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		<title>Laugh at Your Kids Chasing Bugs</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[    At first sight, a bug-themed party appears very weird- but bug themed birthday parties can be great fun for kids, and serve to condition them about science and nature. Since several kids are afraid of insects, giving these insects a personality will help relieve the children&#8217;s concerns, and help put them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get the Best Gift for Newborns: Designer Baby Outfits</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did someone dear to you just have a newborn? Do you want to shower the new baby with the finest gifts, but are not sure what to get? You should look to the designers to assist you in locating the ideal infant gift that will make the baby&#8217;s mum just as content as it will [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Did someone dear to you just have a newborn? Do you want to shower the new baby with the finest gifts, but are not sure what to get? You should look to the designers to assist you in locating the ideal infant gift that will make the baby&#8217;s mum just as content as it will help to make the newborn. </p>
<p>Designer infant clothes are a good gift for new mothers as it is not often something that they can get for themselves. Whilst many new parents long to have their child dressed from head to toe in designer garments, they cannot usually permit themselves to splurge on every single child clothes product; since of course, they just exhausted their account on the nursery, nappies and bottles. She will love opening a present to find a precious Dolce Bebe dress to grow her little selection of designer garments. </p>
<p>New mothers love to doll their infants up in just the best. Don&#8217;t waste your time or money buying several little things; get that new newborn something that he or she will really wear by buying some designer baby outfits. A good idea could be to get that newborn girl a quilted Burberry jacket much like her mummy&#8217;s. </p>
<p>Believe it or not, sturdiness is a much more important element to think about when purchasing child products compared to style. Cheaply made infant garments will tear and fray when they are washed regularly. We all know that infants can go through four to five outfits a day. This means there is going to be lots of laundry being laundered in his or her house. That being the case, get the new newborn something that she can wear in excess of once or twice by purchasing higher quality designer baby outfits. </p>
<p>Finally, by purchasing designer child outfits for that baby there is something in it for you as well. Shopping for designer baby clothes is so much fun. Who does not melt when they see little bitty baby True Religion jeans or a pair of mini Tod&#8217;s shoes? If you are not careful, you will end up spending your entire savings on the lucky new baby. After all, it&#8217;s really difficult to choose between the Juicy Couture velour tracksuit set and the Ralph Lauren girls&#8217; hook-up tracksuit, so why not purchase both? </p>
<p>Give her something to be excited about rather than yet another boring onesie. Save her the trouble of having to do a quick change just before you arrive at her house in order to slip the baby into that dreadful dress that you gave her at her baby shower. Do your best friend a favour by purchasing her new little bundle of joy a few designer items that she will love looking at as much as she will love wearing. </p>
<p>View a wide range of perfect gift ideas and <a href="http://www.eliasandgrace.com">Designer Baby Clothes</a> online.</p>
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		<title>Lovely Trends in Girls Clothing this Summer</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having little girls in the home may be challenging from time to time, but one perk is their involvement in keeping up with the latest styles. Now that summer is here, you are perhaps asking yourself what present crazes you can find in shops and how to get your hands on these popular clothes items. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Having little girls in the home may be challenging from time to time, but one perk is their involvement in keeping up with the latest styles. Now that summer is here, you are perhaps asking yourself what present crazes you can find in shops and how to get your hands on these popular clothes items. </p>
<p>Luckily, dressing up your little girl may not be as tough as you presume! Actually, you might possibly take a walk down memory lane with some of the choices on the market for children this year! </p>
<p>One of the most popular summer trends are leggings; tight, spandex pants that were popular back in the 1980s. Girls are sticking to basic colors, such as black, grey and tan. Several have girly characteristics, such as lace on the legs or glitter effects. There are also varying lengths of leggings, but the cool and trendy way to go is to pick forms that stop at or just below the knee. Not only are leggings fashionable, but theyre also a wonderful way to keep little legs warm and protected on colder summer mornings and evenings. </p>
