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When a child starts to develop a stutter, it comes as a shock to everyone involved. It can be a very stressful time for both the parents and for the child.

I myself developed a stutter at the age of four or five. My mother had left work to look after me when I was born and I started to talk as normal. Everything was fine until I started school. My mother – who now had more time on her hands, decided to re-start work and I would now be going to a friend of the families after school. This friend was called Jean and she had a son my age called Graham. On the first day I spent at her house everything was going well until Jean called us in for our evening meal. Meal times at my own house were a very relaxed affair, we were able to eat our food wherever we wanted to in the house.

At Jean’s house they ate in a dining room around a dining table. There were a lot of people around the table who I did not know very well and eating in front of them all, made me feel quite uncomfortable. During the meal people were asking me various questions and for whatever reason, I found it difficult to answer and started to stutter. This was the first day of my life as a person who has a stutter.

My parents a few months later took me to speech therapy, the speech therapist advised them that most children will grow out of their stutter. I continued unfortunately to stutter until I was twenty two. At this stage I decided I had had enough and that it was time to overcome the stutter.

I decided to try and find my own stuttering solution. I went about this by reading books about self confidence as I certainly had a low self esteem. I also studied people who I believed were very good talkers and tried to work out how the spoke differently than me, for example the way they breathed.

After nearly a year I was proud to be able to class myself as fluent and as a career I now help other people to achieve fluency.

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stuttering

stammering therapy

anti aging specialist

I have been working with Teenagers for over 35 years. I learned my trade initially by study, which gave me an outline and which then was filled in and enhanced by the years of working directly working with them. I still find adolescents the most invigorating, challenging and often perplexing anthropogenic species that I have encountered.

The following is about one area which perplexed me for some time.

I have seen families where everything seems to be fine. There is plenty of love and time for the children, there are rules and boundaries, the family do exciting things together but they still manage to encourage the children to have individual interests and plenty of their own time with friends. They even have regular meals sat around the table together.

As the children get older they face the normal range of difficulties often experienced in families with teenagers, such as them becoming less cooperative, moody, room is a mess, coming in late etc… The issues are coped with, family life is still reasonable and life continues in a positive if tiring vein. The teenager is doing more things with his or her friends and parents are becoming taxi drivers and have to keep retuning the car radio to the stations that they prefer. Parents deal with the wishes to change of hair style or colour, tattoos, body piercing and changes in clothing style, staying out later etc… The good resolution of conflict and disagreement is common. Life may not be as harmonious as it was but it is still reasonable, with the parents understanding that this is all part of the ‘growing up’ process.

Then, often quite suddenly, war breaks out. The reasonable teenager becomes totally uncooperative, discussions take place at shouting level, direction and even offering advice becomes a no go area. They stop telling where they are going, they come in late, they refuse to eat with the family, they seemingly challenge everything that the parents say, they cease to understand the word ‘no’. Parents feel that they are loosing control and that their nice child has become a monster. However at the same time, they are amazed and confused when parents of their teenage friends praise them for their polite and likeable teenager and wish that their own child was like theirs. Moreover the school is not reporting any problems.

What is going on? Are the parents of their teenage friends just being pleasant to hide their horror of your own child? Does this monster of a teenager hate its parents so much that they are trying to cause as much pain as possible? Are they going mad? Are they on drugs? Do the parents have such poor parenting skills that they are causing the problems?

To understand what is may be contributing to situations like this we need to look at the different but natural and necessary processes going on in the backgrounds of both the parents and the adolescent. Good parenting enables the child to grow from a helpless baby to an independent adult who is able to take charge of his or her own destiny. The parents will have to the best of their ability and resources, loved, fed and nurtured, clothed and educated. They will also have endeavoured to protect their child from harm, and often there will be a very strong desire for their child to do well at everything. For most parents this is a natural process, which comes from their inherent genetic makeup which has been informed from their own upbringing and life experiences.

During adolescence the teenager will be experiencing many changes both physical and emotional. At times they will be growing faster than at any time in their lives; puberty will be arriving, causing a range of major physical and emotional changes. Most will be facing pressures to achieve at school and they are being pushed to make decisions that will affect their future. They will be facing pressure from peers to dress or behave in a particular way. The adult commercial world will be exerting its pressures to convince them that their cloths and products are ‘cool’ so every discerning teenager needs them and in fact there is something wrong with them if they don’t follow the fashions.

