| Fun Play Activities for Children: Clever School Kids Activity
March 26, 2009 at 11:08 pm
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| Eren asked: ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN, CLEVER KID ACTIVITY; CHILD PLAY ACTIVITY FOR PARENTS, TEACHERS, KIDS(Based on author's site www.geocities.com/actvts) Activities for children are not always fun. A kids activity that is fun delights children. Kids like clever child activity. Play activities for children need not always be so. But younger children love fun in a child activity, and older children like a kids activity to be also clever. A kids activity that is clever, a child activity that is fun is best. Children activities are many -make children activity fun. Activities teachers should always remember these verses by the ‘Teacher of Teachers’ the Cypriot thinker and poet, school-teaccher, the late Orhan Seyfi Ari: “Sometimes such fool we were, sometimes smart kids; Sometimes Satan’s tools, sometimes with saintly deeds” Among activities for children, this kids activity is educational fun. It’s one of the better children’s activities. Blue or Black Rose: At night put white rose in a glass of water, add some ink-by the morning it’ll be blue or black. In children activity, fun junior tricks include kid pranks. Thread on Jacket is among the best tricks, pranks: Put a reel of thread in your ****** pocket; with a sewing needle, bring the end of the thread out of it -watch as someone, usually one of the girls, tries to pick it off you. Play activities for children must be fun. Kids activity, be they pranks, tricks must be fun. Here’s a child activity that is fun -a kids activity called Bean in Walnut: Split, empty, place a bean, in walnuts; glue the shells. Challenges are fun play activities for kids, often junior tricks. Among children activities, pranks, games, tricks, Mighty Breath is a fun child activity: Place a book on its side, challenge to make it fall using only breath -place a balloon under it and inflate it. This children activity is fun. Some children activities impress a teacher more than games, pranks, tricks. This children activity is educational fun. Activity teachers love such children activities. This children activity is called Onion: Place an onion in a glass of water; in a few days it will grow leaves and long roots! Good, fun, kids activity. Child activity that impresses delight children. Not only a teacher can be impressed by children in child activity. There are children activities that impress others. Some play activities for children that are fun kids’ activities impress parents. Moms show feelings more in children activities that impress them. This kids activity impresses moms. Use a popular children activity, Invisible Ink: Dip a match stick in lemon juice, write ‘I love you mom’, dry -invisible until a kid’s mother is asked to iron it with a warm iron. Such tricks, kids activities, get hugs! Children activities are many. Children like child activity that fools. Pranks, tricks, fool games, are better play activities for kids. More fun are kids activities, if a child activity fools other kids. A clever children activity is Mind Reading: Write ‘what’ on paper; say “I know what you’re thinking.” Kids will ask “What?” -show it. In child activity one of the best tricks -fools play activity teacher. If kids activity puzzles that’s fun in play activities for kids. Kids’ activities are fun activities for children. Clever feel children if children activity appears an impossible feat. Others puzzlement make children activities fun. Such a child activity is Bottled Egg: Leave a hard boiled egg in vinegar overnight; its shell will soften -gently squeeze it into a milk bottle, rinse. A child activity, one of the activities for children that puzzles play activities teachers -they ask kids to tell them the secret! Kids activities mix kid pranks in children’s games. Kids often create child activity, tricks, pranks from other play activities for kids. Children invent many children activities. Creative are kids in children activity. One of the creative fun activities for children, a loved children activity is Coin on String: Glue thread on a coin, place it in not so public a place, extend the reel, hide; someone will try to pick it up if nobody is watching -pull the string! In children activity fooling grownups delights a child more than fooling children. Kid activity is fun if children’s games fool grownups. Such children activities are popular. One of the activities for children that rates high among kids’ activities is Make Look Up: If in a quite public place two children stand, look, point up to the sky, grownups will gather, copy the kids’ activity. Child activity can be fun play at home. In kids activities home is seldom for pranks. In children activities pranks often exclude parents. With parents’ permission junior kids’ activities include tricks, pranks on grandparents. This children activity is a great kids activity for a child at home. A fun children activity is Paper Shower: When rainy put confetti gram’s umbrella, roll, put back. Activities for children are fun if kids’ activities impress someone with authority over children. Children’s activities that impress a kids’ play activity teacher are so. There are many activities for children that impress. Such a children activity makes a child feel clever. This is popular with children in kids activities, 1st last: Cut lower-case letters, spell ‘last’; challenge kids, activities teacher to make it read “first” -remove ‘a’, impress activities teacher. Teachers like educational fun activities for children. Many are impressive fun activities for children. Some educational activities for children can be days long fun activity for a child. A child can have more