Archive for March, 2010

Imaginative Play – Benefits of Pretend Play for Child’s Development, Games, Scenarious, Ideas

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

The importance of Imaginative play in child’s development cannot be stressed enough. In our modern overly technological society a child’s imagination is often paralysed with fast-moving pictures of a television set or brightly colored 3-D worlds of computer games. Often, parents concentrate on getting their preschoolers school-ready by paying a lot of attention to learning the alphabet and numbers but forgetting how important it is to nurture their child’s imagination. A number of psychological studies have shown that pretend play prepares children for life in the real world because during play children learn important life skills like taking turns, sharing responsibility, empathy and many others. So let’s see what games we can come up with to foster our children’s imaginations.

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Five must-have candies for Easter baskets

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

Five must-have candies for Easter baskets
Chocolate bunnies. Hollow ones can be tricky to eat because they splinter into little pieces. To be neat, start with the ears and work your way down. Jelly beans. The inexpensive fat ones make nice decorations for baskets full of grass or perched on a nest of green-tinted coconut atop a cake. But for consumption, we want Jelly Bellies in all of those artificial but delicious flavors. Marshmallow …

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INSPIRATIONAL, MOTIVATION & LIBERATIONAL QUOTES FAILURE, MISTAKES CHALLENGES & ENDURANCE

Monday, March 29th, 2010

INSPIRATIONAL, MOTIVATION & LIBERATIONAL QUOTES FAILURE, MISTAKES CHALLENGES & ENDURANCE

You are where you are, because that is where you plan to be through your practical action             – Anonymous – Anonymous A man who won the battle never quitted when the battle was going tough  -  Sesan Until you believe in yourself, you won’t believe in your future success  -  Anonymous Proper preparation prevents poor performance             -  Anonymous Failure to plan is plan in to fail   -  E. A. Adeboye Success is getting up one more than you fall                         -  Bill Newman It is not what happens but how you handle what happens to you makes the difference   -  Bill Newman Always remember Failure is an event never a person; an attitude, not an outcome. It is a stepping stone teaching you something and adding to your experience  – Bill Newman My great concern is not whether you have failed but whether you are content with your failure             -   Abraham Lincoln It’s not where you come from – it’s where you are going that counts. Where you come from is not as important as where you are going              -  Bill Newman Past failures are guide pests to future success            – Bill Newman Failure is in a sense, the highway to success in as much and every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after. Mistakes mark the road to success. He who makes no mistakes makes no progress – Bill Newman It doesn’t matter where we start only where we finish. Often it is not the wrong start but the winning stop that makes the difference between success and failure It is not what you have lost but what you have left that counts            -  Bill Newman Men don’t fail, they give up trying in trying time            – Bill Newman If you want the rainbow you have to endure the rain    -  Bill Newman It is better to fail gallantly being yourself that succeeding being another person   -  Anonymous Not all who seem to fail have failed indeed. Not all who fails have therefore worked in vain  – Anonymous Success is failure turned inside out            -  Anonymous Great achievers of old were people who attempted difficult things and who overcame tough time    -  Anonymous You need to go through the pains to be promoted. No cross, No crown, No pain, No gain. The man who would tell the story of the battle never died at the battle field  FOCUS & DETERMINATION (more…)