Are you in a relationship? Do you wonder about whether you are with a perfect girl or a guy? Or perhaps do you still have a doubt with your relationship or probably missing out on something? The best thing for you is to try taking a relationship quiz. It could probably be the single most effective solution that can clear all your doubts, queries and questions pertaining to your partner and even your relationship. Taking part in such quizzes can help you reveal the inside secrets of your relationship that you may never have known about. These quizzes are available everywhere, newspapers, magazines and even on the internet. The best thing to do is to try searching out for some on the internet, on some dating websites or couples networking websites. These are the places wherein you can find an array of such relationship quizzes for free.

Each of these relationship quizzes is designed specifically by the relationship experts considering the facts that you want in a relationship and what you don’t want in your relationship. These quizzes are categorized on an array of topics. All designed with different set of questionnaires that help you to choose and find the best partner. There are also quizzes that can help you to know your partner and relationship well. However, one of the most important aspects in any relationship quiz is that you should pay very close attention to the questions and answer them truthfully. Paying attention and answering the questions truthfully is the ultimate key to learn more about yourself, your relationship and your partner.

As stated there are many relationship quizzes available out there. One of the most popular types of quizzes is the theoretically based quiz. In such type of quizzes you are placed into a situation and asked how you would deal with some critical situation. Chances are that you may come across a situation that you may have never faced in the past and perhaps you may have never thought about. However, the main aim of such quizzes is that you really need to be honest with yourself and find out the best possible answer pertaining to how would you response in such type of situation.

Overall whether you are opting for newspaper, magazine or online via couples networking website, a relationship quiz certainly proves to be one of the most effective ways that allows you to know more about yourself, your partner and your relationship.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away. In the male enhancement industry, this roughly translates to “a natural male enhancement supplement a day keeps your doctor and erectile dysfunction (ED) drugs away.” Products that are marketed to boost your sex life are currently all over the Internet and herbal male enhancement supplements are leading the way. But just what is so special about these so-called natural penis pills anyway?
Male enhancement supplements, like most dietary supplements, are manufactured using natural ingredients like amino acids, essential fatty acids, herbs, minerals, and vitamins. Good health is associated with excellent nutrition. In the same way, certain natural substances help boost your performance in bed. The best male enhancement supplements deliver the finest aphrodisiacs to your system, giving you larger, longer, and stronger erections. They work by increasing the flow of blood to the spongy erectile tissues inside your penis. As your penis holds more blood and keeps the blood inside longer, the quality of your erections increases.

Natural penis pills increase your libido, boost your stamina, increase your semen volume, and improve your sperm quality and motility. Improved erection quality increases your chances of bringing your partner into climax. Increased semen volume helps heighten your climax and orgasm intensity. Improved sperm quality and motility, of course, helps boost your fertility. Some male enhancement supplements even contain ingredients that helps improve urinary flow and support your prostate. The improved sexual performance brought by natural penis pills improves your confidence and self-esteem inside and outside of the bedroom.

Male enhancement supplements are convenient and discreet. You do not need to lock yourself up in your room to do penis exercises, put on your penis extender, or hang a penis weight. You do not need to embarrass yourself in front of your partner when you bring out the penis pump. You do not need to feel the pain caused by penis weights and penis extenders. You avoid the scars and potential permanent impairment and disfigurement that come with going under the knife for male enhancement surgery.

Perhaps the best part is that you do not need to go to your doctor and get a prescription. This is also the potential downside since the Food and Drug Administration does not monitor natural penis pills. It is up to you to do your research and read male enhancement product reviews to avoid buying inferior and ineffective products. And if you are suffering from an illness and taking any prescription drugs, you should go to your doctor or consult a pharmacist to make sure that the ingredients in a male enhancement supplement do not interact with your medication.

I often hear from people who are struggling to restore their confidence or self esteem after their spouse has cheated or had an affair. Often, they will tell me that they are a completely different person after the affair. And many intuitively know that in order for their marriage to survive, they are going to need to effectively deal with these insecurities.

