Holiday Child and Teenage Mannequin Displays

Are you looking for ideas for bringing your mannequins to life this holiday season?  Good for you!  So many retail stores simply throw a Santa hat on their mannequin and say that they're done.  Getting your displays ready for the holidays should be a fun and creatively satisfying experience.  Your efforts are more beneficial if you actually create scenes that evoke holiday feelings of wanting to give in your customers.

Here are a few ideas that you can use in your retail window displays.  Use them as a guide or simply as inspiration when designing your showcase display.

A lot of parents will buy clothing for their children during the holiday season.  Parents will want to see their children in a certain light.  If you create a display that makes children look precious, loving, excited or happy this holiday season, you are sure to pull at the heartstrings of the parents.

Use child mannequins to create Christmas morning scenes.  Lighting is important here because harsh lighting and fluorescent lights can detract from the feeling you are trying to communicate.  You can even have your window display box dimly lit with lamps, electric candles, or Christmas lights.  This is the time of year when you can really increase your sales, so go all out on your displays.  You can build a staircase coming down with the children peeking through the bars.  They could spot Santa playing with the puppy that he is leaving for them.  Another idea is to communicate a child's excitement when they are opening a gift.  Or, you can show a child sleeping peacefully by the fire.

Here are some ideas for older children.  Teenagers are really like young adults and often buy presents for each other.  So, you really don't have to target parents to have an effective teenage window display, but you do want to keep parents in mind.  Teenagers are really into accessorizing, so use a lot of your accessories like purses, hats, and jewelry when you set up your mannequins.

An idea involving teenagers could be something like a female mannequin opening her locker to discover a small wrapped gift from a secret admirer.  You can have a group of male mannequins hanging around, seemingly uninterested, but one boy is secretly looking at her.  You can also set up a "best friends" scene.  You can use a dress mannequin or two to show two girl friends giggling and whispering.  Behind them, you can place a shy looking female mannequin and a male mannequin passing her a gift.

Whenever you come up with an idea, ask yourself if it purposely communicates a feeling.  Is this a feeling that your target audience is looking to find when they shop in your store?  If so, then your mannequins can make a big difference in your sales this holiday season.

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Holiday Child and Teenage Mannequin Displays

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Understanding family relationship Problems

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Raising good children

As parents we set the model for what our children see as important to us. Every day we are faced with many choices. The personal values we have help us to make those choices and so there is no better time than the present to "practice what we preach."

What we hold true in our lives is demonstrated by the everyday examples that we set in our lives. The "little things" are the big things when it comes to developing moral fiber in our children's lives. The way in which we respond to needs, the attitudes we take in accomplishing our chores, the tone of voice we use in answering questions are all essential in character education.

Virtues are objectively good human qualities; they have a claim on our personal and collective conscience. How do we share these with our children? Here are a few tips from the research:

Spend time together, learn to really listen, and talk through issues and how your family would deal with them. Show your children they are a priority in your life.

Talk about the things that are important to you. Take an example from a television or news article and ask your family "what would we do in our home if this happened?"

Model the actions you expect from your children. Respect is a cornerstone of good character. It is essential to value the individuality of our children and treat them the way we desire that they treat others. Look for words of character at school or other places in your community and the opportunity to explain what it means in your family. Raise a child with character, a child who will do the right things, and make the right choices in the journey of life.

 

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Joint family in India

What is a family? More than one person living together is a family and there should be blood relation among them. In olden days, everybody in the family would respect and obey the words of the eldest person in a family. Whether right or wrong, his decision would be final. Living in a group is the basic characteristic of humanity and everybody would show love and affection towards other members in the family. The family members would get security when they live together. All the responsibilities and the works of the family would be shared. All the members would be getting support from other members in the family, in the activities outside the family. The nurturing of children is not at all a problem. As per Indian culture, the joint family is the traditional form of living and everybody accepted this way of living, in the olden days. Recently, there is a sudden change in the lifestyle which gave way to separate families. Many joint families broke into smaller separate families with a father, mother and children. In India, have we lost the charm of joint family? In a joint family the children would have got more security than in the separate family, because in a separate family both the father and mother would be employed and the children would have to spend most of their time in loneliness. The little time available to the parents would be spent in performing the household works. The parents could provide whatever the child needs in the form of money, comforts, all the treasures and luxuries. But, what about the love and affection they missed from grandparents and other elders? Of course, in a separate family the parents are more affectionate towards the children and they do lot of sacrifices for the sake of children. The child needs physical development, social development and emotional development in the growing age. They learn the qualities of interacting with others, learning from others and sharing with others, in a joint family well than in separate family. In a separate family the child has to keep attachment on non-living things only, as the parents would be out of home for most of the time. The parents would be hunting for money in order to keep the child happy. Money alone will not bring all the happiness in the world. The family values should be taught to the children by their parents. The parents should take up the duties of all elders in the joint family. At times, it may happen that when all the members in the family scatter and form small separate families, the elders in the family would be left out uncared. It is not proper to leave the elders of the family and neglect them, because they are aged and suffering from illness. They might have done a lot to us in the early stage and it is our duty to show gratitude to them. We should take proper care of them until they die peacefully, in a normal way. It is our primary duty and we should not forget it, while living in a separate family also. The appropriate arrangement for taking care of them should be made. In tune with change of time, the lifestyle has been changed so as to bring all the family members in one place, at the time of functions and festivals. That is good. We may live in separate families but our hearts should be united, to extend any type of help to other family members at any time. The love and affection should be forever and separate family should not be a barrier to such things. The charm of joint family should not be lost at any cost. We should strive hard to keep the family values intact and our children should inherit all the good qualities of joint family and adapt it to separate family, without loosing the essence of charm.   Source: SACHING

Parents role in Child Care

Raising children is the most important job in the world. Raising children is a wonderful and challenging life experience. Here's the problem: people assume that raising children is only the job of the mother, men do not take child raising seriously in our culture. If raising children is so hard, why do people still want to have kids? Downgrading the importance of raising children is the greatest evil of our times. It is time to face it, raising children is the responsibility of  father and mother. Raising children is a never-ending job. Raising children is much harder than it looks, but with patience and hope, children can mature into very emotionally-secure adults.  father and mother play a very important role in when raising children in a safe and loving home homes.  father and mother recognize and deal with their children's most challenging traits in a positive manner.  father and mother earning low or moderate incomes are under extreme pressure to meet the costs of raising children and overall household expenses. All  father and mother face challenges in raising children.  father and mother decide to accept the responsibility of raising children. Therefore, workshop models for teaching  father and mother how to cope with the stress associated with raising children has been developed. Child care is a partnership. Child care is a necessary part of life for many families. First-time  father and mother explore and document the care and development of a human baby. Do you feel comfortable with someone else taking care of your child? Taking care of yourself is a vital part of keeping your child safe. No job is more important to you than taking care of your own child. I don't think that the care of children should be gender specific. Good child care provides  father and mother with an extended family to help share in the challenges and joys of raising children. Creating a stable family environment and raising children should be a joy. It recognizes the critical role that the family plays in American society and in raising children. Poor family values and poor communication skills with children is what leads children to rebel. Siblings can cause many joys and frustrations in any family. It is difficult to balance this philosophy with a family life that places value on raising children. Raising children is not an easy task. Raising children is at heart a practice that engages and embodies a rich variety of developed and undeveloped theories. The smartest advice on raising children is to enjoy them while they are still on your side. Like all  father and mother, they have found that raising children is both challenging and unpredictable. It seems to me that raising children is a catch-22 when it comes to finances.