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Little Kids Ask Until They Get What They Want
Mom, Mom, Mom, Mom, can I have an ice cream? Can I, Can I, Can I, Can I? Please, Please, Please, Please. I’ll be good for a whole year. I promise. Just give me a dollar. I won’t ask again for a long time. Pleaseeeeee!

Regular, repeated mailings are the way to create big predictable results. When you mail every 30 days for a year you will cause a dramatic growth in your business.

People respond to repetition. If you are a parent you know how hard it is to refuse repeated requests for an ice cream or a desperately wanted toy.

If you are not a parent, I’m sure you remember asking, even begging for a toy, a treat or permission to stay up past your bedtime, until your parents finally gave in. Your customers and prospective customers are similar. They need to be asked repeatedly too.

Who You Should Ask:

You should be asking 3 groups of people to do one of 3 things:

1.The first group is your house customer list (your own list of existing customers).

You should be asking your existing customers repeatedly to contact you about some offer you make to them for your products and services.

A clear offer with an easy way to contact you should be made, like:

“We will give you 5000 full color postcards for $389, simply give us a call at 800-628-1804 to set up getting your postcards.”

Or some other offer you reasonably believe they will be interested in based on your personal knowledge of them and preferably based on their actual previous buying behavior.

2.The second group is your house prospect list (prospects you have caused to inquire about your products and/or services through your own marketing efforts).

This group of people is interested in your service but hasn’t made the decision to go for it yet. They will be the most likely to respond to a special when you offer it to them.

3.The third group of people are people who can reasonably be expected to be interested in your products and/or services, but who have never purchased anything from you and have never inquired about your products and/or services either.

The likely reason they haven’t contacted you is that they don’t know that you even exist.

You remedy that by contacting them with a series of postcards offering free information about how they can benefit from your products and services.

If this list of people is properly selected and if you make an offer that a reasonable person will find very, very difficult to refuse, then your response rate will be high.

That is the whole game in a nutshell. Create or get a list of people who have demonstrated they are interested in the type of product or service you offer. AND/OR Get a list of people extremely likely to be interested, even if they haven’t already proved they are, by buying from you or one of your competitors.

Once you have these lists of people contact them with postcards which offer them the benefits of your products and services and keep making them offers until they inquire and/or buy from you and then ask them to buy more on a regular basis.

If you do what you have just read about you will have more business than you can shake a stick at.

You will have a smile on your face just like the little kid with a belly full of ice cream he/she convinced mom to buy.

Steve Conn
http://www.articlesbase.com/marketing-articles/the-marketing-secret-every-child-knows-53344.html

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How does the court act in the child’s best interest in a custody action? Following will be some guidelines that are used. The courts may use commonly used or established guidelines. There will be a child custody evaluation. The courts believe in frequent and meaningful access to both parents.

An agreement made by both parents is preferable to a court solution. Parents can go through mediation and or through an attorney. The court can solve the custody matter. If disputes can’t be solved a trial will be held and the judge will make the decision. The family law courts are based on equity, and fairness to both parents.

A child custody evaluation involves an assessment of the child’s needs and each parent’s ability to meet these needs. The strengths and weaknesses will be evaluated. There will be interviews of parents, child, parent and child interactions, and interviews with other people outside of the family will be conducted. The past, present, and future needs will be considered.

The court may at any time order upon consideration all relevant factors that have bearing on the child’s needs. These could include age, station in life, standard of living, financial status and ability of each parent to make child support payments. Payment of child support can vary plus or minus 5% of the guidelines.

The court will determine the primary caregiver that is: who bonded with the child in the early years, and who provides love and emotional support. Where age appropriate, the child may have a preference. Grandparents may be awarded visitation rights with a minor child and do have a legal standing to seek same. However, it may not be ordered that a child be kept in the state or jurisdiction of the court solely for permitting visitation by the grandparents. If the child is residing with the grandparents whether they have custody or not the court may recognize that they have the same standing as parents for evaluation custody arrangements in the best interests of the child.

After the entry of the child support the court will have continuing jurisdiction regarding the child support payments. Terms and conditions, and the amount can change if found necessary in the best interests of the child. In ordering shared parental responsibility, the parents expressed desires may be considered. The court may grant to one party the responsibility over specific aspects of the child based on the child’s best interests. These can include residence, education, medical, dental and other areas deemed unique to a specific family. A provision for health care insurance if reasonably obtained can be required or reimbursed. The court may order sole parental rights with or without visitation rights when it is in the best interest of the child.

In conclusion the court’s role is determined by the child’s best interests. The child custody evaluation assesses the child’s needs and the ability of each parent to meet these needs. The family law courts are based on equity, and fairness to both parents.

IC
http://www.articlesbase.com/marriage-articles/how-the-court-decides-in-the-childs-best-interests-264047.html

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There are ways we, as parents, can help our child grow and develop to become the a great person. We all want that for our child, but do we do all we can to help them do that?
Here are a few great ways to help you child grow:

Love – love you child unconditionally. Weather he dose his homework or not, cleans his room or not. Your love should be way beyond these things. Your child will notice that.

Tell them you love them – Just tell them “I love you”, a few times a day. If you find that difficult, you only need it more.

Believe – have faith in your child’s abilities and potential. Tell him that you do believe in him and his ability. There is no better way to grow a potent adult than believing in him totally.

Set an example – This way your child can learn about the right and wrong straight from your behavior. Always remember that a child will learn weather you set a good or a dab example.

Commend your child every time he acts in a way you find to be a good way. Commending him insures he will act that way the nest time, too.

