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		<title>Don&#8217;t Think That&#8217;s the Way It Is</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kalyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p> </p> What Was No Longer Is <p>Things change, sure. The seasons change and life goes on and I&#8217;m sure this is easy for you to grasp and even welcome. However, one way we each get caught or stuck is in the things that we don&#8217;t think will change, the things we expect will stay [...]]]></description>
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<h1><span style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;">What Was No Longer Is</span></h1>
<p>Things change, sure. The seasons change and life goes on and I&#8217;m sure this is easy for you to grasp and even welcome. However, one way we each get caught or stuck is in the things that we don&#8217;t think will change, the things we expect will stay the same. Sometimes we even hold more than an expectation, because we don&#8217;t want them to change. So, sometimes we hold resistance to change, and we even defend our stand.</p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">Arguing For Resistance</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;"> </span> I certainly don&#8217;t mean to say that you are, but I do mean to introduce you to the idea that resistance sneaks into us, masked by comfort.<span id="more-1637"></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;"> You see, we all seek comfort. There is actually a law of physics, Atcham razor that says that everything will seek the path of least resistance. The funny thing is that initially that&#8217;s what we all do. This is why children just want to play and need to be coaxed into taking on chores and responsibility. Like us and like all of nature, they naturally seek the path of least resistance. However, we become creatures of habit.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;"> At some point, as the seasons continue to change, we continue what had been easy or perhaps was hard, but we got good at. We learn &#8216;the way it is&#8217; and &#8216;the way you&#8217;re supposed to&#8217;. Frankly, after learning all of that, who wants to change and re-learn things? Who has the time to re-learn things?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;"> A hundred years ago this wasn&#8217;t such a pronounced challenge, but today things change often and quickly. With computers making up a central part of our lives at work or in our communications, and with computers changing all of the time, if you don&#8217;t keep current then your quickly become a dinosaur.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;"> It used to be that a school teacher who had been teaching for thirty years was a dinosaur; now if your computer is two, three or five years old, it&#8217;s likely the machine is considered extinct, since new programs can&#8217;t run on your archaic machine.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;"> Well, the same is true of us. Just the other day I met a photographer who has been doing photography for twenty years. He said that he has people all wear the same tones and wear solids (no stripes or checkers) because it keeps the view&#8217;s eye on your face and decreases the contrast. It&#8217;s all true, professional marks, no doubt. Still, times have changed and I stopped requiring such things in photos long ago, as digital cameras and image-adjusting programs seem to compensate and adjust for everything.</span></p>
<p>It used to be that, if you had a headache or were ill, you were leached. Thank goodness things change! Can&#8217;t always rely on &#8216;good ol&#8217; time-tested ways&#8217;!</p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;"> We are now in the Age of Authenticity, a more allowing age. As you allow yourself to evolve and change you will find that this more allowing age has less rules and more harmony. Also, as you allow yourself to change</span></p>
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		<title>Do You Value the Richess of Life?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 19:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kalyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Generally I like to talk about things that are deep or esoteric, but today I&#8217;m having to touch upon something you already know. This holiday season I want you to consider your richness. I like to speak of &#8216;riches&#8217; as pertaining to more than money; richness are the things that enrichen you life, the things [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://coachmaven.com/soul-keeper/do-you-value-the-richess-of-life/attachment/photo-3"   rel="attachment wp-att-1643" ><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1643" title="photo" src="http://coachmaven.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/photo-225x300.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="300" /></a>Generally I like to talk about things that are deep or esoteric, but today I&#8217;m having to touch upon something you already know. This holiday season I want you to consider your richness. I like to speak of &#8216;riches&#8217; as pertaining to more than money; richness are the things that enrichen you life, the things that you value and are most important to you and give your life meaning.</p>
<p>Generally speaking, I think we all want people in our lives &#8211; someone we love, close friends to share our lives with and family, a place we belong and are loved. People are, by far, our greatest source of richness in life.<span id="more-1629"></span></p>
<p><strong>All I Learned in Kindergarten</strong><br />
