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Ideas for Baby Shower Centerpieces

  There are many things you can use for a baby shower centerpiece. The more traditional centerpieces that are usually used for baby showers are floral arrangements. You can place a selection of your favorite flowers and arrange them in a beautiful basket. If you have a theme color, or motif, you can incorporate it to the décor of your flower arrangement. There are many different sizes and shapes of basket that you can use for your flower arrangements. The best thing about flower arrangements is that they add an element of the outdoors in your home. The freshness and beauty of these flowers would add a delicate touch to your baby shower. If you want to make your centerpiece fun, and more delightful, you can add baby things in your floral basket such as: washcloth, soft toys, baby bottles, bears and bunnies, teething toys, small colorful socks, etc. This would fit right into the theme of the baby shower. But if you don't want to make your own baby shower centerpiece, you can always b...

Shopping For Mobile Baby Monitors

When you're a parent, you need to make use of every probable idea you can come up with in order to provide excellent care to your baby. Luckily, the modern world has brought in numerous parent-friendly products that offer help and support to first-time – or even experienced – parents. Mobile baby monitors are examples of such useful devices that make parenthood more manageable than you would expect, especially if you're a single mom or dad.  What is a Mobile Baby Monitor? In essence, a mobile baby monitor is a radio transmitter coupled with a receiver. The set is synchronized to a predetermined frequency band that gives off a frequency modulation (FM) signal once it is switched on. More often than not, these portable monitors send out signals between the range of 49,830 MHz and 49,890 MHz. Why do you need to buy one? Mobile baby monitors make it possible for parents to keep tabs on their infants without the necessity of staying awake or standing outside the nursery door all nig...

Shopping For The Best Baby Monitors

Looking after your baby's safety is not an easy task. In fact, a lot of parents are willing to spend tons of money just to make sure that they're little bundles of joy are safe and sound. With this in mind, buying only the best baby monitors that the market has to offer seems like an excellent idea. Unfortunately, some people mistakenly translate money for quality. The truth of the matter is that the price tag doesn’t necessarily guarantee that you'll actually get what you need. Like any other products, baby monitors need to suit your lifestyle and satisfy your requirements, even to the slightest of details. So before you purchase one, try to dwell on a number of factors first. These things will not only serve as your guide, they will also help you pick out the best type or brand for your little one.  Range The size of your house, as well as the distance of the nursery from your bedroom – or other vital parts of your home – need to be taken into consideration. If you live i...

EVPs And Baby Monitors: Ghosts or Just Interferences?

Baby monitors are devices that help parents put their tabs on their babies even though they are not are not in the same room? But what if baby monitor transmitters pick up more than what they are supposed to? It has been the topic of discussions that baby monitors, especially audio types, pick up more than just sounds coming from the baby. Some parents tell stories of their baby monitors picking up EVPs. What are EVPs EVP is short for the term Electronic Voice Phenomenon. EVPs pertain to sounds or voices that are allegedly coming from beyond the grave. In the world of the ghost hunters, EVPs are voice recordings that are sent by ghosts or souls that have not moved on. These are sometimes used to prove that there really is life after death. While some ghost hunters use sophisticated gadgets and devices to hunt down ghost phenomenon, there are those who use baby monitors. Baby monitors are good for this kind of activities since they are quite sensitive to sounds as well as other factors ...

Discerning the Baby Boomers Various Faces

Most often, people view the picture of baby boomers like a monolith-everyone is identical. But the truth is the generation of Baby Boomers are slightly distinct from each other. The Staff Writer of The Christian Science Monitor, Kim Campbell, featured in her report last January 26, 2005 the baby Boomer in his mid-50s, Jerry Benston, an African-American New Yorker. According to him, while he was a college student in 1968, the university where he studied proposed to have a more diverse culture. He recalled that he was one of those who protested. His reason, as a Baby Boomer he wants to help in raising awareness regarding the significant issues in the society nowadays. One of these significant issues is the Baby Boomers and how people view them in general terms.  Looking at the outer surface, what you will commonly notice with these Baby Boomers are their similarities. For instance, that several of them survived in the Vietnam War, lived during the era of civil rights, and that their ...

The Advantages and Disadvantages of Wireless Baby Monitors

Baby monitors, just like with other gadgets, have taken advantage of the developing modern technology. What was once a simple transmitter and receiver system have gone up a notch to provide parents the ease of watching over their baby without sacrificing comfort and security. As of today, parents have different choices of baby monitors one of which is the wireless baby monitors. But even with all the advantages these gadgets provide, it is inevitable that there are also disadvantages. Comparing Wireless With Wired Baby Monitors Baby monitors can come as wired and wireless devices. Wired baby monitors, as its name implies, makes use of wires to be able to connect the transmitting device and the receiving device. This is a very good system when it comes to baby monitors the only setback is that, the length of wires makes mobility quite impossible. The receiver would more or less just stay in one place. Wireless baby monitors however are more flexible than wired ones. Since it is wireless...

Overview on the Beliefs of Baby Boomers

The birthrate in the United States of America rose to almost 20% after the World War II (1946). It again increased to another 12% in 1947. Finally, it peaked up to 4.3 million babies in 1957. Therefore, from 1946 to 1964, there were 77 million babies born in America, they were called as "baby boomers". Today, boomers comprise 28% of the US populations since the birthrate returned to normal in 1965.  But the said numbers of babies are considered as a statistical anomaly in the birthrate of the United States according to some researchers. It is because some of the baby boomers have detached themselves in that generation and lives as if they were not born between the years 1946 to 1964.  Discriminations even happened considering baby boomers as different species. They were compared to the 1969 generation where they were marked as the holiest, most curious, and brightest of all generation in the human history.  As the years passed by, these opinions have greatly changed and t...