As the words to a popular song goes, love is a battlefield, a scene that one can imagine in homes with hard-headed problem child or teenagers with really serious problems such as substance abuse or gang membership or even criminal activity. Behavioral and developmental psychologists have recognized that a child’s character starts to genuinely take shape at the early age of five or younger, and that tough parenting or authoritative parenting should therefore start at such an early stage. Moreover, if implemented in the correct manner and with consistency, the need for more drastic types of tough parenting techniques would be eliminated when the children get older and serious behavioral problems become increasingly prone to crop up.

More than many of us realize, our parenting style impacts how our child grows up to become an adult affecting whether he or she becomes a well-adjusted, productive member of society capable of handling any curve ball life may throw at him or her, or whether he or she turns out to be a so-called “child-adult” with no coping skills that ideally should have been learned during childhood. Child psychologists and counselors with expertise on modern parenting categorized parenting styles into four general types:

1. Liberal – high level of caring, low level of discipline.
2. Autocratic – strict, low level of caring, high level of discipline.
3. Detached – hands off, low level of caring, low level of discipline
4. Authoritative – firm but fair, high level of caring, high level of discipline.

Here are the seven ways in which journalists can benefit from using Pinterest:

1. One of the best benefits of the social media site is that you can be able to show or post your works or stories online. Many companies now have already been doing this to promote their stuff like USA Today showing gift ideas and TIME showing its weekly covers for their magazines. It is also a great way to share your stories online with other people.
2. You can find ideas for any trending stories that you may want to tackle or discuss for your journalism activity.
3. You can post pictures and videos in Pinterest to show everyone what is happening elsewhere. This is good if you want to show someone and you’re far away from the person. If you are a journalist, this is good to deliver fresh news through pictures and videos.
4. Since the site is picture based website, you can look for images if you want to your story to have an image.
5. Photojournalist can post and sell their works via Pinterest. Just put a price and the website where it can be purchased.
6. Pinterest can be an online storyboard. If you are trying to make a news story. You can create a storyboard either by using online images or posting your own pics and videos. You can also do research for your story project via Pinterest.
7. You can make your own story or magazine by getting fresh articles or stories and combining it with top pictures or images at Pinterest.

A blogger usually use a pseudonym in writing his blog or in blog commenting. A pseudonym is a fictitious name that a writer uses to hide his real identity for some reason or another. It is also known as a pen name. They say that people who uses pseudonyms often gives better blog comments that those though uses real names. Some reasons for this fact are the following.

• Pseudonyms mask one’s gender. Bloggers use pen names to hide their gender especially if the topics are gender related issues. Some readers would react if a female blogger is commenting about male related topics and vice versa. So if you are a woman and wanting to comment on a male related posts without fearing that readers won’t believe your opinion is to hide your gender. In this way you can comment without bias and say whatever you want without thinking of gender problems. Pseudonyms not just hide gender but also personal traits like age and nationality.
• Pseudonyms are used to hide your personality from someone who can affect your writing style. For example, if you are an employee by daytime and writes blog during nighttime, you may want to use pseudonym to hide your identity from your superiors or subordinates. If in case your boss found out that you write, he would think that you are using your office hours to do your writings and will assume that you are not focusing on your job as his employee. In this way, your writings can be affected because you might want to stop your blogging just to show your boss that your work is far important than writing.
• A writer uses pseudonym because he doesn’t want his writings to affect his good name and clean reputation just because of the opinions that he is trying to raise.

Building teamwork is not as easy as it seems. It is a fact that the group consists of people with different personalities, which may appear difficult to unify. However, with the help and initiative of a leader, you should be able to meet halfway. A leader should identify a clear vision of the team. You should take time and effort to arrive at a mutually agreeable set of expectations, and this blended different personalities together. It prevents personality clashes and communication breakdowns. The clarity of goals should motivate you because you know where you are going. Also, it provides for a successful accomplishment even though the task at hand may be challenging and daunting.

