7 Little Things That You Can do to Organize the Kids' RoomsWritten by Karen Fritscher-Porter
1. Sink to their level. Get on your knees in their room to view things from a kid's level. Convenience is an important factor in getting anyone to organize or put things away. Lower clothing racks in closet. Put most frequently used items on lowest shelves and in lowest drawers. Set up decorative, short open bins, crates, baskets and boxes in corners, on closet floors and at foot of bed.2. Hide stuff under bed. Use flat, rectangular storage bins on wheels that are made for under-the-bed storage. Designate one of these for Barbie dolls and another for mini toy cars. Store your children's artwork including construction paper and crayons in one of bins. Older children can store schoolwork and notebooks here. Got music lovers? They can keep a pile of CDs handy here. 3. Make organizing fun. Organizing can be a drag even for "big people." Imagine how your child feels at thought of clearing away his toys, clothes and school work. Get your children involved by letting them creatively label their own drawers and bins. They can make personalized drawings as labels. Or you can take photos of your child with an object that goes in drawer and tape it to front of bin or drawer. Is drawer supposed to hold small toy soldiers? Tape a small clear plastic pocket to outside of drawer that's stuffed with an example of contents such as one toy soldier. You can buy notebook plastic sleeves (also called sheet protectors) from any office supply store. Then just cut them to size needed. Use clear shipping tape to attach labels to bins. Put a laundry hamper under a kid size basketball hoop. 4. Keep drawers shallow. The deeper drawer, more kids will fill it. With a few exceptions for big bulky items, use shallow drawers. Some narrow storage carts on wheels come with five or six shallow drawers. You can roll cart into closet if needed or line several in a row against a wall. Fill deeper drawers with mini-organizers such as small trays, tins, recycled cardboard boxes and more. Don't use lids on mini-organizers; that's just a hassle for kids to find their items and remember to put lids back on each item. Use makeshift cardboard dividers to separate things in drawers--like socks.
| | Speleotherapy and asthma, allergy and other respiratory diseasesWritten by LTiba
Speleotherapy or underground climatotherapy is an alternative or complementary method of therapy for asthma and other respiratory diseases that is used in Eastern and Central Europe for many, many years. This involve spending 2-4 hours a day underground, in salt caves or mines for over 2-3 months period, but results are impressive. The salt micro particles, salt dust, reach lung alveoli, bronchi, bronchioles and clear all airway passages, in upper and lower respiratory tract. Due to fact that inhaled saline has mucokinetic, bactericide, hydrophilic and anti inflammatory properties, will help to reduce inflammation leading to widening of airway passages, kill bacteria and restore normal transport of mucus and unclog blockages. Although not known in North America, salt therapy is an old and very popular method of therapy in Balkans, Europe. There are many salt sanatoriums in heart of salt mountain and doctors are involved in clinical researches, in some countries treatment being covered by health minister. An old study describes a speleotherapy course which was 4 hours a day for 6-8 weeks, with 100 COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) and asthma patients and reported improvement which lasted 6 months to 7 years (Skulimowski, 1965). Similar studies are published in Pub Med (MEDLINE) from Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Russia. Recent clinical study at Pulmonary Clinic, Ambulatory Section, Timisoara, Romania, on a lot of 30 patients (19 Asthma, 11 Chronic Bronchitis) revealed that use of a speleotherapy device (also called Halotherapy device) for a time period of one year significantly reduced sore throat, nasal obstruction, snoring, cough, sputum secretion, associated rhinitis, annual hospitalization and symptomatic medication intake. Also have shown significant improvement of sputum elimination, olfactory sense recovery (smell, taste), sleep at night, morning condition and clinical state.
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