I heard from a wife who said: “my husband cheated on me with a much younger, much prettier woman. When I found out, he said he would break things off and it appears that he did. We have been working on our marriage and I feel like we’re making a little bit of progress. But I do have problems with being very insecure. This wasn’t an issue for me before he cheated. Yes, I’m older, but so is he. I take relatively good care of myself and I feel like I’m relatively decent looking. But I can’t compare with someone who is much younger, prettier and skinnier than me. My husband says the affair wasn’t about her looks. He says it was about his own desire to be young and desirable again. But what does that mean for me? I can’t change my age. So I can’t make him feel young around me. And now every time we’re out and there’s a young, pretty girl, I feel insecure. I worry that my husband is staring at younger women and I find this a little disturbing and pathetic. And then and I look in the mirror and I see an aging, miserable woman. The sad thing is that before he cheated, I actually liked what I saw in the mirror. I would never want to be young again because I am so much wiser than I used to be. At the same time though, my husband has proven to me that he likes eye candy and he will pursue a younger woman. He tells me that he loves and is still attracted to me, but how am I supposed to believe this when he’s proven otherwise?” I will try to address these concerns in the following article.

His Infidelity Doesn’t Change Anything About You Or Your Physical Appearance: I know that you might think that this is easy for me to say, but it really isn’t. I was in the same situation that you are. And I too looked in the mirror and worried if I was pretty and sexy enough. But here’s something that I didn’t realize at the time and you may not either. Your attractiveness and sex appeal before and after the affair have not changed at all. Your looks aren’t going to change in a few months time. But your perception of those looks can change. Because your confidence has taken a hit. It’s so important to understand that nothing about you has changed except for your circumstances and your perceptions. And, the good news is that you have control of both.

Ways To Erase Or Deal With Your Insecurities After Your Spouse Cheated Or Had An Affair: I’m not silly enough to think that this is a “mind over matter” issue or that if you just give yourself a big enough pep talk, this issue will be over for you. I know from experience that just relying on positive thinking doesn’t work. I also know from my own life that in order to believe that your husband loves and finds you attractive, then you yourself must absolutely believe this yourself. Because if you believe that you aren’t good enough, or pretty enough, or alluring enough, then it truly doesn’t matter what your husband says or how sincerely he says it. You are not going to believe him anyway.

That’s why whatever you try must include self work. If you had confidence before the affair and only find your confidence shaken because of the infidelity, your job will be a little more easy. As your marriage heals and time shows you that your husband is sticking around because he wants to, then you will begin to get a little of you swagger back. Because in truth, very few people are going to stay with someone to whom they are not attracted, especially for the long term. So time has a way of restoring your confidence because you know that he won’t and can’t fake it forever.

In the meantime, you can help this process by being very kind to yourself. If there are issues about your appearance that bother you, there is nothing wrong with addressing them. However, never use this as an excuse to beat yourself up. Surround yourself with kind, loving, and supportive people, including yourself.

And, if some of your insecurities existed long before your husband acted inappropriately, you will usually have a little more work to do. A very wise counselor once told me that an affair doesn’t have to do with a person’s love for their spouse. It usually is at least partly due to a lack of self esteem on the part of one or both of the spouses. When I first heard this, it confused me and made me a little angry. However, after I thought about it for a while, I realized that my own insecurities had always plagued my marriage. I had long acted out of fear and lack because I didn’t believe that I was a good enough mother, daughter, or wife. And this gravely affected me in many areas of my life.

I would never claim to be grateful or even OK with my husband’s affair, but I am able to look back and admit that some good came out of it. One example is that I was forced to look at my insecurity issues and then not only acknowledge them, but to fix them. It was to my benefit to form my own career and to address things about myself that I didn’t particularly like. Doing this helped with my healing but it also improved my marriage.

And once I made progress, when my husband told me I was lovable, or beautiful, or sexy, I believed him. Because it was the first time that I believed it about myself.

