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Teaching Your Kids Proper Telephone Manners

I’m marking today’s date so in ten years (hopefully it will be that long) I can look back on September 12, 2008 and remember how blissfully uninterested my preschooler was in telephones. She knows what the device is used for and how and when to call 9-1-1, but beyond that she really has very little desire to use the phone (oh, how I wish I could freeze time) save for her occasional desire to answer it when it rings more than three times. In my last blog I spent time discussing tips parents can use to get young children acclimated … Continue reading →

The Phone is Ringing!

The home phone (landline), my cell phone, and my husband’s cell phone are each ringing at this very moment. When you have kids, especially teens and ‘tweens, it may seem like the phone never stops ringing. Even if you don’t have kids, it may ring quite a bit. You might just begin hearing ring tones in your sleep! On that note, it’s a good idea to pick a ring tone that you really, really like. My cell phone rings all day while I’m at work, so I have a ton of voicemail by the end of the day. The home … Continue reading →

Book Review: Bringing Asha Home

The long wait common in international adoptions can seem inconceivable to children. When their mother is pregnant, older children can see that the baby is there, see the mother’s belly growing and hear the baby’s heartbeat at the mother’s doctor visits. They can be given an approximate date for the baby’s arrival, or at least a general time frame like “just after next Valentine’s Day”. In an international adoption, there is no such certainty and no markers along the way. A children’s book which is unique in addressing this aspect of international adoption is Bringing Asha Home, by Uma Krishnaswami, … Continue reading →

A Larger iPhone and Other Apple Info

Want to catch up on everything that is happening in the world of iMacs, iPods, iPhones and iTunes? Here is the latest news and rumors about what is happening with Apple. iPhone increaseth Rumor has it that Apple will bump the storage capacity of the iPhone from 8GB to 16 GB early this year. It is also anticipated that a new 3GB iPhone will be available sometime in June. There is no word on how much either capacity phone will cost consumers. Apple ad plays homage to the NFL This past weekend, Apple released a new Apple ad featuring the … Continue reading →

The Phantom Phone Phenomena

Have you ever been somewhere when you cell phone vibrated for an important call. You reach down to you hip to answer the call, or at least to check who is calling, only to find out that you aren’t actually wearing your phone? That you left your phone back at home, or on the dresser, or in the car. And the phone was never even ringing. If something like this has happened to you, well you are in the majority of cell phone users. It seems that our brains have adapted quite nicely to that blackberry, to the point where … Continue reading →

Video Games for The iPhone

There is a good chance that you will soon see video games coming to the Apple iPhone. Several companies, including Apple itself, are possibly working on bringing new software games to this device. while iPhone users can already play some games through the Safari browser, so far, there have been no video games that are native to the iPhone. Here is what is happening. Let’s start with Apple. The company recently released a new iTunes update (7.3) to make it more compatible for the iPhone. In that update is a bit of new code that hints to having games load … Continue reading →

Do You Need More Than One Phone Line?

Technology is one of the things that make it possible for so many of us to branch out and start our own home-based businesses. With the personal computer and desktop publishing, fax machines, cell phones and other cutting edge technological advances available at our finger tips, it has become possible for home businesses to compete—even on an international level—with all sorts of more traditional types of businesses. It can be challenging, however, to figure out just how much technology we need, and when it is to make upgrades and additions. If your business depends on the telephone, you will likely … Continue reading →

Bringing Back Romance

The hardest part about having children is the sheer wealth of time, emotion and energy you invest in them. Don’t doubt for an instant that your children are worth it, but there is a new type of stress that your relationship will undergo as you transform from couple to parents. Parents lose sleep, parents are always busy, and there is always something for parents to be doing. Parents rarely get to sleep in and in some cases, rarely get to go out anymore. If you discover that you are spending less and less time with your spouse and that your … Continue reading →

“Hang Up The Phone, We’re On Vacation”

If I had a dime for each time my sister-in-law spat those words out during our Easter vacation… I’d be rich. My two older brothers are cellphone addicts—they take their phones everywhere. I will admit their addiction grew (somewhat) out of necessity. One is a firefighter and the other is the spokesperson for the county’s Department of Emergency Management. So each carries at least two cellphones at all times. Which, of course, means that during our spring vacation there was nary a moment that went by when one of their phones was not ringing. (And frankly, I couldn’t blame them … Continue reading →

Bringing Up Baby (1938)

Dr. David Huxley has just received a package containing a rare dinosaur bone. With this bone, he can complete the skeleton he’s been working on for years, the pinnacle of his career. To top it off, he’s engaged to be married to his assistant, and his life is going splendidly. That is, until he meets Susan Vance, a flighty, carefree heiress who immediately sets her sights on him. Unfortunately for him, this means that she’s going to make his life very complicated. Susan’s brother has sent their aunt a gift – a tame leopard named Baby who loves music, especially … Continue reading →