How to protect your home as well as your family.

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How secure is your home? How accessible is your home? How often do you ask yourself these questions. Your home is where you and your family want to be safe fromrepparttar daily stresses of life and most definitely from crime. A burglary happens every 15 seconds in this country. Though many intrusions are non confrontational have you ever asked yourself what if I or my family were home during a burglary? Most Burglaries happen during daytime hours because this isrepparttar 110666 time many of us are working, going to school, etc. The typical burglar is looking for anything of value. Rape and/or sexual assault after a break-in happens almost regularly duringrepparttar 110667 summer months when windows and doors are left open and unlocked. If you try to think like a burglar for a minuterepparttar 110668 first step in planning a break-in would be to figure out whenrepparttar 110669 home owners are not home. You would watchrepparttar 110670 daily routine ofrepparttar 110671 homes occupants. The next step would be to figure out how difficult gaining entry torepparttar 110672 house would be. A couple of things come to mind here; Locked doors and windows, alarm systems, and even surveillance cameras now. Burglars are going to enter your home by either walking right thru an unlocked door or open window, using tools to break in or unlockrepparttar 110673 existing locks, or simply using force to gain entry so lets lookrepparttar 110674 first steps in preventing a burglary. Door an window locks arerepparttar 110675 homes initial barrier to be overcome by an intruder. Typicallyrepparttar 110676 garage and rear doors ofrepparttar 110677 house arerepparttar 110678 weekest entry points as well as first floor windows onrepparttar 110679 sides and rear ofrepparttar 110680 home. These areas may also provide cover forrepparttar 110681 burglar. You will want to make sure your locks make it very difficult to gain entry. Use a solid core or metal door for all entry areas, Use a quality, heavy-duty, deadbolt lock with a one-inch throw bolt Use a quality, heavy-duty, knob-in-lock set with a dead-latch mechanism

Are You Letting Your Children Manipulate You?

Written by Margaret Paul, Ph.D.


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Title: Are You Letting Your Children Manipulate You? Author: Margaret Paul, Ph.D. E-mail: mailto:margaret@innerbonding.com Copyright: © 2004 by Margaret Paul URL: http://www.innerbonding.com Word Count: 695 Category: Parenting

Are You Letting Your Children Manipulate You? By Margaret Paul, Ph.D.

Rachael isrepparttar 110666 young mother of Nathan, who just turned two. Rachael is a stay-at-home mother who works part-time at home and hasrepparttar 110667 help of a housekeeper five days a week. Rachael consulted with me because of her problems with Nathan.

“When Nathan is with David (her husband), he’s fine. He adores David and listens well to him. When he’s with Amalia (her housekeeper), he’s fine. He loves her and plays calmly with her. But when he’s with me, he’s impossible. He throws temper tantrums when he doesn’t get his way. He goes to sleep easily at night for David but not for me. I want so much to be a good mother and I can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong. I never get angry with him but sometimes I feel like throwing him acrossrepparttar 110668 room! I need help!”

“Rachael, when you are with Nathan, what do you think is more important to you – to get him to love you or to be loving to yourself?”

Rachael replied instantly. “To get him to love me. I never think about loving myself. I just want him to love me. If he loves me, then I know that I’m a good mother.”

“And what does it say about you if you are a good mother?”

“It means that I’m okay,”

“So you have handed to Nathanrepparttar 110669 job of defining your worth. He has to love you for you to be okay. What do you think is most important to David?”

“Oh, David takes good care of himself. He really doesn’t seem concerned about whether or not Nathan loves him. He’s very loving to Nathan, but if David wants to eat dinner when Nathan want to play with him, he just eat dinner and Nathan seems to accept it. If I want to have my breakfast when Nathan wants to play, Nathan has a tantrum.”

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