Some ideas for redecorating child's room on a budget.?

oldseadog5

My 6 year old son wants his room redecorated (it's still decorated as a baby's room) and his birthday is coming up. Any ideas on how to redo his room without spending a lot of money (say $100 or so). In middle of divorce right now and can't afford to do it right.

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The things in a bedroom that majorly affect it are lighting, wall color, bedspread, curtains, flooring. If you're anywhere near an Ikea, *definitely* check it out. If not, maybe you could consider shipping (http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_US/popup/shipping_method.html for rates AND also try the "Ask Anna" feature to talk get live help online).

So if you deice to go with Ikea...

BED TEXTILES
Some nice *sets* for $10 and $13
http://www.ikea.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?storeId=12&catalogId=10103&langId=-1&topcategoryId=15567&parentCats=15567*15826*15841&categoryId=15841&cattype=sub

FOR WALL
As other people pointed out, buy some nice paint - maybe from the discount rack at Home Depot? - and paint just one wall (COST: ~$10 and less than 2 hours' time).

FOR FLOOR
$5 Small rug options from Ikea (Maybe one near the bed and one near the desk if he uses one)
Snail - http://www.ikea.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?topcategoryId=15567&catalogId=10103&storeId=12&productId=11971&langId=-1&categoryId=15844&chosenPartNumber=10056402
Ladybug - http://www.ikea.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?topcategoryId=15567&catalogId=10103&storeId=12&productId=10453&langId=-1&categoryId=15844&chosenPartNumber=00056412
Fish - http://www.ikea.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?topcategoryId=15567&catalogId=10103&storeId=12&productId=71775&langId=-1&categoryId=15844&chosenPartNumber=50098438

FOR LIGHTING
http://www.ikea.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?storeId=12&catalogId=10103&langId=-1&topcategoryId=15567&parentCats=15567*16242&cattype=sub&categoryId=16242
And just for ideas on how to light a child's bedroom: http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_US/furnish_with_light/fwl_childrens_room/index.html

FOR WINDOWS
Bubbles drapes for $15 - http://www.ikea.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?topcategoryId=15567&catalogId=10103&storeId=12&productId=72102&langId=-1&categoryId=16158&chosenPartNumber=60098584
There are others too in the non-children's section of the website.

OTHER STUFF
You can add additional accessories, like
This nice green dragon which would look nice on a wall and also add storage for $8- http://www.ikea.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?topcategoryId=15567&catalogId=10103&storeId=12&productId=53198&langId=-1&chosenPartNumber=40081476 - .
Or these stickers for $1.50 to stick on the windows, closet doors or anywhere else http://www.ikea.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?topcategoryId=15567&catalogId=10103&storeId=12&productId=72218&langId=-1&categoryId=16158&chosenPartNumber=80099295,
Or these six colorful plastic glasses for $1.50 to hold pencils and crayons and small knick-knacks - http://www.ikea.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?topcategoryId=15567&catalogId=10103&storeId=12&productId=61278&langId=-1&chosenPartNumber=10096907


If Ikea isn't a possibility, maybe you could check out your local area Freecycle organization (if you live in a big city, there very probably is one) - Freecycle.org. And of course, there's Craig's List - craigslist.com

Through both Freecycle and Craig's List, you can find good quality stuff - from furniture to plants to posters and artwork that people are too conscientious to just dump in a landfill (thank god) - and all for free.

And hey, it's summer, so check out all those yard sales! People often advertise them in local papers and websites like Craig's List.

Good luck!

Helping friend with homework! Behind the bedroom wall! (details!)?

Nikki Rayn

okay so my friend has the book behind the bedroom wall for english she didn't read it and i had diff a book so i cant help her. i looked onlne cant find any websites. can you give me SUMMARY of the book? include charcters, names, age, from, and the main idea all that stuff thank you!!!!

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www.bookmice.net/darkchilde/yadult/âbehind.html - Cached

This is a story about life in Germany in 1942. The war had already started and Germany seemed to be an unstoppable power. Wars do not affect just soldiers, though; they have an effect on all life in a country and Germany was no exception.

Korianna is a thirteen-year-old girl who is a "good" Nazi youth, a member of the Jungmadel, an organization for children who the Nazi party wanted to make sure had the "proper" ideas and beliefs of a loyal member of the Nazi party.

Korianna is being taught to hate jews, hate anyone that was "different", and to turn in information on anyone who was behaving as if they were not a "loyal" German. Her friends also members of the organization.

Korianna sees examples of how the Nazi's act towards those people they don't like, including young children making fun of and attacking Jewish children; Jews forced to wear the large stars marking them as Jews; Jews and non-Jews taken from their homes by the Gestapo, bound for "work camps".

