Free printable Day of the Dead or Dia de Los Muertos coloring pages

Dia de los Muertos is the Mexican Day of the Dead celebration. The Latino holiday is near Halloween, but is celebrated on November 1 and 2. Dia de los Muertos is similar to Halloween in that participants dress in skeleton and death-themed costumes. But the resemblance ends there. Day of the Dead is a Catholic ethno-religious festival that celebrates life after death in heaven. Here are free printable Dia de los Muertos coloring pages and skull themed patterns and crafts.   Free printable Day of the Dead or Dia de Los Muertos coloring pages

Halloween alternatives: All Saints Day party games, Bible Catholic saints games

Catholic Christian families are you looking for Halloween alternatives? Why not celebrate a Bible All Saints Day (Nov. 1) or All Saints Eve (Oct. 31)? It's the real feast behind the Halloween festivities. All Hallow's Eve was celebrated by pagans in anticipation of All Saints Day in the Catholic church. So have an All Saints Day (or eve) party: that way your kids can still participate and won't feel left out when other kids trick or treat. Or you could let kids go trick-or-treating dressed as saints. Or you could do trunk-or-treating at your church. Here are All Saints Day (or eve) party games, Bible games and Catholic saints party games.  Halloween alternatives: All Saints Day party games, Bible Catholic saints games | Examiner.com

Sweetest Day gifts: Romantic personalized presents outside the box and vase | Examiner.com

Sweetest Day is the third Saturday in October: Oct. 17, in 2015. As always with holidays, the buzz is on the best gifts for sweethearts said Fox 6 Now on Oct. 15. Stores and advertisers would have you believe romantic gift-giving is about spending big. But remember, there's a lot of competition for your gift buck. The most romantic Sweetest Day gifts are personalized presents. Stores and vendors are ripe with advice about what your sweetie supposed wants. They're sure women want gifts of chocolates, cards and flowers. (Hint, they don't). This Sweetest Day, think outside the box, envelope and vase.Sweetest Day gifts: Romantic personalized presents outside the box and vase | Examiner.com

 

Want to heal depression, relationships? Quit 'phubbing' and put the phone down

Do you want to heal depression, relationships and damaged social interaction? Quit "phubbing" and put the phone down! Glamour reported Oct. 3, that phubbing is Baylor University's term for phone snubbing. And this casual behavior is causing a world of hurt. How? Well, it's pretty obvious that people everywhere are obsessed with their cellphones, talking, texting, playing games, socializing. They interrupt, annoy and cause accidents because they can't stop checking the phone. But new research says it more than just annoying. That very communicator device that is damaging real communication. Cyber interaction by phone sabotages real-time relationships. People who can't leave their phones alone depress their partners.  Some even hide cellphones and glance on the sly, so they can pretend to be engaged when they are really texting or playing. Parents are especially prone to this kind of phubbing. For a supposedly "smart" Want to heal depression, relationships? Quit 'phubbing' and put the phone down | Examiner.com

phone, that's pretty ignorant behavior.