Whether it is sharing an amazing moment in our lives, laughing at a funny movie or enjoying a cup of coffee, our experiences are enhanced and deepened when we have someone to share them with. We love the people who are significant to us in our lives, but we don&#8217;t always live by our own values. Actually, people often live outside these.</p>
<p>You may have been taught to be nice to others in kindergarten, and your heart may be in the right place, but many of us often don&#8217;t put our priorities first. Do you?</p>
<p><strong>Glitz &amp; Glamour</strong><br />
Unfortunately, similar to kindergarten, niceness isn&#8217;t rewarded and in life &#8216;nice guys finish last&#8217;. This is because our societal focus is on glitz and glamour; we spotlight drama, negative behaviors and even encourage wild behavior. We live in a world that is quantity-conscious, as opposed to quality-conscious, so that spring break or a visit to Vegas are about debauchery and &#8216;what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas&#8217;, except for the stories and popularity that ensue. Being controversial is far more interesting than being beneficial and heroes don&#8217;t make headlines.</p>
<p>Yes, under all the activity and spotlights that society places on being value-less, it is easy for you to lose sight of what is important and to be good to those you love. Simple as some of life may be, it is when you allow life to become complex that you lose site of the few things that truly add richness to your life.</p>
<p><strong>Focus</strong><br />
For these reasons people get off-base, losing touch with what is important, having chose something else in the moment that caught there attention. In an inadvertent energy of lack, you may say something you don&#8217;t mean, ignore your child at a holiday party or neglect the people or things that mean most to you when push comes to shove during a busy holiday season.</p>
<p>Now, we aren&#8217;t &#8216;bad&#8217; people. On the contrary, I find that most clients easily re-connect with what they&#8217;d rather be doing once they have the proper cues; you may lose sight of what you meant to do, but once you tune back into your own values and the things -especially people- who are important to you, then you quickly change your mind and focus on what will fulfill you and make for a quality experience and a quality holiday.</p>
<p>Our dreams come and go; our accomplishments or failures seem to occupy our every thought and we quickly are too tied up with our own lives. While all of these are an important part of what makes us Who we are, our values allow us to feel good about who we are being and is directly connected to our happiness.</p>
<p>When we take the energetic time or focus to appreciate the people who are meaningful to us our priorities are in order and they organize our busy lives better than we can. When you spend time connecting with those you love, offering a little quality time and focus upon them, you tap into the richness that life has to offer. This can be rather simple when we take just a few minutes to let everything else that has our attention go, placing our full attention on what our child or lover says. The people around you can fill your heart with just a smile or a hug, but your focus has to be there, bringing quality and richness to receive the simplest and most meaningful gifts of life.</p>
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		<title>The Golden Egg</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2012 15:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kalyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Yesterday early in the evening my friend asked if I&#8217;d want to drive back into town to go hit some amazing Black Friday sales. My answer was &#8216;I bought a refrigerator, a stove, a house, an airplane ticket and a boat ticket!&#8217; meaning that I&#8217;m all spent.</p> <p>Now let me put this in perspective&#8230; This [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yesterday early in the evening my friend asked if I&#8217;d want to drive back into town to go hit some amazing Black Friday sales. My answer was &#8216;I bought a refrigerator, a stove, a house, an airplane ticket and a boat ticket!&#8217; meaning that I&#8217;m all spent.</p>
<p>Now let me put this in perspective&#8230;<br />
This fall I received an early inheritance and added onto a casita (a little house, like a guest house, as we call them here). The addition called for a fridge and stove, which my mom helped me with, and, did you know that appliances can cost 2 or 3 thousand dollars? They say you learn something new every day, but I say it&#8217;s not every day that I&#8217;m shocked.<br />
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<p>At the same time, my husband and I had a strong calling to go on a cruise and, since the last floating seminar was so impactful, we invited people to join us for classes on the waves as a free 2012 (which we call the start the Age of Authenticity) gift. So, we will be gifting our time without recooperating our cost.</p>
<p>Finally, my dad, who has been in Spain on  sabbatical for 6 months, wanted me to visit him in there. Between our two companies I couldn&#8217;t make it so then I coulnd&#8217;t say no to visiting him in Mexico for Christmas. &#8216;Hon, get back online and check the air to Mexico!&#8217;</p>
<p><strong>Small Fortunes</strong><br />
You and I both know that each of these purchases was a small fortune. The money I&#8217;d had stashed away for a rainy day no longer is, though I have a beautiful refrigerator, will enjoy some great travel next month and am banking on another dry winter. </p>
<p>While people do spend money all of the time, the question is when is too much money too much and when should you stop? What comes first in the laws of abundance, the golden goose or the golden eggs? How do you act abundantly when your wallet is empty and how do you, under any circumstances, tap into the flow of abundance?</p>
