7 Little Things That You Can do to Organize the Kids' Rooms

Written 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 inrepparttar closet. Put most frequently used items onrepparttar 140671 lowest shelves and inrepparttar 140672 lowest drawers. Set up decorative, short open bins, crates, baskets and boxes in corners, on closet floors and atrepparttar 140673 foot ofrepparttar 140674 bed.

2. Hide stuff underrepparttar 140675 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 ofrepparttar 140676 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 atrepparttar 140677 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 inrepparttar 140678 drawer and tape it torepparttar 140679 front ofrepparttar 140680 bin or drawer. Isrepparttar 140681 drawer supposed to hold small toy soldiers? Tape a small clear plastic pocket torepparttar 140682 outside ofrepparttar 140683 drawer that's stuffed with an example ofrepparttar 140684 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 torepparttar 140685 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 deeperrepparttar 140686 drawer,repparttar 140687 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 rollrepparttar 140688 cart intorepparttar 140689 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 onrepparttar 140690 mini-organizers; that's just a hassle for kids to find their items and remember to putrepparttar 140691 lids back on each item. Use makeshift cardboard dividers to separate things in drawers--like socks.

Speleotherapy and asthma, allergy and other respiratory diseases

Written 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, butrepparttar results are impressive. The salt micro particles, salt dust, reachrepparttar 140670 lung alveoli, bronchi, bronchioles and clear allrepparttar 140671 airway passages, in upper and lower respiratory tract. Due torepparttar 140672 fact thatrepparttar 140673 inhaled saline has mucokinetic, bactericide, hydrophilic and anti inflammatory properties, will help to reduce inflammation leading to widening ofrepparttar 140674 airway passages, kill bacteria and restorerepparttar 140675 normal transport ofrepparttar 140676 mucus and unclogrepparttar 140677 blockages.

Although not known in North America, salt therapy is an old and very popular method of therapy inrepparttar 140678 Balkans, Europe. There are many salt sanatoriums inrepparttar 140679 heart ofrepparttar 140680 salt mountain and doctors are involved in clinical researches, in some countriesrepparttar 140681 treatment being covered byrepparttar 140682 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 reducedrepparttar 140683 sore throat, nasal obstruction, snoring, cough, sputum secretion, associated rhinitis, annual hospitalization andrepparttar 140684 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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