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Sticky Situation – Siblings and Sharing

If you have a toddler and a baby, chances are that one thing you will experience is your toddler snatching toys out of the baby’s hands. Sometimes the baby will protest loudly, other times the baby might look surprised but remain quiet, and still other times the baby may appear to have no reaction to the supposed injustice that just occurred. Believe it or not, this can actually be a tricky situation to navigate and the most beneficial thing to do might not be what you would think. When you see a toddler taking a toy from a baby, your … Continue reading →

Knowledge Is Power When It Comes to Drugs

It used to be that it was easy to know the types of drugs that teens might try. But gone are the days of that. Now you hear about kids getting high on everyday products. Or you hear about a new substance that while it isn’t illegal, it can still produce the same effects such as may be found in marijuana. So for parents it can be difficult to keep up on the latest trends. In the past I have blogged about some of these things—including spice, digital drugs and salvia. But as much as I try to keep updated, … Continue reading →

Keeping An Active Knowledge of Your Profession

Home – based professionals must do a lot of things to keep their businesses running, and it can be tempting to let some things that do not directly produce income fall to the bottom of the to – do list. We all know what happens to those items at the bottom of the to – do list, they stay there at the bottom of the list and do not get done. Keeping up on your professional knowledge is one of those tasks that does not produce income yet is essential to the success of your business. Sometimes it will even … Continue reading →

Blogging Your Genealogy Journey

You probably have an idea (or two, or three) of what you would like to do with all of the information that you are collecting as you do your genealogy research. You may have plans for a beautiful family tree poster, or a family history book, or something else entirely. There is a genealogy project that you can get started with fairly easily which you can do alongside your other research and projects that can have benefits that extend far beyond putting family history information into a format for sharing it with others. Blogging is a great way to share … Continue reading →

A Blog of Sharing

I’ve been blogging here at Families.com for a while now and I’ve been enjoying it quite a bit. It took a while for me to get my own personal blog going (of things mostly unrelated to our son) but I finally got it up and running a while ago. It became a resource for another side of myself (primarily the artist/academic side) and I really enjoyed what I was able to do with it. Recently I helped one of my professors set up his own blog site for the purpose of answering questions about his particular field and it has … Continue reading →

Sharing Knowledge

In my previous post I talked about a growing concern among academics about the use of their “intellectual property” by other individuals (including, sometimes, their own students) in the halls and forums of universities. These are understandable concerns. In some ways the fear is that someone else could take your syllabus (full of hard work and sweat and tears) and go off and teach it themselves without crediting (or otherwise giving monetary or other value) to the original creator, you. There are a number of problems that I identify with this line of thinking that I’ll get to in a … Continue reading →

New Genealogy Blogger

Hello, my name is Jacky Gamble, and I am a genealogy addict. I am also the newest genealogy blogger at Families.com. I have already posted a couple of blogs here, but before I go any further I should tell you a bit about me, and why I chose to blog about genealogy. Genealogy is one of my passions. I began researching my own family tree back in 2003 because I was curious to find out how many relatives were in my mother’s family (her grandparents had 11 children, and their children had children, and so on). I wasn’t expecting to … Continue reading →

Snapshot Of A New Photography Blogger

Your house is on fire! Besides your family members (pets included), what’s the one item you would try to save on the way out? My answer: My photo album. Okay, albums—as many as possible. My firefighter brother would frown upon my answer as he constantly warns people not to grab anything when fleeing a burning building, but then again photography is not his passion like it is mine. My name is Michele Cheplic and I will be joining Nicole Humphrey (who, by the way is doing an incredible job) here in the photography blog. Some of you may know me … Continue reading →

Boost Your Blog Traffic: The Informational Post

Seeking out information is what many web surfers love to do. If you can offer great information, you can be sure to boost the number of visits that your blog gets. An informational post is one in which you give information on a topic. It differs from an instructional post in that it informs rather than instructs. It is generally fact or new based, although writing opinions can sometimes work as well. It could take the form of a definition, such as what is a lentil? Or it can be some sort of longer explanation that takes the form of … Continue reading →

Scrapbooking Blogs: Creating Content

After completing all the information in the previous article, about getting started with your own scrapbooking blog, you are finally ready to concentrate on your content. The content you choose is extremely important to keep your readership levels up and to keep people coming back for more. Obviously your content should reflect your scrapbook blog’s title. For instance, if you called it something like Scrapbooking Punch Overload, I would assume at first glance at the title, that the blog was about primarily paper punching or creating punch art. Or if you called it Snips of Paper, it would have a … Continue reading →