My Precious Kid® - Precious Kids Newsletter
September 2003

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Subjects: Homeschool / Adoption / Parenting / Work at Home
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Proverbs For Parenting
By Patti Chadwick
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"Remember the Lord's people who are in jail and be concerned for them.
Don't forget those who are suffering but imagine that you are there with
them."
~Hebrews 13:3 CEV

Life is busy. We live in an extremely fast-paced society that constantly
screams at us to hurry along to go on to the next thing that needs to be
done. We don't take a lot of time to reflect on our own lives, let alone
have time to think about the situation of others.

Is living in this kind of "hecticity" good for us or does it cause us to be
self-centered? Do we get so caught up living our own lives and trying to
meet the needs of our own families that we don't have the time or the energy
to look outside ourselves to realize or even care about what others are
going through?

There are many hurting people in the world. People who are struggling to
make ends meet. Families that are falling apart. Associates who are
suffering for a loved one's mistakes. Those who are sick and/or dying.
People who suffer for their faith. Have you ever seriously thought about
what you and your family can do to help?

We need to teach our children to look outside of themselves, but first, we
need to make sure that we are able to look past our own
circumstances and determine what we can do for others. We need to learn to
have a broader view of life than what is happening in our own backyard.

People need people. God has made us that way. And there is no greater joy
than the joy found in helping our fellow man. Take a look around you. Do you
see anyone who needs an encouraging word? Do you see anyone who needs
someone to care about the pain they are in? You won't have to look far.

Take the time today to actually SEE those around you. And then determine
what you can do to help.

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Is Your Child Protected In An Emergency?
by Kay Green, www.MyPreciousKid.com
Copyright 2002

Your child is at the community center and you are supposed to pick him up on
your way home from work. You witness a terrible car accident and are in
shock. There are ambulances everywhere and the police need you to stay and
give a statement. By the time you realize how late it is, your child should
have been picked up over an hour ago! You race home to find a message from
your sister that says the community center called her to pick up your son
(from the information on his back pack ID Card), he's happily playing with
his cousins and when will you be over? Does your child's backpack have a
safety ID tag?

What happens if you are in a car accident and are temporarily unconscious
and cannot speak for your child? Your child is unharmed. The paramedics put
your child in his car seat in a separate ambulance from you. The medical
professionals at the hospital know to call your husband or mom for your
child (from the ID card on his car seat). The car seat card tells the doctor
of your child’s allergy to certain medicines. A laminated safety photo ID
should be on every child's car seat.

What happens if your child is missing at the zoo? Does his backpack have an
ID tag with your cell number so the grandma who finds him can call you? Do
you have a current ID for your child with photo, description, and thumbprint
to give to authorities that are helping you look? Is your child protected?

If your child were to become missing do you have photo, description,
fingerprints, and DNA sample. We collect these things as insurance, praying
we never need them.

As parents it is important that we do everything we can to protect our
children. Safety ID's on car seats, back packs, and in your wallet are one
way we can help to keep our kids safe. Our pediatrician says, "I wish every
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Articles written by Kay Green, Christian homeschool mom to Melissa 20,
Jordan 18, Allison 15, Haley 3. Her and her husband of 24 years live in
rural Oregon with the kids, 2 dogs, and 1 cats.
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COPYRIGHT 2003 My Precious Kid®, Kay Green

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Who Said She Could Grow Up?
by Linda Sharp
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“Where is the little girl I carried? Where is the little boy at play? I don’
t remember growing older, when did they?”

I celebrated a birthday recently. Actually, I didn’t “celebrate”, I cleaned
my house, scrubbed some toilets, and wished the day would just pass quickly.
I was turning 20-16 (you do the math), and it had started bothering me about
three months ago. I just could not put my finger on why.

You see, I’ve never been bothered by getting older. Honestly. I’ve always
bought into the adage that “You are only as old as you feel.”. I think
Picasso hit the nail on the head with, “Youth has no age.”. Heck, I even
loved the title of the late Alliyah’s first CD, “Age Ain’t Nothin’ But A
Number”.

