Advent, this is not just a calendar with 24 little boxes to be opened by children to make them wait until Christmas. Advent comes from Latin and means the coming of the messiah.

Of course the religious origin is a little (lot) lost to the Germanic tradition from which the famous calendar. Children love to discover every day a treat or a small toy. Parents, or grandparents, some hobbyists realize themselves and some do not lack imagination. This is something I'd like to do my turn when I'm granny.

Some sites offer to print calendars and coloring, which is an alternative to the traditional calendar rather expensive that all parents can not afford. It will amuse kids and they will be proud to exhibit their work.

Imagine that there are even Advent calendars for dogs and cats! No, no you do not seeing things and the worst part is that it is sold 30 € and that the stores are out of stock. This means if you are away from the religious spirit and frankly it's anything.

In the month of Advent are related sayings and I chose this one: the month of Advent is rain and wind, pull your cap to the teeth. Clearly if December's windy and wet, the winter will be harsh. Observe the good weather this month to know that the months of January, February and March.

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Removal of two small twins Livia and Alessia ago by their father more than a fortnight is one of the newspapers . The wildest rumors are running about them and I listen to the information in the hope that at last they are found.

This type of case is unfortunately becoming more common and children are the hostages of their parents separated. There is actually nothing more cruel than depriving a father or mother of his children. I imagine the anguish, the interminable wait between hope and despair of the mother Livia and Alessia.

What mental torture for her to read the note from her ex husband telling her that the girls rested in peace and that they had not suffered. And the investigation progresses, announces new features, witnesses ... so there is hope. The route taken by the father, certainly too desperate to reach such extremes, is incomprehensible. Why travel to Corsica with the two girls then go to Italy to end his days? All this is irrational behavior but a person's suicidal impulses can it be?

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The first love remains buried deep in our heart and our whole life he devotes a special affection. I experienced this first emotion to 14 years for a boy of four years my senior.

This platonic love lasted over two years, until the beautiful Yves dumped me for an "old" for her age. Swept our letters romantic, our kisses, our laughter and our shouting matches that never lasted. In the excitement of my adolescence I had adorned with all the qualities and there he fell from his pedestal.

For me it was the best with his copper hair, his thin profile and sleek. I was admiring before this boy who was studying at the law school while I was still in high school. I would have followed the end of the world, I made her blind trust. My brothers made me angry, mocking what they saw as a flirtation. They knew nothing!

I still remember the immense grief, the first of my young life, which kept me away from my friends for almost two years, almost as much as the duration of our history. First love is an unforgettable experience that shapes our personality. No flirtations that followed before meeting the man to whom I linked my life with all the sacraments, and has marked my memory. They were as wisps.

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Once again the issue of school rhythms stirred Ministry of Education , teachers and parents associations.

A large reinforcements of medical experts said they supported the pace too, deplores the imbalance between school activity and sport and cultural activities. It's weird but I like coming back decades. This speech I have heard time and again; reflection on the subject was undertaken as often as you can legitimately ask why we did not solve the problem.

5-day week or 4-day week? Extension or reduction of summer vacation? How to hold the program, also to review, incorporating new activities? Some advocate the welfare and development of the child, others defend their gains or economic standpoint.

Sport is good but there should be more equipment, more sports trainers, then the bill may be heavy. It's also not counting the impact on merchants, employers ... School on Saturday morning amputates the weekend that parents creates a shortfall for hoteliers, restaurateurs, and finally all those who live off tourism .

Employers will tear his hair in order to establish the schedule of holidays. Spreading the holiday had been made to maintain activity and allowed some flexibility to take time off but if you reduce the duration of the summer holidays, all parents support their children will want to leave at the same time.

And children in all this? Those who have no school on Wednesday, but working parents find themselves in daycare. So they get up at the same time as the other day and do not take advantage of this break in midweek.

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The rulers have sacred concerns when they do not mind the crisis of unemployment or the financing of pensions . All these issues that trouble the French leave their still time to legislate on the tender butt of our little darlings.

To hear the anti spanking, these harmless as we thought, this "corporal punishment" as they call it is traumatic for children and demeaning to parents. My father must be turning in his grave and many others of his generation as well. My poor mother was safe and well far from thinking that my brothers and I would be scarred for life by the pats she gave us in desperation when we were doing something stupid.

It's funny because if there was trauma I really have a vague memory of those spankings that surely I deserved. I do not feel traumatized and I do not hold it against my parents. At no time have I felt so they had lost their authority and that my affection for them had been altered.

Of course we must not mix everything up again and sort of spanking on a par with child abuse. The latter in all its forms disgusts me. But can one seriously speak of abuse for a simple slap on the buttocks of a boy?

