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Tax Tips for Working At Home
Image Courtesy of Flickr When you work from home, tax time can be a little more complex than just filling out the information from your W-2, especially if you own your own business. There is a lot more to be considered but with a little organization and attention to detail, tax time can be significantly less stressful. Here are a few tips to help you breeze through tax season. Put together a business log. Use a three ring binder, a few clear pocket inserts, and a notebook. Jot down a brief summary of your daily activity in the notebook and put any related receipts into the clear pockets so you…
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PBS Kids Provides School Readiness Tips for Parents
School Readiness Tips for Parents Understanding that the first five years of a child’s life are a time of physical, emotional, social and cognitive growth, parents and caregivers should look for resources and tips to help prepare children to enter school, including the following PBS KIDS tips: 1. Be involved and make learning fun. Research shows that children are more likely to succeed academically and socially in school when their parents or caregivers actively support and encourage them to take pleasure in learning. 2. Talk with your child. Young learners need to be in language rich environments. Talking to your child about a book you read together or exploring…
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Ensuring Your Kids Safety Online
Image courtesy of Flickr With technology becoming more and more of a staple in everyday life, the age that children are introduced to it seems to get younger and younger. While this can be an amazing resource for learning it can also be a dangerous place. There are so many devices out there that have access to the internet that it’s going to be hard for any concerned parent to keep tabs on all of them. So before we get started on the tips for keeping your child safe I’d like to encourage anyone to consider this before buying their child a smartphone or tablet or any other…
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Ask the Doctor :: What lab tests are best to determine my heart health?
Image Courtesy of Flickr Ask the Doctor: Question: I’m thinking I should talk to my doctor about my heart. Do you recommend any labs I might ask to be done? Below are a few lab tests that I suggest to my patients; however, but I always remind my patients that blood tests are not the determining factors for your risk of heart disease – your lifestyle habits are equally as important at if not more important, so be sure to talk to your doctor about optimizing your everyday health. On a side note: I usually encourage my patients to do yearly lab work that covers the basics- complete blood count, …
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Play :: Show Your Disney Side!
“I received free products in order to host the Disney Side @Home Celebration. The opinions expressed here are my own.” There is just something about walking through the gates at Disneyland that makes me feel like I am 7 years old again! I am usually rushing through the entrance as I can’t wait to ride the roller coasters – Space Mountain is one of our favorites, and take a ride through Pirates of the Carribean for the 100th time. It has been so wonderful sharing Disneyland with my daughter and we have had season passes since she was old enough to walk. Last year my husband…
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Tech :: CordCruncher Earbud Headphones
I recently had the opportunity to try out a pair of CordCruncher Earbud Headphones (the moniker being they “do not TANGLE”)! I have never been so excited in my life about ear bud headphones. I am the world’s worst and I strongly animate the word WORST when it comes to getting cords for my headphones into a tangled mess – a hot tangled mess I should add. When my *pink* CordCruncher Earbud Headphones arrived I had this huge smile on my face. It was like someone had just given me tickets to a theme-park with a gift card! I pulled them out of their easy packaging and my daughter stopped…