Would you rather be an only child for the advantages or is there more to being a member of a large family?
I was the youngest of four, what were you?
I think children benefit from having another sibling.One child tends to be selfish and when put in real world they can’t handle it and it is tougher for them adjusting. I prefer a larger family and I am a baby of four.
A growing crisis and concern, caring for elder adults is unlike child care. Where as the dependency of children decreases over time, with an aging parent, it will increase. Many of us have successfully raised our children and maintained excellent work records. Our sons and daughters suffering only minimal scars of our leaving them alone and in the care of others. Through all of this, we usually had the joy of watching them progress, and learn, becoming more responsible and reliable. If we did it right, they are taking care of their business, and achieving more than we could ever dream of. As the primary care giver, we feel successful, and believe the loss of sleep has well been worth it.
The same cannot be said when the object of your caregiving is a parent. There are few options available for unbiased help. Feelings of guilt, shame, embarrassment often accompany elder care giving. The sleepless nights are constant, and the knowledge that this is not going to get better takes a major emotional toll on the entire family. If there are multiple siblings, everyone has a lot of opinions, but few have solution. Add the workplace stress, and current economic downturn and this becomes a recipe for disaster. Caught between being the child yourself and having children of your own, family dynamics become a major source of pain. What is the solution?
I am constantly surprised by the response of so many individuals when presented with the question “what are you going to do in the future?” Most respond with an attitude of I will deal with it when the time comes. Unfortunately, that is usually a highly emotionally charged crisis, and normally the result of a physical injury such as a fall, wandering, or burns. The adult child is now faced with the emotional pain of having neglected the obvious decline in their parent, and has only days to decide what can or should be done for the future of the parent. Far too many will just bring them home. Not realizing that they do not have the resources available to adequately take care of the parent. More importantly, they are unaware of the changes that will take place and the resources available to them.
The solution is to be up front early on. Regardless of what mom and dad say, they will need help in the future. Regardless of what you believe you are capable of, you will need expert help in the future. Learning as much as you can before you need the information can mean the difference between living a miserable existence in anger and resentment, or loving the later years of your parents life, connecting with them in dignity and love.
It has only been in the last few decades that so many people have lived so long. The average was 70, now it is 80+. Physically, mentally and emotionally there is a need to maintain activity and engagement. When you begin your research on the aging process, do not turn a blind eye. Try to become an observer, and really practice taking your self out of the child role, and create a partnership of equals. Participate in seminars, usually free, that cover a variety of topics. By broadening your knowledge base, you will not find out after the fact. If I had only known is repeated thousands of times a day, by caregivers and family members. Do not wait for Crisis to happen, before you begin learning. In Dana Point, Ca check out the Choice before Crisis, solutions for adult children and seniors seminars. These are directed at the adult children, and active seniors. Senior Motivate 4 Success or call (949) 375-2676
Now ask yourself, what will I do WHEN, not if, my parent needs more help than I can give.
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Coach Chez is a recovery coach, helping individuals make lasting change in behavior and emotions. Motivate 4 Success helps individuals find ways to deal with addictive behavior. Call today for a free discovery session and decide that change is a must.
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Halloween is one of the favorite holiday for most of them which comes in October month and throughout September and October it could be great experience for most of them shopping for funny and excited costumes for themselves and their entire family.
Halloween is not just for kids it can be celebrated by all ages because this mentally keeps them from having a lot of fun.
It is said that Halloween is second only to Christmas as a home decorating holiday reported by American Greetings. Halloween also called as “Ghost Holiday” in the West. There are so many fun things to do for Halloween that are endless. Many people like to take part in Halloween activities and would like to dress up in different ways of costumes.
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What’s this red-headed step-child everyone is always talking about?
I always hear weird references to “red headed step-child” where is that from and what does it mean?
Red hair,whether ‘ginger’,auburn,or copper-hued,is suppose to be a sign of a fiery and ungovernable temper,or of a passionate disposition of love.There for,it is thought to be harder to love or be loved by “a red headed step child”.
