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October 22nd, 2008

How To Paint Over Wallpaper

This article details how to paint over wallpaper. It describes the tools which will be needed as well as step by step instructions.

Copyright (c) 2008 Smoky Mountain Painting

Painting over wallpaper is a subject that is taboo amongst many in the professional painting industry, however if your wallpaper meets certain criteria you can paint over wallpaper with little or no problems. The first thing that you will need to do is determine if the wallpaper is in good enough condition to paint over. By this, I mean that you must check for any loose seams, rips or tears in your wallpaper. If you have any loose seams they must be glued prior to painting. If you have numerous rips or tears, then you will be well advised to go ahead and remove the wallpaper instead of trying to paint over it.

October 9th, 2008

Great Expectations Are Not Always So Great!

When we have very high expectations for our children, they start believing they have to achieve them to make us happy. This article relates the author’s experiences with her own high expectations for her son, Ryan.

Ryan, my first-born son, started reading when he was three. At four, he attended a Montessori School, and before long he was pasting continents on a map and naming all of them. My husband and I were so very proud of him, and we often asked him to demonstrate his talents in front of interested (and not-so-interested) friends and relatives. Amazed and overjoyed that our son could name all of the continents, we failed to pause and realize that at that age he didn’t really understand the concept of a neighborhood, town, city, or country, let alone a continent. So while his ability to dazzle us with his intelligence had great entertainment value, it really was little more than a parlor trick.


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