Children are like pearl in the deep ocean. Their hearts are so pure but shining and their mind are naïf but honest. To care and love children will need much energy, patient, cost and time. Actually those things are like investment, because parents will take the harvest in the future, maybe ten to twenty years later. If parents teach them right things today, children will grow as people with good personalities in the future.

The good habits that parents can give to their children are like: the table manner. Teach them to eat in good manner. First, teach them the prayer before eating. Then they can start to take the nearest food from them. If the food is far from them, tell them to ask help from other people to pass it. They should eat not too slow but not too fast. They should not speak while eating. They should eat without any sound of chewing. And they should finish their food. Explain the beneficial of vegetables and fruits and support them to eat those foods, beside rice or bread and proteins. Explain them about the bad effect of junk foods, which are poor from nutrition and fibers.

Teach the children to wear polite clothes. Especially for girls, do not give your children with cloth that have minimum designs, such as miniskirts, tank top, sleeveless shirt, hot pants or tight clothes. For boys are more flexible. Because if polite clothing is not controlled by parents, children will understand that shorts clothes are okay and they will use them until they grow adults. In fact, those short clothes are one from much stimulation from bad guys to do the rapes. We should protect our children since they were young.

Teach them good and right personality. For example, teach them about humble life. Teach them to life not in glamorous live, such as parties; spend so much money only for foods, clothes, shoes and other things. It is essential to teach them humble life so that they can feel the empathy to other poor people; this will encourage them to be generous to other people. Give them explanation that all people are the same, and all deserve to be respected, whether they are poor or rich people.

Teach them to be dependence. For example they can eat, drink, and take a bath by them selves. This is to make them more able to manage their own lives little by little.

Every body deserves to love and to be loved. Love is what people need to make their life motivated and strength. Without love and caring from other people, we will feel the emptiness in life. Parents who have children should give their love and tenderness to them. Especially when they are still small children, they actually need the full time of love and caring from their parents. It is like a responsibility, commitment and consequence from parents.

But in today’s life where globalization is everywhere, the competition become tighter every day. To earn money is really important for both sides of parents. It seems that if only father who earns money; it will be not enough to fulfill the whole family’s financial need. The fact is, not only husband but also wife goes out from home to earn money and they leave their children at full day school or at home with baby sitter. Do their teacher and baby sitter will give the same love as their mother and father would give? The answer is absolutely not.

Mother is the center figure who must give lots of love and care to her children. It is like priority of her life. Mothers are able to work, but if they have small children, their prior responsibility is to take care her children and at home.

The caring and love that parents, especially mother can give to her children is starting from the awakening in the morning until at night they go to bed. This sounds so difficult. It has to be noticed that those fulltime mother will be harder in physical when the children are still small. Small children should be nurse more physically than mentally. But after the children grow older, they must be taken care more to their mental or psychology. Because in teenager moment is the important moment to give them lots of advice about life, build their mentality and personality.

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The Girls Next Door is a great show on the E! network. I was watching satellite tv the other night and found an old rerun of it I hadn’t seen in awhile. This one was from when Holly Madison, Kendra Wilkinson, and Bridgette Marquette were Hugh Hefner’s girlfriends. This was the first season this show was ever on TV.

I really enjoyed getting to know Hef and the girls on this season. This show happened to be the one where they all decided to move on to other things. Kendra sat the girls down and told them she was moving out of the mansion. It was very emotional for all of them. You could see how close they had become living together for all this time. They honestly had become like sisters. Kendra mentions how Hef helped her to become the person that she is today. Kendra now has her own show on E! with her husband Hank Baskett.

This made me find a few more of The Girls Next Door to watch again over the next few days. The next season is with 3 different girlfriends. They are Crystal Harris and the Shannon Twins, Karissa and Kristina. They seem to all have a lot of fun together. Crystal is his #1 girlfriend that lives in his room on this season. This is a very interesting show. You learn about living in the Playboy mansion and how things work there. You get a bit of a look into their parties and even some of Hef’s work. If you are a fan of Playboy, check this show out because I am sure you will enjoy it as much as I do.

Written by Dani Swartz

Guest posted by Emelina Yellor

There is a new alternative to family dining in Albetville, Minnesota. Appoximately 5 miles from the famous Albertville Outlet Mall, is the delicious Pappy’s Cafe! Pappy’s Cafe has been a big HIT! They are located at 5262 Kyler Ave NE, in friendly Albertville, MN. They are open Tues-Sun. They serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner. They also offer take-out and FREE delivery of all their menu items.

Some of my favorite breakfast dishes are their breakfast skillets and omelettes. These wonderful “home-cooked” flavors include–western, cheese, meat lovers, veggie, gyros, house, and even kielbasa. For lunch, the Pappy’s Cafe serves up a hearty fare of burgers–made to order, a delicious sandwich board–both hot or cold, wraps, and sides such as soup, salads, pasta, appetizers, and a popular kid’s menu. Dinner at Pappy’s Cafe is a true and satisfying treat. Fill your appetite on pork chops, rib and shrimp combos, steaks, liver and onions, fried chicken, roast beef, racks of ribs, gyros, pasta, or all flavors of dinner salads–chef, ceasar, or crispy chicken. All meals include hearty portions of vegetables, dinner rolls, soup, and choice of potato.

The atmosphere is friendly–a place to sit, rest your tired dogs, and visit with friends or family. The quality of food is outstanding! The flavors are fresh. The prices are budget friendly.

Even though I set my ADT home security alarm before I left to go out to eat–the Pappy’s Cafe is the new CLANG in this town!

Guest post written by Carly Entru

I have always been a city gal and never thought that there was anything wrong with that. Recently, the neighborhood that I had been living in with my three teenage boys began to worry me. there were bad things happening all around us and I worried for the safety of myself and especially my boys. One day after we had all heard gunshots from across the street, I made a radical decision. We were going to get away from all of this, I did not care how far away from the city that we had to move.

I began looking immediately online and quickly found two places that I thought would work out okay. the boys were not at all thrilled about country living, but I knew that it would be for the best for all of us. Within a matter of days we were packed up and headed to our new home. As we arrived, my oldest son balked and mumbled something about the fact that we probably would not have internet or cable service . I just giggled as we pulled into the driveway. There setting in the drive was not only the water man but the company that I had called earlier in the day to have our internet and cable installed. They could not have timed it any better than that moment to be there. I turned and said to my son,” What was that you just said?” . He smiled and ducked his head under his baseball cap. In that moment I knew that it was all going to be okay.