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Margaret Ross, Editor

How to Change Your Behavior And Shed Bad Habits

Habits are a brain game. This time you could come out a real winner.

What is a bad habit? It's something that we do regularly which is counterproductive to leading a life that is happy or healthy. It could be overeating, smoking, lack of exercise, being overly critical, compulsive shopping, or any of an infinite number of unhealthy habits which hold us back. And it's safe to say that all of us likely have at least one bad habit we'd like to change, if not many.

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Free you brain to break bad habits
Free you brain to break bad habits

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Cyberbullying How Parents can Prepare Protect Kids

Cyber bullying behaviors are impacting millions of children daily. Parents are not powerless to protect and prepare their teens. Four critical cyberbullying commandments for responding to bullying behavior. Parents how to steps, bullying solutions for stopping bullying behaviors on World Wide Web.

Cyberbullying behaviors are growing like pandemic across the World Wide Web. The behavior is personal and a proven polluter of your child's peace of mind.

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Cyberbullying pandemic on www

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How To Help Your Child Succeed at School

It’s never too late or too early to teach children how to get and stay organized with schoolwork. Organizing and setting up easy steps that you all do daily, is guaranteed to mean fewer buses missed, burned breakfasts and other morning emergencies. The skills your children learn now can carry over into high school, college, and careers. 
 

6 Quick Steps For School Success

Step by step for school success
Step by step for school success

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Five Ways to Prepare for a Financial Emergency

The best time to prepare for a financial emergency, of course, is well in advance. If you wait until your car dies, or your roof springs a leak, or your air conditioning unit fails in the middle of August...you could find yourself scrambling to be able to find the needed funds.
You'll want to start making a list of all of your expenses - rent or mortgage, car payment, insurance, utilities, grocery bill, cable, gym membership, transportation costs including gasoline or bus fare. If you find ,even this,  too daunting a task, you can simply multiply your present monthly take home pay times six. That number is your minimum money cushion.
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Staying afloat when emergencies happen.
Staying afloat when emergencies happen.

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Fun Facts about California, New York, Texas and Florida I Bet You Never Knew

Nine states provide over one half of the United States' entire population. Can you name all nine of them?. That somewhat trivial question from a friend, is what lead to this article.   Hop on board for a whislte stop tour of fascinating facts regarding four states that are home to the most 'folks."

This post has great potential for dazzling your friends with your encyclopedic knowlege of US History.  A treasure trove of FB status updates and tweets.  One the challenges we faced in gathering this data was verifying the information with at least two reputable online resources/sources. - MR 

Do you know? - What links California, Texas, New York and Florida? Yes, of course, all four of them are states in a rather famous union. However, so are 46 other states that are not listed. You’re going to have to think a little bit harder to get this one. What unites these four states uniquely?   Continue reading about Fun Facts about California, New York, Texas and Florida I Bet You Never Knew
California, New York, Texas, Florida fun facts.
California, New York, Texas, Florida fun facts.

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