Tell them what you see as good features – if you think that generosity is a good feature to have, tell that to your child, and commend them each time they act in a generous way.

Remember that each child is different – let every child develop in his unique way and remember that an approach that is good for one child is not suitable for the other one.

Stay positive – Tell your child what’s good, not what’s bad. For example, tell them that “being polite will bring you better results in life” instead of telling them that : “being rude will get you no where in life”

Take a few seconds before you say something to your child. – especially when they did something wrong, pay closer attention to what you’re saying to your child. What’s the smartest thing you can tell him right now?

Tell you child a story that has a positive message for life. I still remember the stories I was told when I was a child and the effect they had on me!

Try to establish a peaceful environment in your home – this will have a lasting effect on the kind of person your child will grow to be.

Look at other parents and learn – take the good things and think how you can implement them with your child. Take the bad things and beware not to do that to your child.

Ask yourself each day – how can I be a better parent?

Being a better parent is not always easy but it have a lasting effect on how your child will grow and develop. Most parents just go with the flow. Don’t be like that. Make an effort to being a better parent. The rewards are priceless.

Ron Hel-Or
http://www.articlesbase.com/education-articles/13-ways-to-help-your-child-make-the-best-of-himself-or-herself-61756.html

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A child with ADHD can control some of his or her behavior problems with medications and therapy. Both the parents and the children with ADHD need extraordinary assistance and support to develop techniques for supervising the patterns of activities. Therapists help children with ADHD cope with their daily problems. The therapists also assist families of children with ADHD in the betterment of their relationships with each other so they can handle the unruly behaviors and encourage change. There are five common therapies that are specially designed to help people cope with ADHD.

Psychotherapy is the most common of all. It works by helping people with ADHD to love, appreciate and eventually accept themselves. Patients learn alternative ways of handling their emotions by talking about hurtful thoughts and feelings. In this way, the patient is able to suppress his or her inappropriate feelings and explore mechanisms of behavior.

Social skills training can help children learn new behaviors that are vital in developing and maintaining social relationships. Social skills training helps the child to develop better ways to play, work and relate with other children of the same age.

BT or behavioral therapy works by helping people with ADHD change their views rather than helping the child realize his or her feelings and actions.

Support groups connect parents and families with other people in the same situation. Sharing experiences with others who have similar problems helps people know that they aren’t alone and gives them a sense of belonging.

Parenting skills training gives parents techniques for supervising their child’s behavior. An example of these techniques is the reward system or gift system, wherein the child is rewarded for his or her good deeds and completed tasks.

Parents’ verbal and nonverbal communication with their children has a direct impact on the way their children talk, act and behave. The more you improve the relationship and communication between yourself and your children, the more you help the child with ADHD to mature into a strong, healthy, productive and responsible person.

Parents must change the way they speak to their children. They must be aware that no one likes to be yelled at. Listening is better than talking and is essential to good parent-child relationship. Listening makes the speaker feel respected and important. Here are few good listening habits: Try to find the positive in what is being said, try to truly appreciate the other person’s point of view , repeat in your own words what you think the child is saying, and most of all listen first before talking.

The more positive interactions the parent and their child have, the better. Parent and child should have time to play together, sing together, dance together, share concerns, and enjoy companionship with each other.

Sue Perkins
http://www.articlesbase.com/medicine-articles/how-to-help-your-child-cope-with-adhd-97754.html

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Some mothers become pregnant unexpectedly, at a time where they are unprepared and feel unable to cope with a child, and all the responsibilities of being a parent. Issues that a person may come across include financial worries or lack of funds, emotional problems or physical disabilities. When faced with pregnancy some people have an abortion; others may not feel that is right to terminate a pregnancy, and some have left it too late as they did not know they were pregnant. One option is to put your child up for adoption – this is a good idea if you feel that you truly cannot care for the child on your own as you don’t have enough support. The following shows the process, step by step, for putting your child up for adoption.

1. Firstly, you should make an appointment to see your General Practitioner before the birth, and let them know that you wish to put your child up for adoption. If you feel more comfortable talking to a stranger rather than your doctor, you can always make arrangement to a professional at your local health centre. They will have all the information necessary about adoption and put you in touch with the relevant agencies. There are many bogus adoption agencies claiming to be professional, so it is important to go to your local health services who have a list of licensed agencies. That way you can feel confident that the adoption agency you are dealing with are legitimate.

2. Secondly, you should get all the information on your medical records if you are going to put your child up for adoption. If at all possible, the father of the child should be encouraged to get hold of his medical records too as this is important information. It is important that the medical records of the child are recorded for future reference. The child’s medical records can get lost in the process of adoption, so it is a good idea to have the parents’ medical records. This is very helpful if a child becomes ill, especially if they need hospital care, to determine what could be wrong with the child, or if there is anything to look out for in the future. It could prove very beneficial if you can also obtain the medical records of the child’s grandparents.

3. Thirdly, now that you have decided to place your child up for adoption, you need to make a decision on whether to have an open or closed adoption. An open adoption allows the parent can continue to have interrelations with their child even though they have been adopted, so that they can keep close ties. Some parents opt for a closed adoption if they want to cease all contact with their child, in the best interest of the child, so that they consider their adoptive parents as theirs. It is more common for parents to choose an open adoption so they can continue to interact with their child and never sever that bond they feel for their child. If this is what you prefer and it works well for both parents, then an open adoption is the right choice for you.

Abhishek Agarwal
http://www.articlesbase.com/parenting-articles/putting-your-child-up-for-adoption-3-simple-steps-740305.html

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