As for the physical by-products of aging? Who cares? I am on a first name
basis with the girl at the Estee Lauder counter, use alpha hydroxys daily,
exercise regularly and am not embarrassed to admit that when my crow’s feet
become the size of crows, I shall attend a Botox party and have them
paralyzed into submission.

So why was I feeling this way? I searched inwardly for many weeks, unable to
find the cause. I attempted to vocalize it to my husband, who in true loving
husband fashion, simply told me how beautiful I am and that I was not old.
Thank you Rudy, you’re an idiot, but I love you for it.

I finally found my answer while staring at the calendar. May 10th was
coming. Just as it does every year. It is my oldest daughter’s birthday, one
of the happiest days of my life, but this May 10th she is turning ten. How
could I possibly have a child that is a decade old?

I look at her and the young woman she is quickly becoming and am hit with so
many conflicting emotions. This creature, so tall, vibrant and capable. It
is hard to reconcile her with the helpless waif I shared so many midnight
hours with as an infant. I can still picture her tiny blue eyes staring
intently at me in the darkness as she nursed. Can those be the same blue
eyes she now rolls at me when she doesn’t get her way? This child who
literally looked up to me for so many years, now makes a daily sport out of
seeing how close she is to looking me in the eye.

Perhaps I am bothered by her growing independence. Don’t get me wrong, I
like not having to dress her anymore, how she can pack her own lunch, and I
practically threw a party when she could officially wipe her own behind. It’
s just that on the parental bicycle, she has been my training wheels. And
even though she is getting closer to riding through life “on two wheels”, I
still need her to help teach me what I will need to know for the next
daughters.

I am most certainly fearful of puberty. It sits there in the not too distant
future, leering, sneering, beckoning her to come taste its bittersweet
cocktail of hormones, heartaches and angst. I have heard too many stories
not to know that this same child who currently calls me “the best Mom in the
world”, will in due time consider me the Stupidest Person on the Planet and
a Complete Waste of Oxygen. “Scarlet A’s” I will be required to wear for
having once bestowed them on my own mother, many years back. Life is funny
that way - what goes around, does come around.

Most of all, I think I am most bothered by our aging because it seems like
such a blink of an eye that got us to this decade mark. And I know that it
is now less than a decade before she will be doing the unthinkable . .
.graduating high school, choosing colleges, leaving.

In the next eight years I will try very hard to not blink lest I miss a
single precious moment and memory.

The next decade will be so unlike the first. She will be trying to not need
me, I will be trying to let her grow, let her go. I hope the years will be
kind to us both, that we turn to each other, not against. I have always
believed that the horizon is a beautiful place, because that is where our
future lies. As we face that horizon, perhaps Robert Browning wrote it best,
and it is to my beautiful daughter I say: “Grow old along with me, the best
is yet to be.”

Happy Birthday Culley.

Linda Sharp is an internationally recognized author & columnist
whose work wraps around the globe to appear in print publications
from Maine to Malaysia, as well as across the web. Linda is also
creator of the totally irreverent and hysterical website, Sanity
Central — A Time Out From Parenting!, located at
http://www.sanitycentral.com . Her latest book, Stretchmarks On My
Sanity: The Growing Pains of Raising a Family, has earned her rave
reviews and comparisons to the late Erma Bombeck. She may be
reached via email at mailto:lsharp03@aol.com  .

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What is the difference between those selling and those not?
by Kay Green Copyright 2003

What is the difference between those successful in their home business and
those not? I see a huge variance between those selling in home business.
Please recognize that some sell on web sites only, some sell to individuals
only ordering as they get orders, others have inventory and do events and
sell. All are ok but will bring different results.

