Here's one of the best bits of parenting advice you'll ever find: "a confident child is more likely to be a success in life, more likely to be liked in life, and more likely to be happy in life".
Isn't that what you want?
Here are 7 parenting tips to build up confidence in your child:
1 - Always praise your child for the things she does right. Even if they are little things, make them important and let her know that she did well.
2 - Let your child do things. Even if she is not
quite ready to do certain tasks, help her make a start and don't worry if it doesn't turn out right.
3 - Believe in your child and let her know it! Don't
pressurize her to be something she can't be. Just let her know that you believe in her ability to (occasionally) do great things.
4 - Only critisise a behaviour - not the child. Always avoid too much criticism of her when she does things wrong. It's much better to criticise the behaviour - that way she can distance what she does from what she is.
5 - Show an interest in your child's interests. They will
probably be boring to you, and you may not understand them. But they are important to her, so show a respect and interest in the things she does.
6 - Accept your child's fears and insecurities. Never
belittle them or brush them aside. Remember the time when you were young and the things that made you afraid and try to understand.
7 - They say laughter is the best medicine, and it is.
That's why you should always laugh with your child and never at her. Healthy laughter is a wonderful way to bond tightly. It is also something you will both thoroughly enjoy.
Remember, a confident child is a happy one, more likely to be liked in life, and more likely to succeed in life. Confidence is a wonderful parenting style to apply to your little one today.
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009
7 Quick Ideas Anybody Can Use to Make Beautiful Scrapbooks
1. Vellum
Vellum is a transparent, translucent material. Vellum can be used to create a slight shadow or shade change to background or embellishment colors. This can be used as a softening agent for baby scrapbooks, as a touch of elegance to gift scrapbooks, or to create dimension in a boring flat page.
To reduce the cloudiness effect caused by gluing, apply only a thin line of glue along the edges of the vellum. In this way, you will see a slight shadow only along the very edge. This will look like a border to the vellum. Vellum is available in both acidic and non acidic forms.
2. Shadow Boxes
A great way to add depth to your scrapbook page is to add shadow boxes. Basically shadow boxes add a shadow to your images. Shadow boxes are also a great way to make your most important photographs or text boxes stand out form the rest of the page. Shadow boxes can also be to emphasis dedications.
To make a shadow box, simply cut a box shape out of paper. Next, put your embellishment on a larger square of cardstock. Then, add glue to all four sides of the cardstock square and attach it to the back of your paper. The embellishment will show through, adding greater dimension to your page.
3. Patterned Paper
Patterned paper can be used for backgrounds, borders, and embellishments. Often plain white backgrounds look rather boring and dull. Patterned backgrounds add a touch of excitement to your page. The right pattern tailored to your theme and purpose can also increase that professional look.
Colors and patterns can be used to coordinate with your photographs or to add dramatic effects. Paper with various themes and patterns is widely available. For instance, a birthday scrapbook could have a background made of your favorite gift wrap. This could add a touch of elegance or a touch of humor depending upon the patterned paper you choose.
4. Textured Paper
Textured paper can add extra dimension to your scrapbooking page. Textured paper can be used to highlight focus items on your scrapbook page. Textured paper can also be used as a backgrounds or border to give your page an interesting fresh look.
Textured paper is available in a variety of textures and colors and is available in most craft and office supply stores.
5. Book Jacket Backgrounds
For an added personal touch and artist flair use a book jacket as a background. This scrapbook technique looks especially nice when the book jacket is the reader's favorite book or author, adding a wonderful personalized touch.
Be aware, however, that the glossy coating on the book jacket creates an added challenge to sticking objects to this background. Alternative attachment methods include sewing and eyelets.
6. Adding Dimension
One good way to add dimension to images is to use double stick foam tape. Double stick foam tape literally allows items to pop out at your reader adding realism to items. This technique is especially useful in children's art and educational scrapbooks.
Simply, cut the foam tape into whatever shape and size you want. Then, attach to shape onto your scrapbook page. Double stick foam tape is available at most craft stores in various colors and thicknesses.
7. Ribbons and Lace
Ribbon and lace are by far the most common, and most beautiful, border embellishment. The flowing nature of both materials encourages a touch of softness and elegance. Ribbon and lace are especially popular in gift and memory scrapbooks.
Moreover, ribbon is easy to glue and attach. Lace requires a bit more patience.
For an interesting change from ribbon and lace, try using jute or raffia.
Vellum is a transparent, translucent material. Vellum can be used to create a slight shadow or shade change to background or embellishment colors. This can be used as a softening agent for baby scrapbooks, as a touch of elegance to gift scrapbooks, or to create dimension in a boring flat page.
To reduce the cloudiness effect caused by gluing, apply only a thin line of glue along the edges of the vellum. In this way, you will see a slight shadow only along the very edge. This will look like a border to the vellum. Vellum is available in both acidic and non acidic forms.
2. Shadow Boxes
A great way to add depth to your scrapbook page is to add shadow boxes. Basically shadow boxes add a shadow to your images. Shadow boxes are also a great way to make your most important photographs or text boxes stand out form the rest of the page. Shadow boxes can also be to emphasis dedications.
