Everything in moderation right? Haven’t we been told this countless times and yet still we tend to find ourselves constantly plunging into excess.

It seems that we always do too much of one thing for sacrifice of many others and therefore, seemingly neglect many times more important aspects of life.

Nothing can be more important than your children!

This held true yesterday and will still hold true tomorrow. It is a mindset that if not taken seriously enough, can percolate throughout family and have a compounding effect of less time spent, that leads to inevitably detrimental consequences.

So how much work and money acquiring is too much?

That is question of balance and in practically every aspect of one's life, it needs too be addressed.

If degree of work is such that it is compromising your time with your children because you are too tired to play with them or your job requires more than a 40 hour work week, it is time to re-evaluate your position.

Another excellent sign is if children vent their frustration by telling parent that they never see them or conveying this information to other parent.

It can be a constant struggle to provide outside home and then become a good provider by spending time inside sacred confines of home.

Like so many attitudes we have, gender preferences in naming are at work deep in background. And it's hard to put our finger on what exactly reasons are that we like what we like and choose names we do for our sons and daughters.

Let's explore a little what's working behind scenes, We'll use top 5 most popular names in 2003 according to Social Security Administration as examples, keeping in mind these are generalities and parents have almost as many reasons for choosing a particular name as there are names.

PARENTS TEND TO CHOOSE A "SERIOUS" NAME FOR THEIR SON, LIKE MATTHEW AND MICHAEL (#4 and #2 top male names) AND TRENDY, MORE CREATIVE NAMES, LIKE MADISON (#3 top female name), FOR THEIR DAUGHTERS

What's a "serious" name? John. Robert. William. Names that are constant favorites, year after year. Why is it that parents don't stray too far away from classic names when naming their sons? In 1965 sociologist Alice Rossi published a study titled "Naming children in middle class families." Her findings were that boys are generally given family names and conservative names. The reason? Parents are more serious about male role and see a boy as contributing to family prestige. So, parents are more cautious about bestowing a trendy or unusual name. Her study is decades old now, and though findings are still generally true, there does seem to be at least a slight shift underway with unusual names like Chase, Channing, Gavin, and Trey appearing in name pool for boys.

Madison, #3 top female name in 2003, didn't begin making popularity lists until 1980s. So it's had quite an impressive rise in popularity. (That's typical of trendy girls' names. They seem to come out of nowhere and all of a sudden seem to be everywhere.)

Madison is an English surname that means "son of Mad or Maud." You'll find gender preference for this name is often listed as unisex, but it's pretty much been taken over by girls, along with Taylor, Dylan, Morgan, Drew, Bailey and Shannon. It's a one-way journey for a name from unisex to feminine, and more and more names make trip every year.