Matters change for Korianna when she finds out that her own parents are hiding a couple of Jews in their home, a mother and her young daughter. Korianna is torn between being a good Nazi and turning in her parents, or being a disloyal German and not turning in her own parents. Matters become even more complicated when she makes friends with the young Jewish girl, putting a personal face on the beings she was supposed to just plain hate.

This is an excellent book showing just how much into controlling people the Nazi's were, and just how vicious their attitudes were. It also shows how that type of life affected people living there, some following blindly the German propaganda, some pretending to, and some trying to find ways to thwart the Nazi's even within their own country.

It's a lesson that needs to be learned, for history has a tendency to repeat itself.
A very good book, well worth reading.

All you have to do is type "behind the bedroom wall" into your search engine and this is the first entry.

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How do you teach your child to be organized?

Miche

My 2d grader is very unorganized. At school and at home. It's to the point that he forgets to bring his homework home and he hasn't grasped the idea of putting things away once he's done using thim

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Some people are a lost cause, I'm half that way. My kitchen and bathrooms are generally very organized, my living room is now that my baby is crawling, but the bedrooms are disaster zones, FEMA would probably be interested in them!

Kids have to be taught how to be organized and it's something you have to work with constantly. It's something you have to have a system for. Places for everything, containers, organization has to be taught literally one thing at a time, from pencils to crayons in a box to backpacks. I take away my son's backpack periodically when I see that he's just shoving papers in it and he has to carry his papers in his hands.

I didn't grow up around organization, so I'm most comfortable in controlled chaos. You should try to set an example in some areas, start small. Have your son help with dishes, a simple chore where everything has a specific place. Every day have him do something to get organized. Get shelves, boxes, tubs, hooks, etc. and teach him step by step where things go. I'm just now starting to get myself organized, and I've got 5 kids to keep up after! Be an example and work WITH your child as you help clean and organize. And be prepared for a long haul, it takes much longer to unlearn a bad habit than to learn a good one from scratch!

Also, give him some space to be totally disorganized. A drawer in a dresser, a toybox, a plastic storage container, somewhere that he can just "dump" stuff of no importance. I know that helps me to have dump areas that I can just put stuff I don't know what to do with.

Parents who receive child support?

Baby Girl

This is a bit noisy, but I'm just asking anyway. . .

How much are you court ordered to receive/pay? What state do you live in? Do you feel that your child's needs are being met with the amount of money that you receive?

I live in Louisiana. He's obligated to pay $196 but I'm lucky if I see a dollar. If I depended solely on the child support it wouldn't be enough to pay for half of a half of rent.
I'm not afraid to ask for help, and trust me I have tried over and over again. Seeing how he isn't obligated to pay much its taking it a while to get to $5000 where they will actually issue a warrant. I have a job so I don't qualify for housing, child care assistance or food stamps. The only thing I do receive is WIC because I'm pregnant and medicaid as my secondary insurance because we have a private insurance company as first. He only has to pay for one child, and I really do mean that the $196 a month would barely make a dent in expenses for what it costs to raise a child. **And any monies ever received go directly to the child by either getting him what he needs OR putting it in his savings account.**
George you are wrong. . . and I would really like to give you a thumbs up, and can't believe that you have judged me like this KNOWING that we have answered similiar questions and had the SAME exact opinion about it. It doesn't bother me that you don't know for sure what I receive, but I have no reason to lie to strangers about it. You are also obligated, when applying for assistance, to PROVE how much is received if its through a court order. If you don't offer it up directly you can be denied because they enter your social into their computer and up pops ALL of your information, including child support. I can't believe that you aren't educated on this part. . .
ohh. . . and George, I'm not saying that I don't have to spend any of my income on the child, because I pay everything for my child. . . but I'm not the only one that should pay, the other blood line to the child should have to pay half as well. . . but for some, not all but some, that's like pulling teeth from a shark. There are many MANY many men and women who are obligated to pay child support and don't. If I was looking for a free ride, I wouldn't have a job would I?

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I live in Louisiana as well. How much you get depends on how many kids you have and how much the father makes at his job. Report him for not making the payments and look into getting other government aid...Food stamps, WIC if your child is under 5 years of age, income sensitive housing, medicaid, etc. There are avenues to turn to if you need help, you just mustn't be afraid to ask for help.
EDIT: You can still get income sensitive housing, even if you have a job. My sis and her husband had only one child, and they both had jobs, but they were still able to get income sensitive housing and they only had to pay about $150 a month on rent for a 2 bedroom apartment. And you should look into the other things as well, even if you have a job. Food stamps and etc. are not only for the jobless. It might be a good idea to inquire at the food stamp office anyway, or even at the Office of Child Services. Even if you made too much money to qualify for food stamps, there are lots of different programs and organizations that could help you, and the workers at Child Services could tell you about them. I do foster care and so am aware of a few of their services just because I'm involved with a lot of different case workers (I have 5 foster kids). And I was recently given a list of about forty different organizations and services to help mothers in need of help. It had come in a packet of stuff from OCS. Unfortunately, I threw it away because I didn't need it. Now I wish I had held onto it. I hope this helps.

