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		<title>Attract your children on Math</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2011 10:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like it or not, math being used in our daily life, to purchase or sell things, we used money, that have certain amount, which we required math to do it. Although we do know the purposes but admit it, most of us hate math on those days in school.
Is it because not attractive, or less [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Like it or not, math being used in our daily life, to purchase or sell things, we used money, that have certain amount, which we required math to do it. Although we do know the purposes but admit it, most of us hate math on those days in school.</p>
<p>Is it because not attractive, or less fun, etc, we do know that also happen in our children generation as well. As parents, we&#8217;re usually forced our children to master everything that given in school, including maths. As much as we forced it, that much they hate it the most. Yes its true if you don&#8217;t pack it in fun ways.<br />
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Yes learning math could be fun and much more attractive. How? use games instead of forcing them reading books in hours. Its a matter how we stimulate the intelligence aspect of our children earlier. First introduce them into basic mathematical concept that being used on their daily activities. Use object from your surrounding area, and always remember do it without coercion and pressure, packing it inside a games is wonderful.</p>
<p>Many exploration game that can hone a child mathematical logic, but of course this should be tailored to the child&#8217;s age. When toddlers play sand, kids are actually hands train the muscles turn on fine motor skills so that one day the child is able to hold a pencil, drawing and others. With a sand play children learn to estimate the actual or measure that would pour it all there in mathematics.</p>
<p>Instead of games that build by your own, you also could use <a href="http://www.educationaltoysplanet.com/math.html" target="_blank">Math Toys</a>, or use songs to train them. If you&#8217;re watching children tv shows, you&#8217;ll found that they also using songs to help children remember math more easily.</p>
<p>Why games? Because with toys, your children intelligence could be stimulate easier and playing is always fun for them. Instead of that with games, children able to express their ideas and feelings, also could stimulate their creativity.<br />
When playing a challenging game, children have the opportunity to solve problems (problem solving). Exciting problems that make the child unconsciously trained to solve a problem. This will strengthen the ability of children out of trouble. For example while it is tied shoes, kids will try to use all his ability to finish through. And this will also train at the school when the child later received lessons on mathematical problem solving (problem solving).</p>
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		<title>Say it with love</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 09:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Love is complicated, love could hurt someone, but love also could blow someone to the air. Love of parents to their children, couple lovers love, and many other love that spread on the world, especially on valentine&#8217;s day.
With love all the hurts and the pain will be erase bit by bit. Although for some people [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Love is complicated, love could hurt someone, but love also could blow someone to the air. Love of parents to their children, couple lovers love, and many other love that spread on the world, especially on valentine&#8217;s day.</p>
<p>With love all the hurts and the pain will be erase bit by bit. Although for some people expressing love is an easy thing to do, but for some require some encouragement. Saying love might not be an easy thing to do, when you&#8217;re proposing a girl to be your lovely wife. The word &#8220;will you marry me&#8221; could stuck on your tongue when it comes on the d day.<br />
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When it comes on those day, that&#8217;s what make men trying to express their love in many different ways. The purpose is simple, in order to get yes from the girl and made the girl remember those time in her entire life.</p>
<p>Romantic dinner in some fancy restaurant along with instrumental music that&#8217;s just something ordinary. If you like some surprises, then think something else. Instead of dinner, why not try lunch, or tie your diamond ring into her lovely pets, or something else.</p>
<p>Proposing in public might require some guts to do that, although most of them get &#8220;yes&#8221; for the question, but get ready to accept &#8220;no&#8221; as well. </p>
<p>People says that diamond is everlasting, more elegant and high class, with clear blink all around, some experience that could made your girl remember you. Diamond are not just for proposing, but could be one of your <a href="http://osbornesjewelers.com/CategoryPages/ItemDetails.aspx?MenuId=0&#038;item_id=1165&#038;ITotal=18&#038;pcId=10&#038;catId=%20&#038;iType=J" target="_blank">matching bridal sets</a>.</p>
<p>Express your love with jewelry, and promises, but most important than that is showing her that you love her every day.<br />
Say it with love.</p>
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		<title>Friendship and a cup of coffee</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 11:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the relationship within a cup of coffee with friendship, like it or not, believe it or not, most of us spending times in cafe or coffee shop. Within those free time, we often meet other peoples, within those people there are chances one of them became your friend. With cup of coffee and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What is the relationship within a cup of coffee with friendship, like it or not, believe it or not, most of us spending times in cafe or coffee shop. Within those free time, we often meet other peoples, within those people there are chances one of them became your friend. With cup of coffee and a pack of cigarettes, usually talking or discussion became more live and interesting then ever.</p>
<p>Coffee and cigarettes consumer are not just men but women. Although some research says that too many caffeine in your bloods and smoking cigarettes not healthy for your life, but there are lots consumer wanting them. And the world might be different and turn bitter without them.<br />
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Until now I could find any research result related to friendship, coffee, and cigarettes, might be because of its been a habit and lifestyle that people are visiting coffee shops or cafe just to hang out, or pull out their stress.</p>
<p>For you whom concern about health, coffee and cigarettes might be something you avoid. But don&#8217;t worry for coffee lovers and smokers, you won&#8217;t lose your friendship because of those two. A true friendship always listening and understanding, later it will gain some respect to you.</p>
<p>Right there are several brands saying that they have minimum amount of coffee in their cup, that&#8217;s a great news for coffee lovers. How about smokers? some says that the smoke could trigger cancer, not only for the smokers, but also for passive smokers as well. If that is your problem, then you might want to try <a href="http://lecig.com" target="_blank">Smokeless Cigarettes</a>, it looks like ordinary cigarettes and it says that the taste are actually the same.</p>
<p>Its time to get out and make lots of friends as you like, and also always mind your health as well.</p>
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		<title>Be yourself, be happy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 08:57:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you happy right now? That question is for you and only you have the answer. If you still thinking that your sweetheart, husband/wife, best friend, position, money, passion, etc. are your happiness, then you were wrong. Because no one could make you happy but yourself.