I know that feeling insecure after the infidelity is very painful, but vow to move through it. Because if you use the insecurities as a catalyst to change what isn’t working, then you’ve flipped this and used to your advantage and your marriage, your happiness level, and your peace of mind will be much higher as the result. If you’d like to read about how this worked in real life, you’re welcome to check out my blog http://surviving-the-affair.com

We all have the basic human desire of finding love with someone, someday! We dream about it, we hope for it, we run after it and sometimes we even mistake something else for love. To minimize confusion and heartache in your quest for finding love what should you look out for? How can you tell that a guy is giving hints he’s falling for you?

He complements you since he thinks that you are wonderful. A guy who is falling in love with you see’s you through the lenses of his feelings for you. And since his feelings for you are positive and admiring then he will be one of your great admirers. He will notice things about your personality or behavior that he really admires and he will convey this admiration to you. Your first reaction may be surprise if the complement is unexpected or joy if you have been hoping against hope that he would finally get a clue and look in your direction. You must of course be wary of a man who tells you things about yourself that you know are not true as this means that his ‘admiration’ is not real as he doesn’t admire you enough to have observed the real you. Finding love requires that you get a true admirer whose complements you know are basically true even though they may be a little exaggerated (in your mind).

He notices details about you. A guy who is falling in love with you will observe you keenly since you are the object of his interest. He will notice your favorite colors, dressing style, hairstyle etc. He may notice the no. of trousers you commonly wear or the no. of pairs of shoes that you usually wear or the type of perfume that you normally wear or other such details that you may not even have thought about or thought anyone had any interest in. He may fight his attraction for you but if he is noticing details that guys don’t normally notice then this is a hint that some emotional chemistry is beginning to react in his heart.

He tries to be as much help to you as possible. A guy who is falling in love with you will want to make your life easier in any way that he can. He will offer to do things for you and will in some cases go out of his way to improve the quality of your life. Even when he is basically a self fish guy, you will see his efforts to reach out to you and help you out. There are of course guys who just like to help all people but you will separate these from your guy because your guy will go out of his way for you only. If a guy goes out of his way to help all the people in his life then he may not be falling in love with you; he may just be a nice guy. Finding love requires that you separate the all round nice guys from the one who is nice mainly to you.

He starts to hang around you. If he is falling in love with you then he must be physically attracted to you. If he is attracted to you then he will be naturally drawn to you like a moth is drawn to the light; he just cannot help himself. Does he want to be around you most of the time? Does he seem to be at most of your favorite hangouts? Is he trying to be friends with your friends? Then he is falling in love with you!

His friends start to pay attention to you. A guy in love cannot help but tell his friends about you. You will notice that they know you in some detail. They may know your name yet you have never interacted with them or they may know details about you that you would not expect them to know. Are his friends ‘suddenly’ noticing you? Then his heart may be drawn to yours.

Finding love requires that you navigate your relationships with all of your senses alert so that you can gauge what different guys feel about you. A guy who is beginning to be attracted to you will give you outward signs of the emotional turmoil going on inside of him. So be alert otherwise you may kick yourself months or years later when you realize what his behavior was telling you and you didn’t listen.

One of the most challenging things about being a single mom in the dating world is how to integrate those two aspects of my life – my dating world and my daughter. Now don’t get me wrong, dating is an adult sport. Part of my job as a mother is to protect my daughter’s physical and emotional safety; however there is a way to do this as well as use my dating experience to teach her the skills of dating and how to search for a life partner. Here are some tips to help you integrate the two.

Shelter Your Kids from Your “First Dates”

The process of having your parent date is very unnerving for kids. Many of them feel they have no control over the situation. There are also fears of this new person “taking Mommy (or Daddy) away” or even trying to replace the other parent. With these fears being present, there is no need for them to join you on the roller coaster of the litany of first dates. This means don’t tell them about your e-mails, your evening plans or what you are going to wear on the date. Plan your first date when the kids are with their other parent or make arrangements for them to have a play date with a friend. Or even set up lunch dates and explore new people on your lunch hour.