fun activity by varying educational activities for children. A variation in educational kids’ activities - Greenery: Place top of a carrot in a saucer with water in it, grow many long leaves. In play activities for children, kids like clever child activity. Activities for children are loved that make a kid feel smart. Challenges in activities for children are liked by many kids. That’s also why in children’s play activity tricks are popular. Play activities teachers in fun play activities can delight children by teaching children clever kids activities. Play activity teachers can look smart by teaching children a kids activity that enables a child to look smart to other children. One of the clever activities for children that makes a child feel smart in fun play activity is Water in Water: Challenge to separate water in a bowl without removing it -dip a glass in it, fill, sit it in it. Some kids puzzles and challenges aren’t as much fun to kids as some fun activities for children. Kids activity must be fun. Clever fun is best in play activities for kids. Activities for children are fun if they amaze, are such fun kids activities that children can repeat them to impress other kids. Such a children activity is Egg on Edge: The play activity teacher challenges children to stand an egg on its edge -shows kids how, stands it on a heap of salt. Some activities for children are suitable only for senior kids. In fun play activities for young children balloons are prominent. In kid activities young children like balloons. Some activities for children are suitable for senior kids, and under supervision as junior activity. One of the tricks liked in fun play activities for children is Pin in Balloon: Can kids stick a pin in an inflated balloon without bursting it? Put sticky tape on it, then the pin. Also in junior play activity for kids is liked fooling adults. Older children often do so with tricks, younger children mostly with feats. One such fun activity of younger kids is No Touch Pick: Can parents pick up paper tissue with straw without using hands? Drinking straw in mouth, **** on it through straw. The electronic pet was one of the popular children’s activities. Educational fun play activity for children calls for a teacher’s creative imagination. This play activity for kids is to children as an electronic pet. An educational fun kid’s activity is Pea Shoots: Line a box with wetted blotting paper, place a few beans, peas in it -wet them daily; watch them grow shoots, longer each day. Kids’ activities need not all be educational. Fun play activities for children can also be simply interesting fun activity. This children activity is for senior kids, not a junior fun activity. Card Guessing: Make a circle with playing cards, face down, clockwise, beginning with an Ace (’A'), ending with a Queen (’Q') -place the King (’K') in the center. Ask a kid to think of a number between 1 and 12; each time you tap on a card to count down from 20, and tell you to stop when he reaches it. First tap on seven cards randomly, make sure your 8th tap is on the Queen (’Q') -then tap anti-clockwise (J, 10, 9, 8…). When told ’stop’, it is the number thought of. This kids activity can be had much fun with before teaching it to other kids. Fun activities for kids both younger and older children indulge in. Some kids activities are classic favourites of children. A popular kids activity is Back Wheel: To a kid riding a bicycle, yell, “Your back wheel’s going round!” Kids also love fun. Children’s activities must be fun play. The author has a website at: http://www.geocities.com.com/eoa_ukPowered by HI-RanK Promotion |
| Have a Ball With Hilarious New Funny Aprons
March 26, 2009 at 7:58 pm
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|  Scarlett Trumpten asked: If you haven’t seen the multitudes of hilarious new choices in funny aprons that are now available online then you are in for a side splitting surprise when you do. Sure, there has always been funny aprons around that people can purchase from local establishments, but these sources just don’t have the choices that new online sources have. Create Your Own Apron Also, you can have your own custom funny apron created with your own comical quip printed on the front. What you may also be surprised to learn, is that new digital printing technology makes these types of custom funny aprons now more affordable then ever. You can even order just one if you want, because with digital printing technology larger lots aren’t necessary. So Many Hilarious Choices Funny aprons make the perfect gift for someone who already has everything. They also make great *** wedding gifts. You may also be surprised to see all of the new comical styles that you will have to choose from. French maid, county road worker, hospital gown and the list just goes on and on. For Home or Work Funny aprons aren’t just for the kitchen either. If you have to wear an apron in the work place then maybe now is the time to lighten things up a bit with your own work related funny apron. Let your boss and coworkers know just what is on your mind with comedy, by having your own personal hilarious funny apron created to wear at work. New Durable Fabrics You only live once and studies have shown time and again that laughter is good for you. So, if you have to wear an apron, be it at home or work then you may as well make it a funny apron. Still yet, all these new styles in funny aprons are now available in a wide assortment of stain and flame resistant fabrics, as well as classic cotton. Powered by HI-RanK Promotion |
| Sobriety Is A Funny Thing
March 26, 2009 at 4:43 pm
