Ways to Help Your Child Understand Business

Do your children understand the value of a dollar? Many kids do not. There are things that parents can do to help their children, and teenagers, to get a basic grasp of money. They can also learn a little bit about business. Forbes has a really interesting article titled “13 Ways to Help Your Children Understand Business”. It was written by Dan Matthews, and posted on May 30, 2014. He gathered tips that will help parents to encourage their kids to become interested in finance and business. Each tip came from someone who is involved in business. One of those … Continue reading

How to Help Your Pet Lose Weight

Are you not sure if your pet is overweight? Have you had trouble getting your pet to lose weight, or do those last few pounds refuse to come off? If you have any of these problems, today’s article is for you. Dr. John Lupo from the Malibu Vet Clinic posted some advice about maintaining a healthy weight for your pets on his local patch.com, and we’re going to examine it today. The first thing is to determine whether or not your pet is overweight. Obviously a veterinarian can do this, but why wait to see the vet? There are ways … Continue reading

Let Us Help You Be Prepared

There are so many reasons that you should make sure that you, your family and your loved ones are prepared. From natural disasters and terrorist activity, to economic depression and food shortages, to medical emergencies and health threats to unexpected job loss and a change in resources, the odds of you coming out alright increases greatly when you have done some preparation in advance. Being prepared does not mean being scared. In fact, it is the opposite. Knowing that you have a plan and the resources to get through the unexpected can really give you peace of mind. What is … Continue reading

Suggestions For Keeping Your Solo Business Growing

Many home-based businesses are one person operations. For a lot of the owners of these singular sensations, they wouldn’t have it any other way. There is a certain degree of freedom that comes from working for yourself, by yourself. Of course, this limits the amount of work that you can take on, but surprisingly it does not have to necessarily limit the amount of money that you can make. There are a few ways that you can make room for your home-based business to grow without moving into an office or hiring staff. One suggestion that can be applied to … Continue reading

Another Step Towards Opening Your Home Based Business

After thinking a bit about the suggestions that I wrote about yesterday, I realized that that I should talk a little bit about the importance of doing these smaller steps close enough together so that you can build momentum that will carry you through those crazy initial days, weeks, and months after you are open for business. I would suggest that you complete one of the steps each day, or every other day. Of course, you may need to tailor that suggestion a little to your schedule but it is important that you not spread them out too much because … Continue reading

Another Suggestion How to Help

When you have a family member or friend who is going through treatments you may think that when the chemo lines are removed or the radiation is done for the day that your loved one should feel back to normal. Reality is the treatment takes a lot out of you and it takes a while to get back to normal. The normal that cancer patients have may never be back to what it was before they heard the cancer diagnosis. As I mentioned in a previous blog I was told that when you get the cancer diagnosis it is like … Continue reading

Could Diet Help Kids With ADHD?

Usually, when a child is diagnosed with ADHD, treatment involves some form of medication. Every so often, there are suggestions that perhaps symptoms of ADHD could be reduced just by controlling what a child eats. A study has concluded that this could be a reality. However, there are many questions about the reliability of the study. ADHD is something that, if untreated, can impact a child’s performance at school. This is because kids with ADHD tend to be easily distracted, and to have difficulty staying on task. Another symptom of ADHD is a tendency to be impulsive. In a school … Continue reading

Helpful Hints For Surviving Tax Season

It’s that time of year when I start to get a little itchy. No, I am not talking about dry winter skin here; I am talking about filing my tax return. There are a few different attitudes that people take when it comes to filing their tax returns. My personal take on taxes is that I like to file them as soon as I have all of the documents that I need to prepare them. That way, I get it done and over with and, more importantly, get my refund check. There are others who prefer to put it off … Continue reading

Suggestions For Dealing With Stress

There are some people out there that think that those of us who work from home do not experience stress. Those people have probably never worked from home. While working outside of the home certainly has its share of stress, working from home can also be stressful. If you work from home or are planning to work from home, you may want to think ahead about how you can prevent stress and how you can cope with it when it does occur. The key to preventing and managing stress is to identify what is stressful for you. Each individual has … Continue reading

Friends Help Each Other

We all know the value of a good friend or buddy. But did you know it happens in the plant world too? Plants will benefit from the friend or buddy system and you will end up with healthier plants that grow better, yield more and attract less garden pests. It’s a matter of knowing which plants will grow happily together in what is called companion planting. As you know I’m not the gardener in our family, Mick is. Mick often uses this buddy or friends system of companion planting. Some are really obvious like where one is a low growing … Continue reading