<p><strong>Believe It or Not</strong><br />
I know I&#8217;m blessed and that you may not have access to communication from your Source Energy, but I&#8217;ll share what I&#8217;ve been told with you. When I was looking at buying a $225 dollar sweater- which I didn&#8217;t buy- I heard my Source say &#8220;Do you like it?&#8221; Of course, the question implied that if so, I should buy it. I went back and told my husband about the sweater, drool falling down the side of my mouth. He asked, &#8220;What did your Source say about it?&#8221; </p>
<p>&#8220;My Source said &#8216;you should get it&#8217;, and I said, &#8216;I&#8217;ll run out of money.&#8217; Then he (my Source) said &#8216;I&#8217;ll put more paper in your wallet.&#8221;</p>
<p>Again, I didn&#8217;t buy the sweater, I bought a fridge, making the sweater look inexpensive. Still, I have to tell you that he really did put more paper in my wallet. At Lowe&#8217;s I noticed that the charge to my credit card seemed high. So, I looked at my receipt and, sure enough, they had billed a few things incorrectly. In addition to double-charging for the extended warranty, the fridge&#8217;s price was much higher than I&#8217;d thought. The sales man scanned the listed price and announced &#8220;You win! The price is marked incorrectly, so you get a refund!&#8221; Hundreds of dollars in a refund would be a great credit on my credit card, but for some reason they could only put half of it back on my card and returned half back as cash, leaving me with more &#8216;paper&#8217;, as my Source calls it, than I&#8217;d originally had.</p>
<p><strong>The Golden Point</strong><br />
The moral to this story is not &#8216;go spend your money, it grows on trees!&#8217;, because it doesn&#8217;t so please don&#8217;t misunderstand! No, the lesson here is much simpler and complicated at the same time&#8230;</p>
<p>The flow of abundance is such that it is unlimited and available to us all. However, our energy around money and financial abundance is like a an energetic hand. When this hand is reaching for and feeling a lack of abundance, then we tend to repel even what we most want. At that point, that energetic hand reaches to no avail. On the other hand, when we are feeling abundant and feeling that there is plentiful then our energetic hands form a cup that is filled and that overflows, abundance showering us.</p>
<p>Tapping into that flow of abundance requires that your energy be that of welcoming the golden egg, without figuring which should really come first. The only first is you. When you feel well-being in your heart and you allow then you don&#8217;t go and buy every sweater, boat ticket and whim you encounter. No, in the flow of you (and you in well-being) you do not seek external things to make you complete. You seek internal things, like the feelings of love and joy, to warm your heart and your soul. </p>
<p>Once your heart and soul are singing, you find that paper shows up in your wallet at the right time, every time. This is when you book the boat&#8217;s journey, knowing full well that, given the songs you are singing, the money, the time off from work and any other items needed to make your dream come through will all line up.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve seen past clients and students who have done just this and have taken part in travels that they never thought they could afford, and now they are living with far more richness than they used, both financially and in all other ways. </p>
<p>So here is to a 2013, The Age of Authenticity, filled with your ability to lay golden eggs with the song of your heart- and soul!</p>
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		<dc:creator>Jennifer</dc:creator>
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<p>It is the Age of Authenticity, an age whose energies are here to help us tap into our own authenticity. This also means that it is a time when dreams will come true, because in our dreams we are living who we see ourselves to authentically be.</p>
<p>In our dreams women- and men- can have it all. But I&#8217;m not seeing it all. I&#8217;m not seeing it at all. Whether it is women I know in my life, clients, friends, acquaintances, colleagues or family, or women I don&#8217;t know that I see in the media, I&#8217;m seeing women living in outer worlds that are fragile; glass lives of sorts. <span id="more-1614"></span></p>
<h1>A Glass Life</h1>
<p>We&#8217;ve all heard about a glass house, but today a glass house in your life might be a good thing in comparison to a glass life. After all, the house might break and be disappointing, but the loss is limited. The shattering of a glass life would be devastating.</p>
<p>It has become common for women to be the breadwinners in the family or at least bring more money home that their partners. While we live in a first world country, most of us ladies are running a home, raising a family and running a business. The ironic part is that many third world countries always had maids and help in the home. Many women I know, whether they are cleaning their homes themselves or not, are living more like a slave to life, myself included. Generally speaking we don&#8217;t have regular help at home, we send our kids to daycare or school and aftercare and we work hard to get ahead at work.</p>
<p>Yes, on the surface we have it all, but it often seems to be held together by a thin string. For many women a crack in their glass lives has become a larger threat to who we are. Loosing work would mean losing our power in our lives or our relationship, though fifty years ago women weren&#8217;t working, so this is not where power or authentic feminine power comes from. If our children become rebellious or alienated from us, we are beside ourselves and deeply embarrassed that a primary relationship in our lives is not what it should be. Finally, if our relationship is unsatisfying or filled with spats, regardless of our sexual orientation, we feel empty inside. Who we are is easily threatened pointing to a lack of authenticity.</p>
