If you have ever spent much time with kids, you know that life is one huge question and answer session. With all the topics they are permanently bringing up, there is no better one to introduce than the topic of our world and how to improve it. A parent could take questions about the sun and turn them into answers about solar energy.
Helping your kids know alternative energy is very valuable.
Alternative energy is energy that does not use oil. Using natural sources such as the sun, air, water, the heat of the earth and waste harvest, energy can be produced that is safer and less pollutive and renewable.
If children by now know what the elements that form the basis of alternative energy are, you can take this information and show them how these things are used to make energy. How do we do this?
Some suggestions are:
When you talk about the sun, you can discuss how power can be derived from the sun using solar panels, that the heat from the sun is stored in panels and then converted to electricity to be used in our homes.
Besides instilling the concept of water safely in children, you can use any discussion about water to clarify how it is used to make energy. Children can know tides, waves and dams; you can clarify how each of these can be used to make electricity. If you want to go further, you can discuss how water passes over turbines to make power, how generators store this energy, and how electricity is produced. Once they know this, you can show them how this concept works with tides and waves as well.
When you are explaining to your children how vital air is for breathing, you can also clarify how it can be converted to power via wind turbines to make safe, clean energy.
Children need to know the danger of steam so that they do not burn themselves, but you can use this opportunity to clarify that steam moves turbines and charges generators that can light our streets and power our appliances.
If you keep the concepts simple, even small children can know. You can illustrate with bits and pieces found around your home, show them pictures and even perhaps bring them to a power plant that uses alternative energy. The thought is to get them interested, aware and appreciative of these sources of energy.
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Children, Bullies And Hearing Aids
Friday, July 9th, 2010We read and hear about children being bullied across the united states on a daily basis. Just recently a young woman took her own life in an effort to get away from bullies. We need to help these children and especially the young children and teens who have to wear hearing aids. It is a crucial time to learn that these children need to be protected and how to protect them.
Children wearing hearing aids are evenly the target of make fun of. This is heartbreaking and we need to help these children. The thought behind this article is to find effectual ways to end the bullying that these children are subject to because we know once they are able to modify into their twenties they are much better suited to protect themselves. Here are three ways to help children who need hearing aids avoid being bullied.
One, give massive support around the house. Children and teens who wear hearing aids need all the like they can get from their immediate family. They need to know that their home provides a loving shelter from the bullying. Support can come in many forms. The support can be a hug and a kiss to the children, it can be long conversations that show you are listening to them or it can be many other ways to show you care.
Two, educate the acquaintances and classmates of the children who wear hearing aids. If the acquaintances of the kids who wear hearing aids know how vital the aids are, they will not make fun of them. Education is the key in this situation. If their acquaintances and classmates know the medical reason around the need for the technology that they are wearing they will end the tough times that they are giving the childen.
Three, tell the kids who wear hearing aids to report any bullying straight away. There is no shame in talking to a teacher and it will stop the bullying in many cases. This is not permanently the sure fire way to stop bullying but it is a excellent first step. Once they have talked with their teachers they also need to report any bullying to their parents as well.
Give like and support to kids and teens who use hearing aids. This is a very tough time in their lives and they need support. As the children slide into adulthood they will not dread wearing the hearing aids in public and they can really support younger people who are wearing them. With some attention and like now, we can start a chain of support that will help end the persecution of young people who wear aids.
Once we achieve help related to hearing we should also focus on eyeglasses and other tools fr shape that children are wearing. Help the youth of the country and you will be helping our country. Give like to the children and you are giving like to the country. It truly is wonderful to help and protect the kids.
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Are We Turning our Children Into Bullies?
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010Researching for an article, I spent a few weeks in the blogosphere looking for information about the leading presidential candidates. My intention was to learn the candidates’ positions on issues that affect the self-employed. What I found instead shocked me. My search made it painfully apparent that grownups in the blogosphere are no nicer than bullies on an elementary school playground.
I suppose you could look at it as pure genius – Post an article to your blog poking a small fun at individuals, groups, or ideologies that readers like to despise. Then watch the site counter and number of bigoted comments rise. It is the seemingly perfect formula for successful and profitable blogging, but it comes at a greater price.
Words do not stay words forever. They lead to action. In a significance, hateful words will ultimately become the proverbial sticks and stones that do the bone breaking. On a similar note, the Mormon chapel behind my home was vandalized a few weeks ago. Mormon buildings in various states have been vandalized and/or burned over the past month. I don’t know what investigators found as the fire catalyst of the house of worship burned in Arizona, but I believe it was fueled by a rising acceptance of Mormon bashing during this presidential campaign.
A climate of mean-spirited political bantering also encourages our children to tease and bully. Bobby Barvish of The Muslim Forum of Utah calls this “trickle down bigotry”. In a recent interview with me, Mr. Barvish agreed that current prejudices blatantly expressed during our presidential primary campaigns have worsened the atmosphere for law-abiding Muslim Americans and their children.
Don’t particularly care about bigotry toward Muslims or Mormons?
Well, what about your own kids?
Don’t reckon for one minute that we grown-ups can go around name-calling and not expect our nation’s children to do the same. The message we are sending our children is that it is okay to tease, pick on, make fun of, discriminate against, or despise a name because of their name, their religion, their gender, their race, their general beliefs, etc.
According to Washington State Lt. Gov. Barc Owen: “Bullying occurs once every seven minutes on school playgrounds…By the age 24, 60% of identified childhood bullies (are) convicted of a crime.” -http://www.ltgov.wa.gov/speeches/OregonWaSheriffsConference.html
Perhaps a no less perilous bully is now the cyber kind. Cyber bullying was brought to inhabitant attention with the suicide death of midpoint school student, Megan Meier, after being tormented on MySpace. According to polls, 90% of kids say that they have been hurt online in some way. In 2007 alone, 32% of teenagers claim to have been victims of cyberbullying (CNN.com).
If you want to see prime examples of cyber bullying, type Hillary Clinton’s name into a search engine. You’ll find sites whose sole purpose is to make fun of her. (And we wonder why kids today can be so mean…) While you are at it, check out how bloggers treat Mike Huckabee’s sons. (Let’s not descend for belittling a candidate’s religion, midpoint name, heritage, or marital issues. Let’s beat up on their kids to make sure that we have completely desecrated everything that they hold dear.)
Certain subjects should be off-limits out of common decency. Running for office doesn’t give America the right to rip to pieces everything that is sacred or vital to a candidate.
I am not implying that pointing out a candidate’s policies or behavior of which you do not agree amounts to bigotry or cruelty. I am simply saying that leaving comments in blogs or on YouTube proclaiming things like “all Mormons are bunch of #!*% idiots that deserve what they get”, “you can’t trust a candidate whose name sounds like a #&%* terrorist”, or “that woman is an hideous #&!* and needs an exorcism” is ultimately going to lead to more prison over-crowding. (And cyber journalists/commentators posting articles to incite such comments for profit and personal gain are just as terrible if not worse!)
Treat candidates online the way that you would want your children to be treated on MySpace. It is possible to intelligently discuss differences in opinion and philosophy. Doing so will teach our children how to descend problems without resorting to name calling and vulgarity.
To learn more about the things of the politics of despise stay http://workfromhomechoices.com/blog/viral-blogging-what-is-the-price-of-profiting-from-the-politics-of-bigotry-and-despise/