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Teen and Tween Room Decorating Ideas

Let’s face it: Tween and teen girls are not all that easy to handle. At that age, my room was my own private sanctuary where I’d listen to records, flip through Tiger Beat and YM (wow am I dating myself or what?), play around with makeup and my curling iron, gossip with my friends on the phone, have sleepovers and do my homework. More importantly, when I was in a bad mood, I’d be out of my parents’ hair.

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7 Easy Tips to Spring Cleanse Your Soul

While washing windows and scrubbing walls and cleaning up a winter’s worth of yard waste is typically part of spring cleaning, start your spring off right with a spiritual spring cleaning as well. Take the time to get rid of emotional baggage, scrub off your best mental tools and clear away the winter’s spider webs and mental dust bunnies. With a soulful spring cleaning, you’ll be refreshed and ready for better relationships, a better mood and a season of personal growth.

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How to Decorate Kid’s Rooms to Transition From Baby to Teen

Once a baby comes into your life, the years seem to slip through your fingers like water. Before you know it, your babies are growing into children. As the children grow into teens, the time inevitably comes that their baby rooms no longer match their tastes or interests. Redecorating can be costly, however. Knowing how to decorate kid’s rooms to transition from baby to teen is an important way to prevent more redecorations in the future, thus ultimately saving money.

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Ideas to Get Your Kids More Exercise

It is a fact that kids spend way too much time exercising their fingers with a TV remote, cell phone, computer or video games and too little of it engaging in wholesome physical activity. But how do you peel your kids and teenagers away from these addictive, enticing and often mind-numbing activities and encourage them to stay healthy and physically active instead? It’s possible and it may not be all that difficult to do. Here are some ideas to get your kids more exercise.