Creative Ideas for Pet Halloween Costumes

If you like to dress up your pet for Halloween, there are many pet costume opportunities out there. From cowboys to butterflies, you can dress up your dog, cat, bunny, or whatever animal you have in a costume that will get the attention of onlookers everywhere.

To be creative in seeking out pet costumes, you have to consider the personality of your pet. The costume that will be a hit is likely to be one that either matches your pet’s personality or one that is the exact opposite. Either will usually get laughs from friends and family.

Creative ideas for pet costumes generally can be started with a simple adult shirt. If you are crafty, you can put together an incredible pet costume in no time, with exact measurements for your own pet.  From super heroes to classic villains to famous people in politics, you can dress your pet up in a variety of characters. Your imagination and creativity is your limit.

Of course you could seek out suggestions and ideas through online sites, and by browsing through a pet store’s selection of costumes. Generating ideas is never a bad thing.

There are some pretty hilarious pictures and examples out there of what people have endeavored to create for their pets. People have made costumes that adapt their pets into spiders, Double Bubble, chefs, police officers, devils, Superman, Elmo, and Uncle Sam. The opportunity to show your creativity will surely put a smile on your face and invite you to start putting your pet’s costume together.

Filed Under: Discipline, Teens

Wthholding Luxuries

When your child or teen does something unacceptable, you have a lot of different options when it comes to disciplining them. You can obviously use physical violence, but that’s rather crude. It also hasn’t been shown to be especially effective at doing anything but making them become either afraid and skittish or violent and rebellious. You can also take a page from more adult methods of punishment, and withhold some of your child’s luxury items from them.

While luxury is a relative term, no one needs the latest tech toys. Such items may be sparkly and fun to show off and play with, but every generation that came before didn’t have them, and somehow managed to muddle through and make something of themselves. In this day and age, such things tend to be seen as an entitlement that everyone needs to have. Because of this silly notion, there is no better way to positively lay down the law than to remove those tech toys from your child’s hot little hands. This sends a message no words ever could.

As well as the toys themselves, you can also eliminate the ability to use the car whenever your child wants. While teens tend to love driving, even younger kids tend to take being chauffered around by their parents for granted. If you take that away and make them walk to whatever fun events they want to attend, this will hammer home that yours is the final say within your household. While some parents might consider that cruel and unusual, unusual things tend to work especially well. Plus, no one ever said you need to go to concerts.

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The Terible Twos: Quite a Milestone

Children in Khorixas, Namibia

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There are numerous milestones in a child’s life, but none are quite as memorable as the age between roughly two and roughly four years old. This is known as the terrible two’s, because this is the first time your child will assert its will and seriously test yours. While most children will frequently test their parents throughout life, this is the most raging period for this kind of challenge, because this is when they learn what you’ll put up with.

A child will test you in innumerable ways, and you have to pass these tests through absolutely indomitable willpower. If you don’t, your child is going to walk all over you for years to come. A lot of parents secretly wish they’d been harder on their kids when they were two later on, because they child will then go on to do more of whatever they were allowed to get away with. It takes years to train a child you gave in to early on, and the process is painful for you and them.

If you are consistent all the way through your child’s childhood, they will most likely grow up to be an equally consistent adult. Rather like when you mix up concrete or feed a plant, what you put into a child is what the world is going to get out of him or her. They don’t raise themselves, and you have to be the adult in this situation. When they’re toddlers, you need to be extra stern, so you don’t have to be later on in their lives. If you act weak, you’ll be regretting it for years.

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