So, some of you may know that recently I have been cursed by technology. My laptop crashed, my cable mysteriously stopped working and now my cell phone is being "special". I do not know what I have done to offend the technology gods but I hope that I have finally lifted the curse.

Two days ago I purchased a blue tooth laser mouse for my new laptop because sometimes I am irritated by the integrated mouse. I received my mouse turned it on and....nothing. I began to get frustrated ( noticed I did… Continue

Stress is a part of all of our daily lives, however what usually makes us or breaks us is how we deal with our stress. We may not realize it but sometimes the stress that we deal with daily can be transfered over to our children. I was watching the news one day and they were doing a story called "Is anybody listening?" It was about a group of children in a California school who were feeling stressed because they saw what their parents were going through in these tough econimic times. Their teach… Continue

In today's tough economic world, it's more important than ever to help our children understand the value of the dollars that we earn to support them. In so many homes today, parents often take their hard earned income and turn it over to their children without providing them with the understanding of the power of currency, This can lead to some dissapointing realities in the future when our children finally grow up and begin to earn their own money. Let's look at some of the things that we as pa… Continue

That is the question many of us parents today, and our own parents, parents have been asking for years. How do we get our children to listen at an early age, as opposed to later in life when they are asking themselve's why me, or what went wrong. As parents we often already know what went wrong, and that is that they didn't listen to someone that had more life experience than them, that someone being the parents. With that said lets get to the root of the question, how do we get them to listen?… Continue

Maybe it’s me.

Maybe this has been going on for a very long time and I finally caught on.. But there is something going on.

What am I talking about?

How many of you watched the televised proceedings of the 2008 Republican National Convention during the week of 1 September 2008 and the 2008 Democratic National Convention during the week of 25 August 2008?

Did you notice anything, shall we say, “different” or “unusual”?

Well, there was a lot of talk about Fathers and Fatherhood on both sides… Continue