All of this is pointing the teenager towards adulthood; adolescence is the stage between being a child and becoming an adult. We know that in the UK adulthood starts at 18, but when does it really start? When are teenagers able to make informed and responsible decisions about what they do and how to conduct themselves? Understanding this may help parents to develop strategies to reduce the sort of conflict described earlier.

Unfortunately there is no one defining point when childhood ends and adulthood begins. For instance look at a 16 year old; because of the parents’ instinct to protect their offspring they will probably see them as a child. My own son is 35 and a very successful businessman, I still worry about some of the decisions that he makes. The 16 year old will see himself as an adult not needing anybody to monitor what he is doing, at that age my son felt himself able to make life decisions much more appropriately than his parents who were from a bygone age.

The truth is a 16 year old is neither child nor adult, more childlike in some areas more adult in others. So life is confusing and often made worst by conflicting responses from parents and other adults such as teachers. ‘Stop acting like a child’, ‘no you can’t stay out after ten. ‘Why don’t you grow up’, ‘no you can’t wear those cloths’. ‘Why don’t you take more responsibility for yourself’, ‘no you can’t spend your own money on a motorbike’.

The adolescent’s time clock is telling them that adulthood is near which produces yet another confusion. Their emotions are saying yes, I want to be part of this adult world but it feels much safer to stay where I am. When you add the pressures of adolescences to its physical and emotional turmoils you begin to see why some teenagers start to attack, rebel or retreat.

So parents, if you want to avoid total war with your teenage offspring remember that your ultimate task is guide them into adulthood by gradually reducing control and allowing them to learn from the mistakes that they will make, be there to help them pick up the pieces and move forward again. Support and encourage, try not to inhibit. Allow them to flounder and then help them back onto their feet. Override your need to protect them from all harm and allow them to grow through experience. They will still need clear boundaries, but have the courage to negotiate new ones with them. If they abuse these, have the courage to implement the penalties for such misdemeanours. You have the right to say NO but please give reasons for refusing the request. Remember that following rules is an essential skill that they will need throughout their lives.

Protecting your children is one of the most powerful emotions that parents experience, at times it is so powerful that unconsciously some parents try to slow the progress of their teenagers into adulthood as a way of delaying the ‘having to let go’. If teenagers are enabled to reach adulthood by enjoying their adolescence they will grow into more confident adults and probably end up having better relationships with their parents.

I initially qualified as a Youth and Social worker and have a lifetime of working and living with teenagers.

I then ran two large youth centres continuing to study the psychology of adolescents.

I became the Director of a unit that worked with adolescents whose behaviour was so difficult that they were about to be removed from home .

I then managed a project that worked with families in crises, young people within the Juvenile Justice system, and young adults who were leaving care and moving into independent living.

Finally I became Head of Service and Care for an organisation that ran seventeen small children’s homes and a school for young people whose behaviour was so difficult that they could not be looked after in their own communities.

My wife and I also, fostered four teenagers, who had problems that would normally have prevented them from being fostered on a long term basis. Two of them now have families of their own and have become part of our extended family.

Have you ever wondered why toys for babies tend to have so many bells, whistles and lights? Or why they have so many different textures, and materials and colors?
It’s almost as if we want to provide young babies with a whole world of stimulation and we can’t quite get it to them fast enough.

Play gyms or activity gyms as they are sometimes called tend to be a firm favorite with babies from newborn up to about 12 months. These play gyms and activity nests mostly come
in the form of comfortable, quilted or softly padded playmats, sometimes raised at the edges with a space in the middle for baby (like a ring doughnut).
And these play gyms can be either brightly colored or in soft, pastel shades.
But don’t be fooled by thinking they are just snug and comfy resting places for babies to fall asleep in!
These activity gyms can provide a plethora of visual, audio and tactile stimulation for fast developing young inquisitive minds.

Often decorated with well known and lovable characters, Winnie-the-Pooh, Tigger, Eyore, or farm and zoo animals as well, they can consist of detachable, hanging parts for small babies to try to grasp. They tend to have parts that are crinkly, soft, scrunchy textures for baby to touch, squeeze and stroke. Some come with bright twinkling lights and bells and others make funny sounds, or musical sounds, and some even do both.
You will often find mirrors attached to these activity gyms, so that your baby gets to find and see its own reflection, often providing hours of fun for babies and carers alike. All of this is extremely important for developing young minds.
Babies are like a sponge, they are ready to absorb whatever information they can – and boy – they can’t grasp it fast enough!
A lot of new research points to the first three years of life as being critical to a baby’s developing brain. It is a known fact that during this period, not only does the brain triple
in weight but it also establishes thousands of billions of nerve connections. Astonishingly, at the age of three, a young child has twice as many nerve connections as many adults. Therefore, in your role as a parent, or primary care giver, it is of paramount importance that you recognize this and understand just how much development is taking place inside your young baby’s brain from birth until the age of three.
At birth, children have most of the neurons (brain cells) they need for a lifetime however, these brain cells are not yet linked (or “wired”) together to form the complex networks that are required for mature thought processes to take place. And what happens is that in the early years, young children’s brain cells form these connections, or synapses as they are commonly called, very very rapidly.

