Rexanne's Web Review - Issue #14

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WELCOME ALL NEWCOMERS!

Happy Father's Day to all our terrific dads and granddads! You are loved and so appreciated, guys! This issue of the web review is dedicated to you! Father's sites online to browse, thoughts on fathers and special dad treats. :-)

Please stop by my full-service Father's Day site for last minute holiday goodies: Rexanne's Father's Day -
Cards, gifts, graphics, kid links, food & cooking pages, other Father's Day sites and homepages!

Also, be sure to check out my best 'net pal Martha's great new page: Summer Catchall - Loads of yummy summer and ice cream recipes to die for! I'll be keeping folks updated on her new pages through this newsletter. She's too lazy to do her OWN e-zine! I say we all invade her email with insists that she just do her own newsletter already! LOL! She'd most definitely be an excellent editor!

"My kids think it will kill them to pick up anything. I tell them to clean up their rooms, and they sit in there until I'm about ready to pull out hair (theirs, not mine). But I make them stay in there (and ignore all their arguments) until they are done. They put up too much of a fight, and I take away something they really wanted to do, or make them do more. Either way they finally finish what they are told to do. I usually wait until the weekend and tell them they have to clean before their friends can come over. Since my house is the neighborhood gathering place, they hate that! LOL! Get them where it hurts the most! But it only works if you keep doing it, you know that."

"I so agree with what you wrote this week about the way children behave in relation to other people. I think it is so important that they grow up with a healthy respect for the feelings and boundaries of others, and whilst it is OK to act out at home from time to time, it is not OK for them to encroach on other people's space and disrupt it. Bad manners and rudeness is antisocial and, after all, one of our most important jobs as parents is to socialize our children so that they can live in society competently."

"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." (David O. McKay)

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There is no doubt that mothers play an all-important leading role in the lives of their children. They are the obvious heroes of child rearing. But what about a father's role? Just how important are the dads of the world compared to the almighty image of mother? My belief is that fathers play just as important a role as mothers. Different, yes. Possibly not as nurturing, not as all-sacrificing but just as important in the developmental and emotional well-being of a child.

Dads are the solid foundation of our lives. They are the shore we swim to when our arms and legs feel increasingly tired. They are the strength we rely on as we take out first tentative steps into the world. Dads can be tender, tough, fragile or powerful but they are probably the most uncomplicated love we will ever know.

For daughters, Daddy is the first man they adore ... the first man whose eyes shine with overwhelming amazement when they look at us. He is the first man to fall in love with us.

For sons, Daddy is the idol they first aspire to emulate ... their mirror image of what will be and possibly the only man they will ever feel comfortable loving.

Daddy is the first man who held us, as a loving parent, with a lump in his throat so huge, only the joy of that love could erase the overwhelming pain of choking on unexpected raw emotion. I think when a father holds his newborn baby, he is touched by pure vulnerability for the first time in his adult life, leaving him forever humbled by the unexplained miracles of life.

For mothers, the father of our children is the one person we can trust to watch over our babies as closely as we would. We are secure in the knowledge of their love for our precious offspring. Dad is the only other person in the world as fascinated with every nuance and murmur of our babies. He is the one person on the planet with whom we can indulge our need to brag and carry on about our kid's accomplishments and heartaches ad nauseum ... one who will be just as interested and never yawn in the face of our devotion.

Without dads, we wouldn't be moms. I would like to take the liberty of thanking them from all our hearts for this honor and for being our partners in this business of raising children.

I wish every father reading this a very Happy Father's Day. Know how much you are loved and revered. You are our trusted soldiers and we need you more than you will ever realize.

This first link is dedicated to all my dad readers who are inspired by their part in raising great kids. This is the "Fatherhood Initiative," dealing with the US government's studies on the importance of fathers: The Fatherhood Initiative

Now, because I also think dads need to laugh about their roles as omnipotent male wonders, I would love to share one of the funniest essays on Fatherhood I have ever read, written by W. Bruce Cameron. The following link is to an account of one man's foray into the hell of his first camping trip with his son. Be prepared to laugh out loud! Father & Son Camping Trip

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Rexanne Mancini is the mother of two daughters, Justice and Liberty. She is a novelist, freelance writer and maintains an extensive yet informal parenting and family web site, Rexanne.com – http://www.rexanne.com -Visit her site for good advice, award-winning Internet holiday pages and some humor to help you cope. Subscribe to her free newsletter, Rexanne’s Web Review, for a monthly dose of Rexanne: http://www.rexanne.com/rwr-archives.html

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Beeangel's recipes for what Dad's love ... short ribs, banana pudding, cheese cake, baked beans and even a MacDonalds Big Mac recipe! Sound like recipes your dad or hubby would love on Father's Day? It sure hit home with the men in MY life!

Beeangel's is a super recipe site, with other holiday-inspired pages plus many traditional family recipes. Be sure to hit the "home" button to browse the rest of the site for future meals!

Bon Appetit! -----------------------------------------------------------------------

Cool page to create an award for Dad or Grandpa to send via email or print out and present in person! Well, I suppose kids could also snail mail an award to their special guy, huh? Do people still do that? ;-)

This is a very cute, design-your-own page where the kids can create an award tailored specifically for each recipient. This award printout can also substitute for a physical card attached to a gift. That's what my girls are doing for their dad and grandpa this year!

The kids will find other Father's Day activities on this terrific site so let them click and surf!

Tip or Trick of the Week:
"Mail Order Tip"

Reader Tigerpoo sent in this great tip about mail order purchases:

"If you write the name, address of the company and what you've ordered on the back of the check you send, you'll have the information readily available in case you don't receive the item."

Got a tip or trick your fellow readers would enjoy or could use? Please send it here for possible publication in one of the next issues: T ips

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Weekly Time Waster: Video Poker
(Because life is supposed to be fun!)

OK guys ... time for a little game of Jacks or Better. Yep, we have everything a guy (or gal!) could want online these days. ;-)

Poker is one of my all time favorite games and this little gem of a page will help keep your money in your pocket while you enjoy the thrill of hitting a big hand or going bankrupt. All in the privacy of your computer! Have fun, go for the royal flush and live a little!

Mempenny creates some of the very best home pages! The song on this page has always been a tear bomb for me. I choke up every time I hear it. The lyrics are so true of how fathers feel about their daughters and vice versa. I can see my daughter's daddy in this song and it touches my heart to know he loves our girls this much.

This whole site is amazing. So many pages to explore and read. Lots of inspiring poetry and fun pages so do have a look around after viewing this one.

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I have personally checked out the links provided here but they could possibly lead you to any number of bizarre and/or offensive sites. Surf at your own risk. The DIRECT links on this page are all family friendly unless stated otherwise. While this newsletter is family friendly, it is not necessarily intended to be read by children. Parents should always monitor their children while they are on the Internet.