Tips & Ideas

Tips for Traveling with Your Children, Without You
Going Insane

by Rachel Harding

Just because your family is young there is no reason to stop traveling. If you’re family is anything like mine then we haven’t let it affect us, we have just planned better. I first took my daughter to Spain, on a plane, when she was 11 weeks old and then we hired a car and drove from one end of the country to the other. Since then my family has changed, I have acquired 2 step children as well as my daughter, we have continued to travel every year. Last year was Tunisia this year we are taking them camping (and they are all seven).

I found this article How to Be Frugal Without Being Cheap over at Ririanproject.com.

This article contains some common sense approaches on how to cut back on day to day expenses without making any dramatic changes in your lifestyle. If you can make little changes in your spending habits, they do add up. You can have more money for things that you want or need without making any major sacrifices.

20 Ways to Save on Your Utility Bills

By Jeremy Zongker

Utility bills can consume a very large portion of your paycheck. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could pay 25-50% less on these bills? There’s a number of ways you can. Don’t worry you won’t find any low flow toilets on this list!

Your Teen Just Wants your Time

Author: Rita Offen

When our child turns into a teenager it often seems that we lose a connection with them, a connection we had built up over their younger, formative years. Some parents feel a deep-down ‘mourning’ at the loss of this connection, but really, you have not ‘lost’ your teen. Underneath he is still the little child you once knew, but is now re-learning life and the world. He is building his own identity and individuality, away from his parents.

Tackling Procrastination – Six Ways to Overcome It

By Michelle Shaeffer

1) You just don’t want to do it.

Sometimes there are tasks we just don’t want to do. There are three ways to overcome this: do it, hire someone else to do it, remove it from your list.

First, decide if it’s something that really has to be done. If it’s your monthly book-keeping, it’s essential. If it’s cold calling it may not be essential. Can you cross it off your list?

Next, if it does have to be done, can you hire it out? Get a virtual assistant, intern, or other helper to finish the task for you.