Tips for Kids Parties

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Kid’s parties have come a long way in the last decade due to more options, more expense and more expectation placed on an annual event that runs approximately 2-3 hours. Being in the children’s party industry for over 15 years, I have seen every kind of party from the informal backyard gathering to a virtual carnival with everything imaginable hired.

But don’t be daunted! A kid’s party doesn’t require a big budget or an event planner to be wonderful. I want to give you some great tips to get the party started and the kids really enjoying themselves.

1. Stick with tradition. Children enjoy it when predictable elements appear, and if they are overlooked, it won’t go unnoticed! Definites are: Food, birthday cake, and the all important Party Bag! If you have at least these three things, you’ve got the basics of party.

2. What to provide for the kids. There are innumerable options: Party games; hire an activity or entertainer or have it somewhere that will entertain the kids for you. Rule of thumb: DON’T OVER-DO IT!

One or two structured games are more than enough. Remember, children are already being expected to eat now, cut the cake now, watch the gifts being opened now, etc etc.. When you add entertainers, activities and games, children can quickly become overwhelmed, and the party whizzes by without the children having a chance to actually play.

3. Play time: This element should be the top party essential. Allowing time for the kids to play, run around, laugh and talk with each other is golden. It suits children of all ages and capabilities, and -, it’s free!

4. Age-appropriate entertainment. This suggestion may seem like a no-brainer, however I have attended many parties that result in children being bored or bewildered. For example, hiring a magician-clown for two-year olds left most of the children terrified. Another example is a bowling party for four-year olds. The children had no interest in being competitive and after just a few bowls, the excitement had definitely worn off. And even Pass-the-Parcel can cause distress when played with kiddies too young to realise they haven’t missed out, they just have to wait their turn. When you are hosting a party for mixed ages and genders, there is a wide range of entertainment that will appeal, such as face-painting and balloon-twisting.

5. Try to Relax! When planning your party, plan with your child and use your instincts – you know what they will enjoy most. On the day have a mini run-list so you don’t forget anything, like when to get the party pies in the oven or to hand out the party bags.

And most importantly, enjoy YOURSELF too…after all -it’s a party!

Best of luck!

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Anger management courses help save marriages

“I thought I was in a pretty good marriage with occasional arguments until my wife said to me “If the next year of our marriage is as bad as the last year, I’m outta here”.

She felt as if she was always walking on eggshells so as not to set me off. Any time she disagreed with me, I immediately went on the attack and tried to defeat her point of view by almost any means. So when she told me she had taken all she could stand, I took her seriously and decided that I had to do some frank soul searching to find out why I kept losing my temper, so I could not lose the person who meant the most to me in the world”.

As I looked back many of my habitual ways of dealing with the world were driven by anger. I was an aggressive driver, using my horn and my “freeway finger” whenever people weren’t travelling the way I thought they should be. If the mechanic told me something needed fixing on my car, I was sure he was exaggerating for his own financial gain. I thought I had an unusual ability to see through a hypocrite, and since I thought that most people were, I got a lot of practice of seeing through them.”

This is one story of a man who came to me for help in dealing with his anger problem.

As a Psychologist, I’ve seen many of my clients lose their jobs, wives and opportunities because they were simply not able to handle the normal frustrations and disappointments in life.
They argue, they insult and they sulk.

They come to see themselves as ineffective, unlucky, of just plain losers. They don’t admit this to anyone, but deep inside they don’t like themselves. Their anger gets in the way of their ability to be good bosses, good workers and good family men.

For many men who have been charged with serious crimes, such as assault and murder, it is clear that these are not pre-meditated. These men didn’t start out with the intention of hurting others.

They reacted impulsively, and often out of anger. Someone insulted them and they struck back. Situations they could have walked away from became major confrontations because they did not know how to handle themselves other than aggressively. They know their behaviour is stupid and they don’t know why they did what they did.

Domestic violence programs are over run. Our prisons are overcrowded and even our schools are not altogether safe. But men who are angry do have a choice. No-one can change the whole world, but there are many things you can change about the way you see yourself, others and the world, and come to understand what triggers your anger along with learning what other actions you can take to keep yourself and others safe. Your marriage, your job and your happiness depend on it.

Individualised anger management counselling is run by the Hart Centre Australia. We have qualified Psychologists in 60 locations around Australia who can help you become the man you want to be. Phone 1300830552 for more information on Anger management counselling and anger management courses.

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Brisbane Home and Land Packages

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OJ Pippin Homes have currently sourced great value land for House & Land Packages throughout Brisbane, Gold coast and the Sunshine coast.

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Social Media for Brisbane Businesses Explained

Online social media has totally revolutionized not just the way we interact, but more importantly the way that a customer will deal with businesses.

With more than 700 million people using the internet world-wide, Facebook alone is a gigantic marketing body, with many others such as Youtube, Twitter, Google Plus and Linkedin. Although we are subject to a lot of media hype and hysteria, social media sites have fundamentally changed the way that all kinds of business that has a public presence will operate, and are now as necessary to businesses as an email address and a homepage.

But along with all of the obvious differences that social media has brought to marketing, it is necessary to have a realistic assessment of its capabilities and results.

Unfortunately, with any kind of new marketing bandwagon comes numerous dishonest or impractical companies and “social media experts” which prey on new businesses by over-hyping the potential but being unable to deliver.

Millions of dollars and an immeasurable amount of time is completely wasted on useless social media ventures every year. Social media is not magic. Without solid marketing and business basics behind it, an online social media presence will most certainly fail and -depressingly- be a waste of time and money.

Despite creating the illusion of “free” advertising with ‘zero’ start-up and hosting fees, social media must have a constant presence, fresh content and site maintenance to result in success, and that means valuable time that most companies simply can’t spare. That’s why Social Media Brisbane offers to do all the work for you, while welcoming room for approval and oversight by clients.

Examples of how people often do the wrong thing with social media include:

• Bad Content
Dreary or plagiarised articles, outdated suggestions, and painful attempts to be current are all too common when it comes to content published online. Admit it, people who do business on the internet are generally savvy, and will recognise smarm and condescension in an instant.

• Impatience
Creating a healthy online social network takes time and perseverance. A successful network cannot just spring up overnight, it takes time and content in order to grow. A business may create a social media profile, watch their results for a couple of weeks and then quit in frustration when they don’t get the results they wanted.
This also ties into:

• Consistency
Spacing content out on a regular schedule across several platforms is a lot more effective than using up all your content at once or especially not updating at all. Nobody likes a spammer, but with the overload of information that we encounter on a daily basis, without a consistent reminder of your brand’s presence you will quickly be left behind. Just a fortnightly update will do wonders for maintaining and growing relationships with customers.

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Most importantly, we also integrate revolutionary Search Engine Optimisation methods into our work, something that no other social media group offers.

Choosing consultants who concentrate on gimmicks instead of content and that throw around buzzwords like “viral” or “Web 2.0” instead of showing strategy and goals will simply result in it having been an exercise in frustration.

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