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| Thomas A. McLoughlin asked: Sobriety is often thought of as abstinence from alcohol where the brain is not affected by the physical impairment caused by alcohol’s detrimental effects on our judgment and reason. It’s used is almost always connected with drugs or alcohol, which is, in itself, a drug. To be sober usually means not having consumed any alcohol, or at least having consumed alcohol in moderation. For people in a 12-step program, such as Alcoholic’s Anonymous, sobriety means abstaining from the detrimental effects of any activity that is compulsive. An alcoholic may seem to have complete control of his or her life in every area except when it pertains to drinking. In this area, they seem to have absolutely no control and their drinking becomes a compulsive act, as if their will has been taken away from them by an unknown power . It does not matter that their own hand forged the chains that bind them by actions they previously committed before, maybe even years earlier. The fact is that now, even when they desire to stay away from such activity, they feel powerless over their compulsive actions. For the alcoholic, the drug is alcohol. For the drug addict, it is whatever drug of choice they chose in the past. For the gambling addict, it is the slots or bingo, or off track betting. Whatever the addiction, the activity or substance is the drug. Whether it is overeating or sex, the addict seems to have no control over his or her actions. Promising to do better next time, even pledging to God and all His Holy angels in Heaven doesn’t work. The addict has broken more promises than you could imagine. “Lock them all up in prison before they actually hurt someone.” They are actually already locked up in a prison in their own minds with bars that cannot be broken and there is no chance of parole. Ever. So when people in the various 12-step to state how they are doing in “the program”, they use the term sobriety. One statement in such programs is, “I act out. We recover.” To the uninitiated, term “act out” means to engage in whatever activity caused the problems in the first place. If it’s an alcoholic, acting out is taking a drink. If it’s a drug addict, it’s using whatever drug they have a problem. Addicts flounder in their addiction by themselves, but they recover with the help of others in the program. The First Step states, “We admitted we were powerless over our compulsive (name the addiction of your choice) activity - that our lives had become unmanageable.” If we had the power, there would be no AA or GA or OA or SA. It is the powerlessness that absolutely kills us. We like to believe if we try this or that then everything will be all right. The Second Step follows that as such: “Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.” Do you see that? An addiction, any addiction, causes a sort of insanity. Addicts are crazy like that. Trying the same thing over and over hoping for different results is the textbook definition of insanity. The key is that sobriety is a gift God, who most addicts believe is the “power greater than ourselves” addressed in the Second Step. Working the steps require to maintain that sobriety is a gift we give ourselves. People, by their very nature, have addictive personalities. Or at least we have personalities that lend themselves to becoming addicts. Probably one of the stupidest things I ever heard come out of the mouth of a supposedly educated man, I have my doubts, (Master’s Degree, senior pastor of a very popular, very large church) was “I didn’t become a *** addict because I chose not to become one.” Like every *** addict told his mother when he was young, “Gee, Mommy, when I grow up I want to be addicted to watching pornography and thinking about that sort of thing all the time.” Yeah, every addict chose to be an addict. I am not saying that an addict is not partly responsible for his condition . Addiction is like going into the Hotel California. You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave. Sobriety as a gift. But we have to reach out and take it. There is work to be done to actually reach out and receive this precious gift. Sometimes its changing who we hang out with, or where we spend our time. As one very wise ex-addict (I say ex-addict because he has passed away) once said, “The problem is not the problem.” It’s not the actual alcohol or the actual gaming tables, or the ***. It’s our way of thinking that needs to change. And that change only comes with help from someone greater than you. And counselors who have trod that path before you. As they say, the first step is admitting you need help. That you are powerless. And that you actually want help. There’s an old movie line, “Help will always come to those who need it.” Maverick Money Makers is a private society that will teach you how to build a six-figure a month business on the internet. If you want to make money online, join the society before it’s too late. http://docsboy.maverick66.hop.clickbank.net Powered by HI-RanK Promotion |
| A Sense of Humor Increases Creativity
March 26, 2009 at 4:13 pm