One of the crucial ingredients to aiding these connections to form, is experience, and repetition.

In a word, the more times you repeat something new, like showing a baby how to scrunch up a ball, the quicker these connections are formed. Therefore, it naturally follows that the more positive interaction you give an infant or toddler, the more you are helping to stimulate young brains.
This stimulation causes new connections to form neural pathways and strengthens existing ones.

Playing with activity gyms, with all the bells and whistles that they offer or reading to a child, anything which allows a child to have positive, interactive processes, will aid your child’s brain development.

So, as you lovingly sit and watch your young baby laughing and gurgling on the play mat or under the activity gym – do not underestimate the power of the changes taking place in the brain, all enriching an inquisitive mind and arming it with a plethora of knowledge and understanding for years to come.

I Bansal is a mother of two and webmaster of http://www.1st-toys-online.com.

graduation caps and gowns

Traditionally, graduation caps and gowns like the ones seen at modern graduation events are the vestiges of the robes that were worn by clergy men and monks in medieval monasteries. Since the monasteries were the research centers before other learning institutions like universities and colleges were established, it was anticipated for academic professionals to implement new and better versions of clergy robes. While scholars in modern universities wore daily, the graduation caps and gowns are today worn only during graduation ceremonies at various learning institutions.
In fact, the interest in the caps and gowns even during graduation events has waned recently probably because many graduates and various activist groups in the early 60’s saw them as too ceremonial. However, this has not stopped institutions of learning from adopting the caps and gowns as the official academic regalia. There are different types of graduation caps and gowns for different rankings in the academic field including doctorates, masters, bachelors and undergraduates. The caps and gowns usually vary depending on the type of learning institution. For instance, the ones worn by doctors and bachelors have more insignia on them in order to signify the academic rankings and field of study.

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Kids Internet Safety – Be Careful!

The Internet and Computers are becoming a necessity in our homes. Nearly everything we do be it registering a new appliance, paying bills, finding a movie, restaurant or an amusement park for location and hours, is easy online. Why “let your fingers do the walking” in the yellow pages as the phone book companies used to say, when you can find it with a few keystrokes and click of the mouse online?

Becoming computer literate is a must say California education standards. Even the 1st through 6th Grade and Middle Schools have computer labs! As a research and learning tool the computer, with the Internet and it’s unlimited resources if used in a safe manner can make all the difference in how well your child does on homework and assignments.

There is temptation and danger Online

When kids sit down at the computer the temptation to venture out and surf away from homework into chat, blogs and MySpace is extremely high. What kid wouldn’t want to see what their friends are talking about, listen to music and make their own free webpage? MySpace.com is a good example of the most inviting of these temptations. Nearly every internet savvy kid knows about MySpace. Opening with “what’s your MySpace?” when they meet a new friend in person is very common as part of getting to know each other. A local English teacher who also works in the computer lab guestimates one in four of her 8th grade students has their own MySpace.

MySpace.com- Danger Danger Danger!

There are countless articles on how kids have gotten in trouble and endangered their lives by turning to MySpace as a way, initially to get to know other kids their age. Read your kids articles about teens who have really gotten in hot water with MySpace to help them understand how persistant and dangerous the preditors really can be.

For an example of a good kid in trouble read the New York Times story of Justin Berry, who at age 13, innocent, lonely and computer-wise, behind the closed door of his room quickly exposed himself to countless pedophiles in a matter of minutes on MySpace.com. The scariest part of this Report was the video interview with the then 18 year old where he warns others of how much his experience “messed him up”.

How do you keep your child interested in learning, doing productive things and away from the dangers online? That’s a good question because the way they see it all the other kids are interacting on MySpace, sharing their favorite music and expanding their circle of friends there.

Begin by Educating Yourself and Your Kids!