That’s no big deal in Hawaii- but Greenland? Now there’s another idea for Al Gore. Talk about an “Inconvenient Truth“, if it be so. But, if the most dire climate forecasts come true the tourism industry in Europe’s far north, already feeling the effects of global warming, may find itself promoting a Santa in shorts and a camel-drawn sleigh. Yuk!
Each year at the end of autumn, residents, shopkeepers, travel agencies, reindeer herders and even politicians in the Finnish Arctic town of Rovaniemi — home to Santa Claus’ Village, one of the biggest tourist attractions in Finland — look to the skies in the hopes of a snowy winter.
The past three or four years have been difficult in Rovaniemi. Each year they attract some 300,000+ visitors eager to meet the “real Father Christmas. Real you say? Real!
This December, with only a few weeks to go before Christmas, there are only seven-and-a-half inches of snow on the ground, just enough for snowmobiles and dog- and reindeer sleighs. But the rivers and lakes, which normally freeze over in winter and are used to take tourists on snowmobile or sleigh rides, have not turned to ice yet, and that’s bad news.
Tourism generates some 345 million US$’s of direct and indirect revenue in Finnish Lapland, of which about 60 percent comes during winter. It is an enormous amount of money for the region, hit hard by high unemployment and the rural exodus to bigger towns. And after all Christmas really is about SHOPPING!
Even when America is attacked and our Twin Towers were destroyed, some of the first words by WW Bush we’re, “get out there and spend”.
The village of 2,000 people, located a three-hour drive north of Rovaniemi, has already succeeded in persuading British tour operators to bring planefulls of holiday tourists seeking a winter wonderland to their town. While global warming presents several short-term advantages (lower energy bills, greater agricultural possibilities, a longer summer tourism season), the long-term effects are dire for the region’s fauna, flora and local population. Reindeer herding, the traditional activity and main income for the 70,000 indigenous Sami people spread out across the Arctic, is also at risk.
How will Santa do without back ups?
Sami Ruismaeki is one of Finland’s 7,000 reindeer herders whose livelihood has become more and more precarious. “When it doesn’t rain, there are no mushrooms and the reindeer aren’t able to build up their body fat before the long winter. Then the lichen disappears under the heavy layers of ice,” he said. The reindeer “have to be fed with grain or hay, and we have to bring water from home. It’s not profitable anymore,” he said.
Top-10 List Up Now and Product Demos to Run in October Issue
Los Angeles, Calif. (September 2007) – Cookie doll clothes, crazy French plush and plaster baby feet? These and other select new products are featured in a sneak peek of TDmonthly Magazine’s video top-10 list from the ABC Kids Expo, a juvenile products show that took place Sept. 7 to 10 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The exclusive list, along with more than 50 ToyTV product demonstrations by manufacturers, will be available in TDmonthly’s October issue at www.tdmonthly.com.
TDmonthly’s trade show videos will cover toys, games, plush, dolls, furniture and infant products. The top-10 list includes the following: Baby Art Kit from Zoom Distribution, Boogaloo Octobuddy, Kelly Kouture Girl Pirate Slumber Sack, La-Le Kids’ Imports Pastel Wooden Toys, Life2 Personalized Blanket, Love Kub’s Pacimals, Penelope Peapod, The Deglingos, Wow Cookie Dolls Kit and Zooni Knit Hats.
The ABC Kids Expo, put on by parent company All Baby & Child Inc., is the leading juvenile products trade show in the United States, and this year featured more than 900 exhibitors in over 700,000 square feet of exhibit space. It was named by Trade Show Week as one of the “Fastest 50†growing shows in the country.
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For more than 10 years, ToyDirectory.com has been connecting retailers and manufacturers within the specialty toy industry. It has been ranked by Googleâ„¢ as the No. 1 online wholesale trade directory in the world. TDmonthly Magazine, an online trade publication for the toy, hobby, gift and game industries with more than 27,800 registered retailers, is dedicated to being the most comprehensive monthly resource for the toy industry through trend reporting, reviews, trade show coverage and a 12,000+ searchable database of products in more than 100 categories.
