learns to trust his own judgment and become a critical thinker.
Parenting - Making A Schedule This article on the benefits of scheduling your day as a parent
really struck home with me. It took me a while to work this out for
myself when I had young children at home, and I wish I had done so - and
benefited from the much calmer household that was the result - sooner!
Being Left Is The Definition Of A Mother
To be a successful mother you must be left. Not left handed, nor to the
left politically, but just left. This necessary abandonment comes in
gradual stages and the steps toward this goal are painful to be sure.
The Uneducated Palate
When did you learn to really enjoy food? How about experiencing taste
and textures? I think children develop a taste for food a lot sooner
than we think.
Ways of Dealing With
Separation Anxiety
All parents will remember how difficult it was to leave their children
when they were young, and some of us had to deal with unhappy children
suffering from separation anxiety, again and again and again! Veronica
shares some tips on how to make the partings easier.
Math Games
for the Active Child
To put it in a nice way, my son is rather squirmy. He doesn't like to
sit still for very long unless he's playing a video game, then it's just
amazing. So instead of constantly telling him to sit down and do his
math, we take it outside or up the stairs, literally...