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What can I do to protect my daughter?

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Henry

For obvious reasons, I can't tell you our names. In 2007, my daughter was charged with killing a young boy in our old neighborhood. I can tell you that yes, she did it, but I won't reveal her reasons and they're not important. What is important is that while she was being interrogated, one of the police officers hit her so hard in the head it caused a TBI (traumatic brain injury). She was never the same after that, besides her learning, reasoning and other mental abilities becoming greatly diminuished (she even has trouble remembering words sometimes), her personality changed drastically. She used to be outgoing, haughty and provokative, now she's shy and always seems terrified of everything and everyone around her, I'm the only person she's really comfortable with.

Anyways, after that incident, I managed to get the judge to throw out all the evidence the police acquired and my daughter was released. We moved away afterwards and started a new life here, and things were going well, or as well as they could be, until last November, when one of my new neighbors came by, wanting me to sign some stupid petition, and recognized my daughter from the news and, of course, he told everyone else living in the neighborhood. We became pariahs, we've already had two incidents: one where someone wrote "Child Killer" on our wall during the night and another one a week ago: I was watching TV in my bedroom when I heard my daughter screaming in the garden, I came down and found her pinned down by a man who kept asking "Where is he?! Where is he?!", anyways I went to pull him off her, we got into a fight, I broke his nose... it was a mess. It turned it out his son hadn't come home after school and he didn't know where he was, but later that night they found him... the stupid kid had run off with his girlfriend or something. I tried talking to the police, but after they learnt who she was, they were less than eager to help us.

Look, I'm not going to claim my daughter was "just misunderstood" or some cliche like that, I know she wasn't a good person and that what she did was awful, but she stopped being that person after that troglodyte nearly caved her skull in. Now she's just a simple, dim-witted girl who's scared of her own shadow, and even if you don't believe that, if any of you are parents then you know I can't abandon her.

I'm at a loss, I can't be near her all the time, I have to get back to work soon but I'm terrified to leave her alone, I'm scared they might try to kill her. What can I do to protect her? If you have any ideas please share them with me.

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I'm sorry for that..I think the best thing to do right now is to speak to your neighbors tell them the way you feel about everything happening right now, everyone deserves a second chance tell them clearly that you know your daughter actions were bad but she is a human being allowed to commit mistakes maybe not as easy to forget but after all she is still your baby girl...don't confront them cuz you would become equally as bad as them you giving them motive to not trust you and most importantly your daughter too...don't just sit there make your daughter interact with other people, join a community organization if they don't know tell them right away and if they don't want her, don't push it move on they would eventually forget and forgive....I'm pretty sure that is she was release then there was more than one person in that room that believed she had a chance in life and deserve it...a t the end of the day she was proven innocent and they can't take that from you

Tips on being a Stay at home mom on less then 40K a year?

Sophia's M

This year was the worst for my husbands job and we just had a daughter in November.
I am a stay at home mom living on my husbands 40K a year job. With my job and the cost of childcare, I would only make enough to cover child care and our auto insurance (Being 23 and 24).
We are now a one car family, and I stay at home, but I am looking at other ways to save money and what to you guys do? I am a first time mom, so any ideas would be great.

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My husband made about 30K this year (and we live in Northern California, not a cheap place to live!), and I am a stay at home mom (thank goodness his benefits are great!) He works in a very specialized construction and it was very slow this year :( So I feel for you. I don't have the earning potential to make it worth me working either.

We eat in, meal plan and I try to make meals with overlapping ingredients, and have gotten pretty good at using ingredients that are around the house to make meals instead of shopping again. Check out http://supercook.com it is very helpful for that. You enter in everything in your kitchen, and it pops up with recipes with those ingredients, or some that only need a couple more things to make something. We actually eat a lot better now that we are broke ha ha ha!

We cloth diaper which is wonderful, the diapers were bought by my mother as a gift and the ones we have are a little pricer, but there are some great less expensive options out there too! Diapers add up very quickly in cost... Breastfeeding and cloth diapers have been our saving grace I think... heh. Also, have you looked into a program like WIC? It is wonderful and has helped us out SO much, I am very thankful for it.