Wait on Introductions for At Least 3 Months

It is uncanny how “magical” the three month mark can be in a relationship. In months 2 and 3 of a relationship is when people start to let down their mask and show their true self. It is at this point that you will start to see how this person reacts under stress, how they treat their friends and family and how they treat their work and work colleagues. It will also give you time to see consistent habits and behaviors emerge. There is no need to expose your children to any relationship until you have been with this person for at least 3 months.

Open Conversations With Your Kids About How to Read Someone’s Character Traits

it is important that the child initiate the conversation. If your child asks what happened to “Enter Mr. Not-So-Right’s Name Here”, use the situation to discuss character traits about that person, both good and bad, that impacted the relationship. For example, “I am no longer seeing Frank because I didn’t like that he didn’t call me back for several days at a time and didn’t make it to the event he told me he would attend with me. I want to feel cherished and loved in a relationship. His actions didn’t make me feel either cherished or loved. He was very nice to us and very funny – two characteristics that I really enjoyed. He isn’t a bad person, he just isn’t the right man for Mom.” Don’t resort to name calling or bad-mouthing these men, just share the lessons you learned with your kids.

Being a dating parent isn’t always easy, but if you play your cards right it can be a huge blessing for both you and your children. Make sure your children know that you will be there for them and their wellbeing is your top priority. Once those basic needs of your children are met then you can use your dating experiences to help them learn about people and relationships and more importantly how to navigate the dating world when it is their turn to begin searching for a life partner.

One of the most challenging things about being a single mom in the dating world is how to integrate those two aspects of my life – my dating world and my daughter. Now don’t get me wrong, dating is an adult sport. Part of my job as a mother is to protect my daughter’s physical and emotional safety; however there is a way to do this as well as use my dating experience to teach her the skills of dating and how to search for a life partner. Here are some tips to help you integrate the two.

Shelter Your Kids from Your “First Dates”

The process of having your parent date is very unnerving for kids. Many of them feel they have no control over the situation. There are also fears of this new person “taking Mommy (or Daddy) away” or even trying to replace the other parent. With these fears being present, there is no need for them to join you on the roller coaster of the litany of first dates. This means don’t tell them about your e-mails, your evening plans or what you are going to wear on the date. Plan your first date when the kids are with their other parent or make arrangements for them to have a play date with a friend. Or even set up lunch dates and explore new people on your lunch hour.

Wait on Introductions for At Least 3 Months

It is uncanny how “magical” the three month mark can be in a relationship. In months 2 and 3 of a relationship is when people start to let down their mask and show their true self. It is at this point that you will start to see how this person reacts under stress, how they treat their friends and family and how they treat their work and work colleagues. It will also give you time to see consistent habits and behaviors emerge. There is no need to expose your children to any relationship until you have been with this person for at least 3 months.

Open Conversations With Your Kids About How to Read Someone’s Character Traits

it is important that the child initiate the conversation. If your child asks what happened to “Enter Mr. Not-So-Right’s Name Here”, use the situation to discuss character traits about that person, both good and bad, that impacted the relationship. For example, “I am no longer seeing Frank because I didn’t like that he didn’t call me back for several days at a time and didn’t make it to the event he told me he would attend with me. I want to feel cherished and loved in a relationship. His actions didn’t make me feel either cherished or loved. He was very nice to us and very funny – two characteristics that I really enjoyed. He isn’t a bad person, he just isn’t the right man for Mom.” Don’t resort to name calling or bad-mouthing these men, just share the lessons you learned with your kids.

Being a dating parent isn’t always easy, but if you play your cards right it can be a huge blessing for both you and your children. Make sure your children know that you will be there for them and their wellbeing is your top priority. Once those basic needs of your children are met then you can use your dating experiences to help them learn about people and relationships and more importantly how to navigate the dating world when it is their turn to begin searching for a life partner.

