Writing An Essay

My friend Lala got an assignment. She needs to write an essay, she said. As of now she is still thinking of some interesting essay topics that are enthusiastic for her to easily express her reasoning. I told her that in essay writing, you need to have a topic of your choice that could reflect your values and style. How you approach in your writing and the contents of it will be a deciding factor of values and style. It should be written in a direct to the point approach as possible.

Developing a unique essay format could require hard work and patience, but who does not want to have a writing that could have a good first impression that will last? Essays written in an organized way with meaningful and proper introduction, has valid points on the body, and a conclusion that reinforce the introduction are the things I stressed to Lala for her essay. As we all know, if it is not written on proper format essay could not show its purpose.

There are lots of types of essay and Lala wants to write an analytical essay type. I told her to better have a research on the library to support her claims of the information she will brought up. That, in whatever she will present be reasonable and based on her research, and in logical and consistent details. Writing down your points and examining it before you write an essay and making an outline will help a lot for you to prevent wandering and stay on your topic. Collected information counts a lot in Analytical assay. For you to arrive in a reasonable conclusion, your assumptions and claims should be always supported by your collected information for it to always have basis.

Lots of students are not fond of essay writing; it is usually connected with stress and fear and is written on last minute. They did not realize that if they write it as early as they still have time for revisions and some trusted people could help them proofread it aside from themselves for a quality wise result. Thanks to grammar tool and easy writing help available nowadays, at least it help. Searching online essay samples could help a lot too. I know Lala, with her personality and enthusiasm she could produce a good essay. She thanked me for the tips and start browsing the internet for some essay samples and essay writing tips.

Be Aware And Do Something

Be aware and do something! If you are a parent and, or a concerned citizen, you need to read this post. Have you heard about Salvia divinorum? Media raised an alarm about this plant because of its psychoactive property.

In 1982, Alfredo Ortega of Mexico isolated the Salvinorin A molecule from Salvia divinorum. Salvinorin A is the molecule responsible of hallucinative and dissociative effects of S. divinorum in humans.

Ataxia (lack of coordination), cognitive (mental or thinking and reasoning) and memory impairment, and amnesia (loss of memory) are just some of the possible things might happened to your child that will try the trance-effect of S. divinorum out of curiosity or peer pressure. There was even a case of death due to S. divinorum usage.

Salvia divinorum psychoactive property could cause dissociative effects like hallucinations, and trance or intense dream-like effect as if it is realistic. No wonder why Mazatec shamans use it on their traditional spiritual healing sessions to aid to their visionary states of consciousness. S. divinorum’s native habitation is in Sierra Mazateca of Oaca, Mexico making them possible

Parents, especially if your children are on their teenage years, you need to be aware of it! S. divinorum is still legal on many countries nowadays. Peer pressure, having problems in relationship within family, and lack of parental guidance are the main reasons why teenagers and adults resort to engaging in activities that could let them forget the reality of life they are into.

I am encouraging all parents to devote quality time with their kids and have a good communication with them. Effective parenting is the best way that your child could stand and face all the odds in life, and for them not to use any substance for them to retreat to a dream world.

Being In Tune With Surroundings

Taking time to relax in an outdoor furniture placed on patio could make you feel in tune with your surroundings while having the comfort of your own home. I myself love to relax like that while waiting for the sun to come out from the East with background of birds singing, declaring another morning has come and another chance to learn about life through experiences and taking time to interact with other people.

Living a healthy lifestyle does not just focus on self, on how you feel good and look better, but being in tune with surroundings as well especially with people you interact with. Through interaction and sharing who we are we build solid social ties that give us emotional benefits in times of stress or an emotional buffer against stressful events, and celebrate with us in times of joy. As they say, “No man is an island”. No matter how financially rich you are you will feel emptiness and as if incomplete if you do not take time to interact with other people because by nature humans are social beings.

