«Now you can bring the Angry Birds experience from your smartphone to real life,» explains the web page at Amazon, which identifies it as one of the best
gifts for children of 2013.
Our mission is to dedicate ourselves and our resources to create superior quality, innovative soft toys and
gifts for children of all ages using unique, playful designs that help instill a love of learning and create everlasting childhood memories.
If you think volunteering at a program that improves neglected schools with paint, construction, etc. in our community, or donating to a program that purchases christmas
gifts for children of convicts (a program our church participates in every year) and I could list more... then I have no words for you.
BFS Capital participated and employees and their families contributed more than 170
gifts for the children of South Florida who may not have had a present at Christmas.
Not exact matches
You may still have time to
gift or transfer ownership to
children (or to a trust
for the benefit
of future
children or other relatives) at a discount to the ultimate selling price
of the company.
Last year, one such company, Dovden Investments, launched at least 35 lawsuits against Canadian organizations — including a school
for gifted children in Alberta and a pair
of individual developers
of free public - transit apps — that ostensibly stole the obscure intellectual property in its portfolio.
At issue: the IRS's claim that Redstone owed $ 737,625 in unpaid
gift taxes, dating back to his 1972 transfer
of stock in National Amusements, his family's private holding company, into trusts
for his two
children.
Just consider the financial risks entrepreneurs run,
for example, if they give company stock to their
children as part
of a long - term estate - planning strategy — only to have the IRS step in years later and challenge the claimed taxable value
of the
gifts.
For people who plan ahead and make annual
gifts during their lifetime to
children and grandchildren, this can be an effective tool in reducing the size and tax bills
of future estates.
These types
of accounts, where financial
gifts to a minor are held in a custodial account until the
child reaches adulthood, offer another option
for saving
for your
child's education.
Instead
of giving toys or clothes
for birthdays, holidays, or other occasions, ask loved ones to make a
gift this way, as it can make a more lasting impact on a
child's life.
The repeal
of estate and
gift taxes is especially problematic because it would provide a window
for the very rich to use
gift and trust structures to ensure that their wealth passes without tax not just to their
children but to their grandchildren and great grandchildren, regardless
of subsequent legislation.
Bottom line, investing can make a great long term
gift, especially
for a young
child that has the long term benefit
of time.
There is now an easy way to purchase shares
of stocks or ETFs as a
gift for other people and even
children under the age
of 18.
For example, parents may want to
gift to a
child via a large life insurance policy, but they hold back out
of fear that the death benefit might reduce the
child's motivation to pursue a degree or build a career.
It will be a wonderful
gift for the rescuer to see that he not only saved the one life but the many in the form
of his
children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren.
No longer then is the bearing and rearing
of children thought
of as a task we should take up or as a return we make
for the
gift of life; instead, it is a project we undertake if it promises to meet our needs and desires.
To lose, even in principle, this sense
of the
child as a
gift entrusted to us will not be good
for children.
Personally, I can not imagine a worse judgement
for sin than to have my
children brutally murdered, and the greatest
gift of this life (being a parent) taken away from me.
We are not serving
gifts of stone or snake
for the
children who ask, there is only a Father
of Lights handing out bread to the entire hillside, this is a party.
God is not serving
gifts of stone or snake
for the
children who ask, there is only a Father
of Lights handing out bread and wine to the entire hillside, this is a party.
Surely, a God that is supposed be all things that are good would not refuse one
of his
children for using the most important
gift from God and that is the ability to think.
Because, by taking the
gift of choice away, the
children would never reach the potential desired
for them by the parents.
So
for me, through the iteration
of Christmas mornings, these words about word and flesh connected not just with the Christ
child but with thoughts about
gifts and giving.
He started coordinating Christmas
gifts for dozens
of children, sent hundreds
of kids to class with backpacks full
of school supplies, and found ways to help families buy insulin, pay their electricity bill, and find jobs.
For the record we believe: the Son
of God is Jesus Christ, God the Father is Elohim as described in the Old Testament and is the creator and Heavenly Father
of every human being and Salvation is a
gift given EVERY
child of God obtained through the crucifixion and resurrection
of Jesus Christ.
The gospel witnesses to the
gift of God
for all God's
children.
For us to receive this
gift of salvation, we must BELIEVE and RECEIVE the
gift from Him, «Yet to all who receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become
children of God.»
In his recap
of the visit, he urged the Church «to re-propose the sacrament
of matrimony as a
gift and indissoluble commitment between a man and a woman, the natural environment
for the welcoming and education
of children.»
But it is not just creation alone which groans; we who have the Spirit as the first
of God's
gifts also groan within ourselves as we wait
for God to make us his
children and set our whole being free.