<h3>Are You Being Your Authentic Self Or Are You Trying To Do Your Life Right?</h3>
<p>On the one hand, women have advanced and changed drastically in the last fifty years. We have stood up for ourselves and proven that we didn&#8217;t have to submit to anyone, thus being our own person. But when I see women in today&#8217;s world I see a lot of women with outer worlds that doesn’t resemble their true persons. I see women exhausting themselves and sacrificing quality time with their children and partners in exchange for the false sense of power that work and money bring. I see women trading in the time to bring great joy and pleasure into their lives in exchange for doing it all. So, on the surface we have it all, but in our hearts to we feel it at all?</p>
<h2>A Woman&#8217;s Heart</h2>
<p>The feminine gender flow is such that we are all about quality and tend to be emotionally based. We have all grown up in a traditionally male-dominated world, and this one is quantity, technologically, academically and mentally based. These are what make up the yin and yang, two sides of the same coin with different faces that then make a complete whole. This would look a lot more like we are having it all.</p>
<p>But that is not the world we live in. The greatest gift of femininity lies ungifted, waiting for us women to change the world and bring it back into balance. You see, while women are having it all on the surface, I don&#8217;t see happy and fulfilled women. I don&#8217;t see women enjoying their lives and knowing that they have lived the richness of life. Instead of trying to live a life of quantity, a life with it all, our gift to the world will be the quality of it all.</p>
<p>The Age of Authenticity is said to be filled with gloom and doom, but in a lot of ways it is already a good descriptor for life today. The challenged economy can easily threaten our way of life; our children, who we aren&#8217;t raising and spending quality time with, are growing up in the most challenging times yet. We are getting older and fatter and, while worse disasters can still strike, living under constant threats means that we are living easily-broken glass lives.</p>
<p>In this age and with us women feeling more empowered to lead our own lives, it is time to assess the landscape of our lives and begin to allow ourselves to be who we truly are. Now is the time to find our true strengths, which can neither be threatened nor taken from us. It is time to create our inner worlds, the place within us that creates worlds of love, joy and connection. It is time to feel as though we can spend our time doing what we prefer and keeping the company of those we love.</p>
<p>Our feminine gift as women changes everything we do, although it doesn&#8217;t mean we have to quit our jobs. It means that when we are true to our hearts and our gifts then we will re-define and value achievement as what we be and how we experience life. We will focus on how things impact our lives positively and give importance to what feels good and loving, not just what can be done. There will be an air of pleasantness around us that others will become enchanted by, and our greatest enchantment will be with ourselves when we re-define our dreams based on what will fill our hearts, which will, in turn fill our lives.Rich Text AreaToolbarBold (Ctrl + B)Italic (Ctrl + I)Strikethrough (Alt + Shift + D)UnderlineUnordered list (Alt + Shift + U)Ordered list (Alt + Shift + O)OutdentIndentAlign Left (Alt + Shift + L)Align Center (Alt + Shift + C)Align Right (Alt + Shift + R)Insert/edit linkUnlink (Alt + Shift + S)Insert/edit imageEdit CSS StyleInsert More Tag (Alt + Shift + T)Insert Page break (Alt + Shift + P)Toggle spellchecker (Alt + Shift + N)?<br />
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<p>Her outer world is so perfect you might be jealous. She is an equal in her partnership, has a business or career and a family, yet our modern woman is longing for more. How does she do it all? How does she make the money, have family, the love and the looks? Or is this picture only skin deep? Are there more wrinkles to her life upon a more intimate look?<br />
It is the Age of Authenticity, an age whose energies are here to help us tap into our own authenticity. This also means that it is a time when dreams will come true, because in our dreams we are living who we see ourselves to authentically be.<br />
In our dreams women- and men- can have it all. But I&#8217;m not seeing it all. I&#8217;m not seeing it at all. Whether it is women I know in my life, clients, friends, acquaintances, colleagues or family, or women I don&#8217;t know that I see in the media, I&#8217;m seeing women living in outer worlds that are fragile; glass lives of sorts.<br />
A Glass Life<br />
We&#8217;ve all heard about a glass house, but today a glass house in your life might be a good thing in comparison to a glass life. After all, the house might break and be disappointing, but the loss is limited. The shattering of a glass life would be devastating.<br />
It has become common for women to be the breadwinners in the family or at least bring more money home that their partners. While we live in a first world country, most of us ladies are running a home, raising a family and running a business. The ironic part is that many third world countries always had maids and help in the home. Many women I know, whether they are cleaning their homes themselves or not, are living more like a slave to life, myself included. Generally speaking we don&#8217;t have regular help at home, we send our kids to daycare or school and aftercare and we work hard to get ahead at work.<br />