Building teamwork also provides a positive relationship between team members which creates a supportive environment that can turn the most disheartening work-oriented challenges into a stimulating learning experience. It will develop you into a powerful complementary team wherein you make each other feel secure, safe, validated and affirmed of your essential worth and identity. It encourages one another and share information that will help each other in achieving the goals.

In building teamwork, you are accustomed to not only accepting responsibilities but also to being accountable for the results of your endeavors. There may be times that you will feel hurt within the team, but with teamwork, you wouldn’t allow it to distract or hinder the team’s progress. So instead of focusing your attention on that, acknowledge the teamwork by doing some team building activity like playing group games and eating dinner altogether as a team. With teamwork, sometimes the paths you take are long and hard, but often times, these are the ones that lead you to the most breathtaking views.

The first group of friends is “friends in need”. In most cases, this relationship between two persons has each one innerly consenting to having the other benefit from the association. This friend may be your godmother or godfather, or neighbors. He can be your subordinate, your secretary, whose work and contribution you will need so that you can get recognized for the job done. At worst, he can be someone whose company you need even if you do not enjoy it – a situation where if you do not have his company, then you are left with none at all. He is therefore, someone you need for your own interests. In fact, he can also be a rival for a particular pursuit.

The second group of friends is “friends in sharing”. These are friends you go out with because you share the same interests at that time – movies, parties, sports, hobbies, etc. they can be your childhood playmates with whom you have shared your younger days. They can be a lover, with whom you share intimate moments. Your confessor or confidante is your friend because you share problems with him. A business partner, with whom you share common business interests, is another “friend in sharing”.

“Friends indeed” are the third group of friends. When a person would not want something bad to happen to you, when he wants you to grow up and develop, he is a true friend. He may be your boss who would be happy to see you go up with him or be in his level someday. He may not even mind you being ahead of him someday, because he knows your capabilities and he knows his too. You can work together. This friend would be willing to give a part of himself to you and not wanting something in return.

For all our human follies, we cannot expect all our friends, or even ourselves, to be a friend indeed. Friendship is a measure of how much we realize that we may have been the first or the second type, but that we strive to be worthy to belong to the third kind.

• Lock the doors. Although hotels are equipped with CCTV cameras, you would not know when danger comes your way so better be prepared for it. Ensure that doors are locked at all times. When someone rings the bell, make sure you peep in through the hole and check who the person is before opening the door for them.
• Know the numbers to call. Upon checking in to your room, ask people from the reception area the contact numbers to dial in case something happens. In case of emergencies, you should also have numbers of hospitals, police stations, and fire departments. Make sure you are prepared with all the contact information you need just in case you need help with something.
• Do not leave your kids alone in the pool side. Many hotels hire lifeguards to watch over people who swim by the pool but it is still better if you watch over your kids yourself. Leaving them by themselves can get you and your kids into trouble and may make them susceptible to other possible dangers such as getting lost around the hotel.
• Make sure you keep your things guarded. If you are going to leave your hotel room, make sure you lock the doors so that you can secure your things inside. Aside from that, it is not advisable for you to bring things and gadgets when you decide to take a dip at the pool. Lastly, make sure you have some contact information placed on your belongings so that people may contact you just in case they find your things somewhere else.

Matching funds are funds added to your 401k fund by your employer together with your usual contribution. The contribution of your company is generally smaller than what you contribute, it is approximately 50%. This is done as an encouragement by employers to their employees to participate in 401k plan rollover. Companies however do not profit from this investment but they may use the funds for any other purpose.

There are many things to know about 401k rollover before deciding about it. The following are some facts about 401k turnover that you should know, good or bad:

1. 401k rollover avoids you from tax deductions.
2. 401k plans can be transferred.
3. 401k plan rollover gives you full control of your investment.
4. In case of company merger, your investment shall be moved to the company’s new rules and regulations.
5. If you are aware that your company is going down, then you can transfer your fund from your old company to the new company.
6. With an IRA rollover, you can withdraw your money unlike in 401k account, you can’t.
7. Transferring your 401k account to an IRA account is more beneficial and flexible.
8. 401k plans actually depends from company to company.  To be eligible in investing money using the 401k plans, your employer should participate in the 401k programs.
9. You must be 21 years old and above
10. Your employment within the company should be less than a year.
11. Your employer is not the administrator of your fund but the financial institution that you chose to control your account.
12. Employee contribution is the money deducted from the employee’s payroll to deposit into the plan.

