Spending Time With Your Child

Written by Russell Turner


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These examples give us a variety of ways to spend time with our children. We can join them in what they are doing, invite them to join in what we are doing, or do something alongside them, in parallel, talking together or just being quiet together.

Special Time for Each One. Each child inrepparttar family needs to have special time with each parent. It doesn’t have to be a vast amount of time, or have to happen every day. But each of our children is different, and will want to have a chance to be alone with each of us. When you get right down to it sibling rivalry is competition forrepparttar 110320 parents’ attention. Individual “special” time given to each child can lead to a lot less fighting among them.

Quality Time Quality time isrepparttar 110321 term that was developed to meetrepparttar 110322 working parent’s main problem, not being able to spend as much time as you would like at home. The idea of quality time is that it’s not how much time we spend with our children that matters, but what we do withrepparttar 110323 time we have with our children. Spending quality time means giving them our wholehearted attention, and ensuring it is constructive, productive time spent actively doing things with them. It is an important concept but we need to remember it has some limitations. By considering these limitations we can make better use of quality time. The problem with this is that it doesn’t take into consideration moods and feelings. Instead of doing something active, playing or going somewhere, our child may just feel like being quiet with us, curling up and just being together. This can be just as important to our relationship with our children as active communication. Another problem is that quality time is often scheduled. If we can’t be there at that unpredictable moment when our child decides to tell us about somethingrepparttar 110324 schedule falls short. Byrepparttar 110325 time we get homerepparttar 110326 need may have passed. To show that we understand and to help, especially younger children, remember that there was something they wanted to tell us, we need to have a plan in place for these situations. For older children it may be as easy as a special place for a note. For younger children we can make it into a game. They might have a special stuffed animal that they leave in a certain place to let us know there was something they wanted to share. You can invent your own system. Some quality time could be spent devisingrepparttar 110327 system.

“Being there” or spending time with our children doesn’t mean twenty-four-hour availability. It just means offering them some flexibility on access to meet special circumstances and listening to them when they ask for it. The results of time spent with our children isrepparttar 110328 special love and happiness inrepparttar 110329 relationship we dreamed about before we ever had them. Our children are precious. The amount of time that they are children is short. If we make good use of this short time we have, we do our jobs as parents to raise happy healthy kids.

Russell Turner is the father of a 10 year old Type 1 Juvenile Diabetic daughter. When she was first diagnosed he quickly found there was all kinds of information on the Internet about the medical aspects of this disease. What he couldn't find was information about how to prepare his family to live with this disease. He started a website http://www.mychildhasdiabetes.com to help others.


The Mystery of Furry Animals

Written by Thomas Yoon


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You become uncomfortable.

How do furry animals keep warm or cool? They don't wear clothing like humans. They seem to be able to adjust their body temperatures in their fur to all weather conditions. Can that be duplicated?

Scientists have been searching forrepparttar solution to comfortable all weather clothing for ages. They were searching for that special fiber that can duplicaterepparttar 110318 thermoregulatory action of a human body and yet feels comfortable to wear.

They have tried using capillary action of closely spaced fibers to drawrepparttar 110319 liquid fromrepparttar 110320 sweat torepparttar 110321 surface and then to evaporate. However in order to be effective,repparttar 110322 fabric need to be worn close torepparttar 110323 skin in order to transportrepparttar 110324 moisture. Wheneverrepparttar 110325 capillary fabric gaps,repparttar 110326 draw is broken and it becomes ineffective. The result - heat is lost forrepparttar 110327 wearer. Wearing tight clothing can be quite uncomfortable sometimes. Maybe they are not so fashionable, or just do not fitrepparttar 110328 many different body sizes.

The latest technological breakthrough lies in utilizing electrostatic charges inrepparttar 110329 fibers. Scientists are now able to move moisture fromrepparttar 110330 body whenever a wearer perspires in warm temperatures using electrostatic charges inrepparttar 110331 fibers. Asrepparttar 110332 wearer's activity decreases,repparttar 110333 fabric will reducerepparttar 110334 evaporative process, leaving a constant water barrier between repparttar 110335 wearer andrepparttar 110336 fabric.

In cold temperatures, a layer of 100% relative humidity is formed betweenrepparttar 110337 skin andrepparttar 110338 fabric, creating an area of moist air that holds more heat during cooler temperatures. By using electrostatic charges to pullrepparttar 110339 moisture away fromrepparttar 110340 skin, scientists are able to increaserepparttar 110341 heat capacity ofrepparttar 110342 trapped air next torepparttar 110343 skin andrepparttar 110344 wearer feels warm.

Individual molecules are separated much faster and thus favor evaporation.

These fibers are special.

They actually duplicate and enhancerepparttar 110345 thermoregulatory actions ofrepparttar 110346 body! They create a vapor barrier to keep you cool when repparttar 110347 weather is warm and warm whenrepparttar 110348 weather is cold.

Truly a technological breakthrough!

------------------------------------------------------------- Now, you too can Enjoy Comfort in Any Extreme Weather Conditions! The world's most advanced Electrostatic Fabrics give comfort in both warm and cold weathers.



Many years of involvement in Engineering and Discipleship has given the author material for writing e-books and articles related to engineering, management, and right living. He has also produced an ebook on "50 Secrets of Truth and Life" that is fully illustrated with cartoons in a humorous way.


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