| I'll stray away from the traditional ideas of gift giving | | | | much time behind a computer screen and not enough |
| for children and suggest something different. How | | | | time out there where we all were 30 years ago. |
| about a gift basket for children that actually saves | | | | Something I've been doing for years is putting |
| you time and money? You know what I mean. The | | | | together gift baskets for children. These will come at |
| days of just giving one gift per child is gone. You | | | | Christmas time, birthdays, graduations and even |
| know it and I know it. | | | | when one of them loses a tooth. Ten years back |
| I don't know about you, but things have changed | | | | this was easy. We had more time and things weren't |
| since I was a kid. My childhood years were filled with | | | | so expensive. |
| running around and dreaming of the things I knew I | | | | You can't just pass of a basket full of articles and |
| deserved, like a bicycle, some things to build like | | | | think it's going to be welcomed with big smiles and |
| Lego, and maybe a coloring book or two. | | | | wild hugs. Nope. You actually have to make these gift |
| Children in my era didn't have the luxury of receiving | | | | baskets cool... and I mean really cool. There is plenty |
| gifts like the XBox or the Nintendo Wii. I'm actually | | | | of help out there. You as a Father or Mother just has |
| thankful for that because of what I see today with | | | | to get computer literate and seek the advise of a |
| children's development. In short, they spend too | | | | frugal shopper. |