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6 Ways To Raise A Child Who Loves Reading
Raising a child who loves reading has so many benefits for our children, from purely educational benefits to mental health benefits, and gaining attributes like empathy and resilience. The characters in books can help our children to learn about differences, the world, and to inspire their imagination. If your child isn’t much of a bookworm yet, then don’t fret. These six tips will help to give them a little nudge in the right direction. Use audiobooks Kids audiobooks are hugely versatile, whether it’s in the car, or snuggled up in your reading corner. Most popular books also come in audiobook format, including fun music, sound effects, and big picture books…
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How To Tell If Your Water Is Contaminated
There are several ways to tell if your household water is contaminated. Strange Taste When your water is contaminated it won’t taste right. If you notice an odd new flavor it probably means it’s contaminated. This could include an oily, bitter, fishy or metallic taste. So if your drinking water tastes like sea bass, this isn’t good. The oil in the water can add a weird taste and this is a main contaminant in household water. Strange Smell As well as tastes, look out for a strange smell. Typically these could be the smell of chlorine or sulfur because of the excess minerals in the water. It’s not normal for…
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How To Have A Productive Company Meeting
A productive company meeting is a perfect opportunity to get management and your employees together and on the same page. Keep in mind that meetings are pointless unless they’re properly planned and executed. Be glad to know there are ways for how you can have a more productive and insightful company meeting in the future. As the leader and organizer of the event, you must be prepared in advance and put time and energy into making sure all goes smoothly. You want what unfolds to be worth it because you’ll be pulling people away from their desks and responsibilities for an extended period of time. Pick A Prime Location…
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Why Your Business Might Need More IT Support
There are often areas in your business that start to flag behind, and that’s normal. It’s being able to pull your focus and effort onto it to make sure it’s keeping up with everything else that’s important. Here’s why your business might need more IT support. Your Staff Are Sharing Their Concerns When staff start expressing their concerns or start complaining, then it’s certainly something you’re going to have to take seriously. After all, it’s your staff who are having to work within the office, and if the IT support supplied is not good enough, then there need to be some changes made. Listen to the concerns because they may…
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Trail Cam Friday
I moved the trail cam to the left of our garage door instead of outside my craft room. My thoughts were: A. easier to get too (true) B. better variety of pictures (false) So, these are not the best pictures for the week. Granted, it’s been icky outside. It’s either snowing or raining or both at the same time. Seriously cloudy and gray all day. HOWEVER!!! (See?? Y’all knew I’d find something good! RIGHT?!!?!?) The snow, rain, mist produced some really cool effects for this weeks pictures. Of course, I believe I caught a flying saucer yet AGAIN!! Then these were too funny NOT to share. Bear investigating the camera…
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Income Streams That Work Even When You Don’t
If you were offered the chance to take your salary for a year, or five, or ten, without going into work, would you take it? The vast majority of people surely would, because it would free up time in which we could do other things that we wanted to do, without losing out financially. That’s not to say we only work because we need the money – there are other reasons, including social and health reasons, why it is a good idea to keep up a job or some form of productive routine – but it does open up an interesting question. What if you could be making money…
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Need Help In the Kitchen? Ask Your Toddler! (5 Life Tested Tips)
As a busy mother, I totally understand how challenging it could be to make meals and watch your kids simultaneously. And the smaller the baby, the harder it is. Particularly if it’s your first kid! I do my best to make meals as fast as the flash and serve it right away. My family doesn’t like waiting too long 🙂 Recently I’ve got a brand new baby food maker so now I can save extra minutes for reading or writing while snacks are getting ready. Besides cooking, mother always has a lot of duties and chores, therefore, it’s a great way out to get your toddler involved in daily routine…
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Yoga Helps Fitness Seekers at All Levels
When it is time to improve fitness, especially for someone particularly out of shape, it is easy to jump straight into doing a bulk of cardiovascular work, ignoring other exercises. The fact is that, with variety in taking yoga classes or Pilates, fitness seekers will see results sooner and help avoid injuries. Adding your own DIY pre-workout supplement could also benefit your practice. By adding yoga into the mix, fitness fans will love how they feel as they get into shape and even lose weight, if that is one of their goals. Some of the benefits that yoga offers includes balance, strength, flexibility and agility. There are even yoga courses…