Just about the most momentous times in baby’s 1st year is his first Christmas. Although your child is too young to recollect it, it is a time that you’ll recall the rest of your life. Although every family has their own ways that they celebrate Christmas, here are some fun ideas that you can use:

* Baby’s first ornament. It is such a special tradition for youngsters to be able to hang their first Christmas ornament on the tree while they grow older. You can buy a ready-made baby’s first Christmas ornament, or you can choose to create your own as a fun DIY project.

* The baby’s very first Christmas stocking. Whether you purchase a stocking that is already made specifically for baby’s first Christmas or make one yourself, this is a fun keepsake which will allow you to keep in mind this special time. There are tons of great stocking patterns online that even those moms and dads with little sewing skills can make easily for a fun holiday project.

* Baby’s first Christmas ensemble. You can easily find a great number of choices of holiday outfits nowadays that proclaim “baby’s first Christmas”. You can find cute little rompers for the infants or beautiful and elaborate outfits for your older babies. This outfit is ideal when you are taking the baby’s picture for your holiday greeting cards, and it is fun to be able to have your baby wear during the busy holiday season.

* Baby’s first Christmas images. Make sure that you take just as many pictures as possible throughout the holidays so you can have a lot of memories of baby’s first Christmas. Once the holidays have ended, you can purchase special holiday picture frames for framing these memories, and then display these photos each year alongside new ones during the Christmas season. You also can purchase a digital picture frame that allows you to upload your digital pictures, and you can share these holiday photos with your friends and coworkers.

* Celebrate your baby’s first Christmas by giving. A lot of families celebrate their baby’s first Christmas through a donation for their favorite children’s charities. If you don’t actually have a favorite charity, you may consider giving to the Make a Wish Foundation, the Children’s Health Fund, or the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

It’s also important during this time for you to understand that baby is still very young and that he or she will not care when you don’t possess a lot to spend on gifts. More often than not your baby will like the colorful wrappings and bright ribbons which are wrapping the gift much more rather than what is within the box. This is a good reason for you not to concern yourself with the lack of ability to afford the best and biggest gifts. This is a special time for togetherness for the family, and there’s no cost that can be placed on the memories that you will make as you celebrate the holiday season with your new little one.

If you are a parent that runs their own business and employs some staff, then HR is going to be one of your biggest headaches! Why try and fumble your way through the intricacies of todays HR laws and practises?

Workplace Strategies (www.workplacestrategies.co.za) are a specialust outsourced HR company that will handle all your HR requirements – from hiring, firing and anything inbetween.

Here is a brief bio of what they do:

Workplace Strategies CC is a Cape Town-based consultancy assisting organisations with workplace issues.

Our core expertise is in providing employers with labour law advice, helping them to navigate complex employment laws and introducing best-practice human resource management.

Labour Law Advice

Workplace Strategies appreciates the challenges employers face to comply with a multiplicity of labour laws and our advice is based on a sound knowledge of legislation and its ramifications.    We also understand business and the dynamics of employment relationships and our solutions are delivered with a view to the various commercial and practical considerations of any issue.

Our labour law advice includes methods for ensuring legislative compliance, assisting with disciplinary and performance issues, chairing internal disciplinary hearings, managing redundancy programs and preparation for concilition or arbitration in the CCMA.

Employment Law Advice

Workplace Strategies understands the need for employers to implement valid and up-to-date employment documentation and we appreciate the vital role that employment law plays in risk management efforts, particularly in protecting confidential information and implementing safeguards that continue after an employment relationship as ceased.

Our employment law services include drafting and implementing contracts of employment, independent contractors’ agreements, restraints of trade, non-disclosure agreements and workplace policies.   Our employment law offering also extends to workplace conflict resolution, such chairing disciplinary hearings and private mediation and arbitration services.

Human Resource Management

Workplace Strategies offers human resource management services on two distinct levels.  For larger clients, our services take the form of assisting internal human resource departments as a third-party advisor.     In the case of employers in the SME sector, we provide an outsourced-HR Manager to take control of human resource management within the organisation.

Our human resource management initiatives include implementing performance appraisals programs, introducing workplace policies, assisting with recruitment processes, handling performance and disciplinary matters and chairing disciplinary hearings.

Workplace Strategies also assist organisations in developing skills in the labour relations field and our internal workplace training programs include Labour Law for Line Managers and Conducting Disciplinary Hearings.

Strategic Planning & Other Specialised Services

Workplace Strategies has developed particular expertise in delivering strategic planning programs.   We work with companies and Non-Profit Organisations (NPOs) to facilitate group meetings of key stakeholders for planning purposes.   Our interventions enable an organisation to implement short-term and long-term plans that are achieved through consultation with those involved and which clearly set out objectives, responsibilities and methods of measuring success.

Workplace Strategies also has unique skills in optimising workforces, implementing employee retention programs and managing the human capital issues during corporate restructuring.

If you are like us and appreciate the importance of your human capital, we would like to work with you.

www.workplacestrategies.co.za

Children and animals can be treated using Kinesiology, EFT, Quantum Touch and crystal healing.

Kinesiology is a wonderful alternative health technique for animals, children and babies. Many alternative health techniques place a great deal of emphasis in taking a case history and then analysing this to arrive at a conclusion for treatment. With babies and young children this can be a challenge for any practitioner. This is where kinesiology has a major role to play.

So kinesiology is an information gathering technique. I work to raise the base level of energy in the body and there are a variety of correction techniques divided into four categories: structural, nutritional, emotional and energetic. These techniques are simple and non-invasive.

How do you test a baby or animal? Obviously, with animals, babies and small children testing can prove a challenge. In this instance I use a surrogate (usually the parent or owner), someone to stand in the place of the baby/child/animal being tested. The surrogate is linked to the baby/child/animal so I can gather information about the baby/child/animal by testing the surrogate. In practice this is very easy and results generated this way are as good as testing the baby/child themselves.

I use kinesiology, quantum touch, EFT and crystal healing to work with babies and children all the time. They usually thrive under this type of care. I have helped babies with a whole range of assorted childhood ailments from colic and sleepless infants to skin conditions, emotional upsets and childhood diseases.

Children and babies are naturally healthy, joyful, energetic and full of life. This is their natural state, and healthy infants are a joy to behold (ask any mother). If your child is not in this state there is a reason – please, for their sake, find out why. Babies only cry when they are distressed or upset – please find out the cause.

If you are interested in getting help for your child please visit www.capetownkinesiology.co.za