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- How Kids Deal with the Consequences of Their Parents' Drug and Alcohol Abuse - Associated Content
- Hey, you, take off those shoes! - MSN Money
- Kids Room Decorating Ideas: Less Baby, More Bold - Associated Content
- New DiscountVouchers Poll Shows £1000 Fee to Kit Kids out for New School Term - pressreleasepoint.com
| How Kids Deal with the Consequences of Their Parents' Drug and Alcohol Abuse - Associated Content Posted: 13 Sep 2010 07:36 AM PDT Children of adult addicts often experience the loss of their parents out of drug or alcohol abuse. They may find their parents dead of overdose of alcohol abuse. Most of the times, they are left on their own, growing up  As a matter of fact, children of addict parents endure the consequences of their parents' actions much stronger and they rarely deal, really deal, with them. Reality for them is much harder because it's there, right in front of them. They cannot hide behind alcohol and drugs. They have to face the reality. They become the adults in their parents' shoes because their mom laughs hysterically being drunk all day and their dad mumbles words by being high on drugs. It's not easy for a kid of 12 years old to suddenly become responsible for two parents who are basically two sick individuals. It's not easy at all. I believe that growing up with all these memories is not something that can be dealt with; not in a thousand years; not with all the help of highly esteemed psychologists. I have no doubt that taking it out of their system will help these children at their adult years to feel better and possibly make healthier families than theirs. However, the pain of seeing your mother dying of drug abuse or your father being a non-recovering junkie is an image that circulates in your blood and defines you as a person; forever. Sources: http://www.athealth.com/consumer/disorders/coafacts.html http://www.usnodrugs.com/effects-of-drug-abuse.htm This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Hey, you, take off those shoes! - MSN Money Posted: 13 Sep 2010 09:52 AM PDT Wish I had a piece of the hosiery industry in Anchorage, where you remove your footwear after you enter someone's house. Knowing you'll be unshod regularly means making sure your feet are decently covered. Once when I was an Anchorage Daily News reporter I took off my shoes at an interviewee's home and discovered a rent in one sock. It's hard to look professional when your big toe has its eye to the peephole.
Obviously Alaska is not the only place where indoor shoe-wearing is frowned upon. People in other cultures live this way too -- and so, increasingly, do U.S. residents, as a quick Internet search indicates. Why? Sometimes it's because they want the carpet to last longer. Sometimes it's because they don't want spike-heel scratches on the hardwood.
Sometimes it's to keep you from tracking in poisons. Want to know what kinds of environmental nasties hitchhike into your home via shoe leather? Check out this essay by Annie B. Bond on The Huffington Post, which provides links that may turn you green around the gills. It may also keep you from letting your kids play on the floor, ever. Bond knows all that -- yet she feels uncomfortable about enforcing a no-shoes policy. It feels like "an imposition, almost a demand for a level of intimacy (or adherence to fastidious cleaning habits)." The author is quick to acknowledge the health benefits of removing one's shoes. Still, her "complex and confusing emotional (response)" persists. A great social leveler Years ago I covered the Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Valdez, Alaska. A lot of theatrical "names" were there, including Edward Albee, John Guare and two now-late luminaries, August Wilson and Patricia Neal. The footwear-off policy was a great leveler of persons, as I noted in an article I wrote for the Chicago Tribune. It's hard to look like a big shot when you're wobbling on one foot to deal with a knotted shoelace. I noticed, however, that no one asked Patricia Neal to remove her shoes. That was likely due to the actor's health and mobility issues. But I think it may also have been that no one would have dared holler, "Hey, Patsy, off with the brogans!" The woman's presence was truly formidable. I never heard anyone talk about her except as "Miss Neal," even when she wasn't in the room. (Quick aside: I was at a reception and Miss Neal asked if I would mind retrieving her purse, which was a few feet away from where she sat. Of course I didn't mind. "Thank you, darling, you're a divine woman," she drawled in that marvelous voice. Talk about frisson. Had she asked, I would have given her the contents of my own handbag.) Possible strategies I know a therapist who requires clients to remove their shoes in the entryway, where she keeps a big basket of crocheted slippers. This would work most of the time, but not always. For example, blogger Bond's mother is embarrassed by the appearance of her severely arthritic toes. I expect that having to take shoes off and put them back on might cause physical pain for someone with foot problems. Right now I don't have a dog in this hunt. The rug in my apartment is more than 20 years old and looks like low tide: the color of faded mud with dark spots here and there that I hope are old cola spills but that may be due to incontinent pets of former tenants. If and when I get a home of my own, I would prefer that it be a welcoming place. I would not want to order an elderly visitor to kick off her old-lady comforts and put on purple crocheted house shoes.
