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Blog post excerpted from Gretchen Rubin's website Happiness-Project.com . One of my Twelve Commandments is “Lighten up,” and I have a lot of resolutions aimed at trying to be a more light-hearted parent: less nagging, more laughing. We all want a peaceful, cheerful, even joyous, atmosphere at home — but we can’t nag and yell our way to get there. Here are some strategies that help me: http://www.womansday.com/sex-relationships/family/10-ways-to-be-a-light-hearted-parent-109195

Parenting Tips-The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin at WomansDay.com

Why do kids lie? It often depends on their developmental stage. For instance, preschoolers tell tall tales because of an overactive imagination, young kids fib to please grownups and older kids lie to solve problems.

The Truth About Your Child's Lies

http://www.ivillage.com/truth-about-your-childs-lies/6-a-128321

A Chore System for My Kids That Actually Works:

When I only had one child and all her toys fit in a laundry basket, keeping the house clean was pretty easy. Now I have two kids that have way too much stuff, one house that is way too small and not nearly enough time to deal with working, parenting, chauffeuring, cooking AND housekeeping. My solution? http://izzymom.com/2011/07/21/a-chore-system-for-kidsthat-actually-works/

Whining: Best Ways to Get Your Child to Stop

http://www.ivillage.com/whining-best-ways-get-your-child-stop-0/6-a-144273 Kids whine for a variety of reasons -- to wear you down, to make you feel guilty, for reassurance and out of pure habit. Whatever the reason, whining is unattractive at best. If whining is an issue, then the way you are dealing with it isn't working -- for you or your child. The following acronym, STOP , will help remind you how to respond -- rather than react -- to your child's whining:
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Brain Fitness And Memory Programs, Brain Training

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How Not To Be Afraid Of Anything Ever Again

Fortunately, all fears are learned; no one is born with fears. Fears can therefore be unlearned by practicing self discipline repeatedly with regard to fear until it goes away. The most common fears that we experience, which often sabotage all hope for success, are the fears of failure, poverty, and loss of money. These fears cause people to avoid risk of any kind and to reject opportunity when it is presented to them. http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-to-not-be-afraid-of-anything-ever-again/

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Top 10 USB Thumb Drive Tricks

What can you do with a few gigabytes and a USB port?
http://www.verticalresponse.com/blog/7-tips-for-recognizing-your-peeps/

7 Tips for Recognizing Your Peeps

Employee recognition is a much talked about, but often overlooked part of the workplace. Recognizing and rewarding your employees can be a slippery slope to navigate and sometimes it seems that managers either get it, or they don’t. If recognition is not sincere and genuine, your employees will know it.
Vintage ARGUS C3 - 35mm Rangefinder Camera - Working 1. Use the best quality camera you can afford. Honestly, you don’t have to have a super-expensive camera to get some really great photos for your blog or Etsy shop. When I first opened my shop , I used a Kodak EasyShare point-and-shoot camera with great success. For a long time, I used a Fuji FinePix camera I bought at Walmart.

Seven Tips on Better Picture-Taking: for your Blog and Etsy Shop

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