7 Tips for Decorating Your Child's Room

Written by Elizabeth Hekimian-Williams


7 Tips for Decorating Your Child's Room By Liz Hekimian-Williams

If you're not sure where to start or how best to tackle updating your child's bedroom, you're not alone. In a lot of families,repparttar baby nursery takes a lot of planning and decorating time but there's often less thought and energy put into decoratingrepparttar 130913 same child's room as they grow older.

It's common for baby toys and furniture like diaper disposals, rattles, pull toys and cribs to get removed, but other things often seem to stay around for quite a bit longer thanrepparttar 130914 growing child might wish. For instance a wall paper border with prints more suitable for your baby or younger child's room, may not be as enjoyed by your now older child (or teen?!).

Here are a few tips to help you get started with decorating your child's room. The best part about this is that your child can help you do it this time around, unlike when they were yet to be born or an infant. So this can be a fun project you can do together!

1. Select a new color to paintrepparttar 130915 walls, a color that your child likes. If you have a strong objection to it, though, negotiate with perhaps a lighter version of that color, or limiting their color choice to only one wall. (Or, encourage them to put up some nice posters and wall hangings to lessen their color's impact!)

2. Mood lighting! Kids of all ages enjoy mood lighting of one sort or another. Together, select either a night light, a small novelty lamp with a low wattage bulb, or an interesting colored or black light bulb lamp. Other lighting effects kids enjoy include disco lights, statues or flowers with light effects, and glow inrepparttar 130916 dark items.

3. Bedspreads. Get rid of baby blankets and exchange for favorite cartoon throws or bed covers. When they're teenagers, they might enjoy more sports or frilly, or even more adult taste bed coverings.

4. Personalize something for their bureaus or their walls, with their names and/or photographs. Photos can be made into a collage. Engraved names in stones or personalized acrostic poem name prints are fun kid's room additions. Acrostic poem name prints make great keepsakes and can be updated every few years. They userepparttar 130917 letters of your child's name to start off self-esteem enhancing phrases that tell about your child's unique traits, interests and characteristics at that stage of their life.

Can Men And Women Be Friends?

Written by Michael Ferrell


Or When Harry Met Sally Did He Really Just Want to Jump Her Bones?

Men and women can't really be just friends, can they? Of course not. There’s always that pesky sexual tension to contend with. And what aboutrepparttar spouse, spousal equivalent, or boyfriend/girlfriend who’s sure to be jealous? Plus, there’srepparttar 130909 biological/sociological nesting imperative that women contend with andrepparttar 130910 hunting imperative that seems to drive men.

A number of years ago, a landmark study published by Dr. Don O'Meara, a sociology professor at Raymond Walters College, identifiedrepparttar 130911 following four key obstacles torepparttar 130912 success of male-female friendships

· The inability to definerepparttar 130913 relationship

· A fear of confronting feelings of sexual attraction

· The inability of both partners to see each other as equals

· Society’s response to a non-romantic relationship

(This is all ofrepparttar 130914 above rolled into one: What’s going on here? Who do they think they are? They just won’t admit that they’re hot for each other!)

Let’s face it, when you come right down to it – there are just too many impediments and too many inherent differences betweenrepparttar 130915 sexes for cross-gender friendship to work. Right?

Wrong, wrong, and double-wrong – at least in today’s world.

Fifty years ago, when Harry met Sally, he was a breadwinner who worked outsiderepparttar 130916 home and she was a stay-at-home mom (or stay-at-home spinster). Harry and Sally had very little in common and very few opportunities to explore their commonality. Their paths never crossed except at a church social, perhaps, or in situations that were specifically created to foster romance and, by extension, procreation andrepparttar 130917 continuation ofrepparttar 130918 species. (Notrepparttar 130919 stuff sonnets are made of, perhaps, but good for society.)

That was then. This is now.

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