I buy my son's clothes from second hand stores (they have some very cute stuff in like new condition!), we are Baby Led Weaning him for solid foods since he was six months (he his now ten months) so we just make a little extra portion for him of what we are eating (so much cheaper than having to buy him his own seperate food) and he was exclusively breastfed until 6 months, which is recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics and World Health Organization, also much cheaper which is a great side benefit.

We don't spend money on extra things, ever. It kind of stinks sometimes, but once in a while we will treat ourselves to something nice after going without long enough to have a ittle for something :) Honestly it doesn't bother me, I have my little man, my husband and I feel like we live rather comfortably all things considered. We still seem to have cable, a phones, we have two cars, live in a two bedroom apartment (albeit small), use our heater and have enough to eat. I think we will be shutting off the cable though for the extra money and also I think we are WAY too addicted!

Basically, you figure out how to make it work. It takes some sacrifice of a few luxuries but it's not too bad. Try not to let it stress your relationship. Things like this can really help bring you closer together, it has for us :) Good luck!

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Tips on being a Stay at home mom on less then 40K a year?

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Sophia's M

This year was the worst for my husbands job and we just had a daughter in November.
I am a stay at home mom living on my husbands 40K a year job. With my job and the cost of childcare, I would only make enough to cover child care and our auto insurance (Being 23 and 24).
We are now a one car family, and I stay at home, but I am looking at other ways to save money and what to you guys do? I am a first time mom, so any ideas would be great.

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My husband made about 30K this year (and we live in Northern California, not a cheap place to live!), and I am a stay at home mom (thank goodness his benefits are great!) He works in a very specialized construction and it was very slow this year :( So I feel for you. I don't have the earning potential to make it worth me working either.

We eat in, meal plan and I try to make meals with overlapping ingredients, and have gotten pretty good at using ingredients that are around the house to make meals instead of shopping again. Check out http://supercook.com it is very helpful for that. You enter in everything in your kitchen, and it pops up with recipes with those ingredients, or some that only need a couple more things to make something. We actually eat a lot better now that we are broke ha ha ha!

We cloth diaper which is wonderful, the diapers were bought by my mother as a gift and the ones we have are a little pricer, but there are some great less expensive options out there too! Diapers add up very quickly in cost... Breastfeeding and cloth diapers have been our saving grace I think... heh. Also, have you looked into a program like WIC? It is wonderful and has helped us out SO much, I am very thankful for it.

I buy my son's clothes from second hand stores (they have some very cute stuff in like new condition!), we are Baby Led Weaning him for solid foods since he was six months (he his now ten months) so we just make a little extra portion for him of what we are eating (so much cheaper than having to buy him his own seperate food) and he was exclusively breastfed until 6 months, which is recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics and World Health Organization, also much cheaper which is a great side benefit.

We don't spend money on extra things, ever. It kind of stinks sometimes, but once in a while we will treat ourselves to something nice after going without long enough to have a ittle for something :) Honestly it doesn't bother me, I have my little man, my husband and I feel like we live rather comfortably all things considered. We still seem to have cable, a phones, we have two cars, live in a two bedroom apartment (albeit small), use our heater and have enough to eat. I think we will be shutting off the cable though for the extra money and also I think we are WAY too addicted!

Basically, you figure out how to make it work. It takes some sacrifice of a few luxuries but it's not too bad. Try not to let it stress your relationship. Things like this can really help bring you closer together, it has for us :) Good luck!

Is the earth populated with too many redundant, 'useless eater' people?

L. Rubyber

Who use up precious resources? Are millions of people useless? What makes a person useless? What does God think? Example: Is a Somali pirate a uselsss person? Please share your ideas no matter how controvercial. Thank-you.

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Yup:
Personally, I would agree with Ben Franklin on God in this one respect "God helps those who help themselves". I have compassion for those who are truly in a bind, but experience tells me that many of those who drain my resources are not:
-Welfare recipients and women who have babies for more welfare checks. My solution: By accepting welfare, you surrendur your right to autonomy. Clearly, you cannot take care of yourself like an adult, so why should you be treated like one? My policy would include frequent audits (so we wouldn't be disgraced to find welfare recipients in multiple bedroom houses equipped with a tv and computer). It also includes a commitment to use birth control/rubber.
-Celebs who can't get their lives together. Seriously, you get paid millions to appear in one film, and you wanna go on drugs because you had daddy issues 17 years ago? You wanna tear third-world families apart because you and hubby had a divorce? If it weren't for tabloids, they could be replaced by the ever-abundant waitress/wannabe actresses in California in minutes.
-The UN. That entire bloated, corrupt organization. My plan invovles a demolition ball and NYs biggest soccer stadium ever. Those ambassadors will either have to find food by performing an actual job (note, prostitutes are more worthwhile that your average UN ambassador) or starve in a manmade famine that they have ignored for 60 years. Also, dropping diplomats from China and Russia into the middle of South Sudan (though not before I allow some crazed nation to sell South Sudanese their arms from the 70s). I will also drop their "peacekeepers" into a group of armed women who have been raped by a "peacekeeper" in the past 2 years (basically, a crowd of thousands of women). (1)
-US prison inmates. Seriously, break the law, then drain national resources by relaxing in prison with your food and accomodations paid at taxpayer expense? My plan involves chain gangs and state-opperated factories. Also the deathpenalty for first degree murder and child rapists.
-Illegal Immigrants. I really find it hard to believe that they work hard doing those mythical jobs that Americans won't when they stumble across enought time to make demands on citizens. I would deport them all, and make them build a wall full of explosives before they go. The UN has already been converted into the largest soccer stadium in NY, so Texans will not have to endure their feigned moral superiority or trouble themselves to keep the 'peacekeepers' away from illegal immigrant women.
(1) What can I say? I've done fieldwork in Ethiopia for two years now. I really think that the UN is crap.