The use of social media is very widespread. Because of this, many entrepreneurs have grabbed the opportunity of it in promoting their businesses. Two of the most famous social media sites are Facebook and Twitter. The use of these social networks in business has been tremendous for business owners for a variety of reasons.

Cost efficiency is one of the many benefits of social media. For any entrepreneur, a huge income means a successful business. Of course, a great way to have a large income is to minimize expenses. Social media helps entrepreneurs minimize expenses because there are no fees involved. You just have to make your own site for your business, and make it public for everyone to see. There is no need to pay for suppliers to make you banners, flyers, business cards, etc. Social media networks can display your advertisement with no limited time unlike on other ad approach. Entrepreneurs who used social media for their marketing said that their business had an amazing result in terms of business operations and income.

Another benefit of social media is ease of use and efficiency. Since computers and internet are easily available nowadays, the use of social media for marketing is easier and more efficient. Entrepreneurs can be able to handle time management well because they can make and publish their marketing promotions at their own convenient time and place. This is especially effective if you are a computer literate who knows how to make advertisements for your business. Social media is not just advantageous for the entrepreneurs but for the customers also. Through this, they will learn about your business without having to go to your shop.

• Your strength is in numbers. Truly, when it comes to SEO, you need to be bookmarked in a lot of sites to establish a good ranking. Know social bookmarking sites that will give you high rankings and establish a good reputation on those sites. Be active in backlinkings in different sites, blogs, and forums. The key here is to make yourself visible in many sites and in sites that rank well in search engines.
• Use what people speak of, the use of keywords are important. In web SEO, you need to know what keywords people frequently search into and use that not only in your title but also in your entire blog posts or article. It is important to do market research or use internet marketing software available online for you to determine the keywords that are popular and are widely used by people.
• Use keywords that are searchable but not those that are widely used by your competitors. You have to strategize your keywords as well. Do not opt for keywords that are widely used by a lot of other businesses because it will be too hard for you to compete especially if they are already established brands. Instead, opt for keywords that are still widely used but are not as popular as the others. You can also use keywords that branched out of the popular keywords.
• Monitor, monitor, monitor! With web SEO, there are many tools available nowadays for free for you to test your campaign strategies. Google applications such as Google Analytics, Google Adwords, Google AdSense are just some of the tools you can use to monitor your improvement and tweak those that need changes. Explore the capabilities because these are possibly endless.

- Search, browse & play millions of tracks.

- Explore & play your friends’ playlists, top artists and tracks.

- Stream over WiFi or 2.5/3G – all your existing playlists are available.

- Offline playlists – play your music without an internet connection.

- On-the-fly sync – every track you add to a playlist appears on mobile and computer.

- What’s New view.

- Receive music from friends via the inbox.

- Starred tracks – tag all your favourites into a special list.

For music lovers out there, this surely isn’t new to you. Perhaps, you have already enjoyed all the above mentioned features. As one writer puts it,  “Spotify’s enormous market share no doubt is related to it being a truly “native” application, and while it is definitely more popular with the under-25 crowd, it still is popular enough to supplant other internet activities including “use of community sites, IM, blog reading and game playing.”

However, Spotify could be a real threat to those music companies or the so called Big Three Labels and other major studios who provides original (yet expensive music CD’s/ DVD’s). This issue hasn’t gone unnoticed in the world of music. It is undeniable that our younger generations now prefer to acquire music by downloading or signing up to a certain music site rather than getting a collection of CD’s that will later on just add clutter to their room.

On the other hand, a keen observer who made a thorough study about this issue showed that file sharing and music buying goes together. According to them  “If we compare file-sharers with those who do not share files, we find that there is no difference in how often they buy CDs. However, a larger percentage of file sharers pay to download individual songs than those who do not share files.” And this is exactly how Spotify operated.