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Read this CBS News Report to see how to protect Kids on MySpace.
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Sit with your child when they are on their MySpace.
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If they switch screens or minimize the page and refuse to show you every time you try they are hiding something. This is when you have to either get software filters or a software program that tracks every keystroke, every page, every website they go to, to find out who they are chatting with and what they are saying.
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Visit a page we here at JerSooz made a few years ago for more information on Kids Safety. Towards the bottom you will find a table with links that are designed help you get the information you need to keep your kids safe on the Internet.
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Another option is to use your Browser History, Chat History, Cookies and Temporary Internet Files to figure out where they go yourself. See below on how to do this.

Use Cookies- From the Start button go to Search, then Files and Folders type in Cookies and Search Now. Usually they are found in the C Drive of our computer. There you can click on any of the files that have a suspicious name to see what websites they might have visited.

Check for saved images- Another thing most kids do is save pictures from the people they talk to and websites they enjoy. This is a way to get an idea of what they are really interested in when they are not telling you everything.

The Center for Missing and Exploited Children reported more than 2,600 incidents last year of adults using the Internet to entice children. With numbers like that, you’d think all parents would be hovering over their kids, demanding to know everything they’re doing online. Check out your kids’ and all their friends Chat and MySpace profiles.

Do yourself a favor and make sure their Login and Password are set on automatic when your child goes into chat and MySpace online. Even if you are accused of invading their privacy it is worth it to pretend you are them a few times and see what sort of conversations they have online and whom with.

You might be amazed and upset by who you find yourself chatting with and what is said but do not break your cover just yet! Above all things remember you are doing this to protect your kids safety. By doing this you will either find that your child is the perfect innocent kid just having fun online or…get enough proof that they need more strict guidelines, rules, parental controls, or to have the internet taken away until they can get a handle on it. It’s for their own good!

Did You Know How Easily Your Location Can Be Found Online?

You are not annonymous online and your address can easily be found. This, of course means your kids on the internet in your home can be found by outsiders. It also means that you are responsible for trouble they might get into on your internet connection!

It’s simple, really, every internet connection has an identifying number that shows where your internet connection is. IP or Internet Protocol addresses show in chats and when you send an email. Want to see how easy it is to find someone with their IP Address? Start with your own IP address, Visit GeoBytes IP Address Locater page, and see for yourself!

Author, Susan R Allen, JerSooz Ezine www.jersooz.com/ezine Susan is the parent of a 13 year old who is computer literate.

What’s for dinner? Mothers quite often ask this question to themselves, and at special times in our lives the need arises again to deliver a menu that is easy, affordable and tasty. As a baby shower host, planning a meal can be a misadventure or a blessing in disguise. Try these three tips I’ve learned, starting with the most learned first.

#1- When choosing the level of difficulty you want your menu to be, think easy! The last thing you want to be doing before the shower starts is running around a kitchen wondering what you’ve gotten yourself into. Unless you have recruited many helpers, be realistic about the food you will serve at the shower. Here are some menu ideas for you that are complimentary and quick, so you will have time to focus on other things on shower day:

Extremely Inexpensive Menu

Sloppy Joes

Potato Chips

Carrot and Celery Sticks

Fruit Bowl (watermelon, cantaloupe, bananas, grapes, strawberries, etc.)

Ice Water and Punch

*If you’d like to, use ground turkey as a healthy replacement for the beef, and keep the BBQ mixture in a crock pot before the shower starts. Another healthy choice is using whole wheat buns which can usually be found at bakery outlets like Sara Lee. Up to two days before the shower, cut the carrot and celery sticks and seal in zip lock bags. Also, be sure to purchase the fruit a few days in advance so that it can ripen on the counter by the time you’re ready to chop it up. Add ice to the punch just before you serve it.

“I Want to Serve A Meal and Have No Time” Option

Slow Cooker Tortilla Soup

4 Boneless, Skinless Chicken Breasts

tsp. Minced Garlic

2 (14 oz.) Cans Chicken Broth (fat free is a great substitute)

2 (14 oz.) Cans Stewed Tomatoes, chopped, with liquid

1 C. Medium Salsa

2 T. Dried Cilantro

1 T. Ground Cumin

Combine all ingredients in a 4 to 6 quart slow cooker. Cover and cook on high 6 hours or on low heat 8-10 hours. After 4 hours, shred the chicken, put it back in the crock pot and continue to cook. Serve over strips of flour or corn tortillas cut into -inch strips. Topping choices include shredded cheese, sour cream, avocado slices, chopped green onions and sliced olives.
*The chicken can be cooked and shredded in advance. I hear nothing but slurping sounds when this soup is served on a cold winter evening. Serves 10.