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How do you teach your child to be organized?

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Miche

My 2d grader is very unorganized. At school and at home. It's to the point that he forgets to bring his homework home and he hasn't grasped the idea of putting things away once he's done using thim

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Some people are a lost cause, I'm half that way. My kitchen and bathrooms are generally very organized, my living room is now that my baby is crawling, but the bedrooms are disaster zones, FEMA would probably be interested in them!

Kids have to be taught how to be organized and it's something you have to work with constantly. It's something you have to have a system for. Places for everything, containers, organization has to be taught literally one thing at a time, from pencils to crayons in a box to backpacks. I take away my son's backpack periodically when I see that he's just shoving papers in it and he has to carry his papers in his hands.

I didn't grow up around organization, so I'm most comfortable in controlled chaos. You should try to set an example in some areas, start small. Have your son help with dishes, a simple chore where everything has a specific place. Every day have him do something to get organized. Get shelves, boxes, tubs, hooks, etc. and teach him step by step where things go. I'm just now starting to get myself organized, and I've got 5 kids to keep up after! Be an example and work WITH your child as you help clean and organize. And be prepared for a long haul, it takes much longer to unlearn a bad habit than to learn a good one from scratch!

Also, give him some space to be totally disorganized. A drawer in a dresser, a toybox, a plastic storage container, somewhere that he can just "dump" stuff of no importance. I know that helps me to have dump areas that I can just put stuff I don't know what to do with.

My aunt needs to know what all you need to become a foster parent?

Q. Since I have no idea on this subject, I knew someone here would. Any suggestions or answers?

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my husband and I have been foster parents for several years. she can research on the internet some agencies pay better than others but are harder to work for others like the state don't pay as well but they have less restrictions. We were foster parents with the state for a long time but we got tired of needing to speak to a worker that we couldn'g get in touch with. So we switched to Benchmark and they were pretty good it took awhile to get a placement but once we did they were all about helping us with the kids they would call several times a week and ask if we were haivng any problems and ask if we needed anything. My mom is a foster parent right now too and she just switched from Benchmark to Safy? and she really likes them.

as far as what you need you have to go through several weeks of in class training to help you understand certain behaviors.

you need to have a job that pays your bills

you need to have a safe stable home w/ no holes in the walls, ceilings or floors

credit references, and personal references so they know you are an upstanding citizen

you can get more info from the organization that you decise to go with they don't all require the same things. so she needs to set up a meeting with 2 or 3 different ones and go with the one that she thinks will work best for her family.

here in Kentucky we can keep up to 4 children in 1 bedroom but...they cannot sleep in the same beds (unless they are your own kids)

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A question that has to do with the victorian era, 19th century?

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Q. i have to write about religious pictures in the bedrooms of the early 1900's. aka, victorian era. and i cant really find anything on the religious pictures, so if you know anything about it can you tell me some info?
or if you know any really good sites that talk about the religious pics inside the bedrooms, thats would be so helpful!
thanks soo much, 10 points!

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If I were doing this assignment, I'd go to: http://www.encore-editions.com/victorianart.htm.

Look through the art. You'll get a good idea of the type of art of the Victorian Era and there will be religious pictures in the group.

Don't get distracted by where the picture may have hung. You'll know by looking at them if someone might have put it in his or her bedroom... or more importantly, in their children's bedrooms.

