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Parenting & Pregnancy > Parenting Teens Does a lack of parenting result in bad choices for teens?: 4 of 13

People go on and on about parents being the moral compass for their teens, about providing guidance and good examples. Frankly, this is all nonsense. The time to preempt bad teen behavior is in early childhood. A two-year-old who knows, without question, that when mommy says bad behavior means a time-out, mommy means it, wil...
Arts & Humanities > Writing Resources Formatting your novel for publication: 1 of 3

Publishers are picky. If they accept your manuscript at all, it will not take much to convince them to throw it in the trash, without ever even reading your first sentence. One of the key things they look for immediately is whether you have formatted your manuscript properly. Since Microsoft Word appears to be one of the mos...
Parenting & Pregnancy > Parenting Teens Teens and the law: Determining who's responsible for out of control kids: 3 of 6

Who is responsible for out of control kids? We all are. As parents, we are responsible, because we gave birth to the kids. We are their first and primary example and influence in life, long before "Dora the Explorer" and Naughty Kid from next door are. Our schools are responsible, because schools have become busine...
Jobs & Careers > Stress & Time Management Techniques to help you meet deadlines at work: 7 of 7

There is nothing worse than finding yourself staring at a rapidly approaching deadline at work, knowing you are nowhere near close to completing the project and that heads will roll (especially your own) when you fail to meet that deadline on time. However, there is a way to insure that this almost never happens to you. The ...
Arts & Humanities > Writing Jobs How to be an advice columnist: 2 of 2

In today's Internet-based world there is no shortage of people seeking advice on everything from genealogy to resparking a romance. There is also no shortage of people willing to give such advice. But let's face it, you're smarter than the rest of them. So really those knowledge seekers should be coming to you, because you w...