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I told you that I was going to the movies very little, you'll think I lied! Yet until very recently it was the absolute truth. But with my tickets to 9 € 30 for the concert I had two seats at € 5 for Monday or Tuesday. The occasion being the thief, I used this promotion to see Le petit Nicolas.

I had read the reviews of users on Cinéfil and most talked about film refreshing, funny served by the children's natural ... and blah blah blah! I'm not going to say I'm bored but frankly it's hardly a few aftershocks have got me to sketch a faint smile. I could go with chapped lips without problem.

I found this film so inconsistent and the idea was good, I think it could be better exploited. Kad Merad has found the right tone and never fell in excess. However Valérie Lemercier is outrageous at a time and she finally hit me squarely on the nerves.

Are naughty children are fun but again we end up falling into the grotesque and exaggerated. Too bad because they all boiled friendly and lovable as they are all children.

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You'll think I fall in childhood and why not after all, it's not so unpleasant sometimes to keep his inner child.

I found a hobby that will also address both children and their parents or their grandparents. This is the deco windows .

What does it it is it? This is a special paint that is applied to sheets and laminated to peel after drying to decorate, guess what, windows and mirrors.

The technique is very simple. You insert the model chosen design into a plastic bag, from those found in the stationery department, and the distributor of black paint you draw the outline. You let it dry and then fill the grounds with the colors of your choice.

Rather than buying sketchbooks I went online looking for coloring books. Be careful not to choose models with too many details because it requires very precise and it will be difficult to take off without tearing the topic.
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In the middle of July the school supplies are already invading the shelves of department stores . Poor kids! The holidays are just beginning and are reminded that they will not last.

I am no longer concerned for a long time by these purchases, but I remember how I found it painful for me to spread the endless list developed by the school.

Three spiral notebooks in which two large squares and small squares in the first two pages of 100 and 200 of the other, a true equation to solve. A square, a compass, a flute and a book of musical theory let alone protect notebooks with the improbable pink required by the teacher. of physical chemistry. In the pockets there are all colors except this one! So you have to run the shop and back on the bookstore downtown that sells supplies prohibitively expensive.

I'm not talking about the list of books most of which is not used, books that will remain in the majority of time at home because the teacher. the matter in question has chosen not to use it.

Then we must resist the pressure of children that flash on the kit and the satchel most expensive because they are adorned with the logo to the last mode.

What a pain! Finally we have to go through it to secure the future of our little ones and our lovely teens. Anyway it's nothing compared to the quarter-end meetings with the teachers' board.

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A friend just told me that she thought the man a lifetime to leave her and their son. After so many years he abandoned his wife and child to another and plays great lords saying she can keep everything, the house , the furniture , the crockery .

Keep everything, so half the way it is entitled, as if that were enough to accept the unacceptable. This is to forget the sense of betrayal, love scorned, grief that gnaws the heart like an infamous disease, anxiety for the coming days, to rebuild the future with a child of twelve should be protected and reassurance. The tears he opposes petty reproaches, bringing on the carpet the housekeeper he paid, proof if proof were needed of his machismo in his mind because this task fell logically to his wife.

And she is idiot for not having guessed earlier than his many travels, his late returns home hiding infidelity. But she was an absolute trust, blinded by love. The candor can not be equated with the bullshit, however it must have a hell of a lot not to realize how lucky he was to have such a woman, totally devoted to his family.

The fact of separation it is not for me to judge, whether the harm is shared or not but I totally disapprove of this way of trying at all costs to ease their conscience by blaming those who are being ignored . I am appalled by the fact of being a responsible father to believe because we announced that we will participate in educational expenses on submission of invoices, and what not. Pay half the expenses is he going to compensate for the absence of a father? Is it really all that a father owes to his son?

My girlfriend swallows her tears and grief to soothe her child. It is worthy in the event and gathers all her courage to take his life in his hands. She dares not consider the precarious aftermath because it is quite destitute, having paid all his wages on the joint account while he had a personal account. And that this joint account was used to Monsieur to afford to buy the bike of his dreams!

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Once will not hurt, I ask you a riddle: this ticket. In your opinion which launched the idea of ​​celebrating dads once a year? I can already hear the gossips respond that these are the traders who have seen the benefit they could derive.

Well no, that's right for the party secretaries, grandmothers but not for this one. This is a brand Flaminaire Breton (round hats they long live Britain ...) which is the origin of the first day of celebration of French fathers. Doting father, daddy, all dads are at the party.

Introduced in 1952 but never formalized as was the case for Mother's Day, it appears on our calendars on the third Sunday of June. So Sunday the children will tend proudly to their daddy the gift they have made ​​with love and that's really the best gift. Heat two big kisses on the cheeks plated itchy worth all the gold in the world.

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