Spending Time With Your ChildWritten by Russell Turner
Why Is Spending Time with Your Child So Important? For children to get any sense that they are loved and wanted, you have to be prepared to spend some time with them. I know you are all thinking, so tell me something I don’t know. My point in all of this is how important this really is. The term “spending time with your child” gets tossed out there fairly casually. We hear it so often that after awhile we may not take it as seriously as we should. I found myself, with all of time I have to spend with my diabetic daughter and daily diabetes care, considering that as part of my quota of time spent with my child. In a sense it is, but it’s not kind of time that makes relationship with your child so special. This is a difficult article for me to write because I can see some areas I need to improve in. I hope this isn’t too difficult to read. There’s no getting away from this simple truth. If you do not give them very much of your time, talking, laughing, playing, and sharing things or just generally being around listening to and enjoying them, how can they possibly get any other message than that they are not worthy of your love, time, and attention? How can they then progress to love themselves if they perceive that you always put yourself and others first, before them, and that they are apparently incidental to your life, even that they are a nuisance? Please note that I said “they perceive”. What a child perceives is not always accurate. But to a child perception is reality. If they think this is how you feel, then to them, this is how you feel. This is why I think time you spend with your child is so important. I know how much you love your child. You know how much you love you child. What’s so critical is does your child know how much you love your child? Our children need us to be interested in them and to demonstrate our love for them by spending time with them right through adolescence.How Do We Know that Children Need So Much Time? The more you give, more they want. If they don’t get it, they behave badly to try to get it. Our children will need us, love us and want us more than we can imagine. We give them their sense of belonging, and security. Children can crave this so much that when it’s not given naturally and spontaneously, they will behave in what ever ways they think they have to in order to get it. Time to Do What? Talk Talk about your day, their day, what you are going to do, what you are seeing on street, what they are watching on television, what they like to do, your childhood, their relatives, their toys. Play Sit with them while they play, and talk to them about what they are doing. Listen Look at their faces when they are telling you something. If it seems important to them, stop what you are doing and sit down with them to hear it. Quiet Time Sit with them while they watch TV (this can be painful but important) or while they are getting ready for bed. Share Invite them to do something or go somewhere with you, to show you enjoy their company.
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Comfort! Everyone wants comfort. Air-conditioning systems have been invented for purpose of providing comfort to inhabitants of buildings. The science of psychometry was developed to understand properties of air - temperatures, humidity and heat values.However, human body, a marvelous piece of creation can adjust itself to changing climatic conditions to provide comfort to owner. It has become quite common knowledge that sweating and their evaporation cools down body. Have you tried wrapping yourself in a plastic sheet? You will feel warm because of air trapped within sheet. However, after a while, you will sweat and you will feel very uncomfortable indeed. Why? It has to do with what air-conditioning people call comfort zone. According to them, most people will feel comfortable between 70 to 78 degree Fahrenheit at about 50% relative humidity wearing light clothing and when seated or at rest and without much wind. There is also a difference in comfort levels when we do different activities. When we feel comfortable wearing woolen jackets to keep warm while we are at rest, don't we feel uncomfortable when we are running or doing strenuous activities? Clearly just wearing a jacket will not automatically make us more comfortable. On a hot day, you will want to take off everything. Well, society dictates that you cannot do that, or you will be charged with indecent behavior. Anyway, that's easiest way to become comfortable. The body's thermoregulatory action will make your comfortable automatically. In nature, body has a very good self-temperature regulatory action. When we sweat, latent heat of vaporization takes away heat from body. However, if sweat were to be evaporated, a person with all sweat glands fully opened up can even feel a chill. Putting on clothing will hinder that process of evaporation. In cold weather, how would you want to wear just a thin piece of clothing, instead of layers after layers of thick clothing? You don't want to look like an astronaut with their bulky suit, do you? You might look a bit too fat and clumsy! Moreover, some clothing will retain water, so much so that even when outside is cold, you are actually sweating inside. That's condition of condensation. The same thing happens when a glass of cold water is put in a warm atmosphere. The water comes out from air around glass and become water droplets. Your body becomes wet from your perspiration.
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