Yes, on the surface we have it all, but it often seems to be held together by a thin string. For many women a crack in their glass lives has become a larger threat to who we are. Loosing work would mean losing our power in our lives or our relationship, though fifty years ago women weren&#8217;t working, so this is not where power or authentic feminine power comes from. If our children become rebellious or alienated from us, we are beside ourselves and deeply embarrassed that a primary relationship in our lives is not what it should be. Finally, if our relationship is unsatisfying or filled with spats, regardless of our sexual orientation, we feel empty inside. Who we are is easily threatened pointing to a lack of authenticity.<br />
Are You Being Your Authentic Self Or Are You Trying To Do Your Life Right?<br />
On the one hand, women have advanced and changed drastically in the last fifty years. We have stood up for ourselves and proven that we didn&#8217;t have to submit to anyone, thus being our own person. But when I see women in today&#8217;s world I see a lot of women with outer worlds that doesn’t resemble their true persons. I see women exhausting themselves and sacrificing quality time with their children and partners in exchange for the false sense of power that work and money bring. I see women trading in the time to bring great joy and pleasure into their lives in exchange for doing it all. So, on the surface we have it all, but in our hearts to we feel it at all?<br />
A Woman&#8217;s Heart<br />
The feminine gender flow is such that we are all about quality and tend to be emotionally based. We have all grown up in a traditionally male-dominated world, and this one is quantity, technologically, academically and mentally based. These are what make up the yin and yang, two sides of the same coin with different faces that then make a complete whole. This would look a lot more like we are having it all.<br />
But that is not the world we live in. The greatest gift of femininity lies ungifted, waiting for us women to change the world and bring it back into balance. You see, while women are having it all on the surface, I don&#8217;t see happy and fulfilled women. I don&#8217;t see women enjoying their lives and knowing that they have lived the richness of life. Instead of trying to live a life of quantity, a life with it all, our gift to the world will be the quality of it all.<br />
The Age of Authenticity is said to be filled with gloom and doom, but in a lot of ways it is already a good descriptor for life today. The challenged economy can easily threaten our way of life; our children, who we aren&#8217;t raising and spending quality time with, are growing up in the most challenging times yet. We are getting older and fatter and, while worse disasters can still strike, living under constant threats means that we are living easily-broken glass lives.<br />
In this age and with us women feeling more empowered to lead our own lives, it is time to assess the landscape of our lives and begin to allow ourselves to be who we truly are. Now is the time to find our true strengths, which can neither be threatened nor taken from us. It is time to create our inner worlds, the place within us that creates worlds of love, joy and connection. It is time to feel as though we can spend our time doing what we prefer and keeping the company of those we love.<br />
Our feminine gift as women changes everything we do, although it doesn&#8217;t mean we have to quit our jobs. It means that when we are true to our hearts and our gifts then we will re-define and value achievement as what we be and how we experience life. We will focus on how things impact our lives positively and give importance to what feels good and loving, not just what can be done. There will be an air of pleasantness around us that others will become enchanted by, and our greatest enchantment will be with ourselves when we re-define our dreams based on what will fill our hearts, which will, in turn fill our lives.<br />
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		<title>How to Avoid Issues When Grandparents Babysit</title>
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<p>and emotional issues that often come up. Steer clear of the following pitfalls when you have grandparents babysit:</p>
<p><strong>Some Unspoken Rules When it Comes to Having Grandparents Babysit</strong></p>
<p>It is often difficult to lay down rules with your parents. That&#8217;s why you should<span id="more-1524"></span> speak up with these rules at the beginning of a session or arrangement, as there will be more of a chance of success this way. Be sure that he or she knows your child&#8217;s eating and sleeping schedules, as well as your rules in regards to television, discipline, outings and junk food.</p>
<p>A beneficial habit would be to write down your expectations, the same as you generally would do with any new babysitter. Limit rules to the things that you feel the most strongly about, such as safety issues. Setting up too many guidelines for grandparents to follow will make them feel as though you don&#8217;t trust their judgement.</p>
<p><strong>Micromanagement of Grandparent Babysitters</strong></p>
<p>Once you have set the ground rules, let go! Have faith in your parents or in-laws. Assume that they will live up to your expectations and show respect for your rules.</p>
<p>If you come home to find that your children have made a mess or that their toys were put away in the wrong places, it&#8217;s best to not immediately speak up. Your grandparents may have treated your children differently than you normally do, but that does not mean that they are wrong. If you begin nitpicking at how they care for your children, you and your family members will probably become resentful, which will make it less enjoyable for them to babysit. It&#8217;s not desirable for you to make them mad, and then have to scramble to find a new option for childcare at the last minute.</p>