The Victorian Era changed the way we thought about children. It started the idea that childhood was innocent and children should be protected from the harsh realities of life. It's quite fascinating in the context of social attitudes. Up until this time, the European tradition viewed children as wild little hellions that must be subdued. It was not uncommon for street children to receive death sentences for theft or other petty crimes. If you have read, "A Modest Proposal," (http://art-bin.com/art/omodest.html,) for which it's author was imprisioned, you know that this was written as a satire to point out how badly children were treated and what a sad plight they had. It might be said that this was the era that gave us our modern ideas about 'social reform,'

From: http://www.erasofelegance.com/history/victorianarts.html
"The Victorian era corresponds with the reign of Queen Victoria in England from 1839 to 1901. The period is beloved for its attention to high morals, modesty and proper decorum, as inspired by the Queen and her husband, Prince Albert. The Victorian era was also an optimistic time in which scientific and industrial invention thrived. Developments in printing produced a proliferation of Victorian scrap art, cards, and magazines. The importance placed on civic conscience and social responsibility engendered notable developments toward gender and racial equality, such as the legal abolishment of slavery in America. In addition, humanitarian and religious organizations such as the Salvation Army reflected the Victorian concern for the poor and needy of the period. "

You might read through this description of a Victorian Art show at BYU :http://moa.byu.edu/fileadmin/moa/user_files/00TRANSFER/Exhibits/Press_Releases/victorian_release.pdf It gives some insights.

I hope this is helpful.

What should I give to the homeless people on the street on a hot day?

Hope

It's really just an act of kindness I doing. I'm 14 and really want to help these people. It really broke my heart when I was in Philly just last weekend and saw a vet on the street, in the rain and looking pretty sad. It's so depressing how so many people are losing their jobs left and right. I can relate to the situation since my family almost had to move because my dad got laid off, so I feel for them. So, I decided I was going to save up around $50 and buy anyone I see on the streets that are just sitting there something. I was thinking of buying them coffee, but who wants hot coffee on a hot day? Is there anything I can buy that I could buy a lot of in $50 that's food or a drink on a hot day? What do you guys think? By the way, I would be walking around with my parents. Thanks!

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Food banks often can buy $4 worth of food for each $1 donation by using their trucks to pick up donations from supermarkets or to make exchanges with other cities. Any sizable town or city will also have daily meals served to the needy, perhaps by the Salvation Army or Catholic Services or a local Jewish organization. Some even have places to go for showers or to use as addresses when job hunting. There are veterans services as well.

Besides boxes of food given to those in need, our food bank also goes to several neighborhood locations in the summer & serves daily noon picnic style meals to those children who ordinarily would be receiving free school lunches at noon during the school year. Note that many who can't afford to buy enough food are families with two working adults in each family but live in areas of very high rent just for small 1 or 2-bedroom apartments. Of course, the food banks also hand out information on food stamps & cards from the federal & state governments & offer help filling out the forms, so it won't be on the food banks to solve the problem.

My choice would be to give to the local food bank (as I generally do each year) & possibly to one of the organizations serving meals. Some people also donate leftover cake or pastries after an event or party to add to the meals. We did that when we bought a sheet cake for an organization's Summer Solstice party & had half of it left over. Doesn't have to be enough to serve everybody who eats there because they'll typically receive similar donations, especially after weekend weddings, & can slice the cake or pastries & set it out with the other donations. Some grocery stores & bakeries may add their day-old bread & desserts, too. Some of these stores donate these things to low-income senior housing & to senior centers, where they may set out boxes of fresh fruit for seniors to take home, too. Unopened boxes of peppermint tea would be good, too, for summer.

Some people intentionally plant extra in their summer gardens, so they'll have extra fruit & veggies to give away. Sometimes it's a junior high or high school student who has the idea, & then the whole family decides to get involved in working on the project. This has become quite common in our area, & there also a few community gardens for those lacking backyards for growing things.

You might also want to volunteer once a week for a food bank, doing such things as boxing food or handing out the boxes. You might want to get cards or flyers or a whole list of available services & hand out the info card or flyer. Chances are, though, the people on the street already know about these services from their buddies & are wanting cash. Personally, I never give to them & only give to the organizations providing services. However, it's up to you & what you choose to do. It's something that each of us will decide many times over our lifetimes.

Since you've already seen your own family in a crisis situation, it might be better to save your money for school supplies & clothes next fall & give just 10% to one of the organizations or to a church if you belong to one. At the same time, as I read your words of compassion, I think that you would be just perfect for one of those volunteer situations with something very concrete for you to do. Maybe there would be a half day on Saturdays or another day when you & one of your parents might arrange to volunteer this summer.

You might also consider organizing book drives for both new & barely used children's books. Sometimes the food bank will give a free book to every child coming to the food bank with the parents on a certain day, while supplies last. Also, some low income medical clinics give a free book to each child who has an appointment there. You could call around & find out who does what in your area in case a particular project appeals to you. Look online or in your phone book for a Volunteer Center that matches people with specific projects & can tell you about food banks & soup kitchens.

