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Finding Salvation in the Great Outdoors If you are staying at home with a preschooler, make it a point to get up, get dressed, and get out of the house as much as possible. Preschoolers need a lot of stimulation. If that need is not met, they may fill it themselves by destroying the house or torturing Mommy. And getting out is good for you, not just for your child. If you know all the Sesame Street songs by heart but have no idea who the president is, or isn’t, you really may want to get out a little bit more....

Where adults can take in the whole picture, children pay more attention to what they hear in a situation. So, even if you put on a brave face for your children, if your voice portrays your true emotion, there’s a good chance your child can pick it up. What the Study Shows The study, published in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, reviewed both adults’ and children’s responses to emotional body language and emotional voices....

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Specific groups at nutritional risk include people with these qualities: Do you constantly skip meals, grabbing only snack foods throughout the day? Do you eat fewer than five fruits and vegetables each day? You might benefit from a multivitamin/mineral supplement (supplying up to 100 percent of the RDA) to fill in the nutrition gaps. Also, consider a separate calcium supplement with vitamin D. Are you a vegan, a strict vegetarian who consumes absolutely no meat, dairy, or other animal products?...

Each letter is a tangible expression of your love and pride, combined with the hopes and dreams you have for their future. They may even pick one out of a keepsake box in 20 years and be reminded of just how special they are to you. Your letter can offer encouragement through eight simple words that every child should hear. For example, you might say: “It’s hard for me to describe much I love you!...

How Popular is the Name Liam? The name Liam has been one of the fastest-rising Irish names in the United States. Its popularity seemed to explode in the mid to late 2000s when the Social Security Administration showed its drastic jump from the No. 75 spot in 2008 to No. 15 in 2011. Around this time, the massively popular movie franchise, “Taken,” made its debut, starring Irish actor Liam Neeson. This undoubtedly contributed to the name’s sudden popularity....

If you drank in the weeks before you knew you were pregnant, try not to worry, but stop now. Many women also decide to give up alcohol while they’re trying to conceive to optimize fertility. Heroin and cocaine are damaging both to a pregnant woman and her unborn baby. These drugs stunt fetal growth, affect the placenta, and can cause miscarriage or premature birth, as well as health problems in the newborn....

Effort: Easy - no sewing required Materials: Yellow sweatsuit 4 to 5 polystyrene wreaths Yellow spray paint Orange paint Yellow hat Glue gun Sponge Yellow ribbon Scissors Instructions: Sponge-paint orange splotches of “cheese sauce” all over the top and pants of the sweatsuit. Cut the wreaths into 4 “noodles” each, and spray paint noodles yellow. After paint dries, splotch noodles orange with sponge. Attach noodles with glue gun to hat and sweatsuit....

Preschoolers are unable to clearly distinguish between reality and fantasy. Even some children in the early elementary grades are still wrestling with this understanding. You may do your best to explain that ghouls and goblins are “pretend”, but the costumed monsters who appear at your door can seem very real. Frightening masks, costumes, and sounds can terrify children at this age, no matter how quickly the scary masks are removed to reveal friendly, familiar faces....

The challenge is to find each sumWIthout counting one by one.Why not count? It’s much too slow.Adding is the way to go! On one page of the book is a colorful drawing—a school of fish, a “parade” of snails, grapes on a vine. On the opposite page is a riddle that provides a hint on how to determine the number of items without counting each one individually. It’s entertaining since it’s not just about counting the items but figuring out the riddle to get the addition tip!...

Feast food This activity has to be done on a weekend or vacation when the family doesn’t have to wake up for school or work.

Symptoms Not all miscarriages present the same way. Whether or not you have any symptoms generally depends on how many weeks pregnant you are and the timing of the diagnosis. Generally, the farther along in pregnancy, the more symptoms you will experience. It’s also possible that you may not have any symptoms at all. Typical miscarriage symptoms may include the following: Abdominal pain and/or cramping Back pain Fluid and/or tissue discharge from the vagina Loss of pregnancy symptoms, such as nausea and breast tenderness Vaginal bleeding (this can range from spotting to heavy bleeding)...

If you miscarry, it’s important to know that it wasn’t linked to anything you did, such as exercise, sex, or travel. Also, there is no evidence that rest reduces the risk of a threatened miscarriage going on to become inevitable. If you have two or more miscarriages in a row, known as “repeated miscarriage,” your doctor may arrange tests to see if there is a cause. About half the time, no cause will be found but sometimes testing will find fetal chromosomal problems, uncommon uterine problems, or blood disorders or other medical conditions....

Although you don’t have to become a political activist when you homeschool, you should keep an eye on current activity in your state along with others to make sure that you are aware of any changes that might impact your homeschool. Homeschooling, like other rights, needs to be protected from the ever-increasing levels of government regulation and bureaucracy. To help with this, you need to be aware of what is happening....

Unfortunately, many parents attempt to re-create the school environment at home. Let’s face it – that’s all most of us know. It’s no surprise that kids who learn at home in a structured environment often react the same way schooled kids do. They get bored or tired and become cranky and uncooperative. The problem is not the child, but the erroneous idea that every child must learn a particular block of information at a particular age or grade....

In the movie Rain Man, Dustin Hoffman plays Raymond, a young man who has autism. He goes on a road trip with his brother, played by Tom Cruise. Raymond has an incredible gift with numbers. His brother discovers this, and takes him off to Las Vegas so he can gamble and win some money. There are certainly individuals with ASD who have extraordinary talent or, more usually, an inconsistent profile where they excel or do well in one area and have low performance in others....

Spend some time collecting spring leaves and blossoms to make a piece of earth art! Materials needed:· Leaves, flowers, feathers, fruit, and other natural materials· Paint, markers, or a stamp pad· Paintbrush · Newspaper· Construction paper What to do: Step One: Cover the area you’ll be working on with newspaper in case of spills. Step Two: Collect the natural materials that you’ll use for your prints. Flat objects (like leaves, cut pieces of fruit, or feathers) will work best....