<p>For you to complete the bottom half, most girls choose to wear leggings with something, such as a mini skirt. Skirts can be solid colored, plaid or striped and made from cotton or denim fibres. If your little one will not want to wear a skirt, she can pick out a long, flowy top that comes down past her waist as a replacement. Potentially, your little girl can choose a loosely fitting sundress to slip on over the leggings. The choices are unlimited when it comes to pairing leggings with skirts, dresses and tops! </p>
<p>Without a doubt, tops and tees that drape over the body are the adorable fads for the summer season. There are many editions to these loose fitting tops, for instance screen-printed tees, plaid tops or those in a diversified assortment of colors. The t shirts are formed from delicate cloth and come with a pastel color palette, some with extra ruffles and necklines. Another extra to girls attire is using organic cotton; cotton that is grown in beneficial conditions, free of the use of bug sprays. These garmets place emphasis on Eco-friendly lifestyles and are breathable and are super comfy for children. </p>
<p>Girls style trends are invariably turning over and while it may be hard to keep your little angel content with her set of clothes, growing kids are always requiring new pairs of pants and tops. The good news is, this summer season brings about a fresh and attractive selection of outfits, ranging from girls leggings combined with miniskirts or flowy dresses and loose fitting tops coordinated with denim jeans. While designer clothes are also becoming standard among young girls, there are many designer-inspired replicas that come with a more reasonably priced price tag. Indeed, you cannot forget about the contemporary choice of pastel colors, plaid prints and lace that finalize each feminine article of clothing. </p>
<p>Get more info and see a wide selection of <a href="http://www.welovefrugi.com/girls-clothes/index.htm">Girls Clothing</a></p>
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		<title>German Puky Has a Great Bike Training Product</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The German producer Puky of bikes carts and vehichles for everybody between 1 year and 8 years has also produced a product that we call RunningBike.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The German producer Puky of bikes carts and vehichles for everybody between 1 year and 8 years has also produced a product that we call RunningBike. The Running Bike is a great tool for kids not yet started with their first bike. The RunningBike is extremely popular in Denmark among others, and in Denmark a Running Bike is called Lbecykel. A Puky Lbecykel is of course a running bike, but in Danish. Puky has produced running bikes for half a century, and has achieved several distinctions from child accessories boards in Germany. So whenever you are in the market for ergonomically produced German Quality &#8211; you can always trust a Puky product. When your kids are small its always a question when to take them from the small vehicles and onto the next step. The next step is naturally a running bike. A running bike is a small bike looking vehicle that your child can use to train using a real bike. Puky is a great product and of great quality that you simply cant destroy. We warmly recommend your purchase of your next Puky Running Bike.</p>
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		<title>Do Your Kids Know How To Ace an Exam?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[How The Elite 5% Ace Exams
When you take an important exam &#8211; do you read your test questions and text material three times, or are you happy to complete it once?
The answer for 95% of us is we are lucky to read the exam once.
Two medical doctors came to us about the problem they were [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How The Elite 5% Ace Exams</p>
<p>When you take an important exam &#8211; do you read your test questions and text material three times, or are you happy to complete it once?</p>
<p>The answer for 95% of us is we are lucky to read the exam once.</p>
<p>Two medical doctors came to us about the problem they were having<br />
 passing their medical boards to practice in the U.S. They were old friends<br />
 who grew up in Iran, practiced medicine there for about 15 years, and<br />
 decided to emigrate to the U.S. to join their family.</p>
<p>After two failures &#8211; they panicked and sought help.</p>
<p>They explained that both understood English and had graduated from<br />
 medical schools in the U.S. It was not the answers to medical questions<br />
 that cause the problem, but not having time to complete the last one-third<br />