This capacity
for treating the sexual identity
of children as crucial to spiritual formation is one
of the best
gifts a Christian parent can give to a
child growing up in a world incapable
of respecting sexuality.
As an American Jew, I enjoy all holidays... Jewish and Christian... I love to see the happiness
of children at Christmas time and their anticipation
of gifts... the joy
of children at Chanukah with the prospect
of getting
gifts every day
for 8 days... it's innocent... joyful... and absent
of malice.
Much
of the material he is already familiar with,
for gifted children invariably do a great deal
of reading.
The nub
of the book
for me, as perhaps
for many, is the chapter on conception,
children and family planning — «The
Gift Bears Fruit».
And not just the nonhuman created order — even we ourselves, as Christians, who have received the advance
gift of the Holy Spirit, are now groaning within ourselves,
for we are also waiting — waiting
for the transformation
of our bodies and
for the full experiencing
of our adoption as God's
children.
One thing makes me feel very uncomfortable when I see parent fools their
children by lying to them that an old dude with the name
of Santa will come and get you
gifts or anything you wish
for... and they put things under the tree and make these poor
children know that these are from Santa... and its being done generation after generation... parents now were victimized when they were
child by their parents and they are repeating the same with their
children and it is now in a loop and no one seems to be wanting to get out
of the loop which is plain lie and very clear... but these poor
children has nothing to do as they under the custody
of these parents...
In liberating our marriages we give our
children a precious
gift, the model
of a mutually - fulfilling man - woman relationship, which is one
of the best preparations
for their future.
-LSB-...] He reminds the couple in his sermon that their greatest achievement will be the nurturing
of children like themselves; their greatest reward will be that which their own parents have here and now, when they stand in the benches behind their own
children at their weddings;
children who will thank God above all other things
for the
gift of a good and truly Christian mother and father.
Waqfs were established to furnish trousseaux
for orphan girls,
for paying the debts
of imprisoned or bankrupt businessmen,
for clothing
for the aged, to help pay village and neighborhood taxes, to help the army and the navy, to found trade guilds, to give land
for public markets, to build lighthouses, to help orphans and widows and the destitute, to care
for the needs
of poor school
children and to give them picnics, to pay
for the funerals
of the poor, to provide holiday
gifts for poor families, to build seaside cottages
for holidays
for the people, to distribute ice - cold water during the summer, to create public playing fields, to distribute rice to birds, and to give food and water to animals.
But the Lord had chosen a mother
for that baby, and a
child for that mother — nothing is more loving, our friends found, than helping a parent to receive the Father's
gift of life.
As a parent, I read the passage with even wider eyes — imagine being asked to sacrifice your
child, the beloved
gift that you have waited
for all
of your life.
Justice Goodman learned that the couple, who don't believe in celebrating Halloween or saying Santa Claus is real, celebrated Christmas with the
children, purchased
gifts for them and shared photos
of the holiday with their mother.
This is a great way to bring
children into the spirit
of the Advent season through biblical stories and images, and Ann Voskamp has quite a few resources
for doing this well: The Greatest
Gift: Unwrapping the Full Love Story of Christmas, Unwrapping the Greatest Gift: A Family Celebration of Christmas, and a whole Web site full of FREE printable ornaments, coloring pages, cards, gift tags, e
Gift: Unwrapping the Full Love Story
of Christmas, Unwrapping the Greatest
Gift: A Family Celebration of Christmas, and a whole Web site full of FREE printable ornaments, coloring pages, cards, gift tags, e
Gift: A Family Celebration
of Christmas, and a whole Web site full
of FREE printable ornaments, coloring pages, cards,
gift tags, e
gift tags, etc..
Some
of these churches encourage infants or
children to be presented and blessed in a service which usually involves thanks - giving
for the
gift of the
child and also the commitment
of the mother and father to Christian parenthood.
After all it is not difficult to understand the value
of gift dimension
for people who know the growing experience,
for example
of a
child.
In this context, most Christians continue to hold up as an ideal
for all who can reach it, a faithful union
of a woman and a man who love each other and are open to the
gift and responsibility
of children.
And on this night when hope and fear grew calm The Wise Men knelt where
Child and Mother were With
gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh
For king and god, for soul and body's ba
For king and god,
for soul and body's ba
for soul and body's balm.
So this year as you start the process
of getting
gifts for your family, please also begin a tradition
of giving shoe boxes to
children around the world that are longing to feel that powerful, tangible touch from the God that loves them.
Also, husband and wife often will not communicate about fertility and
child - bearing — the woman just takes the Pill and that's that — which reinforces a lack
of respect
for his wife and the
gift of her fertility.
Finally, the prayer suggestions are both relevant and beautiful and serve to emphasise further how much couples have to gain from coming as close as they can to the Church when striving
for the
gift of children and struggling with fertility difficulties.