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Family  

Somewhere Safe to Play

In an ideal world we would all love our children to play in a 
large sunny garden with a swing, a sandpit and a treehouse. 
Sadly reality often paints a different picture.  SEE ARTICLE

Giving Grandchildren a great time

The Grandchildren are coming to stay. You're excited. But then 
you begin to worry. Will they be bored? How will you occupy 
them when they leave their mountain bikes and computer games 
behind?  SEE ARTICLE

Twenty toys you don't have to buy

Fed up with forking out for the latest piece of over-hyped 
plastic? Answer "What can we do now Mum?" by making toys from 
items you will already have around the house. SEE ARTICLE

QUICK CLUTTER CONTROL

10 TIPS FOR A TIDIER HOME SEE ARTICLE

Clean your room! Ugh. Oh, Mom. I'll do it later!

10 Easy Ways To Improve Your Family Photographs

Get to know your camera. Half an hour spent reading the instruction 

book and getting to know what your camera can do, really will be time well spent.

Creating a budget is the first step to successful money management. How can you manage your money if you don't know how much you have or what you're spending it on? A budget has two parts, income and expenses. The object is to keep your expenses at or below your income. Sounds easy, but as we all know, it can get a little tricky sometime.  SEE ARTICLE

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Romance

Romantic Sites on the internet

Love makes the world go round and the web too it seems. There is lots on the Internet for romantics. You can learn to flirt, get relationship advice, send e-cards to your loved one, find out all about diamonds or cook up a Valentine's Day feast!  SEE ARTICLE

Imagine curling up on a soft rug infront of a cracking firewith your partner. There's nothing more natural than to havewarm kiss and cuddle is there? But have you ever wondered whywe kiss each other? Whether it's a quick peck on the cheek of afriend, or a deep, arousing kiss that's a lead up to somethinghot, we all kiss. 

Margaret, 38, a divorcee from Hereford was shown how to use the Internet by her teenage daughter. She met Alan, 44, a chemist from New York in a gardening chat room. SEE ARTICLE

What does it take to make a really great relationship? I've been searching for the answer. I don't want my next long-term relationship to be a repeat of my lousy marriage. Drawing on my previous experiences with marriage and dating, I've come up with the following list of ingredients. I believe all of these  will be present in any good relationship. SEE ARTICLE

Respect is one of the key ingredients in a successful relationship. Without respect, the relationship deteriorates. SEE ARTICLE

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Health 

 How to Kill Head Lice 

I got the dreaded phone call from day care today: "Come get your daughter. She has head lice." Shoot! Here we go again. If your kids have ever had head lice, you know how hard they are to get rid of.  SEE ARTICLE

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Personal Growth

How To Cheer Yourself Up When You're Down 

Got the colder weather, sour relationships, no money, poor health, plain ol' down 'n dirty blues? Try some of these strategies to blow away those dark clouds and let the sunshine into your life again .SEE ARTICLE

compiled by Colleen Moulding  SEE ARTICLE

Passing Thoughts, by T.W. Winslow 

Family Game Night

 When I was a child I loved to play board games. There was nothing better than gathering the family around the kitchen table for a rousing game of Monopoly. Playing games with my brothers and parents was great fun, but the best thing was it brought us all together as a family. SEE ARTICLE

REGRETS, I HAVE A FEW...

"Gee, I feel so bad. I really should have done this, 
and when I think back, I really wish I'd never said that 
to her, and if only I had jumped at that opportunity, 
maybe I wouldn't be in this situation ..."  SEE ARTICLE

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Business

“The Power of Free”
By Jennifer Grimpe

Free is a funny word. If you were to look it up the in the 
dictionary, it would probably say something like “ a gift 
or without obligation”. SEE ARTICLE

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Internet

Email opened up for a whole new form of communication. Almost like a letter, but lacking in the personal feel of a hand- written document, and transmitted in a matter of seconds. Just as there are certain "rules" to follow when writing a letter, so it is with email. SEE ARTICLE

by Colleen Moulding

Thousands of children and young people use the Internet every day without any problems at all, but we’ve all heard about it’s darker side and the danger they could find themselves in. Here are ten quick tips to make sure that your kids enjoy using this wonderful resource without putting themselves at risk.  SEE ARTICLE

 The Internet is the most amazing tool the world has ever seen. Information of all kinds is just a few clicks away, accessed from the comfort of our own homes. We can buy, sell, make friends and gain knowledge. However, there is an unfortunate downside. SEE ARTICLE

USENET newsgroups constitute an immense worldwide forum for discussion. These newsgroups actually pre-date the existence of the World Wide Web. SEE ARTICLE

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Misc.

How to have a free holiday

A free holiday, surrounded by your family and friends. Sound 
too good to be true? It isn't. It's legal, decent, honest and 
truthful! SEE ARTICLE

Is it really worth saving McDonalds givaways

We've all seen stories in the press of seemingly ordinary toys 
or children's ornaments fetching astronomic prices and wondered 
if we too, should be stashing away these precious pieces of 
plastic instead of letting them slide down the back of the 
sofa. SEE ARTICLE

By Colleen Moulding

Okay, I confess, I love baskets. I think they are just the prettiest things and so useful around the home. SEE ARTICLE

LIVEN UP YOUR LIVING SPACE

If you're unsure of the look you want, start by tearing out magazine pictures of rooms you like. You will soon see themes appearing. Painted wooden furniture and pale stencilled walls, traditional mahogany or art deco or a little of many styles blended together in your own eclectic way. Make room boards with pictures, paint samples and fabric swatches to help you decide. SEE ARTICLE

Psychology as Storytelling
By: Dr. Sam Vaknin


Storytelling has been with us since the days of campfire and besieging wild
animals. It served a number of important functions: amelioration of fears,
communication of vital information (regarding survival tactics and the
characteristics of animals, for instance), the satisfaction of a sense of
order (justice), the development of the ability to hypothesize, predict and
introduce theories and so on. SEE ARTICLE