You could find out if some of the "soup kitchens" also have boxes of clothing to give to the needy & you could sort through your own clothes to give away those that you've outgrown. If they don't do that, take your giveaway bags to one of the other charities like Goodwill or Salvation Army. Summer, when you're out of school, is the perfect time for these sorting projects, & your parents will adore you for cleaning your room & closet. Generally, the proceeds from selling your used clothing at a thrift shop will go to help the needy, so this is an equally worthy donation.

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A question that has to do with the victorian era, 19th century?

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Q. i have to write about religious pictures in the bedrooms of the early 1900's. aka, victorian era. and i cant really find anything on the religious pictures, so if you know anything about it can you tell me some info?
or if you know any really good sites that talk about the religious pics inside the bedrooms, thats would be so helpful!
thanks soo much, 10 points!

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If I were doing this assignment, I'd go to: http://www.encore-editions.com/victorianart.htm.

Look through the art. You'll get a good idea of the type of art of the Victorian Era and there will be religious pictures in the group.

Don't get distracted by where the picture may have hung. You'll know by looking at them if someone might have put it in his or her bedroom... or more importantly, in their children's bedrooms.

The Victorian Era changed the way we thought about children. It started the idea that childhood was innocent and children should be protected from the harsh realities of life. It's quite fascinating in the context of social attitudes. Up until this time, the European tradition viewed children as wild little hellions that must be subdued. It was not uncommon for street children to receive death sentences for theft or other petty crimes. If you have read, "A Modest Proposal," (http://art-bin.com/art/omodest.html,) for which it's author was imprisioned, you know that this was written as a satire to point out how badly children were treated and what a sad plight they had. It might be said that this was the era that gave us our modern ideas about 'social reform,'

From: http://www.erasofelegance.com/history/victorianarts.html
"The Victorian era corresponds with the reign of Queen Victoria in England from 1839 to 1901. The period is beloved for its attention to high morals, modesty and proper decorum, as inspired by the Queen and her husband, Prince Albert. The Victorian era was also an optimistic time in which scientific and industrial invention thrived. Developments in printing produced a proliferation of Victorian scrap art, cards, and magazines. The importance placed on civic conscience and social responsibility engendered notable developments toward gender and racial equality, such as the legal abolishment of slavery in America. In addition, humanitarian and religious organizations such as the Salvation Army reflected the Victorian concern for the poor and needy of the period. "

You might read through this description of a Victorian Art show at BYU :http://moa.byu.edu/fileadmin/moa/user_files/00TRANSFER/Exhibits/Press_Releases/victorian_release.pdf It gives some insights.

I hope this is helpful.

What should I give to the homeless people on the street on a hot day?

Hope

It's really just an act of kindness I doing. I'm 14 and really want to help these people. It really broke my heart when I was in Philly just last weekend and saw a vet on the street, in the rain and looking pretty sad. It's so depressing how so many people are losing their jobs left and right. I can relate to the situation since my family almost had to move because my dad got laid off, so I feel for them. So, I decided I was going to save up around $50 and buy anyone I see on the streets that are just sitting there something. I was thinking of buying them coffee, but who wants hot coffee on a hot day? Is there anything I can buy that I could buy a lot of in $50 that's food or a drink on a hot day? What do you guys think? By the way, I would be walking around with my parents. Thanks!

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Food banks often can buy $4 worth of food for each $1 donation by using their trucks to pick up donations from supermarkets or to make exchanges with other cities. Any sizable town or city will also have daily meals served to the needy, perhaps by the Salvation Army or Catholic Services or a local Jewish organization. Some even have places to go for showers or to use as addresses when job hunting. There are veterans services as well.

Besides boxes of food given to those in need, our food bank also goes to several neighborhood locations in the summer & serves daily noon picnic style meals to those children who ordinarily would be receiving free school lunches at noon during the school year. Note that many who can't afford to buy enough food are families with two working adults in each family but live in areas of very high rent just for small 1 or 2-bedroom apartments. Of course, the food banks also hand out information on food stamps & cards from the federal & state governments & offer help filling out the forms, so it won't be on the food banks to solve the problem.

My choice would be to give to the local food bank (as I generally do each year) & possibly to one of the organizations serving meals. Some people also donate leftover cake or pastries after an event or party to add to the meals. We did that when we bought a sheet cake for an organization's Summer Solstice party & had half of it left over. Doesn't have to be enough to serve everybody who eats there because they'll typically receive similar donations, especially after weekend weddings, & can slice the cake or pastries & set it out with the other donations. Some grocery stores & bakeries may add their day-old bread & desserts, too. Some of these stores donate these things to low-income senior housing & to senior centers, where they may set out boxes of fresh fruit for seniors to take home, too. Unopened boxes of peppermint tea would be good, too, for summer.