Anger and love are two relatives that never go to the same family reunion.

They are emotions which inspire the best you feel and drag out the the worst you feel.

Love doesn’t even qualify as an emotion all by itself if you base the definition on researcher Robert Plutchik’s basic list. Plutchik defines love as a combination of two emotions – joy and trust.

That’s why when a partner is having an emotional affair, it feels so awful. Your love, your joy, your trust are all betrayed.

The first response some people have to the damaging effects of emotional affairs is:

“But there’s no sex.”

Sex is not love. It may express love, but deep down sex can and does happen sometimes just for the sake of… sex.

That’s why when partners who have been cheated upon are asked what hurts most about a spouse or lover’s affair, they say…

The Deception

Studies have shown that both men and women who have been deceived by a partner feel more hurt over the SECRET than the SEX.

About 70 percent of women, slightly more than men, say sexual infidelity is more forgivable than emotional unfaithfulness. A partner who has a strong attachment to a third-party weakens the bond in the first relationship, sometimes to the breaking point.

The Danger

For those who feel that an emotional attachment between two people is not enough to label it an affair, consider that giving one’s body can be as temporary a gift as the giver wants it to be.

With emotions, it’s difficult to even know where friendship ends and deeper feelings begin. Being emotionally close is a risky and usually longer investment. Backing away from that investment is much more difficult than zipping a fly.

Sexual attraction is a part of an emotional affair, even if it is never acted upon. The truth is the stronger that attraction is, the more likely it will move from fantasy to reality.

Over-the-Line Friendships

More gender-balanced workplaces and online social networking sites make intimate relationships easier to have…and hide. How far a person takes the relationship – a colleague, a chat buddy – is a matter of choice.

So, how do you know that a friendship, virtual or real, has crossed the trust boundaries of a marriage or other committed relationship?

Cheating Signs in Emotional Affairs

a. Verbal intimacy

The lover or spouse that moves outside a first relationship to confide to a third-party is breaking the privacy bonds of a primary relationship.

It’s one thing to say “I’m having a rough time at home right now” to a colleague and quite another to reveal “My husband isn’t very satisfying in bed.”

A partner who gripes about a first relationship with someone who is not part of it should be talking with a counselor or a lawyer. Better yet, that partner should be trying to work out the problem at home instead of sympathy and solutions beyond it.

b. Time Out

A partner who gradually extends a work day or a solo computer session might be letting a spouse or lover know that they’d rather be with someone else.

Time itself is a key factor in determining how vested beyond a promised relationship a partner may be.

When a spouse or lover would rather, in their hearts, be away, it’s a sign of one who will stray or one who already has.

c. Sexual Short Circuit

Something is off in the bedroom and none of it is pleasant.

A partner who declines the opportunity for sex repeatedly or seems distance and mechanical may mentally be elsewhere. If that elsewhere is an emotional tie to a third person, the symptoms will increase.

On occasion, the opposite occurs. A regular sex life suddenly becomes unusually vibrant. It may seem like a partner is taking the initiative to improve or shake up life in the bedroom, but it can be a sign that they’ve been fantasizing about having new sex with a new person and may be ready to practice those physical moves soon.

d. The Eyes

The secrecy and deception that is part of every kind of affair lives in the eyes. Partners who try to hide deep feelings for someone else will betray themselves with body language.

- Averting a spouse’s gaze

- Turning away from a lover

- Failing to show affection and warmth

- Creating verbal and physical distance

Often a partner engaged in an emotional affair is at war inside. Feelings are so consuming beyond a marriage or other relationship that there’s a double guilt – guilt about betraying a spouse and confusion about betraying a third person. A cheater is caught between duty and unexpressed feelings.

The End and The Beginning

Emotional affairs don’t last, but what happens with them can go one of two ways. Something happens to either stop what’s happening between two people or the relationship propels forward into a physical relationship.

