Carnival of Family Life ~~ Christmas Edition

Monday, December 24, 2007


Christ­mas Edition

Wel­come to the very spe­cial Christ­mas Edi­tion of the Car­ni­val of Fam­ily Life!

I extend my thanks to each of the par­tic­i­pants whose con­tri­bu­tions have made this edi­tion excep­tional because of the thought-provoking, heart­warm­ing, and mem­o­rable arti­cles shared cov­er­ing a wide breadth of topics.


Hol­i­day Gift-Giving, Crafts, Recipes and Traditions


Pickel presents The Do’s and Dont’s of Vis­it­ing With Santa. Her advice might have spared these par­ents a lot of grief!

Lylah Led­ner presents Give the gift that will give back to you: Write That Story.

Joshua C. Kar­lin presents How Should We Give?

Pickel also presents Our Eve Tra­di­tion.

Lori Coop­er­stein presents Stress and the Hol­i­day Sea­son.

David B. Bohl presents Luck: Help­ing Each Other and Pay­ing it For­ward. An ancient Greek named Menan­der said, “If we always helped each other, no one would need luck.”

How To Me presents How To Frame a Mem­ory For a Spe­cial Per­son, describ­ing “how we framed a mem­ory and, hope­fully, brought a smile to a loved one’s face.”

Stephanie presents Using Scraps of Wrap­ping Paper. Here’s an inno­v­a­tive use for all those oddly-sized bits of left­over wrap­ping paper.

Michelle Eich­horn presents Fam­ily Fun Dur­ing the Hol­i­days.


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Par­ent­ing Issues, Tips, Advice and Observations


Lisa Clau­son presents How to Teach Chil­dren to Say Thank You. That’s one skill they will need this week in order to assure that they express appre­ci­a­tion for gifts they rea­son this hol­i­day season.
Angela Williams Duea presents The Way It’s Sup­posed to Be. If you have teenagers, you can relate when she notes that “some­times it’s hard to remem­ber what ‘nor­mal fam­ily life’ really is.”
Pickel presents Dis­rup­tion and Dis­so­lu­tion in which she pon­ders whether it is ever appro­pri­ate to “give back” an adopted child.
Heidi Sax­ton presents Adop­tive Fam­ily Plan­ning: A Wise Choice. An adop­tive mother of two for­mer fos­ter chil­dren offers advice to par­ents who are con­sid­er­ing fos­ter or adop­tive parenting.
Robert Bach presents The One Bread to Rule Them All. He says, “Our kids are media mag­nets, but they def­i­nitely mix-and-match and make it their own!”
Amy Allen Clark presents Christ­mas With the Clarks (Or the End­less Flu Epi­demic). Hang in there, Clark Fam­ily, and keep telling your­self, “This too shall pass” (no pun intended).
What Works For Us presents Scrooged. We’ve all been “had” in the way described in this article.
Donna Freed­man presents Life With­out the Dia­per Genie. Cloth or dis­pos­able diapers?
Riku Kan­ni­nen presents Bring­ing the New Kid Home, ask­ing “What hap­pened in my head after the first­born came home from the hos­pi­tal?” All par­ents will relate to this article.
Abel Cheng presents Fer­til­ity Cal­cu­la­tor: Can it Help You in Get­ting Pregnant?
Amy presents Shrill Shop­ping which she describes as “Just one of many amus­ing moments in my life as a mother. Not so amus­ing at the time, though!”
Car­olyn presents In Praise of Par­al­lax.
Lela David­son presents Pre-Pack Kids’ Rooms for San­ity on Mov­ing Day.
Deb presents Dif­fer­ences in which she explores some of the ways in which her three daugh­ters are dif­fer­ent from eac other and affirms their individuality.
Chris shares a video pre­sen­ta­tion, PBS: Two Hands with the music of Ben Harper and Jack John­son, a com­mer­cial for PBS.
Jenny presents Race The Day Away.


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Fam­ily Health and Wellness


Nisha Lakhi­ani presents Home Reme­dies for Com­mon Health Ail­ments. ‘Tis the sea­son for colds and flu so these tips might prove useful!
San­dra Miller presents Get­ting Back Up. Man­ag­ing your child’s dia­betes can be a chal­lenge — and pro­vide life lessons about let­ting our chil­dren grow up and be independent.
Mitch McDon­ald presents Chemother­apy vs. Nat­ural Alter­na­tives.
Matt M presents What do Ther­apy Dogs Do? Ser­vice, com­pan­ion and ther­apy ani­mals are an impor­tant com­po­nent of an over­all approach to health and happiness.
James D. Brausch presents For Drinkers This Sea­son. After you imbibe, make sure some­one else does the dri­ving so that we can all stay safe this hol­i­day season.
Aparna presents Do You Grit and Grind Your Teeth?, advis­ing, “The effect of stress on our health is such that there is hardly any dis­ease or con­di­tion (phys­i­o­log­i­cal or psy­cho­log­i­cal) that is not directly or remotely con­nected to it. Teeth grind­ing or ‘brux­ism,’ is one such condition.”
James DeLelys presents Look with your Heart!
Mom & Dad present Kid Hack: How to Get a Kid to Swal­low a Large Pill.