Nor would I want to upset a guest who had an invisible disability and a good reason to want to keep his shoes on. In fact, I wouldn't want to decide what constitutes a "good" reason. Thus I expect I'll provide slippers and ask visitors to use them should they be comfortable doing so. I can always run the vacuum after everyone leaves. (If I remember.) But I can't deny that removing shoes is a frugal hack since it makes carpets and flooring last longer, to say nothing of potential health benefits. So to those who ask visitors to dis-shoe, how about some advice for the rest of us? Do you explain why or just lay down the law? How do you deal with people with arthritis, or with holes in their socks? Donna Freedman is the MSN Money Living With Less columnist and also blogs at Smart Spending and Surviving and Thriving.
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| Kids Room Decorating Ideas: Less Baby, More Bold - Associated Content Posted: 12 Sep 2010 09:06 PM PDT The latest trends in kids room decorating puts and end to babyish themes such as fairy forests, princess rooms, and underwater themes. As cute as themes room may be, it is just a matter of time before your child asks  But what is a parent to do when a two year old asks for a ballerina bedroom? Well, mom can be a little less literal. Instead of painting dancing ballerinas and pointe shoes on the wall, you can paint the room in a bold pink color and hang lots of sheer white fabric at the windows and around the bed, creating a canopy. To give the room the ballerina theme, purchase three framed ballet prints and hang them with wide ribbon on the wall above the bed. Also, hang a pair of real ballet slippers on the on the foot of the bed, and put a tutu dress on a pretty hanger and hang it on the inside of the door. By doing this you have given the room the boldness of an all pink and white design, satisfied the child's theme request, and avoided a mural that you may regret later. Likewise your boy's room doesn't have to be all "snips and snails and puppy dog tails". Trust me, he'll take care of that on his own. Instead paint the room a bold color that he likes from dark blue to green to gold. You can chose to make three walls neutral or a lighter shade if the chosen color is overwhelming. Then customize the room to his liking. For example, if he is partial to baseball, make a headboard by cutting some baseball bats cut in half lengthwise and screwing them to a board. You can also display some baseballs antique baseballs on a shelf and hang a poster or two of their favorite player. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Posted: 13 Sep 2010 10:20 AM PDT New DiscountVouchers Poll Shows £1000 Fee to Kit Kids out for New School Term. Parents under pressure to spend on designer labels for kids 7 September 2010 – New research conducted by money saving deals website DiscountVouchers has revealed what it costs to send kids back to school wearing labels and with the right goods this year. Parents can pay out more than £1000 to equip children with the brands, uniforms, accessories and more for a new autumn term. Of the 600 people surveyed, 50% admitted they feel under pressure to spend on branded shoes for kids, while 25% are willing to pay high costs for things to help children feel included at school. 10% worry that kids might be bullied if they are caught by peers not wearing the right named brands. Mums feel the pressure more than Dads to buy kids branded goods, and they also feel twice as concerned about bullying as Fathers. 1 in 10 said that their kids go to schools where they're not allowed to wear designer labels and brands. Managing Director at DiscountVouchers, Simon Terry, said: "Our new research has shown that parents do feel added pressure to spend money on their kids' back to school kit ahead of the new term, with labels being a real pressure point." The survey showed that 95% of parents spend up to £500 on new school clothing and 81% spend £500 on things like school trips, music classes or swim lessons. 10% admit to spending up to £1000 while 3% spend more than £1000. 9 out of every 10 parents admit to buying new uniforms for kids as well as shoes for a new school term, while 75% say they have to fork out for sports kit. 65% spend on new school bags, while parents also have to find money for coats and stationery. 21% of parents have to pay out for sports and games kit while 1 in 12 spends on a new mobile phone. 50% of people get their children new summer and winter uniforms every year. While the financial crisis continues to make time tough for families, the survey did however show that 62% of people would still not send their children back to school in an old uniform. "It is true that in the credit crunch parents have less disposable income available, and this makes the pressure to pay out for designer labels even heavier. Vouchers and codes can help parents carry this burden however." For more information visit www.discountvouchers.co.uk About DiscountVouchers Part of ASAP Ventures Ltd, the company behind the award winning Carrentals price comparison site, DiscountVouchers.co.uk is committed to offering a growing range of the best savings available online. For more information visit www.discountvouchers.co.uk Media contact – Copy this html code to your website/blog and link to this press release. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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