 of the exam.</p>
<p>The Strategy</p>
<p>Both doctors spent the entire weekend with us learning speed reading<br />
 strategies. By the end of day-1, both physicians had doubled their reading<br />
 speed, without any loss of comprehension.</p>
<p>After they completed the second day&#8217;s six hours, both were reading three-times faster than their original starting speed, and their comprehension had improved about 10%. It is irrelevant that they doubled their memory.</p>
<p>The Test</p>
<p>Speed readers take a test differently than the other 95%, you might want to<br />
 compare their approach to your own.</p>
<p>Skimming &#8211; the first bite at the apple</p>
<p>Skimming is the fastest form of reading both the questions and the text.<br />
 It is an overview searching for the Topical Sentences &#8211; the core ideas of the text, and discovering the locations of the answers to the questions.</p>
<p>If we have a general idea of which sections of the text contain the answers, we will find the specific answers on our next perusal because we have two more bites at<br />
 the apple.</p>
<p>The skimming strategy contains two elements &#8211; reading each sentence in what<br />
 we call Single-Chunking/Diagonal: indenting a few words both left-and-right, and focusing on the 80% of the middle, and secondly, moving our eyes Diagonally from<br />
 the end of one-sentence, to the beginning of the succeeding sentence.</p>
<p>It is easier to physically skim the sentences on a page, moving both lineally<br />
 and vertically, than it is to explain how &#8211; using words.</p>
<p>Where are your eyes focusing?</p>
<p>We strongly recommend you use a pen to act as a pacer and underline<br />
 (without the pointer marking the page), the sentences, as you move quickly<br />
 down the pages.</p>
<p>Your eyes pay no attention to the underlining pen, but focus on the center of the<br />
 words of the sentences. You move your eyes (and head), left-to-right across the<br />
 first sentences, and right-to-left (toward the beginning), of the following sentence).</p>
<p>We call it single-chunking/diagonal because you are visually grouping 80% of each sentence in one single eye-fixation.<br />
 Compare this to the average college graduate who stops and mentally hears in his/her mind each-and-every-word in the sentence.</p>
<p>If there is an average of ten words in a sentence &#8211; non-speed readers will make<br />
 eight-to-ten eye-fixation pauses. Chunking is choosing to see words in groups,<br />
 sections and phrases.</p>
<p>Skimming is flying across and down the sentences at up to 650 words per minute.<br />
 Put that into prospective by realizing the average college graduate reads at about<br />
 200 words per minute, with a 60% recall.</p>
<p>When you have finished skimming (your first reading), you have grasped the key ideas and some important details contained in the text. You have a good idea of the location in the text of many of the answers to the exam questions you are focused on.</p>
<p>You even have time to jot down a few notes about what you finished skimming.</p>
<p>Scanning</p>
<p>This second reading is slower than skimming, but is similar in strategy.<br />
 We call it Double-Chunking/Diagonal, because you are grouping the words<br />
 of each sentence into two-separate clauses.</p>
<p>If there is an average of ten words in a sentence, you physically divide the<br />
 sentence into two chunks &#8211; of five-words each.</p>
<p>Remember, you always use your pen as a pacer by underlining the sentence,<br />
 and move left-to-right across the sentence, and return to the succeeding<br />
 sentence, moving right-to-left.</p>
<p>This is your second view of both the questions and the text, and you will<br />
 find that much of the material seems very familiar to you. You job this time<br />
 is to jot down more of the answers, and check off where other answers are<br />
 located in the material.</p>
<p>Screening</p>
<p>Your third reading is the slowest of all, and is known as Triple-Chunking/Diagonal.<br />
 Keep using your pen as a pacer to underlining the sentences you read, and keep<br />
 your eyes centered on the words of each paragraph.</p>
<p>Triple-Chunking/Diagonal means you are dividing (sectioning), each sentence<br />
 into three-phrases, as you move horizontally and vertically down the page.</p>
<p>Now, reading is easy because the material is so familiar, and finding the answers<br />
 after your third reading of the questions is a snap. You can almost go immediately<br />
 to the location in the text where the answers are found.</p>
<p>Remember, screening is seeing each sentence as three separate clauses or sections,<br />
 and moving diagonally from the last chunk of each sentence, right-to-left to the<br />
 beginning of the next sentence. You continue this strategy down the paragraphs.</p>
<p>Endwords</p>
<p>What have you accomplished? You have read with a purpose and strong concentration the questions and text of the exam &#8211; three-times.</p>
