You often don't need to worry about remembering exactly when your child is due back to school after the holidays; their behavior will tell you. In that final few days, your child will be grumpy, frustrated and upset. They love their breaks from school, when every day is a play day and nobody's trying to teach them math, but what's a holiday for them is often the complete opposite for you.
Without school to provide them with a structure, your child is now mainly looking to you for entertainment. You'll be expected to provide them with an itinerary and something to do on a daily basis. You can go on a family vacation, but that's still likely going to leave you with some time to fill. You'll love having your babies home with you for the first few days of the break. By the end of it, you'll be impatiently counting the hours until you can take them back to the school gates and have a break of your own.
To insure one’s house, one’s car or to underwrite a life insurance policy, that is common practice. But who would pay an insurance premium for his/her thumb, legs or smile? Stars, of course.
At the top of the ranking are the legs of Mariah Carey, worth 810 million USD: The diva became, in 2006, the Gillette brand muse for the advertising campaign «Legs of a Goddess». She then took out an insurance policy with London Lloyds to protect her legs, a decision that is far from being insignificant. Among its customers, the London insurer then included several icons of music, such as Bob Dylan or Rod Stewart.
David Beckham’s body insured for 195 million USD: European champion with Manchester United in 1999, David Beckham was in 2006 the most renowned footballer of the planet. In relation to his sporting activities, he took out an insurance cover for his legs. The huge amount paid for his insurance would reportedly exceed the 103 million USD disbursed by Real Madrid for the cover of Christiano Ronaldo in 2009. The fashion model would later extend his insurance cover to his entire body.
15 million USD in insurance for Kim Kardashian’s curves: The curves of Kim Kardashian are her number one beauty asset. The reality TV star, who is crazy about plastic surgery, has underwritten an insurance policy worth 15 million USD to protect her famous butt.
The culinary critic Egon Ronay assured his taste buds: The famous Hungarian culinary critic has insured his taste buds since 1957, for the amount of 400 000 USD. An original insurance policy which allows him to cover his sense of taste without which he will no longer be able to practice his job.