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Plumbing skills are an advantageous addition to anyone’s skill set. It demonstrates that you’re concerned about the proper methods of maintaining your plumbing and that you strive to make sure things are maintained on your own. This is an admirable quality. Even if you already know a thing or two about plumbing, you can always improve on your skill-set. Read on to gain some new insights.

If you possess pipes that are alive with the sound of squeaking or …

Cool Off and Stay Fit With Sprinklers for Kids

Can Sprinklers for Kids Improve Their Health?

The statistics of childhood obesity show that since the early 70′s the percentage of overweight children in the US has nearly tripled. More than one in five kids between the ages of 6 and 17 are now considered overweight.

With sprinklers for kids we are encouraging exercise while having fun. Hopefully we can help lower these numbers by getting our kids to stay active

Can we reverse the statistics of childhood obesity?

I think we can if we give kids fun ways to get …

The Business of Silver – a Childhood Memory is Resurrected

My first memory of Silver?

One of my memories as a young child was going to the home of one of my parents’ friends and eating the most delicious sweets, the best bit being the taste of the silver foil that glittered on the top. The memory was brought back when a recent ‘business transaction’ was carried out over a plate of these tasty sweets.

The use of silver foil in food goes back thousands of years in India. Today, Betel leaf and Indian sweets covered with silver foil are …

Adjusting Your Child to Life in Child Care Centres

If you have just enrolled your child in a child care centre then you must have faced situations like watching your child crying loudly on the first day when you say good-bye. Some children are very excited for going to child care centres. The child care centre tries to decrease you and your child’s stress as much as possible for them.

Here are some tips that can help you to adjust your child in Child Care Centres:

Before sending your child into a childcare centre you should talk to your child …

Robbed of Childhood

That our children in the 21st Century have been robbed of their childhood is a fact that does not need belaboring. With the advent of the Internet, we kissed childhood for our kids a long and tearful goodbye! I do not think that parents in the 21st Century could ever give their children too much information. With the click of the mouse our innocent children can access more information than we could ever dream of giving them.

I believe that what we as parents need to do is to counter the information that our children are getting …

Moral Training For a Healthy Imagination

It’s a little hard to determine, but we wonder–and often–what will bring us that extra pinch of life, peace, relief or joy, particularly when the world crowds us in. For instance, when Sunday approaches and then disappears from view as we enter our Mondays. Back to work it is for us! What happened to that time off?

We can all fall too easily for the life of ‘just keeping up’ as any true peace is eked out of us and we flop hopelessly in front of the television each night (or whatever else you …

Grandma’s Job is to Make Grandkids Eat

Back in 1997, I read a most interesting piece by Ann Gibbons, a correspondent for Science magazine, on why human females live so long after they stop reproducing. Based on studies of African hunter gatherers, it seems that the evolutionary purpose of why women live after menopause is to make sure their grandchildren eat.

Simply put, the reasoning goes that while younger (fertile) women are busy having or nursing their constant stream of young ones, the grandmothers, by stopping to have kids of their own, now have plenty of time to look after …

What Are The Causes Of Child Obesity?

As recently as a generation ago there were only a few random children that were overweight, usually because of faulty genes and other issues. But, the number of children who are classified as overweight and obese has more than tripled in the recent years and the problem is not subsiding despite the rising evidence of chronic health conditions once reserved for older adults.

Children as young as ten have the heart and lungs of a fifty year old and they are facing early deaths because of it. For the firs time, the life …

Juvenile Diabetes – What is Juvenile Diabetes and What a Parent Can Do to Help

Today around the world there are is an increasing number of children who have been diagnosed with diabetes. Most of them will be diagnosed with Juvenile Diabetes. It is also known as Type 1 diabetes and is the name given to a disease in which the body has trouble regulating its blood glucose, or blood sugar levels. It is also known as insulin dependent because the individual will need insulin to survive.

Juvenile diabetes is considered an autoimmune disease. The individuals immune system will attack …

Lesson Learned: No Matter How Old, the Process Doesn’t Stop

OK class, today’s assignment is to create the most annoying place ever; ready?

Let’s begin by populating it with lots of tired, irritable inhabitants confined to a cramped area with hardly any places to rest and absolutely no spot to get comfortable. Many of these folks will wear too much perfume or, better yet, haven’t seen the working end of a shower in days. Of course, the whole environment has to be far from home, and – oh yes – let’s make it extremely loud.

Now, let’s spruce up the …