One survey reported that people guilty of affairs online never started out looking for an affair. Maybe consciously they weren’t, but in almost half the cases, that innocent beginning turned into a physical affair.

The combination of an emotional affair that turns into a physical one can be the most devastating of all.

If you suspect that your partner has a relationship that has passed the stage of friendship, it’s time to act and ask some hard questions. They are difficult questions because the answers you might get may not be the ones you want to hear.

That makes them even more important to ask them.

How do you approach your partner?

What words can you say?

How do you know if the emotional affair is real?

What will you do if they admit it… or, worse yet, don’t recognize or acknowledge the relationship as an affair?

What To Do If Your Partner Is Having An Affair?

Time To Act: Enough is enough.

Stop being the victim, stop living in self-denial, stop living in pain, stop living in agony and stop living in self-pity.

Be bold and take the first step in confronting the truth even if the truth is ugly and not what you want to know.

Now is the time for you to act. Whether you want to confirm your fears or catch your partner or spouse cheating on you with evidence, I can help you.

Rebuild and rebrand yourself with courage, confidence and good image. Anyhow, just ensure you don’t give your leadership to thinking about your ex. You might have made some mistakes in the past, but now is the new you, you must not hate your ex, forgive. Let your ex or his or her friends perceive you as a matured person with strong-will. If you come across your ex say hi and move on, no ill-feelings, this will earn you some respect and even make your ex to be jealous and craving to call back.

I sometimes hear from wives who are dealing with husbands who are repeat cheaters. These wives are often so tired of the lies. In the beginning, these wives may have actually believed their husband when he promised he would never cheat again. But, over time and as he cheats again, she is less likely to believe anything that he says.

Believe it or not, many wives in this situation still wish they could do something to make their husband faithful because they are still invested in him. Some of these wives wonder if having their own affair or cheating themselves might give the husband a taste of his own medicine and make him stop.

I heard from a wife who said: “I just found out that my husband is having yet another affair. The last time I caught him, he swore he’d never look at another woman, and, like a fool, I believed him. And yet, here we are not even a year later and we’re going through this nonsense again. Clearly, he was lying all along. And clearly, those words he said and promises he made didn’t mean a thing. I want him to know how it feels to be in love with a liar and a cheat. I’m considering having my own affair and admitting it right to his face. If I did, would he stop his cheating? Would making him see how much this hurts scare him straight?”

It’s impossible for me to predict the future and guess as to how the husband might react to his wife’s revenge affair. But I can tell you that, in my opinion and experience, this is almost never a good idea. I will tell you why below.

Your Cheating Isn’t Addressing The Problems That Caused Your Husband To Cheat In The First Place: There’s no question that having your own affair might get your husband’s attention. It might even hurt him. But there are no guarantee that it’s going to make him stop cheating. Why? Because your own affair is an external event that hasn’t done one thing to modify your husband’s behavior for the long term. Not only have you not identified the issues that might be contributing to his cheating, but you haven’t solved them. Instead, you’d added another problem and obstacle to the mix.

You Having Your Own Affair Might Actually Make Your Husband Cheat More Since He Can Now Justify His Behavior: I’ve actually seen this plan backfire more than once. Sometimes, the husband will actually have his own revenge affair as payback. Or, although he might be hurt by his wife’s affair, eventually he keeps right on cheating because her affair has made it easier for him to justify his behavior. Is this fair? Absolutely not. But I am bringing it your attention because I want you to know that here’s every possibility that this plan will bring about the opposite result than what you were hoping for.

What You Might Want To Try (Instead Of Being Unfaithful) To Get Your Husband To Stop Cheating: Let’s think about this for a second. The real goal here is to make the husband stop cheating so that the couple could save their marriage. In my opinion, there are better ways to do that than to add more cheating to the mix. Here is what I see that typically doesn’t work. Trying to make your husband feel guilty, ashamed, or embarrassed about his cheating isn’t usually effective in the long term. Because eventually, he will associate his negative feelings toward you and this resentment will also allow him to justify his behavior – which will in turn make his continuing to cheat even more likely.

