Growing up is never easy. Just ask Little Lady, almost three-and-a-half, how hard it is. She’ll tell you. “It’s really, really hard. Half way through day, my parents are a complete wreck.”

She’s right. Sometimes tension in here gets so thick you could almost slice it with a turbo-jet, 9,000 horsepower chainsaw. Almost.

Like other day when we were leading Little Lady upstairs to go to bed. She decided that stairs were perfect place to spring a surprise “balance” exam. So she pushed me to see if I would fall down stairs, and maybe even knock my wife down along way.

“Hey! Don’t push me down stairs.”

Obviously, I was missing point of surprise exam. She pushed again.

“Don’t do that!” I almost shouted.

After two attempts, you would think I would be given an A+, but she pushed again.

I got fierce. “What part of ‘Don’t push me down stairs!’ don’t you understand?”

“The ‘don’t’ part,” my wife interjected. “She understands rest all too well.”

Everybody has a different parenting style, and I am no-one to belittle others who raise their children differently. But I believe most effective parenting style is don’t-cry-over-spilt-milk approach.

“Little Lady, where is your sippy cup?”

“I don’t know.”

“Is it in living room?”

“I don’t know.”

“Is it here? No. What about here? No. Is it…ah, here it is and it’s empty. Good girl, you drank it all.”

“No, I just put it there.”

“Where’s milk?”

“Maybe in carpet.”

In addition to assorted juices, milk and water that our voracious green carpet has sneaked from Little Lady’s sippy cup, there is matter Little Sister’s milk bottle.

Did you know that if you tip it just right and apply optimum pressure, you can empty an entire baby bottle into a carpet? At one year old (almost), Little Sister has already mastered technique. Next week I’ll be filling in early enrollment forms for engineering school.

Many cell phone customers are now using their cell phone as their primary phone line. As number of cell phone subscriber continues to rise, monthly fee for basic cell phone service are falling. If you spend a lot of time away from home or constantly have business phone calls forwarded to your cell phone, you can make your cell phone your primary phone line.

As more Americans go wireless, wireless industry has responded with more choices and lower prices for basic plans. You can send email, text messages, surf web, listen to music and even take pictures with your cell phone. You can keep in touch and entertain yourself with your cell phone. Free nights and weekends, free long distance and of course, going from two phone bills to one, make this a very attractive option.

If you are ready to make leap to wireless only, there are many, many opportunities in cellular market for you. Before you make leap, here are three most common things that you want to consider to minimize your cell phone bill and maximize your usage and enjoyment.