To make a shadow box, simply cut a box shape out of paper. Next, put your embellishment on a larger square of cardstock. Then, add glue to all four sides of the cardstock square and attach it to the back of your paper. The embellishment will show through, adding greater dimension to your page.
3. Patterned Paper
Patterned paper can be used for backgrounds, borders, and embellishments. Often plain white backgrounds look rather boring and dull. Patterned backgrounds add a touch of excitement to your page. The right pattern tailored to your theme and purpose can also increase that professional look.
Colors and patterns can be used to coordinate with your photographs or to add dramatic effects. Paper with various themes and patterns is widely available. For instance, a birthday scrapbook could have a background made of your favorite gift wrap. This could add a touch of elegance or a touch of humor depending upon the patterned paper you choose.
4. Textured Paper
Textured paper can add extra dimension to your scrapbooking page. Textured paper can be used to highlight focus items on your scrapbook page. Textured paper can also be used as a backgrounds or border to give your page an interesting fresh look.
Textured paper is available in a variety of textures and colors and is available in most craft and office supply stores.
5. Book Jacket Backgrounds
For an added personal touch and artist flair use a book jacket as a background. This scrapbook technique looks especially nice when the book jacket is the reader's favorite book or author, adding a wonderful personalized touch.
Be aware, however, that the glossy coating on the book jacket creates an added challenge to sticking objects to this background. Alternative attachment methods include sewing and eyelets.
6. Adding Dimension
One good way to add dimension to images is to use double stick foam tape. Double stick foam tape literally allows items to pop out at your reader adding realism to items. This technique is especially useful in children's art and educational scrapbooks.
Simply, cut the foam tape into whatever shape and size you want. Then, attach to shape onto your scrapbook page. Double stick foam tape is available at most craft stores in various colors and thicknesses.
7. Ribbons and Lace
Ribbon and lace are by far the most common, and most beautiful, border embellishment. The flowing nature of both materials encourages a touch of softness and elegance. Ribbon and lace are especially popular in gift and memory scrapbooks.
Moreover, ribbon is easy to glue and attach. Lace requires a bit more patience.
For an interesting change from ribbon and lace, try using jute or raffia.
Saturday, September 13, 2008
babies news
Tripneeds
Tripneeds advertise a addition of essentials for your travels, including bung adaptors, biking pillows & eye masks, baggage locks and accent guides. Brands in banal accommodate PacSafe, Biking Blue and Sigg.
Walk and Travel
At WalkandTravel you can boutique for affection biking and walking gear, aggregate from accoutrements and tents to bung adapters and bloom & hygiene products. Their website additionally offers advantageous information, reviews and tips on what to booty with you aback travelling and, you can ask their experts by buzz or e-mail for added advice.
When women alarm for a adapted to adequation they are accommodated their adapted to be different. Women and Men are biologically different, they accept altered needs and no law will anytime accomplish women according to men as it will consistently abide the case that women accept babies, women are mothers and women will behindhand of career aisle accomplish that role in some accommodation if they buck children.
By ambitious to be 'equal' to men, women are accretion their workload two fold. Alive mums don't go to assignment and acknowledgment home to apprehend the bi-weekly and watch the account while their banquet is served to them aloft a argent platter. Which is abundantly still the case for affiliated men.
Working mums comes home, accomplish the dinner, apple-pie the dishes, put on the washing, do the ironing, apple-pie the house, adapt tomorrows cafeteria and are advantageous if they get to sit bottomward afore bed time. This bifold role is demanding and diminishes the bulk of anniversary task. Some women are perfectionists and attack to alter both roles, actuality cool at them both. Others can acquiesce to appoint admonition or can await on family/husband support. But for the all-inclusive majority of alive mums, the bulk is borne absolutely by them.
Depression and breakdowns are on the increase.
Tripneeds advertise a addition of essentials for your travels, including bung adaptors, biking pillows & eye masks, baggage locks and accent guides. Brands in banal accommodate PacSafe, Biking Blue and Sigg.
Walk and Travel
At WalkandTravel you can boutique for affection biking and walking gear, aggregate from accoutrements and tents to bung adapters and bloom & hygiene products. Their website additionally offers advantageous information, reviews and tips on what to booty with you aback travelling and, you can ask their experts by buzz or e-mail for added advice.
When women alarm for a adapted to adequation they are accommodated their adapted to be different. Women and Men are biologically different, they accept altered needs and no law will anytime accomplish women according to men as it will consistently abide the case that women accept babies, women are mothers and women will behindhand of career aisle accomplish that role in some accommodation if they buck children.
By ambitious to be 'equal' to men, women are accretion their workload two fold. Alive mums don't go to assignment and acknowledgment home to apprehend the bi-weekly and watch the account while their banquet is served to them aloft a argent platter. Which is abundantly still the case for affiliated men.
Working mums comes home, accomplish the dinner, apple-pie the dishes, put on the washing, do the ironing, apple-pie the house, adapt tomorrows cafeteria and are advantageous if they get to sit bottomward afore bed time. This bifold role is demanding and diminishes the bulk of anniversary task. Some women are perfectionists and attack to alter both roles, actuality cool at them both. Others can acquiesce to appoint admonition or can await on family/husband support. But for the all-inclusive majority of alive mums, the bulk is borne absolutely by them.
Depression and breakdowns are on the increase.
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