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Dice - The Ultimate Educational, Portable Entertainment For Kids! |
| How do you keep the kids amused for the long summer holidays? What do you do when the inevitable rainy day blues strike and everyone gets fractious and argumentative? And how do you cope when you are forced to play the waiting game … in doctors' surgeries, airports, or even long car journeys?Get . . .
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Picky Eater - Fighting the Good Fight |
| Often, the struggle at dinnertime with your picky eater is notso much about food as it is about control. As children becomemore independent, conflicts can arise as they carefullyscrutinize what goes into their mouths. The more you push, themore they resist with the outcome resulting in tears an. . .
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Why winning as a team is the only way to play sports |
| Ok so you have been on a few softball or soccer teams where there is one good kid who players much better then all the rest. Most of the games he/she carries the team and it is expected that he/she will raise to any occasion if needed. How do you deal with this as a coach? What is the reason for . . .
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Why Public Schools Hate Home-schooling Parents |
| Home-schooling is a great success. That’s why many public-school authorities hate home-schooling parents.Home-schoolers are a direct challenge to the public-school monopoly. This monopoly makes it almost impossible to fire tenured public-school teachers or principals. As a result, tenure gives mo. . .
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Parents --- Homeschooling Can Take a Lot Less Time Than You Think |
| The time you will need to teach your children the essentials — reading, writing, and arithmetic — is much less than you think. Let me quote author and former public-school teacher John Gatto from his wonderful book, Dumbing Us Down:“Were the colonists geniuses? [i.e., why did our colonial forefat. . .
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How to Make Camping Shoot-the-Chute |
| Shoot-the-ChuteA "Shoot-the-Chute" is great fun and one should be built in every camp visit and "Swimming Hole." The one described below has stood the test of several years in many different camp sites.The plan drawn is for a chute 40 feet long, 3 feet wide and 18 feet high. These dimensions can . . .
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Punishing the Victim -- Why Public Schools Pressure Parents To Give Their Kids Mind-Altering Drugs |
| Public-school teaching is structured in such a way that it inevitably bores millions of normal, active children who are forced to sit in classrooms six to eight hours a day with about twenty other immature children. The teacher has to cover the curriculum, so she is pressured to teach all the kid. . .
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The Free Ride In Public Schools |
| To protect children’s self-esteem or deflect complaints by parents, many public schools today automatically advance failing students to the next grade level. In other schools, some students are left back a maximum of one year, then promoted again regardless of their academic skills.The No Child L. . .
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Choose the perfect baby shower gift |
| The first thing you should do when trying to choose the perfect baby shower gift is consider the parents. Quite frankly, babies do not have the awareness or the ability to complain when you buy them weird stuff. But their parents do. A great baby shower gift is something the baby’s parents will t. . .
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The Charter School Wars --- Why Public Schools Hate Charter Schools |
| Many public school authorities hate charter schools. It's not hard to see why. Charter schools embarrass local public schools because they often do a better job educating children, for less money. For example, in the 1999-2000 school year, Ohio charter schools got $2300 less per pupil in tax fund. . .
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Let Your Children Name the New Baby |
| Choosing a baby name is an important job, so make your children feel important by letting them help you name the new baby. After all, you're not the only one who's having a baby - your whole family is ! Use the process of naming the baby as an opportunity to get your other children involved in an. . .
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How a frazzled houswife's invention turned two unrully scamps into great, well-behaved kids overn... |
| When David was nine and Laura was twelve, the battles started.Prior to that, they got along great. Laura was always protective of her little brother, and he in turn, doted on her.Perhaps it was about needing space, asserting independence…whatever the reason, it drove my husband and I crazy. It wo. . .
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Is A Baby Allowed To Play In Its First Month? |
| What should you do to have a happy pregnancy? Many things you could do, but what most pregnant women rarely do is having a vacation. Get a life and try to relax a little bit. Or take an extended weekend just to refresh and recharge your batteries.Downtime is very important, and in a world where n. . .
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What Should You Consider When Choosing Baby Clothes |
| Are you expecting a baby? You might be tempted to buy baby’s clothes, although you know most of the time baby will always sleeping and crying during their first months, which obviously don’t need fancy clothes to wear. But still you find dressing your baby with cute outfit will be an unforgotten . . .
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The Baby Crib: Your Child’s First Bed |
| It is up to you as parents whether you want a baby crib to be your child’s first bed or not. Some parents are proponents of “co-sleeping,” in which a baby sleeps in bed with the parents, sometimes up to two or more years. Other parents choose a baby crib for their child to sleep in, especially if. . .
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5-Solid Reasons: Why Your Child Can Be An Achiever |
| All of us, including your child, entered this world equipped with a super-computer that can be programmed to achieve almost anything. We all have what it takes to function at optimum level--to be the best student, to be the best in our career, and to function efficiently in every area of our life. . .
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Socialist Public Schools In America |
| Many parents might think it a bit farfetched to compare our public schools to schools in socialist or communist countries. However, if we look closer, we will see striking similarities between the two systems.In the former socialist-communist Soviet Union, for example, the government owned all pr. . .
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Public Schools Are Un-American |
| Compulsory-attendance laws force parents to send their children to public schools. These laws presume that the politicians we vote into office, our agents, have the right to take away parents’ liberty and inalienable rights. Compulsory education means that in America, contrary to the common view,. . .
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Is ADHD a Real Disease? |
| The vast majority of Ritalin and Adderall is given to school children to treat an alleged disease called ADHD. Children who suffer from ADHD are said to be inattentive, impulsive, and hyperactive. They often get bored easily in class, squirm in their seats, are always on the go, or don’t get alo. . .
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The Greatest Gift You Can Give Your Child (or anyone) |
| ………………It’s something that goes far beyond quality time, quality education or character development. Probably you are already giving it without realizing it.…………….Perhaps you have already made your own confident assertion about it. But like many young and educated parents, if you said ‘quality tim. . .
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