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Guest Post: Preparing the Family for a Move

February 12, 2012 By

There are many reasons for a family to move homes. Sometimes they want to upgrade their living space or be closer to a parent’s place of work. Sometimes they want to get into a certain school district or be closer to family and friends. And sometimes, especially considering today’s housing market, they have a burdensome mortgage on their current home and aren’t ready for a new home loan or refinance.

Whatever the reason, however, there’s no doubt that a move can be a stressful and challenging time. It requires hours of packing, logistical planning, and negotiating. There are forms to fill out and moving companies to research. But even amongst all this commotions, it’s important that every parent take time to prepare their children for the move ahead.

For a child, moving isn’t a hassle or an opportunity. Instead it is usually a scary and uncertain time during which all the comfort of home are pulled away from them. While most children will quickly get over their fears and create familiarities in their new home environment, some will emerge from the move traumatized and more withdrawn. For this reason it is important that you adequately prepare your children for the move beforehand.

Here are a few suggestions:

-Be upfront. Some parents, afraid of unduly worrying their children, avoid informing them of a planned move until a for-sale sign is in the front yard and preparations are well under way. This can leave a child with less time to process the situations. It is, therefore, better to sit down with your kids once you are certain a move will happen and let them know exactly what’s going on.

-Show them the new house. Instead of letting your children dwell on their loss of your current house, take them with you when visiting the new house to meet with your agent or with the current owner. Let your kids explore the yard, pick out their bedrooms, and generally start getting comfortable with the surroundings. This will give them a softer image of the place and hopefully generate some excitement for the move.

-Promise familiarity. When told that their family is moving, many children immediately seek out reassurances that their lives will not change. They want to know about their bedroom, their school, and their friends. As much as you can honestly promise, tell them that these things will remain unchanged. Promise them that their rooms can look the same in the new house as they do in the old.

These are a few of the tips to keep in mind when preparing your children for a move. Although your kids may not be packing or actively participating in the move itself, they are strongly impacted by it nonetheless. Make sure, then, that their concerns are fully addressed before any actual moving takes place.

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Guest Post – Do you have a mouse problem?

May 21, 2011 By

The Easy Sealing Mouse Trap: Why Snap When You Can Seal?

Snap! If you have a mouse problem in your home and you’ve set an old-fashioned mouse trap that kills by means of a snapping bar, that’s a sound you’re probably familiar with. But when you go to investigate, do you cringe at the thought of the mess that aaits you? Or maybe it was just a false alarm and the trap activated by accident, catching nothing but thin air? Even worse, what if the sound is immediately followed by something terrible—the sound of a screaming child whose little fingers are caught in the trap’s painful grip?

While this type of old-fashioned device is an easy mouse trap, easy doesn’t always mean effective or safe. Even if a snapping trap catches a mouse instead of air or fingers, it doesn’t necessarily mean that the mouse is dead. And even if the kill is successful, you’ve really only won half the battle.

Killing a Mouse Doesn’t Always Stop It from Harming You and Your Family

The truth is, even if an easy mouse trap like a snapping trap, or sticky glue-filled tray does kill your mice, it does nothing to prevent the spread of disease. Mice are riddled with disease- carrying parasites like fleas and ticks. When a mouse dies, these leeching pests will simply look for another residence, like your kids, your pets or you.

Sealing In the Kill: The Only Way to Keep Disease Away

The only way to truly solve your mouse problem is to not only kill the mice, but to eliminate the problems that come with those old-fashioned easy mouse traps. You need an easy mouse trap that kills without fail and without a mess, while preventing the spread of disease within your home. In short, you need an easy sealing mouse trap.

The Easy Sealing Mouse Trap: The “100-Percent Solution”

The good news is that there is a mouse trap that not only kills mice easily, safely and effectively, it does so without a mess and prevents the spread of disease, parasites and odors. A sealing mouse trap is the ONLY way to kill mice each and every time while offering the most hygienic mouse-killing solution available.

To use the easy sealing mouse trap, you begin by removing the small sealing hatch and spreading it with peanut butter for bait. After you reinsert the hatch, you place the trap near a wall in an area where mice are known to frequent. When the rodent drops by for a meal, it enters the trap, activating the internal “kill bar” in the process. This powerful metal jaw kills the mouse 100 percent of the time, with no chance for escape.

When the kill bar is activated, the red fluid-tight door closes and creates an impenetrable seal. Bodily fluids, parasites and odors stay inside the trap—100 percent of the time. The seal also keeps little fingers and pet paws out—100 percent of the time.

When the trap is full, you just pick it up and throw it in the trash without ever having to see, touch or smell the dead mouse. Simply put, there is no safer, more effective, more hygienic way to solve your mouse problem than with this easy mouse trap.

Don’t Let a Mouse Take Over Your House—Get an Easy Mouse Trap That Seals the Deal

You may not be aware of this, but for each mouse you see prowling around your home, as many as 10 more could also be present, just waiting to spread disease to you and your family. When you use an easy mouse trap that kills and seals, you’re taking a big step to curing your rodent problem and all that comes with it once and for all.

 

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