Parent and child relationship is the most important social relationship that needs to be strengthened first for kids to interact well with other people. Parent should take time to have quality time with their kids, to guide them on how to interact well with their playmates and to community as a whole, and be a good model to their kids through their actions.

With parents’ guidance and modeling on how to interact with other people, it is as if a child is relaxing on a patio, experiencing the comfort of her own home while being in tune with her surroundings. Time will come that kids will explore the world by themselves, they may be aware or not they will carry and is carrying with them the lessons they will learn and have learned from their own home on how to behave as social being.

Why Choose Recyclable and Non-toxic Products

Why check out the products you are using if it is recyclable and non-toxic? If you love yourself and the earth where you live, definitely you will do things that could not harm or lessen to use things that are made up of toxic materials and use a durable counterparts that could be recycled. Using stainless steel drums that could be used in many times after you clean it well, and could be recycled if you no longer want it is a great example for it.

Using PET bottles in bottled waters and other drinks has been an issue in the past years since lots of people love to use the bottle again and again after drinking the content of the product. Toxic effect of reusing the bottles is an issue until now in different household since lots of people really reuse bottles from bottled drinks.

Some toys has also been issue in the past years because of toxic contents of materials used. As we all know, little kids love to put their toys on their mouth and could really be affected by those toxic substances on the toys.

Health authorities even advises school kids to use recyclable materials like brown envelop instead of plastic envelop and use a cover made of paper for their books and notebooks instead of plastic covers and so many other tips to lessen the harmful effects of non- recyclable materials, especially those that are made of toxic substances.

Toxic and non-recyclable products could not just harm the user but could harm our beloved planet as well if not disposed properly.

Some of The Things You Need to Consider in Your Meal Planning

What are the things you usually put into consideration if we talk about meal planning? I asked mothers in our neighborhood about it and they said that aside from right nutrition, making the food appealing to their kids are their aim. The color, smell, shape, texture, how the food is prepared and the way the food is presented determine how much the child eat.

Food that are hard to eat or those that requires more effort to kids could be frustrating to them to eat the right amount of food. Also, food that is too hot for the kids could cause them not just mouth burns but total rejection of same food in the future as well.

I hope that it is part of your meal planning  that you let your child be involved in meal preparation. By letting your little kids help you out in the kitchen, they could use all their senses for them to learn about color, texture, size, shape and amount.

A child that is as young as 3-year-olds could snap beans, shell peas, spread sandwich spread on the bread, tear up lettuce, etc. It is just necessary to inculcate on their minds about things you are permitting them to do and those that they should not for safety reasons.

Letting your kids help in preparation of food could make them appreciate more of the food you serve for them aside from it is the right time to teach them about balanced diet. By nature, they are curious and would naturally want to taste food they help you prepare.

Recipes that are too easy to prepare and could let you help your kids should be part of your meal planning aside from taking consideration of the food that are healthy to prepare to help your kids learn to appreciate food by letting them help you out.

How Do You Code Your Child?

Maybe if I mention barcode scanner, most of you will correlate it instantly to cashier on your favorite supermarket. As Medical technologist, we use barcode scanners too at the laboratory.

Patient’s information are encoded on the computer including the unique number or the bar code number that is attached to patient’s original sample container and its by products (samples for tests and for storage). There is even a unique character incorporated to the code depending to where the samples will be used and should not be interchanged. As the technologist scan the code, all the necessary information about the sample will come out.

If we correlate barcode numbering with parenting style, we need to bear in mind that all of us has unique character and personality like the unique barcode labeling in laboratory specimen samples. Kids should not be labeled like goods in the supermarket that as long as the goods are of same brand and of the same size and quality, they are labeled with the same  barcode number (treated as a group).

It is not because your kids have same parents that your children  have the same personalities and outlook in life thus could be treated as a group. Parents should learn to have different parenting styles to their kids because it does not mean that their parenting style is applicable to their oldest child will work with the second one. They need to be a parent to every child and not give them lessons as a group most of the time.

