Help your child get organized

(From Ezinearticles.com)

As a parent you have, no doubt, worked hard to teach your children good manners, how to read and write, how to tie their shoes and all of the basic life skills necessary to succeed in the world. But is there a life skill you are overlooking? Are you teaching your children to be organized? Proper organizational skills will greatly increase your child's potential to succeed in life.

The best way to teach your children how to be organized is to lead by example. If you are organized your children will naturally grow accustomed to living in an organized environment and they will be more likely to become organized adults. The best place to start is in your own home. Be sure that you have a designated home for all of your belongings and strive to keep things in their designated place when they are not in use. More

Traveling with Kids?

Beat boredom with a travel activity binder. (from Organized home.com)

At OrganizedHome.Com, we love 3-ring binders. That's why we adore this travel tip for families with children: use free printables to create a kid's activity binder before traveling.

Use these links to print free coloring pages, word games, puzzles and activity sheets. Assemble a binder for each child, and add a zipper bag containing crayons, markers, pencils and game tokens to keep the kids amused for hours of peaceful drive time.

Find free printables for kids at these Web sites:

KidsDomain.com Printables

PBSKids.org Games, Stories and Coloring Pages

TheKidzPage.com Coloring Pages

FamilyFun.com Printables

The family corner

Family Travel Tips for an Organized Vacation

by Cynthia Townley Ewer, Editor

OrganizedHome.Com

Summer's here: it's time to take to the road! Summer vacation travel can be enriching, enjoyable and exciting--but only if you're organized. The family that fails to plan for summer travel can end up frazzled, frustrated and longing for the quiet comfort of home.
This year, get ready! We've assembled OrganizedHome.Com's best, easiest tips to organize summer vacation travel. Bon voyage!

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Tips for successful New Year

by Cynthia Townley Ewer

Editor, OrganizedHome.Com

New Year’s Eve ... a festive beginning to a new year. For most of us, it's a time to take stock and decide to move toward a happier, more organized, thinner New Year. But what looks so easy as the minute hand approaches midnight falls away in the cold light of January days.

For most of us, New Year’s resolutions die a slow and quiet death. They’re tossed aside, along with the party hats and noisemakers. As January winds down, so does motivation, energy and desire for change.

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Holiday Countdown

The days seem shorter and the "to do" list longer as the holidays approach. At this time of year we want warm holiday traditions, yet there seems to be little time to make them happen. So how can we create a holiday with less stress?

You can follow the advice from Home Advantage Plus

Everything about Laundry

It is a hard task. Some times you don't have time, other times you don't know how to do them. Just click on Laundry and you'll find loads of ideas from the basics to textile and fabric care, even professional links. You can access by clicking on laundry -one of the sections in the main page of this blog- or by typing clickonlaundry.blogspot.com.

Don't miss it!

Back to School

This time, start differently with organizedhome. You can find all the help you need to face this challenge for example.

There are also some ideas found on Family Corner and Fly lady helps you with 1 2 y 3.

For multiple ideas on packed lunch click on Kitchen and...hands-on!

Find a Recipe!

From wherever you are, you can find delicious recipes in seconds. Click on Kitchen just above this post. Look for Recipes & Food and click on Recipes for your family. Choose your favourite and ENJOY!

Home from Home and...Home at Home

All of us find at Home the place to rest, a haven where we share with our family good and bad moments. Recently I read an article about hospitals and how they have just realized that they can learn from the hospitality industry.

I work in the Nutrition Department of the University Hospital of Navarre and for us the one that matters most is each patient. For this reason we think that the best service we can give them is make them feel at Home, convinced that this could help them a lot to recover earlier.

Recently I gave a short presentation with this topic Magic Meals.

All of us need the warmth of a Home regardless of who we are and what we have achieved. We need to communicate this message to others first of all starting with our own family.

(Thank you to Frances who helped me with the traslation of the presentation)

Your grain of sand

Pope Benedict XVI visited Spain for the first time last weekend for the World meeting of Families. Among other things he said "The Family is a school of human virtues". Elisabeth Andras in her speech "Professionalism begins at Home" told us that family is the first place where we learn to acquire virtues, virtues which we'll need for the future.

Throughout our life we hear things but it counts to nothing if we don't do anything about them. Something small could be teaching Table Manners in our family. Small but a grain of sand in a big project!