#2- Good etiquette suggests that guests “repondez, s’il vous plait” which means “respond, please.” It is a necessity to know how many people you are preparing for. A perfect solution for the host and guest alike is to include a homemade postcard in the invitation. Address it to yourself and affix postage. Postcard stamps are .20 cents right now. Have guests check a box indicating whether they will be attending or not and a place to write how many guests you can expect.

#3- Consider food allergies. My oldest daughter, Alison, is allergic to wheat. Now that I have been welcomed into the world of food allergies, I am keenly aware of how many people are affected by them also. Include a place on your “automated RSVP postcard” to ask if people have food sensitivities or health concerns. Menus can be easily adapted to fit their individual needs.

Kid party idea is the creator of all kid parties. Brainstorming kid party idea and kid party theme will be the most crucial stage of kid party planning and thus do it right at first time will win you half the battle.

Below are some tips for you to brain storm a kid party theme

Ask your child

It is so easy to get carried away with planning a kid party and completely overlook the needs and wants of your very own child. Therefore, employ your child as your consultant and plan the kid party with your child.

The easiest way is to ask your child what your kid want for his or her birthday party.
Your child may announce that he want to bring his whole class to watch Spider man movie. If your budget does not allowed than you might asked him to choice three of his close buddies to go for the movie and follow by ice cream and brought a birthday cake home for the birthday song.

Always Plan the party with your child —- or at least —- with your child in mind. Thus employed your child as your consultant for brainstorming kid party idea and planning.
You will have lot of fun with them in the process of planning and take this opportunity to communicate and understand your child better.

Hello ! My child is too young to make decision.

Yap! I heard you I didn’t forget those cute toddlers under the age of 2 who might not be able to tell you what they want for their birthday parties.
For this age of group they don’t have any expectation on their kid party but in general they are curious to anything that is colorful and attract to music. Brainstorming your kid party theme toward this direction and you will be on your right path.

If my child can’t decide and don’t know what he want for his birthday party

Observe what is your child favor?

Ask yourself the following questions.

1.What is your child favor TV show or movie?

E.g: Flintstone, lion king, spider man, etc…..

2. What is your child favor cartoon character?

E.g: Barney, Lion King, Mickey mouse etc…

3. What is your child favor story book?

E.g:Snow white, three little pigs

4. What is your child favor toy?

As a caring parent I am sure you will be able to answer the above questions
straight away. These questions will evolve lot of kid party ideas for you.

Oops ! I have too many kid party ideas and don’t know which to choose

Don’t forget your consultant? Choice three kid party ideas and let your consultant choose one that he/she is most excited.

Guess you should have some ideas by now. Your kid party idea might have some themes couple with it. Take a look at our correction of
http://www.kid-party-idea.com/kid-party-theme.html

Guide to brain storm kid party idea, theme, kid party games and more… Parent that love to organise kid party ideas for kids.

From: http://www.kid-party-idea.com

Before you can understand the importance of paternity testing, you must first understand the DNA element involved and why DNA is used to establish paternity. DNA is the pattern for your genetic makeup. Each and every person has a different pattern of DNA. However, persons belonging to certain ethnic backgrounds, certain races, or simply certain features, can have DNA that shows related characteristics. No two people, except for identical twins will have the same DNA.

Every person has 46 chromosomes in each cell. The only exceptions are the sperm and egg cells. They each have 23. At the moment of conception, however, the 23 chromosome from the sperm and egg combine to form 46, and at that moment, you have the chromosomes needed to create a new person. This pattern for your genetic makeup is a combination of maternal DNA and paternal DNA. In other words, half your makeup is your mother’s and half is your father’s. Now, since the mother would be the person giving birth, there is no dispute about maternal proof. She was there at birth. But what about paternal proof? How do you determine the identity of the father, without a shred of doubt?

Enter DNA paternity testing. DNA testing works in the following way. The DNA of the child is tested. A test strip of DNA “bands” is established. The DNA is then tested from the alleged father. If the child and the man share common “bands” in a number of different locations, then paternity is established with 99.9 percent accuracy. That is as accurate as the results can be. This is a seemingly simple test, to have such a staggering effect on the people’s lives that are involved. Entire families have been ripped apart over paternity issues. Lives have been forever changed, thanks to one little DNA test.

