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“What did you get for Christmas?” This is one of the first questions that a child asks his friends when they return to school after the holidays. With this year’s economy forcing parents to cut back, experts believe it is a good time to teach children about some of life’s challenges.

Children’s psychologists agree that it is more important to be together during the holidays than to simply buy gifts because the love children feel from the attention you give them will last longer than any present. And when we teach our children the value of giving to others, it gives the holidays new meaning.

Many parents are also going to have to make some difficult decisions about the cost of childcare because they simply cannot afford it anymore. To qualify for childcare assistance through the Department of Social Services, a person must be working.

Over 10 million Americans are out of work and another 6.7 million Americans are working part-time. More than 7 million Americans are working part-time. As parents lose employment, as their hours are cutback, they are taking their children out of organized child care and making due with whatever affordable situation they can find. One problem: families with no resources for childcare are turning to young family members to care of their younger siblings.

Families rely on childcare when they are at work, but it is also a great social outlet for children who look forward to it every day. But today, more and more families are being forced to drop out of childcare, due to the economy. This trend signals difficult times for families.

According to the National Association of Child Care Resource & Parent Referral Agencies, day care costs nationwide can run from $3,380 to $10,787 a year for just one preschool-age child.

Some other interesting statistics on the current economy and its impact on children include:

Apx.11 million children under age 5 spend a portion of their day, every week, in the care of someone other than Mom.
-A child of a working mom spends about 36 hours a week in childcare.

With the current economic crisis, quality child care is even more important to the healthy development of each child. For many low income families, child care is the only place that children receive a nutritious meal and snack, given that food is often one of the first places parents sacrifice.

Parents must unders that when it comes to childcare, each state has a star rating system. The more stars required, the higher educated childcare employees must be in order to meet the standards.

One way to cut costs without sacrificing is to seek lower cost, in-home childcare. And remember that once a child hits school age the working parent would regain that income.

Maybe the growing economic stress will demand that businesses find ways to be more family friendly and find ways to work parents who have young children.

Kristin Gabriel
http://www.articlesbase.com/education-articles/bad-economic-times-affect-our-children-714259.html

This may be a stupid question, but I’ve never tried using a gift card at an outlet before.

Why not?

Tell your story. What was the pitch for? What did you get? Did you fall for them or reject it?

My story: Wife and I went to Gatlinburg, TN., got two nights in a motel, dinner out, and a $100 visa voucher at an outlet just for listening to Windham Resorts blab for an hour.

The announcement makes it look as though you will get something valuable for nothing. But that is not true. You will have to earn it by sitting through a long sales pitch, often of more than two hours, and frequently using high pressure tactics. For that, you will earn the cheapest of the "gifts" listed.

Any suggestions for some side trips when in NC and GA. We’ve been to the Atlanta area and Stone Mountain and the mountains of NC. Looking for something interesting and different. We also like outlet shopping or unusual places to get gifts.

You can take a few hour side trip in Baltimore to do some historic travel, and then take MD-295 to the Arundel Mills Outlet Mall. It’s a win-win side trip!

We are in high school and I was going to ask her by asking if she would like to go out with me to go get lunch at (expensive restaraunt) and then go walk around the outlet mall.The reason for the outlet mall is becuae I got her a gift card to hollister. So would that be a good way to ask her out? If not, please give me suggestions. Thanks

Expensive restaurant? While you’re in high school? I have to say it sounds pretty romantic and well planned, but this stuff could pretty much scare her off.
You’d better ask her out to the movies or get a sandwich at the local bakery.

Also the whole Hollister gift card thingy is a little bit too much. Just ask her out and have a good time, don’t overwhelm her with unnecessary expensive stuff.

please,need help
I’m thinking of buying from dell outlet online…

If the outlet accepts coupons and is operated by Dell, there shouldn’t be a problem. A gift card is essentially the same as store credit.

Don

I’m saving up for a MacBook, and if I get it at the Apple Store it costs like fifty dollars more than on Amazon, and then I have to pay for the tax which will be like seventy bucks, and it would just be so much easier if I bought it on Amazon. But, I just got a fifty dollar gift card to the Apple Store, is it possible that I could use that on Amazon because they have an Apple Outlet?

Nope. Odds are you will qualify for the education discount at the Apple online store & save some money there. Also the shipping is free, but yes if Apple has a store in your state they have to charge you sales tax.