Safe Toys Tips For All

Here are some general guidelines to keep in mind when toy-shopping:

• Toys made of fabric should be labeled as flame resistant or flame retardant.
• Stuffed toys should be washable.
• Painted toys should be covered with lead-free paint.
• Art materials should say nontoxic.
• Crayons and paints should say ASTM D-4236 on the package, which means that they've been evaluated by the American Society for Testing and Materials.

Your Baby's Future Is in Your Hands

This post brought to you by CryoCell International. All opinions are 100% mine.

Every expectant mother gets so anxious for her little one's arrival.  Every single moment the anticipation for the stork's delivery gets more and more exciting and scary in a way.  Will the baby be okay, will the delivery be hard, will the labor take so long, and all other questions can be pretty much stressful for the mom-to-be.   

With the great anticipation for your baby's coming, have you ever asked yourself if you're more than ready for it?  Once the baby comes, it's not about your life anymore but his or hers.  Babies deserve all the love and care any parent could ever give.  This serves as the foundation of his or her well being in which will be carried on as he or she grows.

Learn more what you can do for your precious one.  Check out www.Cryo-Cell.com or www.Cryo-Cell.net to see what the future holds for your baby.   All expectant moms are encouraged to request information packet with free bellybag & get the chance to consult with an advisor to know how you can save your baby's cord blood.  You'll never know what science can do for you in the future.

 

Stages of Parenthood

After 25 years of high school graduation, you’re in to a reunion, try looking at pictures. Do you not wonder why your high school teachers look only a little older than you or sometimes even younger? It is not only because of the many wonders of cosmetics and doctors who seem to be the progenitors of the font of Venus – the stages of parenthood has something to do with it.

The stages of parenthood are intertwined with several aspects of man’s life: economic, emotional, physical and even spiritual. The first stage usually on the first 6 years is the most taxing, physically dilapidating, mind-draining and mind-boggling because it is the stage where the couple is preparing for a comfortable life, adjusting to the married life especially with the so many attitudes and behaviours once hidden during the courtship period.

The second stage, usually on the 7^th to the 15^th year may be a little problematic in all aspects: having more expenses for the schooling of the kids, dealing with adolescents, competing with work schedules and schedules of kids, a rat-race career because it is at this stage when you have to really establish your roots in your work for the sake of the kids and getting down to your adulthood and finally retirement, being amidst all the temptations because your circle of friends has definitely gone wider so there are more temptations around – so family troubles start to crop up.

Finally, kids graduated, some have worked, others got married, you are now more relax and confident that you have given back to your parents what they have done to you. Economically, you are more secured; emotionally you have a feeling of achievement and a feeling of fulfilment; physically, you have time to enjoy outdoor activities, the gym and others not nursing and running after kids and going to and fro the school to fetch them especially during inclement weather; and spiritually – your mind is vent more to the church activities.

How can one not look young and still fresh after 25 years from the time kids were adolescents when these mentors have already surpassed the tests of time, the challenges of the future, the economic constraints, the agonies of uncertainties and the tiresome labours of motherhood and fatherhood?

Just wait for the time when the same look sheens on you – but be sure you have done your great homework from the Lord.

~ICS~