Today, paternity testing is utilized to decide custody cases, establish legitimate child support cases, influence adoption proceedings, and to aid in claiming inheritance by providing proof of relationship. By far, however, the largest use of DNA testing is in determining paternity issues. Most courts accept 99.9 percent positive as equal to a result of 100%.

There are tests available that can be used at home, but in the case of a legal battle, or establishing legal paternity, only the tests conducted by certified and licensed facilities will be allowed.

Positive parenting is the in-thing these days. If you’re not a positive parent, you’re not really living in this century. Still holding onto that cane, ready to whack your kids with it? You’re not a good mother – not a good parent AT ALL. Nuh-uh. Feel nothing when you raise your voice at your kids because they’ve smudged the sofa with chocolate ice-cream even when you told them not to? You’re terrible. You shouldn’t even be a mother!

Ok, hold it right there. Positive parenting has been blown WWWWAAAYYY out of proportion and because of misinformation, many modern parents feel that they have to conform to a mould that society has suddenly decided is to be the norm. Not knowing what positive parenting actually is can do the parent and the child a world of damage. Yes, DAMAGE. Positive parenting is a kind of concept that needs in-depth study. Ok, it’s getting kind of scary around here.

Some people assume that the way to be a positive parent is by being lenient, kind, patient, gentle, subtle, and submissive. Ok, even if this is not the slightest bit the way we think, we could be doing it unknowingly. It’s true. Don’t just shake your head, look back and evaluate. Aren’t there times when you feel like reprimanding your child and then you think that you should be more POSITIVE, so, you try to get them to do what they should do, they get away and then you think…I have to be positive so, I’ll find the right time to do this? And you don’t. And they get away. And they learn that mom’s kind of weird. But good-weird.

Positive parenting is about instilling values, guiding, loving and disciplining our kids positively. Positive parenting is about disciplining them, punishing them kindly for the things that they have done wrong. Positive parenting is about showing them the right way to do things without crushing their self-confidence. Positive parenting is about showing our kids that we are boss, but we are good bosses. Positive parenting is about loving them without spoiling them. Positive parenting is also about reprimanding them without nagging them. Positive parenting is about instilling good values in them without diminishing their own personalities. Positive parenting is about protecting them but letting them go when they are ready to.

The hardest part is….that we will have to let them go one day. And our job is to ensure that they are ready to do so. Because we’re positive parents, we may have the inclination of clinging on to them for dear life and we end up being as dependent on them as they are on us during the early stages of life. The concept involves a parent and a child walking together towards a destination, knowing that there is a fork at the end of that road and treasuring every single step that they take together and accepting the fact that one day, they’ll end up in a different place.

Don’t misunderstand the concept of positive parenting. Positive parenting is not about spoiling or being dependent on a child. It’s about loving and teaching our kids positively and constructively.

Marsha Maung is a freelance graphic designer and copy writer who works from her home in Selangor, Malaysia. She loves nothing more than blowing bubbles in the park with her 2 kids, Joshua and Jared. She designs apparel and premium items at http://www.allmomstuff.com and is the author of “Raising little magicians”, and the popular “The Lance in freelancing”. More information can be found at http://www.marshamaung.com.

This article describes the history of Adora dolls, their description and what makes these dolls unique. Adora Dolls are high quality collectible dolls which are produced by the Adora Company. The company has years of experience in making artistic dolls. The Adora Dolls are the result of the company’s research on dolls in museums and collections throughout Europe. These Dolls are made of vinyl to resemble porcelain and have exquisite faces and outfits. The company started producing these dolls in 2000. The company has years of experience in making artistic dolls.

There are two collections of Dolls. The first is the Limited Edition Dolls which have limited number of dolls in each style. They are sculpted by the company’s in house artists and their outfits are custom designed with exquisite detailing. You can know that they are exclusive as each doll comes with a locket with a photograph of the doll inside and the words Adora Inc and the year of the collection inscribed on it. These Dolls are small in size as they depend on the size of the available fabric. The dolls are 22″ tall and weigh 4#.

The second collection of these Dolls are the “Name Your Own Baby Dolls” they are available in a variety of faces, skin color, gender, hair and eye color. This enables children to have a doll looking just like them. These Dolls have the unique feature of a birth certificate with each doll so that the “parents” of each doll can name their baby, and decide on it birth date and place of birth.

These Dolls are very popular with collectors. Both children and adults like to play with these dolls as they have a realistic appearance and weight. They also come with extra outfits which make playing with dolls more fun These adora Dolls are surely very adorable for everyone.

Deepika