You are responsible for yourself. If you often feel well [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you happy right now? That question is for you and only you have the answer. If you still thinking that your sweetheart, husband/wife, best friend, position, money, passion, etc. are your happiness, then you were wrong. Because no one could make you happy but yourself.</p>
<p>You are responsible for yourself. If you often feel well off, never had a feeling inferior, always believe in yourself, you will not feel sad. Indeed our mindset that determines whether we are happy or not, rather than external factors. Happy or not your life is not determined by how rich you are, how beautiful your wife, or what your life as successful.<br />
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The fact is that many people who stay in an unhappy relationship just because they are afraid of living alone. They are in a relationship that is not good and did not survive the ordeal that they should receive only because of fear of being alone.</p>
<p>But once a person knows, that he is happy living alone, he set standards that are much higher and would not accept the relationship perfunctory. Among the rules to find love is that we need to learn to be happy and secure in solitude. That way, we will not enter into a bad situation just because of fear of life alone. If a relationship does not work, leave it out.</p>
<p>When you&#8217;re happy then you&#8217;ll be able to enjoy living alone, so that when you&#8217;re decided to build a relationship with a new partner, you do it for the right reasons.<br />
You will live with other people just because you love her and she makes you happy. Life alone is nice, but life is better in pairs. If you do not think so, you&#8217;re free to go.</p>
<p>Trust me Positive Singles: You Are Not Alone, life it happily.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:50:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All things being equal, where you are positioned in your family constellation represents the propensity of your behavior. How is your position affecting your conduct? 
A fortunate addition to the original concepts of Bowen family systems theory, sibling position can be quite informative in understanding human behavior in general and one’s own behavior in particular. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.solutions4teams.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/sibling.jpg"><img src="http://www.solutions4teams.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/sibling-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="sibling" width="150" height="150" class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-26" /></a>All things being equal, where you are positioned in your family constellation represents the propensity of your behavior. How is your position affecting your conduct? </p>
<p>A fortunate addition to the original concepts of Bowen family systems theory, sibling position can be quite informative in understanding human behavior in general and one’s own behavior in particular. How does your best thinking affect your propensity to live out the characteristics of your sibling position?<span id="more-23"></span></p>
<p>Sibling Position &#8211; A Personality Indicator That is Both Static and Dynamic<br />
In the 1960’s, Dr. Walter Toman became well known for his pioneering studies in family member positioning. He created a picture, if you will, of basic types of sibling profiles that gave an impression of how each sibling was apt to behave and their potential — all things being equal — of a successful life course.</p>
<p>With regard to being static, it differs from other types of personality indicators such as the Myers-Briggs or Riso-Hudson in that one’s sibling position never changes. One can take the Myers-Briggs three times at three different junctures in one’s life, and score three different ways. Your sibling position remains static and yet affects your life and the lives of others in a dynamic way.</p>
<p>Bringing Your Birth Order Position to the Marital Relationship<br />
Toman’s belief was that marital partners have complimentary, partially complimentary, or non-complimentary sibling positions.</p>
<p>Those with non-complimentary sibling positions (such as a wife and husband who are both youngest siblings) have more marital difficulty than do those with complimentary (a youngest brother of sisters married to an oldest sister of brothers) or partially complimentary sibling positions (an oldest brother of brothers paired with a youngest sister of sisters).</p>
<p>Personality Characteristics Based on Years of Research<br />
Dr. Murray Bowen wrote, “Based on my research and therapy, I believe that no single piece of data is more important than knowing the sibling position of people in the present and past generations.”</p>
<p>The Multigenerational Transmission Process speaks to what families look like over the span of at least three generations, and much can be gained by examining generational patterns while considering one’s sibling position.</p>
<p>Doctors Toman and Bowen shared a great deal in their thinking with respect to sibling position, yet one of Bowen’s departures was that of how anxiety plays a role in sibling position profiles.</p>
<p>Brothers, Sisters, and the Anxious Presence<br />
Your birth order says a lot about you. Yet it is propensity and not destiny. There is no superior sibling position, although envy of the other positions seems common! When you are anxious, your tendency to fulfill your sibling position characteristics grows.</p>
<p>For example, the youngest brother of sisters will, when under pressure, be more apt to play the “needy” card, gaining the attention and affection of older women.<br />
It’s been known to come in handy, but ultimately it is an abdication of personal responsibility. How is anxiety affecting your propensity to typify your sibling position?</p>
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