Friday, February 27, 2009

Pets are meaningful


Dog and cat are usually the pets you brought at home. Do you think it can help you to lessen your budget or it can make an additional listing to your expenses? Sometimes it is impractical but sometimes it can be practical. Why impractical? Because pets are just like a baby, you spend time to take good care of them and money for their needs. Pets are practical since they bring you with joy in your soul. It would clear all the burdens you carry in life even though the foods and vaccines are very expensive but you won’t mind as long you enjoy it. There are times your busy looking for the best name, the best shampoo, soap, and powder to make your pets nice. How wonderful to take good care of it. They have a good attitude towards you. When your away at home for many years and you came back pets are still remembering you. They never forget the moment you shared with them.That is why pets are meaningful to everyone's life.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Raising Money - Wise Kids

Six rules for raising money-wise kids

  1. Teach saving. No childhood is complete without a piggy bank. For children as young as three, home banks help make a game out of saving money. Encourage your child to take part of his savings to the bank. By age six, children should be able to understand that a bank is not taking their money but keeping it safe and adding to it. Open an account in the child's name. Let him have his own passbook and be responsible for it. These experience can help make saving money in the lifetime habit.
  2. Give children an allowance. It takes a year to become a smart and responsible consumer. When children receive a regular allowance, they begin learning early a basic rule of life: no money, no spending. You want your child to yearn for purchases and yes even to experience frustration. Yearning are positive feelings, some of fun in acquiring is the wishing itself. Getting everything on demand isn't nearly as satisfying.
  3. Involve kids in housework. Kids have a natural sense of industry that goes largely untapped. Though in some cases you may need to insist that they help out, in others it's merely a matter of allowing them to. Children's work will be imperfect, don't criticize. Set reasonable time limits for chores, but remember that attention spans vary age and job. Follow this rule of thumb for stick-to-itiveness: two minutes for a two-year-old, three minutes for a three-year-old and so on up for the age ladder. Gradually, children build up the self-discipline to complete even the not so fun jobs.
  4. Don't use cash to bribe or punish. It's an easy trap to fall into. If you recognize yourself in these examples, you might want to reconsider what you are teaching. The only way we can get our children to clean their room are by threatening to dock their allowance. I don't think children should be paid for routine chores. This gives them the mistaken in impression that all work will bring monetary rewards. Ask any volunteer or homemaker if that's true! Children should, however, experience the joy of receiving a reward when they have contributed someone extra. Remind them that being a member of the family means helping out but that in case, you are hiring their labor rather than an outsider's. Then, after determining that the job is well done, pay promptly. Children raised on a steady diet of outside rewards for good school work can't experience the personal exhilaration of a job well done. Try to motivate kids with hugs, kisses, verbal praise, a congratulations card.
  5. Don't be secretive about finances. Children need not know every detail of the family budget, but how can they accept limitations unless they know where the limits come from? I realize that parents often fears sharing such information because kids can be blabber-mouths-but they can be taught to respect privacy. Once your children are in their early teens, you may want to hold a family finances summit, explaining that what you discuss is strictly confidential, and that any member who violates this rule won't attend future meetings. Sketch out a general idea of where your money must go on a regular basis. This will not only teach kids the myriad monthly claims on your income, but motivate them to be part of the solution to money problems.
  6. Tell children about your work. When children don't know how their parents earn the family income, it weakens the connection between money and work in their minds. Elementary school age kids are not too young to hear about what it's like to work for a living. If you enjoy job, share your excitement. If you are frustrated with your work, tell your children that there still may be satisfactions-salary, security or that it's a stepping stone in your career path. Take your kids with you to work on occasion. A half-day, or a visit when workload's lighter, will give them a good idea. If your work place does not welcome small visitors during regular hours, bring them on a Saturday morning.
Raising self-reliant children requires parents at time to lead with their heads and not their hearts. That's the challenge you face, but the effort will pay off as you see your kids develop a respect for the work ethic and a sound financial sense.


Monday, February 23, 2009

How to make a happy home?


Everyone of us has a dream of having a perfect family to live on, but the big question is "how" that's the first thing comes to mind. Sometimes we are struggling to fight the events happen to a our daily lives, we are hoping that later GOD will provide the things that we wanted for. There's a lot of expectations and worries that we think it could be possible to be true. We try to face the facts that life is full of mystery and whatever we did in life to make it perfect it could not be. And that's what a home become happy if both in the family have respect, trust, cooperation and give time in sharing the good ideas. I believe this will succeed. But I read your mind that your looking for the best answer for the question and people make happy if they have money. I tell you guys money would not buy happiness.