<p><strong>Treating Grandparent Babysitters Well</strong></p>
<p>Being able to leave your children with individuals who care for them as much as you do is very comforting. Therefore, it&#8217;s important to make sure that they are comfortable and happy coming back to babysit again. Issues that should be addressed early on include:</p>
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<li>whether you will be paying them</li>
<li>what to do if either your children or the grandparents become sick</li>
<li>how much notice should be given when a babysitting session needs to be cancelled</li>
<li>who will organize activities and pay for outings or classes</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Working Out Your Relationship Through Your Children</strong></p>
<p>You have years of history with your parents. You want to make sure that you do not put your children in the middle of any issues you have with them. Interact with your parents as babysitters, treating them the way you would any other adult who is caring for your children.</p>
<p><em>Your parents or in-laws can be a great choice for babysitters. Just be sure to have faith, set boundaries and rules in the beginning, and all should be well. It can even help to make you closer to them!</em></p>
<p><em>John Winthorp is a blogger for <a href="http://www.nanny.net/"   >www.nanny.net</a>. John writes actionable tips and advice for <a href="http://www.nanny.net/nannies/"   >nannies</a></em></p>
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		<title>Soul Keeper Agreement 2: Be Need-Oriented</title>
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		<title>Take Your Time Finding a Sitter</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Aug 2012 18:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><strong>Checking Into Her Background</strong></p>
<p>Whether you ultimately hire a teenager from your neighborhood<span id="more-1516"></span> or a skilled adult with an early-education degree, you need to make sure that the babysitter is ready for the job. You want a candidate who has experience with children in the same age range as yours. Here&#8217;s what else to keep in mind:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Be sure that you check all references</strong>: You want to get the telephone number or email of one of her past clients. If the candidate you are looking at has only worked in her own home, be sure and speak to her parents. You can also ask for a reference from one of her teachers or another neighbor.</li>
<li><strong>Find out how reliable she is</strong>: Think about how long it took her to return your calls. Think about what time she showed up for the interview. Consider the way that she dressed and if she looked energetic. Consider the way you communicated with each other. Try to remember if she asked many questions. Even if you are dealing with a high school student, you may be surprised at how professional some of them can be.</li>
<li><strong>Let her practice babysitting for you</strong>: In other words, let her babysit while you are still at home the first time. This is a great way to show her your normal routine and see how comfortable she is with your infant. You can also watch to see if her cellphone or anything else distracts her.</li>
<li><strong>Be on the lookout for warning signs</strong>: Watch out for evasive or defensive answers to any of your questions. You want to make sure that she listens to you and understands that she is working for you. You should also watch out for changes in her attitude or an untidy appearance, which could be a warning sign of something even more serious.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Questions You Should Ask Candidates for Your Babysitting Job</strong></p>
<p>Here are some specific questions you can ask based on the age of your child:</p>
<p><strong>0 to 6 months</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Do you know the proper way to hold a young child and can you change diapers?</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Do you have experience with bottle feeding and burping an infant?</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>What is the best way to lay a baby down to reduce SIDS risk?</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Have you ever done infant CPR?</li>
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<p><strong>6 months to one year</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>What does a baby eat at this age?</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>What foods can become a choking hazard?</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>How do you protect a baby that crawls?</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Can you make sure a room is childproofed?</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>One year and older</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Do you know first aid and toddler CPR?</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Can you keep a toddler entertained?</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>What do you do if a toddler has a temper tantrum?</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>If my child will not go to bed, what will you do?</li>
</ul>
<p><em>By putting a little extra effort and time into the selection process, you&#8217;ll end up with a sitter who will make your life much easier!</em></p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Aug 2012 16:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
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