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Bootlet Bandits Deliver Sub-Par Downloads
This week notorious internet news nanny Matt Drudge reported the presence of advanced bootleg prints of The Two Towers floating about online available for download. While the validity of this story is actually quite questionable and completely...
Choosing a Satellite TV Provider
The satellite tv industry has made huge gains on the cable tv industry in the past several years. With the price of cable tv skyrocketing every year, many cable subscribers are making the switch over to satellite tv. Okay so you've decided to...
Films, television and acceleration:
What if dark side film and television creations are the result of writers who channel divine energies? What if each one released information via entertainment, so that the concept of considering the implausible, the mystical, the metaphysical, was...
Free Satellite TV -- Is It Really Free?
You've seen the online and offline ads -- "Free satellite TV!" "Get a 4-room Satellite TV System Free!" and "Satellite TV Dish and Receivers Absolutely Free!" But is satellite TV really free? The answer to that question is yes ... and no. Yes,...
Games People Play
Games and role-playing are as ancient as Mankind. Rome's state-sponsored lethal public games may have accounted for up to one fifth of its GDP. They often lasted for months. Historical re-enactments, sports events, chess - are all manifestations of...
Hollywood Hoax
Everyone has been talking about the Machiavelli Hangman (http://www.hangmanmovie.com) but no one seems to have the slightest clue about its release date or when or where or why or how? The internet and newspapers are plastered with stories...
Let it Be, Naked
MUSIC REVIEW The Beatles; Let it Be, Naked – Released in Australia, January 2004. The Beatles; Let it Be, Naked is yet, another Beatles re-issue album containing recordings from the original Get Back/Let it Be sessions that took place in 1969. It...
Machiavelli Hangman: The New Age Of Digital Filmmaking
It was a regular day, at a regular get-together at a regular house, or so it seemed. The cast of the latest Independent Hollywood offering The Machiavelli Hangman (http://www.hangmanmovie.com) had come together to rehearse the scenes and do some...
Miami International Film Festival, SAG Awards, The Oscars! Highlight February Showbusiness and Media Events
The Mobile Exposure handheld video program is an exploration of the potentials of mobile video and culture and is running now through February 6 at Microcinema in Houston and on the Web. Concert Industry Consortium, founded to foster greater...
The plus point of free satellite TV deals
If you still have not subscribe to DirecTV or Dish Network deals, maybe you should take a look on this as satellite TV becomes the fastest selling products in U.S. history. The plus point of free satellite TV deals offered by Dish Network or...
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Home And School Education - Your Kids Can Benefit From Both!
Once, as a Learning Support Teacher, I made my way down to
the annexe that housed the school's History Department.
The annexe was about 100 metres from the main school
building, down an attractive, leafy hill.
On the way I was irked by two girls in front of me
complaining about the hill, the wind ruffling their hair,
the distance from one classroom to another, and so on.
I joined the History class with the moans and groans still
ringing in my ears. However, the topic of the lesson
soon gripped me:
Life in Thirteenth Century Scotland.
The ordinary people in those days lived in squalid huts,
unlike the nobles with their heavily fortified castles. But
even they faced many challenges. Fighting was a way of life
and the fear of attack preoccupied everyone.
In the cold, draughty, disease-ridden castles
people who lived to forty were considered old.
Not much scope for personal development and parenting
projects there!
Bumpy dirt tracks served as roads and the trees that covered
most of the land made travel difficult. Schools and child
education did not exist.
After the lesson I made my way back up to the main
building. This time I overheard another conversation - or to
be more precise, one side of a conversation.
A girl behind me chatted to her mum, many miles away
on the outskirts of the city. The small cellphone clamped to
the girl's ear made it possible.
Times had certainly changed since the 13th century!
Not only could this girl travel many miles by comfortable
transport every day, but at the touch of a button she could
chat with her mum.
This made me think again of the two I'd overheard on the way
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down. Unlike their 13th century counterparts, they could
walk safely on a dry, tarmac surface and enjoy the benefits
of a good education. Yet they moaned and groaned . . .
Yes, teaching - and parenting - teenagers brings its
challenges!
But if raising confident children is our goal,
why not start early, and help them develop a sense of awe
and wonder. Help them realise how far we've progressed.
Stress the benefits growing families enjoy today - benefits
unavailable to our predecessors, for whom life was hell.
Make your kids aware of the changes even since they were
infants:
iPods, mp3s, DVDs, multiplex cinemas, online bookings,
video cellphones
- when you think about it, the list is impressive!
And the downside: in a world saturated with resources
and abundance, millions starve. Yet all could be put right
so easily!
Your children are young and impressionable, so true-life
stories will absorb their insatiable interest. Make this
part of your home education program, working hand-in-hand
with their special school projects.
And it will pay dividends. Informed, appreciative
children become confident, tolerant, fair-minded and
determined young people.
Personal development all round . . .
Happy parenting!
Why do some parents and children succeed, while others
fail?
Frank McGinty is an internationally published author and
teacher. If you want to develop your parenting skills and
encourage your kids to be all they can be, visit his web
pages,
http://www.frank-mcginty.com/peace-formula.html
AND
http://www.frank-mcginty.com/for-parents.html
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