Some people intentionally plant extra in their summer gardens, so they'll have extra fruit & veggies to give away. Sometimes it's a junior high or high school student who has the idea, & then the whole family decides to get involved in working on the project. This has become quite common in our area, & there also a few community gardens for those lacking backyards for growing things.

You might also want to volunteer once a week for a food bank, doing such things as boxing food or handing out the boxes. You might want to get cards or flyers or a whole list of available services & hand out the info card or flyer. Chances are, though, the people on the street already know about these services from their buddies & are wanting cash. Personally, I never give to them & only give to the organizations providing services. However, it's up to you & what you choose to do. It's something that each of us will decide many times over our lifetimes.

Since you've already seen your own family in a crisis situation, it might be better to save your money for school supplies & clothes next fall & give just 10% to one of the organizations or to a church if you belong to one. At the same time, as I read your words of compassion, I think that you would be just perfect for one of those volunteer situations with something very concrete for you to do. Maybe there would be a half day on Saturdays or another day when you & one of your parents might arrange to volunteer this summer.

You might also consider organizing book drives for both new & barely used children's books. Sometimes the food bank will give a free book to every child coming to the food bank with the parents on a certain day, while supplies last. Also, some low income medical clinics give a free book to each child who has an appointment there. You could call around & find out who does what in your area in case a particular project appeals to you. Look online or in your phone book for a Volunteer Center that matches people with specific projects & can tell you about food banks & soup kitchens.

You could find out if some of the "soup kitchens" also have boxes of clothing to give to the needy & you could sort through your own clothes to give away those that you've outgrown. If they don't do that, take your giveaway bags to one of the other charities like Goodwill or Salvation Army. Summer, when you're out of school, is the perfect time for these sorting projects, & your parents will adore you for cleaning your room & closet. Generally, the proceeds from selling your used clothing at a thrift shop will go to help the needy, so this is an equally worthy donation.

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How do you teach your child to be organized?

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Miche

My 2d grader is very unorganized. At school and at home. It's to the point that he forgets to bring his homework home and he hasn't grasped the idea of putting things away once he's done using thim

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Some people are a lost cause, I'm half that way. My kitchen and bathrooms are generally very organized, my living room is now that my baby is crawling, but the bedrooms are disaster zones, FEMA would probably be interested in them!

Kids have to be taught how to be organized and it's something you have to work with constantly. It's something you have to have a system for. Places for everything, containers, organization has to be taught literally one thing at a time, from pencils to crayons in a box to backpacks. I take away my son's backpack periodically when I see that he's just shoving papers in it and he has to carry his papers in his hands.

I didn't grow up around organization, so I'm most comfortable in controlled chaos. You should try to set an example in some areas, start small. Have your son help with dishes, a simple chore where everything has a specific place. Every day have him do something to get organized. Get shelves, boxes, tubs, hooks, etc. and teach him step by step where things go. I'm just now starting to get myself organized, and I've got 5 kids to keep up after! Be an example and work WITH your child as you help clean and organize. And be prepared for a long haul, it takes much longer to unlearn a bad habit than to learn a good one from scratch!

Also, give him some space to be totally disorganized. A drawer in a dresser, a toybox, a plastic storage container, somewhere that he can just "dump" stuff of no importance. I know that helps me to have dump areas that I can just put stuff I don't know what to do with.

My aunt needs to know what all you need to become a foster parent?

Q. Since I have no idea on this subject, I knew someone here would. Any suggestions or answers?

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my husband and I have been foster parents for several years. she can research on the internet some agencies pay better than others but are harder to work for others like the state don't pay as well but they have less restrictions. We were foster parents with the state for a long time but we got tired of needing to speak to a worker that we couldn'g get in touch with. So we switched to Benchmark and they were pretty good it took awhile to get a placement but once we did they were all about helping us with the kids they would call several times a week and ask if we were haivng any problems and ask if we needed anything. My mom is a foster parent right now too and she just switched from Benchmark to Safy? and she really likes them.

as far as what you need you have to go through several weeks of in class training to help you understand certain behaviors.

you need to have a job that pays your bills

you need to have a safe stable home w/ no holes in the walls, ceilings or floors

credit references, and personal references so they know you are an upstanding citizen

you can get more info from the organization that you decise to go with they don't all require the same things. so she needs to set up a meeting with 2 or 3 different ones and go with the one that she thinks will work best for her family.

here in Kentucky we can keep up to 4 children in 1 bedroom but...they cannot sleep in the same beds (unless they are your own kids)

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