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Fam­ily Rela­tion­ships / Mem­o­ries of Home and the Holidays


Chick­ens in the Road presents The Slanted Lit­tle House, describ­ing how, after mov­ing to the coun­try with her three sub­ur­ban chil­dren, she is find­ing the real mean­ing of home — and life.
Pat Rup­pel presents Fam­ily and Going Home.
Tupelo Kenyon presents How to Live the Life of Your Dreams Through Intu­ition. Intu­ition can be trusted to move us in the direc­tion of our great­est joys, most valu­able con­tri­bu­tions and sat­is­fy­ing life.
Edith presents The Last Day of My Life. What is truly mean­ing­ful and impor­tant in your life?
Cathy presents Christ­mas! Where the Heart Is!. She recalls how, “many years ago, I found myself far from home as Christ­mas approached. I was in a coun­try that spoke a dif­fer­ent lan­guage and I hardly knew any­one I was with.”
Liz Thomp­son presents Pic­ture Per­fect Thurs­day: Attack of the Smi­ley Fries, billed as “Morn­ing per­son mar­ries night owl and trou­ble ensues!”
Stephen Kuu­sisto presents A Must for All You Moms Out here. He promises that dads will love it, too.
Jenn presents His Christ­mas Legacy, a fic­tional tale about shar­ing love at Christmas.


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Fam­ily Finances


Lazy Man and Money presents Sur­prise! Honey, I Just Added $60,000 to Our Debt. How would you react if your spouse did this?
Sil­i­con Val­ley Blog­ger presents Three Great Money Lessons from My Old Man from Guest Author Mikael. At this time of year it is appro­pri­ate to remem­ber and honor our par­ents, pon­der­ing what they taught us about life.
Mitch McDon­ald presents Rent Back House Tips To Avoid Home Loss, offer­ing use­ful tips in con­sid­er­a­tion of real estate mar­ket con­di­tions this hol­i­day season.
Rose presents Have a Kid, Pay a Tax.
Fathersez presents Five Stages of a Child’s Life and How They Relate to Finan­cial and Life Edu­ca­tion, not­ing that “we should first seek to under­stand, then to be under­stood.” Under­stand­ing the five stages of a child’s life can assist in that process.



Fam­ily Humor


Jenny Rap­son presents Dirty Phon­ics on the Bath­room Wall.
Madeleine Begun Kane presents Poo­dle Mus­ings, Hol­i­day Thoughts and Mad Kane Video.
Alfa King presents Which comes first, Christ­mas or New Year? a child’s cute play on words.
Kailanipresents Christ­mas Came Early This Year, a cau­tion­ary tale for par­ents about what might be hap­pen­ing if the house seems too quiet.
Finally, make sure that you check out these Thir­teen Mem­o­rable (for the Par­ents) Vis­its with Santa Claus.



Next week, the Car­ni­val will ring in 2008 at Mixed Metaphor.net. Par­tic­i­pants are encour­aged to sub­mit entries related to the hol­i­days, espe­cially New Year’s.






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1 fathersez Monday, December 24, 2007 at 4:00 am

Thank you for post­ing my article.

This is the first time I am par­tic­i­pat­ing in this Carnival.

I am so glad I found you.

Being good par­ents to our chil­dren is such a high pri­or­ity for my wife and I. And now we have found just the right place to get our guid­ance and to share our experiences.

Thanks again, and to you, fam­ily, all your read­ers, and friends, a very Merry Christ­mas and Happy New Year.

fathersez’s last blog post..Should par­ents ask their friends to employ their children?

2 David B. Bohl Monday, December 24, 2007 at 10:32 am

Janey,

Thank you for includ­ing my post in the car­ni­val, and for tak­ing the time and effort to pub­lish such a beau­ti­ful post. I love the images you included. It’s just what I needed this Christ­mas Eve!

Merry Christ­mas to you and yours.

Good Wishes, Always,
David

David B. Bohl’s last blog post..Have a Heart This Christ­mas Season

3 Janet Monday, December 24, 2007 at 3:25 pm

What a great list of links! Merry Christ­mas to you and thanks for vis­it­ing :-)

Janet’s last blog post..The Trick­ster

4 dak-ind Monday, December 24, 2007 at 3:32 pm

theres a lot of great infor­ma­tiona dn arti­cles there, thanks for sharing.

michele sends her christ­mas greetings!

dak-ind’s last blog post..Over Weight and Over Thirty:

5 MICHAEL MANNING Monday, December 24, 2007 at 4:14 pm

Here from Michele. Merry Christmas!

6 Clark Financial Wednesday, December 26, 2007 at 8:30 am

Merry Christ­mas and thank you for this arti­cle (from a father of 4).

7 Rob at Kintropy Wednesday, December 26, 2007 at 10:49 am

Thanks for host­ing and for includ­ing us. I like your lay­out, and I read through and appre­ci­ated your “Car­ni­val of Fam­ily Life” primer, too. Well done!

8 Pat Ruppel Wednesday, December 26, 2007 at 2:30 pm

Thank you for includ­ing my post in the Fam­ily Rela­tion­ships and Mem­o­ries of Home sec­tion. I appre­ci­ate all your arti­cles and have added you to my blog roll.

Pat Ruppel’s last blog post..Merry Christ­mas and Greetings!

9 Vic Thursday, December 27, 2007 at 1:13 pm

Great Car­ni­val. Happy Hol­i­days from Blog­ging Zoom.

Got my Zoom

Vic

Vic’s last blog post..Blog­ger Unleashed, Alexa, Court’s Theme and the Forum

JHS 10 JHSEsq Friday, December 28, 2007 at 12:04 am

Thank you all!

Be sure to visit the Car­ni­val this com­ing week at http://www.mixedmetaphor.net — it will be a New Year’s party!

I hope you will par­tic­i­pate by sub­mit­ting your post by Decem­ber 29, 2007, at mid­night (Pacific time)!

11 Registry Repair Software Friday, January 4, 2008 at 2:17 am

This is Chris and though it is late but Merry Christmas…

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