Each child has different needs and has different potentials to be realized. They are unique and that they need parent’s one on one attention for them to maximize their capacities and realize their dreams. They need different styles of parenting.

The Best Insurance You Can Give to Your Child

Most parents assure their child’s future by having enough funds for their kids’ needs. Some parents even avail online life insurance so that by the time comes that they are no longer available for their kids financial needs, they still have some funds to help them with their living. But, money is not everything in life. Providing financial needs of your kids is just part of your obligations as a parent. Parenting could not be bought nor be transferred to the nanny who takes care of your child while you are away.

I always promote adopting healthy lifestyle and be a good role model to kids even on their stage of life so that parents could help their kids to stay healthy until their adulthood. Healthy lifestyle does not just composed of healthy eating and exercise but taking time to rest, relax, do some recreational activities and be socially involved with church and community too.

Optimism or positive mental attitude is part of healthy lifestyle. How can your kids have a positive mental outlook in life if they are not aware of what is happening on their community and was not taught to care for their fellowmen and their surroundings? How will you kids learn the value of wellness if they have not seen the impact of not having such lifestyle through their own eyes on other people? How will they appreciate all the efforts you are doing for them if they themselves was not given a chance to have an impact to their community by joining some cause? How can all these things have an impact to your child if you are not there to guide them and help them learn about lessons in life?

Your kids might forget how much money you gave to them as their daily allowance, or how expensive the things you bought for them but, the lessons they learned from you starting from their childhood years until they declare their freedom is the best insurance you can give because it will not just have an impact on themselves  but to their acquaintances and future family of your kids as well.

Environment (like friends, the places they usually hang out, and the activities they do) may play a big role of how your child’s behavior may evolve aside from what they learned at home. But large part of how your kids will behave and the principles they will take hold has been learned way back home since their childhood days. Thus, being a good role model to your kids is the best life insurance you can give to them.

Strengthening Voluntary Responses Due To Favorable Consequences

Genetic factor has a role but the biggest chunk of why you behave the way you do now is because of what you learned in life. Today, let us talk about strengthening voluntary responses due to favorable consequences.

Simple words of complement one will receive like “thank you”, “very good”, “I agree”, and  “fantastic” will definitely trigger the recipient to behave such way again. Whether such compliments are heard every after the time the person did it or in variable times, it become a great motivator to the individual.

Why some people tend to exhibit high and steady rate in game of chance like playing in Best Online Casino? It is because of the possible big amount of reward they could get out of it. Why salesperson keep on going house to house dealing their products everyday though there are days that they have no sales at all? It is because they think that they might make a sale on the fourth, seventh, or tenth house they will go. I personally asked the said question to one of my churchmate who is into dealing of quality books for kids in house to house basis.

Why I brought up this topic? Some parents tend to forget to appreciate their kids little achievements and are quick to give punishment to modify the behavior of their kids. To those parents, why not try to give a reward (but not that frequently for the child not to expect) or say complimentary words for every good deed of your child to help them behave the way you want them to than giving a punishment? A reward and, or complimentary word to show that you appreciate how your child behave.

Giving a punishment might be the quickest way to change the behavior of your child but it could trigger strong emotional responses too. The worst consequence is that in the long run it could result to aggressive behavior of kids plus kids who received frequent punishment tend to become withdrawn and less active compared to others.

Studies showed that physical punishment often leads to an increase in aggressive behavior. Children who subjected to a lot of physical punishment tend to become more aggressive than average, an effect that typically continues through adolescence and adulthood (Parke & Slaby, 1983; Straus & Kantor, 1994).

If your child loves to play his toys and always forgot to put it back to its case or fix his room after playing, instead of yelling to your child or punishing him not to play with those toys for a week, why not talk to him well about the advantage of a well fixed room? And, if he fix it after his playtime, a complimentary words or a reward such as giving him another toy–his favorite cartoon character?

Strengthening desirable behavior by giving a reward and, or complimentary words (even not that frequent like winning a game) than by giving punishment for the undesirable behavior is a much better way to discipline a child.