What makes the difference between those who sell well and those who don't?
That is a really good question........
Could be the selling style of the person (are they asking for the sale)
Could be geographic (may mean finding a higher income area to sell to)
Could be the events they are selling at (how much traffic)
Could be they ways they are selling (have they found a niche)
Could it be their advertising (or lack of)

I know that on average those selling the most products are:
1. Keeping some inventory so they can sell on the spot
2. Are asking for the sale, not just waiting for others to ask them
3. Scheduling events (classes, events, parties, booths, etc) and work
actively at these events
4. Do defensive advertising (calls, emails, parties, person to person
asking) rather than just offensive advertising (sending out flyers, ads,
emails, and not following up)
5. Knowing what competition exists in their area and use it for their
benefit (showing what else they have to offer and how their business can
benefit their customers) - not worrying about what they can not offer.
6. Making contacts for their business every week day.
7. KNOW their NICHE and sell to that niche
8. Are passionate about their business and their products
9. Advertises and make contacts offline not just online.
10. Make a 5 yr plan, not giving up after 2 or 3 months

Now that said there are lots of ways to sell. We have many reps who have
active sites they owned prior to their home business and have great traffic
and are selling only online and doing fine. If you want to sell only online
remember it will take more time and advertising money to get your web pages
in the search engines up high and be recognizable and get the traffic and
sales you need.

There are reps who only sell to buy wholesale for their own uses and a few
friends and are happy with that. There are reps who want a business but do
not have the time to make it happen.

You can check with any company (Tupperware, Party Lite, Gabbie Goodies. etc)
and find reps who love the products and company and are selling successfully
and you will find reps who did not like it and did not sell well and are
frustrated. It is less about the products and more about the seller and
their choice and niche.

McDonalds sells sub-standard burgers but knows their niche (hot, fast,
geared to families with kids). Tupperware is priced much higher than
Rubbermaid that is available in every store. But Tupperware knows their
niche (quality, customer service reps, and life time guarantee). What will
be your business niche?

What do you want for your business? What level of sales is success to you?
Are you getting that? What will you do this week to make it happen? What is
your niche? What does you average customer look like: Parents is not a
niche. 2 income family with 2 kids in school is a niche.

I have been reading a book that is excellent!!!!
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He talks about taking your business (any business any products) and create a
plan, know your competition (we all have competition), and learn your niche.
It is well worth getting if you want to take your business to the next
level. Success is available to all who want it and are willing to work for
it, not giving up until they obtain it. I have watched many online friends
start with am idea or a product and over the last couple years take it from
struggle to regular orders. That can be you too. He also suggests a SLOGAN
or niche statement that you put on all your business lit. Each of you will
have a different one than mine. What will be your slogan?

He also talks about a business giving a guarantee. As a business owner, it
is up to you what kind of guarantee you offer. A couple of sites offer an
unconditional money back guarantee on all orders. They made the decision to
do that for all their products and vendors, taking the risk themselves to
make their customers happy. That is how stores do it too. They can not
return wholesale merchandise they buy unless defective but decide what to
offer their customers who want to make a return.

The last thing is a suggestion to treat your business like a business, not a
hobby. If you were opening a store in your town (and you have, just online)
you would need inventory (with large minimums to get wholesale price),
printing, advertising, office supplies, organization supplies, etc. You
would write business plan describing your niche, your sales goals, and step
on how you will accomplish that. You would need to tell the community that
you exist (thru advertising and word of mouth) and that you have the
products that they need and they should buy from you. Are you doing that?
Some could do this out of pocket, some would get a loan. I have done MPK
with no debt slowly by selling then buying then selling then buying. I did
spend a couple hundred dollars in the beginning to get started. How will you
proceed with your business?????
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Article written by Kay Green, Christian homeschool mom to Melissa 20,
Jordan 18, Allison 15, Haley 3. Her and her husband of 24 years live
in rural Oregon with the kids, 1 dog, and 1 cat.
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"The Top 10 Reasons it's GREAT to be a Work-At-Home Mom"
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1. Yellow crayons make great highlighters.

2. You can amaze your friends and family with the fact
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THEY won't be impressed, but YOU will be!)

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Articles written by Kay Green, Christian homeschool mom to Melissa 21,
Jordan 18, Allison 16, Haley 3. Her and her husband of 24 years live in
rural Oregon with the kids, 2 dogs, and 1 cats. 

Kay owns http://www.MyPreciousKid.com children's ID products and home
business program. Kay loves helping others have a successful home business
too. http://www.PreciousKids.org Adoption & Homeschool Resources,
http://www.123HomeBusinessGuide.com and
http://www.KayGreen.com 

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