What has a much better chance of working is identifying why he might be cheating. And the reasons might actually surprise you. Men don’t always cheat because they don’t love or aren’t attracted to their wives. They don’t necessarily cheat because they are in bad marriages. Sometimes, the reasons they cheat don’t even have anything to do with their wife or with their marriage.

Some men have poor impulse control, have self sabotaging behavior, are attracted to risky or forbidden behavior, or cheat as a way to boost their self esteem or quiet their self doubt. And if these things are present, having your own affair isn’t doing anything to help your husband address these issues. In fact, often you can talk and plead and manipulate until you are bone tired but nothing changes because nothing within your husband has changed. It’s usually not until he learns new coping mechanisms, thought processes, and behaviors that the cheating or the risky behavior stops. And your cheating or not cheating doesn’t have anything to do with these things.

While I do understand to temptation to force him to feel how you feel, most of the time, adding a new affair to the mix only brings more pain, problems and turmoil. It’s almost always a bad idea.

Instead of thinking about revenge, consider thinking about healing. Because if you can heal your husband, yourself, and your marriage, this is almost always better than reacting with your own negative behavior. If it helps, you can read about my own healing process on my blog at http://surviving-the-affair.com

The year was 1953, but I can’t say that I was aware of the release of the holiday gem “I Fell Out of a Christmas Tree” by 9-year old Rita Faye Wilson. My parents didn’t have a lot of Christmas music back in those days, but this song seemed to show up each year at our house right before the holidays.

It is probably still floating around somewhere on a 78 vinyl record. For those who are too young to know, that was the rpm of some records back in the old days.

The tune was all about a little girl who arrived on Christmas day by falling out of a Christmas tree; there was no stork, she was not left in a basket on a porch. The last line of the song goes, “If it wasn’t for Christmas there wouldn’t be no me.”

Little Girls Want Strange Things

The same year that one girl was singing about falling out of a tree, another was begging for something odd in the tune “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas.” I don’t know if she got a letter from Santa to confirm, but Gayla Peevey actually got her wish. The hippo was donated to the local zoo after being presented to her.

Three Furry Singers

Every young child wanted to be good in order to get something special from Santa, so that is probably why “I’m Getting Nuttin’ for Christmas” was played so often in the old days.

Alvin, Simon, and Theodore followed that up with “All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth.” Why did chipmunks always sing Christmas songs?

There has been a definite change in what songs are popular. In the 1960′s, Alvin and the other chipmunks were considered musical stars as Alvin kept saying, ‘I want a hula hoop’ from “Christmas Don’t Be Late.” This kind of song might not be successful today, but back at its release it became the number one song in America.

Country Christmas Songs
 
The country song “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” is probably one of my favorite funny Christmas songs in the last several years. I grew up in the country, so I am able to appreciate the humor and country accent of this tune. A letter from Santa telling his arrival time might have saved poor old grandma.

Along similar lines of country, you have to give Jeff Foxworthy some credit for his “Redneck 12 Days of Christmas.” Then there’s Jeff’s buddy Bill Engvall giving his “Here’s Your Sign Christmas.”

All these songs are still good ones for the kids. They serve to let them know that Santa has a sense of humor, and that he is still delivering the presents to those that are good. When they get letters from Santa, it makes them happy and excited. They might even want to sing along with Alvin and the Chipmunks.

Traditional Tunes

Let’s not forget the traditional tunes we hear from one Christmas to the next. These include:

* Silent Night
* Away in a Manger
* Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
* Oh Christmas Tree
* Oh Holy Night
* I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
* Winter Wonderland
* Joy to the World
* Oh Come All Ye Faithful
* The First Noel

And the list continues. In addition to receiving letters from Santa, kids also enjoy a holiday get together so that family and friends can all join in and sing the traditional tunes of the Christmas holiday. Christmas just isn’t the same without the music to go along with the celebration of the season. Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!