<p>It has taken you the same amount of time to speed read the test three-times,<br />
 while non-speed readers are still trying to complete and answer the exam -<br />
 once.</p>
<p>Do you have to be an academic genius to conclude that skimming-scanning-<br />
 screening the questions and text three-times, is a far better strategy than reading<br />
 it only once?</p>
<p>Over one million graduates of speed reading have used this system to Ace their<br />
 exams, courses and degrees. It works for them; it will absolutely work to improve<br />
 your scores and self-confidence.</p>
<p>The secret of Skimming-Scanning-Screening is getting in the flow (your zone),<br />
 and expect and know you are in control of the exam. You will be reading<br />
 a minimum of three-times faster than your peers, with better comprehension and<br />
 long-term memory. You will do so well with this strategy, if will feel unfair.<br />
 Do it anyway, you deserve to succeed.</p>
<p>By the way, those two Iranian doctors did in fact ace their medical boards, and are<br />
 presently practicing in New York City.</p>
<p>See ya,</p>
<p>copyright &#169; 2006</p>
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<p>H. Bernard Wechsler<br />
 <a href="http://www.speedlearning.org" rel="nofollow">www.speedlearning.org</a><br />
 hbw@speedlearning.org</p>
<p>Author of #1 book on Speed Learning published by Barron&#8217;s Educational, partner of Evelyn Wood, creator of speed reading, graduating 2 million, including the White House staffs of four<br />
 U.S. Presidents.</p>
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		<title>Cultivating Creativity in Children</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My husband, my eight-year-old son, and I were having lunch one day and when there was a lull in the conversation, my son looked up at us and, completely out of the blue says, &#8220;Do people get mad because they can&#8217;t see their foreheads?&#8221;  We both stopped eating and gave him a blank look.
I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My husband, my eight-year-old son, and I were having lunch one day and when there was a lull in the conversation, my son looked up at us and, completely out of the blue says, &#8220;Do people get mad because they can&#8217;t see their foreheads?&#8221;  We both stopped eating and gave him a blank look.</p>
<p>I said, &#8220;What?&#8221;</p>
<p>My husband said, &#8220;Paul, do you get mad because you can&#8217;t see your forehead?&#8221;</p>
<p>Paul said, &#8220;No.  It was just something I was thinking about,&#8221; and he went on eating his lunch like this was a normal, everyday conversation.</p>
<p>What I love about this story is it shows how much creativity a child has.  Who ever would have thought about trying to look at their foreheads?  Kids can say the darndest things, but I&#8217;m telling you that those who continue to think creatively are going to be the most successful.  And those of us who support them are going to be right beside them.</p>
<p>We make it a point to encourage our kids to think creatively as much as possible.  My husband is an engineer and an inventor, so he works with them to develop the right side of their brain.  I am intuitive and a writer, so I work with them to develop the left side of their brain.  Hopefully, our kids will become fluent in using both sides of their brain as they grow older.</p>
<p>Our kids are eight- and ten-years-old.  Here are a few examples of what we do to work with their brain development (as well as their personal development):</p>
<p>  My husband will ask them to calculate how old they are in seconds (minutes, hours, days, etc).  The three of them walk through the process together and come up with an answer in about 15 minutes.</p>
<p>  He&#8217;ll ask them, &#8220;Where and how do you think this product is made?&#8221;  That product could be anything from a can of soda to a household product to a toy.  It also creates some great discussion on how it can be improved.</p>
<p>  At night, I will read to them from the English version of the &#8220;Tao Te Ching&#8221; (Eastern philosophy, spiritual) and then we will discuss it.  For instance, we discussed this line:  &#8220;The Master (of the Tao) observes the world but trusts his inner vision.&#8221;  They understood it more than I thought they would.</p>
<p>  I teach the children to meditate.  It has been very helpful in helping them to find peace when they need it, but also to find answers to questions that are hard to answer.</p>
<p>Since we do this every day, these are just a few exercises we have our children do.  Not only are we working on skill development, but we are also spending time together having meaningful conversation.  (We also spend lots of time having silly conversation.)  In the meantime, we are still trying to figure out how many people get mad because they can&#8217;t see their foreheads.</p>
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