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The family.  We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. 

~Erma Bombeck

 

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An article in the Daily Express earlier this year in the UK kept me amused ... and highlighted how generations have changed. It was carried out by the Sainsbury Active Kids Scheme.

It asked kids what their 10 top activities were and compared those with a list produced 30 years ago.

 Today’s Kids List

 30 years ago list

 

 

 1 Texting on phones

 1 Tag

 2 Football

 2 Kiss chase

 3 Play Station

 3 Hopscotch

 4 Reading Celebrity magazines

 4 Skipping

 5 Eating sweets

 5 Rounders

 6 Listening to I pod

 6 British Bulldog

 7 Sudoku

 7 What's the time Mr. Wolf

 8 Hanging around shops

 8 Marbles

 9 Surfing the net

 9 Cats cradle

 10 Taking photos on the phone

 10 Stuck in the mud

 

 

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When Roles Reverse: A Guide to Parenting Your Parents (Paperback)
by Jim Comer (Author)
 

With a huge segment of the population facing the dilemma of how to care for
an aging parent, Jim Comer has provided a timely and invaluable resource.
Written with humor and compassion, When Roles Reverse is both a compelling
memoir and an indispensable "how to." It answers the questions no one wants
to face, offers support for those who fear making life-altering decisions,
and provides essential guidance on where to find information and
assistance. One especially nice thing about the book is that it addresses the emotional dimension of caring for parents and does a good job of capturing what it's like to parent your parents. If you need a crash course in parenting parents, go straight to Chapter 23: Fifty Questions That Will Save You Time, Money, and Tears. You'll find you haven't even thought of many of these questions and don't know the answers to most of them.

 

 

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What Can Families Do to Keep Children Reading During the Summer?

As children's first and most important teachers, families have a major role to play in motivating children to read during the summer months. There are many strategies families might employ to encourage summertime reading. Here are tips offered by Reading Is Fundamental:

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Exploring the Food Group: Grains and starches

Besides the wonderful aromas, flavors, and textures that food has, each food group provides varying amounts of diverse nutrients. Each one of the five food groups supplies some, but not all, of the nutrients you need for good health. For this reason, it's key that you eat from each food group every day.

Bread, Cereal, Rice, and Pasta Group
The base of the Food Guide Pyramid includes all foods made from grains. These foods should form the base of a nutritious diet. Foods in the bread, cereal, rice, and pasta group--or the starch group--are rich in complex carbohydrates (or starches). Complex carbohydrates are an excellent source of energy. They are low in fat and cholesterol and are your body's main source of energy.

 

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Thousands of volunteers, including top lawyers, doctors, engineers, and scientists, are available to answer your questions. All answers are free and most come within a day!

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My Child has Bad Manners

We all want our children to have good manners. Manners can and should begin to be taught to children as soon as they begin to speak. Saying “please” and “thank you” are common manners. Parents who model good manners in front of their children often see the children beginning to use appropriate manners. If your child has bad manners, implement some of the “Manners Matter” listed below. Remember, parents need to demonstrate good manners. If you show up to the dinner table not wearing a shirt, the child may demonstrate this behavior too. Before you speak to your child about good manners, read through the steps listed below and begin practicing these steps in front of your child. After practicing these steps for at least a week, sit down with your child and ask them if they noticed any changes that you, the parent, have been displaying in regards to good manners.

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Truth in parenting

A friend of mine, a successful professional, posed this parenting dilemma: Suppose your teenager asks you if you ever smoked pot.  Do you tell him the truth?  What if you smoked not just once, or a couple of times, but a fair amount? A whole lot? What if you tried cocaine?

Things are more dangerous now than they were back then, my friend continued. The pot is stronger.  It’s laced with all sorts of other drugs. You don’t want your child to think that if you did it, then it’s ok for them to do the same.  You don’t want to take chances.  You have to lie.

I’ve thought this over, and I have to disagree. I’m mostly talking from my own personal experience. 

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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

 Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a condition that makes it hard for affected children to control their behaviour and pay attention. It is sometimes referred to as ADD (attention deficit disorder).

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Taking a big bite isn't always the best strategy in this two-player game.

 

Smile!!
 

Colouring fun

Animal and Plant Alphabet, Letter A

       

 

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How a Syphon Works

This activity sucks

There are parts to this activity, in the first part you will build and observe a syphon.

Build a Syphon

 

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Anagrams are words or phrases made by mixing up the letters of other words or phrases, e.g. THE EYES is an anagram of THEY SEE. Here are some more good ones:

Debit card = Bad credit

Halley's Comet = Shall yet come

Punishment = Nine Thumps

Dormitory = Dirty room

Astronomer = Moon starer

The Hurricanes = These churn air

Schoolmaster = The classroom

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