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Tips to facilitate communication within the family

October 23rd, 2009

If dialogue is important in interpersonal relationships, it is even more communication in the family. The communication is guided by feelings and the information we transmit and understand. Communication helps us to make contact with people, to give or receive information, to express or understand what we think, to convey our feelings, comungar any thought, idea, experience, or information with others, and we join or bind by affection.

When there is communication in a family, surely we can say that there is a camaraderie, a complicity, and an atmosphere of unity and affection at home. There will be mutual respect and above all a more established values. However, creating this climate of communication in the family, it is not an easy task. We must help children with practices, ie, that parents establish mechanisms to facilitate communication.

Small tips to improve communication between parents and children :

- To give information, check that it is always a positive way.
- Obeying the rule that “everything that is said is true.”
- Empathize or put ourselves in another’s place.
- Provide consistent and not contradictory messages.
- Listen with attention and interest.
- Create an emotional environment to facilitate communication.
- Seek the advice and opinion to others.
- To express and share feelings.
- Be clear when asking for something.

Sex in exchange for a room

October 8th, 2009

In Spain the last frontier of sex is to deal with the crisis. In principal Iberian city more and more real estate ads that offer rooms for rent in exchange for sex. The initiative, according to El Mundo and El Pais, is targeted primarily at students or at least to young people with few financial resources willing to share a roof with regular intimate relationships.

Tenders, explicit, leaving no room for doubt of any kind. “Alquilo habitacion a cambio de sexo”, “Busco chica para compartir piso a cambio de sexo” ( “Rent a room in exchange for sex,” “I want a girl to share an apartment in exchange for sex), we read about many university boards of the country and on online advertisements. The phenomenon in great expansion, the daily El Mundo devoted a full page and even El Paìs is interested in the new trend hard.

To offer apartments in exchange for sex, however, are not only men looking for companionship. Also, student tenants, in fact, have started to put ads unequivocal. “I am a Spanish student of 27 years old, seeking a room in shared apartment in exchange for sex, if possible with Spanish, more than 25 years, working,” offers a listing over by El Mundo.

To unravel all the mechanisms, a journalist from the newspaper came into the game. Was proposed as a tenant to some advertiser. The first is young, offering food and accommodation in Madrid for “sexual intercourse three days.” Generous, it also adds the carriage drive tenants to work. “We can meet, see the house, have the first report, and then give you the keys of the house,” suggests. Another, Pedro, offers, always on the internet, “camera girl or a free pair of girls of good education in return for sexual relations from time to time.” And ‘the second time, said: with the first tenant, things went well. “We have established conditions, only rules of coexistence: the sex, I try to make sure it is cold.”

Usually the first contacts are by e-mail, with exchange of photos, some are calling in “lingerie”. Then the first meeting, and if all goes well, click the “contract”, usually informally. “I left with my girlfriend and I know many people,” said a boy from Barcelona, 23 years, which in turn provides a roof in exchange for sex. The economic crisis that has befallen Spain seems one of the springs of the phenomenon, but not only. “It has to do with the loneliness and the trivialization of sex,” says the psychologist Erik Pescador. And then the people are ‘less capable of sustaining relationships face to face, many use the Internet, the marriage agencies … and this concludes Pescador, “is perhaps only the last flight forward.”

6 Ways To Get The Kids Outdoors This Summer

October 6th, 2009

Summer is time for outdoor fun with your kids. However, sometimes the days are long & your ideas are short. Here are some ideas to help you make sure your active ones are busy & getting many fresh air this summer.

Flat You
Lay on the sidewalk & take turns outlining each other. Decorate your flat selves by drawing clothing & funny faces. To make this project educational, you can read the book “Flat Stanley” as well.

Garden
Your child will learn science, responsibility & have fun by planting a garden & maintaining it. In fact, if you have the time or inclination, you can make the entire landscape edible. How fun would it be to wander around the yard snacking? Blueberry bushes, strawberries, herbs, & fruit trees are all easy to maintain. Some vegetables, like tomatoes require nothing but a lot of water & sunshine to grow like weeds. Start small & see what happens.

Hoola Hoops
Has your child ever tried to hoola-hoop? Show him how. Then, take hoola hoops & make a pretend circus in the yard or try to get your dog to jump through two. You are only limited by your imagination.

Bubbles
Bubbles are always a favorite. Take turns chasing & popping them. Blow bubbles with various bubble wands to see how their shapes & sizes differ.

Hopscotch
Teach your infants how to play hopscotch. Let them draw their own hopscotch patterns. If they are like I was as a child, they’ll make hundreds of squares & hop around all day.

Turn on the Sprinklers
There’s no require to buy a pool when the old-fashioned sprinklers are as much fun. There is definitely something special about walking around in the front yard through the sprinklers, when the neighbor infants see you having fun & join in.

Be sure to print out this list & keep it handy for the next time your kids say “MOMMMMMM — we’re bored!”