Helping Parents Succeed
These are not your conventional men’s Christmas gifts. No, we are not talking about iPods, golf equipment and not even about wine club memberships.
It’s something your man or husband will love to receive. And yet it’s so unique that he never thinks of it.
Be different this year. Give something unusual and unique for this year’s Christmas to your husband or boyfriend and this will surely leave a lasting impression on him.
Hateful text messages, abusive e-mails and cyber-gossip are giving bullies new power over their victims — even in the supposed safety of their own homes, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
And most of the victims are themselves new, with two-thirds of children who report such harassment saying they had not been bullied before in other ways.
Schools and parents must work together to find ways to stop such behavior, without robbing children and teens of valuable Internet access, the resaarchers agreed.
"Internet bullying has emerged as a new and growing form of social cruelty," Kirk Williams and Nancy Guerra of the University of California at Riverside wrote in one of a series of reports published in the Journal of Adolescent Health.
The reports, from researchers organized by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, show a 50 percent increase in the number of kids aged 10 to 17 who said they were harassed online — from 6 percent in 2000 to 9 percent in 2005.
Full report: Teens take bullying to the Internet
Here’s a list of 12 kids recipes you can try for yourself: two from each of these categories: desserts, fruit and veggie concoctions, snacks, drinks, bakery, and dinner.
Cooking is an excellent way to bond with your kids. You may want to involve your kids in the preparation.
Hope you and your kids will enjoy the dishes.
Maybe getting schoolchildren to eat healthy foods isn't a hopeless struggle. Bucking some common notions, a University of Minnesota study has found that school lunch sales don't decline when healthier meals are served, and that more nutritious lunches don't necessarily cost schools more to produce.
"The conventional wisdom that you can't serve healthier meals because kids won't eat them is false," said Benjamin Senauer, one of three economists who wrote the study.
Previous studies have concluded that students prefer fatty foods and that healthier meals cost more to make, the authors noted.
The study, which appears in the December issue of the Review of Agricultural Economics, analyzed five years of data for 330 Minnesota public school districts. It looked at compliance with federal standards for calories, nutrients and fats.
When the researchers crunched all the numbers they found that schools serving the healthiest lunches did not see a falloff in demand.
While serving better meals does entail higher labor costs, the study found, that's offset by lower costs for more nutritious foods such as fruits and vegetables compared with processed foods. However, many districts need to upgrade their kitchens and train their staff to prepare these foods, the researchers said.
The study's conclusions rang true for Jean Ronnei, director of nutrition services for St. Paul Public Schools, which serves more than 46,000 meals daily. The district was held up by the authors as a model for others.
Full report: Study: Kids Will Eat Healthy School Food
Are you listening to your child when he’s talking to you? I mean LISTEN ATTENTIVELY. Or are you jumping the gun and trying to give answers in the fastest time possible and get over with?
To best illustrate the point, I’ll give you some examples. The examples show, in the same situation, how you respond and listen when your kid talks can make a big difference in your kid’s growth and self-esteem.
Take a look at the conversations below and identify which style you are.
Don’t be surprised that you might do it incorrectly.