Simple Life Hacks That Will Change Your Life Forever
It’s important for you to make the most complicated stuff look simple. Simplifying these stuffs through these kinds of life hacks is awesome. When I have a difficulty doing something I’m always eager to find a new “hack” that will make things easier.
A Parent’s Guide to School Shootings
I walked into the high school wearing two guns and a bullet resistant vest. I had a rifle, six spare magazines, and a ballistic helmet stashed close by in my car. It was Wednesday, April 21st 1999, the day after what had been the worst school shooting in United States history. Two high school kids had just killed 12 of their fellow students and a teacher at Columbine High School in Colorado. The television was awash in the news coverage and everyone was scared.
LEGO Dog Building Instructions
How to build LEGO® Dogs! This week, I had fun building LEGO® dogs. Yes, it was me. Gresham did build the puppies to go with them, but I was mostly the builder on this project! (I find that LEGO®’s are strangely relaxing…) These dogs are not any particular breed, mainly because brown and tan are probably our most limited colors.
Believe the hype: 12 tourist attractions that will exceed your expectations
They don't all live up to the hype. There are plenty of tourist attractions around the world that will leave you severely underwhelmed, wondering if you've missed something, pondering how these things ever became tourist attractions in the first place. I'm thinking things like the Spanish Steps in Rome.
Teacher to parents: About THAT kid (the one who hits, disrupts and influences YOUR kid)
Amy Murray is the director of early childhood education at the Calgary French & International School in Canada. The following post, which appeared on her blog, Miss Night’s Marbles and which I am republishing with her permission, is a powerful open letter directed to parents about THAT kid, the one other kids go home and talk about, the one who is violent, curses and gets angry in class, the one who parents worry will hurt, disrupt and perhaps influence their own children. Murray is also the co-founder of #Kinderchat (www.kinderchat.net), a twitter-based global community for educators of young children. She is a speaker and trainer on learning through play, self-regulation, behavior management, and the use of technology within the classroom. (IStockphoto) Dear Parent:
Fatherhood Foundation: Great Dads: Courses & Seminars
GOOD TO GREAT Fathering Course Good to Great is the revolutionary approach to combating a crisis in Australian fatherhood which is affecting our children. Dads4Kids, based in Wollongong, Australia, is pioneering this innovative advance in fatherhood training which is now available at a national level. Almost one million Australian children are growing up in a home without their biological father.
The hidden oasis of the Arabian Desert is Heaven on Earth
Oman is a spectacular place. Source: Getty Images THE French novelist Antoine de Saint-Exupéry once said; “What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well”. Nowhere is this statement more apt than in Oman. The land of Sinbad the Sailor and the Queen of Sheba, Oman — with the exception of the coastline — is seemingly a never-ending desert. In the western part of the country is the Empty Quarter, with sand dunes that tower 30 storeys high.
A Parent's Resource Guide to Social and Emotional Learning
Encouraging Kindness and Empathy Cultivating Kindness and Compassion in Children (Center for Child and Family Well-Being, University of Washington, 2014) This summary of a public lecture by Kimberly Schonert-Reichl underscores the importance of promoting social and emotional learning, reviews some of the research about cultivating kindness and compassion in children, and discusses five practical strategies that parents can try. For even more parent tips, read Schonert-Reichl's Kindness Booklet. Why It’s Imperative to Teach Empathy to Boys (KQED MindShift, 2014) Gayle Allen and Deborah Farmer Kris discuss the importance of empathy and the gender stereotypes that may put boys at risk for failing to learn this important skill; the authors describe three strategies that parents of boys can implement.
