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By Andrew Michaels

 A newsletter has many purposes and is used by many organizations. Clubs use newsletter printing for updating members on events, projects, and providing educational articles. Businesses connect with customers or employees with newsletters by including success stories, information on new products, and articles on utilizing products. Although newsletters may vary greatly in content, one element that they have in common is the use of a grid.

Many people who receive a newsletter do not have the time to read the entire contents. A grid helps to break up the information for easy skimming. The layout of a novel, in contrast, is only conducive for reading in its entirety, which is fine because this is the purpose of a book. The purpose of a newsletter is to connect with the audience on a regular basis so that they feel involved in and a part of a community. Organizing the text and images into a more readable layout allows even the busiest member or consumer to feel that connection, even if for a brief 5 minutes. That 5 minutes can do a lot for encouraging more involvement from employees when they scan over the success stories.

A newsletter usually contains two to five columns. How many per se does not necessarily matter; what matters is that the text is readable and the images can be positioned either above or beside the information to which they are related. Often, newsletters that contain many short articles utilize more columns, while longer articles can be skimmed easier when broken into two-column grids.

Grids provide many opportunities within newsletter design. One key to effective grid use is to include headers and subheaders for the text. Another technique is to place the photography comments directly below or beside the picture in a separate grid from the article. To save space, many newsletters place the table of contents in the far left column on the front page. Although grid consistency is important for easier reading, some designers choose to break up the monotony by using a different layout or fewer columns on one of the pages.

A newsletter that is both informative and readable will be the most successful in any organization. A grid supports this need in that it provides the organization necessary for newsletter printing that readers look forward to each mailing.

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Breaking News Of Divorce To Your Kids

By suegold

 Divorce can be a traumatic experience for your children. No matter how old they are, the divorce will be hard for them to understand and eventually to accept. Some children in fact harbor hopes that their parents will get back together even after several years of living apart.

Many children feel that they are the ones at fault when their parents break up. Although this may seem illogical to adults, children can find associations in the most incongruous of things. As often attested by revelations during therapy, children often feel that they could have done something to prevent the break-up in the family. There are those “what ifs” and “could have beens”. If they were good and obedient children, would they have prevented the split? If they did not get into trouble in school, would their parents stay together?

One of the crucial moments that parents should take note of and prepare themselves is the way that they will break the news to their children. Although explaining it properly will not necessarily lessen the pain of knowing that their parents will be splitting up but at least a proper explanation will help prevent misunderstandings especially in what caused the break up in the first place.

Remember that young children are very impressionable. Everything that you do, whether you want them to see or not, can mean something. It is important that you tell them what’s going on to avoid misrepresentations.

Below are some tips on how to break the news of the divorce to your kids.

Never make them feel that they have to choose.

Divorce is a traumatic experience as it is without asking the children to choose sides. This will put them right in the middle of marital trouble. This is not fair because the kids are not really part of the problems that you and your partner are having. Pressuring them to judge who is right and wrong can worsen the trauma that they will be experiencing.

Still, during custody battles, choosing sides cannot be avoided. Although in some cases, especially if the children are a bit older, they are asked to choose which parents they would rather live with.

Never badmouth your partner

Remember that whatever happens, your partner is still a part of their lives, someone who they need to respect and love. Whatever troubles that you have in your relationship should not affect the children in any way. As long as your partner is doing his best to provide for the kids and is a good father, there is no need for them to know what a rotten person he can be sometimes.

Explain clearly

Although your children will not necessarily understand completely what is going on, there is no need to create fantastical explanations. Just tell them the truth, that you are going to start living apart and they may have to live with each of you separately or live with one parent for the rest of their lives.

Consider their feelings and try to talk to them about it Divorce can be painful for the couple as they are the ones directly involved but you must remember that kids are very vulnerable and they are not as resilient as adults.

It is not enough that you tell them what’s going on. You also have to ask them what their feelings are about what happened. This way, you are able to address their fears and insecurities right then and there.

As mentioned before, kids often feel that it is their fault that their parents are breaking up. You have to reassure them that this is not true and they were not in any way at fault.

Tell them that it’s ok for them to talk to you about it.

Children will have questions about what happened. They might not be able to verbalize it just yet but they will eventually reveal what bothers them about the situation. Encourage them to come and talk to you if they have additional questions. Tell them that it’s ok for them to tell you how they feel and they will be very much welcome to ask you anything they want. Keeping the communications line open will help ease the tension and clear up a lot of potential sources of misunderstandings.

Author Mr chris Williams is the manager of the free Nigerian newspapers online site which offers a quick and easy access to all reputable online Nigerian newspapers plus facts about Nigeria online.

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