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| Steve Gillman asked: Does a sense of humor make for a more creative mind? Perhaps. There are certainly many creative and intelligent people who also like to have a good laugh. Consider the following two examples. American physicist Richard Feynman was a joint recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965, for his work on quantum electrodynamics. He is credited with the concept and early exploration of quantum computing. He also had a very well developed sense of humor. Here is how he is described in Wikipedia: “As well as being an inspirational lecturer, bongo player, notorious practical joker, and decipherer of Maya hieroglyphs, Richard Feynman was regarded as an eccentric and a free spirit. He liked to pursue multiple seemingly independent paths, such as biology, art, percussion, and lock picking.” An unusual character, to say the least. Another example of the combination of a very creative mind with a sense of humor is found in Albert Einstein. You may have seen one of the more famous photos of him, in which he is sticking his tongue out at the photographer. Einstein was known to be very playful and full of laughter. But is this just coincidence? We are all a collection of character traits after all. Is it possible that Einstein and Feynman just happen to have a well-developed sense of humor - which had no relation to the creative work which they did? Maybe. But there is a more likely explanation. Sense Of Humor And Creativity According to brain researchers, three parts of the brain light up when you laugh at a joke. There is the thinking part that helps you get the joke, the area that controls the movements of your muscles and an emotional area that makes you feel good. What makes something funny isn’t as clearly understood, but humor researcher (what a job!) John Morreall believes laughter is a response to incongruities or stories that disobey conventional expectations. Does that sound familiar? Stories that disobey conventional expectations? That is the essence of lateral thinking. Consider that while other mathematicians and physicists were more conventional, Einstein was imagining himself riding on a beam of light. That’s a whole different approach - closer to the kind of thinking that makes humor possible than to the usual analytical thinking of mathematicians and physicists. Of course a correlation doesn’t prove causation. In other words, Feynman’s love of practical jokes and Einstein’s readiness to play and laugh don’t necessarily cause more creativity. Instead, it is possible that their creative genius and there sense of humor are both caused (at least in part) by a different way of thinking. If this different way of thinking explains the correlation between humor and intellectual creativity, then developing your sense of humor wouldn’t necessarily help you to become more creative (although you might be happier). To do that, you would have to change the deeper patterns of thought. But then, what if humor did just that? Remember that humor lights up three parts of the brain, starting with the thinking part that helps you get the joke. Consider a one-liner, like “If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving may not be for you.” A joke like this starts out with a traditional saying (”If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.”), and then surprises you. It disobeys conventional expectations. It goes in an unexpected direction. What did the fish say when he ran into a concrete wall? - “Dam” To “get it,” your mind must go in an unexpected direction as well. In other words, creating or understanding humor is essentially a process, and a practice of lateral thinking. (Lateral thinking is a way of attacking problems from other angles, as opposed to the more traditional linear and logical ways. ) Doesn’t it seem likely that if you exercise your mind in this way, you will also have more ability to think “outside the box” - to be more creative in your problem solving? Two eggs are in a frying pan and one says to the other, “Gosh it’s getting hot in here.” The other one screams, “Oh my god, it’s a talking egg!” Many people have observed that the relaxation which often comes with laughter results in greater productivity. This makes sense. It is easier to do good work, and have good ideas when you are less stressed. But beyond that, I think the research will eventually show that developing one’s sense of humor specifically develops a kind of thinking that leads to greater creativity. Powered by HI-RanK Promotion |
| Fate is a Joke: Why Biography is not Destiny
March 26, 2009 at 3:18 pm
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|  Brian Walsh asked: I am probably the only author who has used a quote from “Chicken Run,” a very funny movie that’s set in a chicken farm that oddly resembles a World War II concentration camp. Many of us spend our lives, or at least parts of them, in self-imposed prisons. If this is our own doing, why do we not simply decide to release ourselves? Why not indeed? Unfortunately, many of us believe that we just have to play the hand we’ve been dealt. Is biography necessarily destiny? In most cases, we didn’t create the problem, yet we often perpetuate it. How and why? The prison bars are merely some of the patterns in our subconscious. These patterns, known as core beliefs, drive most of our behaviors, attitudes, and emotions. Some of them perform to our advantage, and some actually work against us. When we self-sabotage, we become aware of this imprisonment. Any time we notice negative self-talk or doubt our abilities, we are bumping into those prison bars. Where and when do these core beliefs originate? Stay with me here. This is so basic that you might just miss the significance. Until children reach the age of about seven or eight, their brain waves are so slow that, in a sense, they are hypnotized. A defensive shield to ward off misguided influences is not yet in place. This protection, known as the “Critical Factor,” is built along with the conscious mind, and is fully-functional around the age of seven. What about before that age? What are the implications of having no defense? This early part of a child’s life is known as the “Imprint Phase” of personality development. This is when the patterns are manufactured. Whatever a child hears, sees, or experiences is considered 100% valid and true. It has to be, because the sources are often giants - namely adults. Patterns that operate against our best interests go hand-in-hand with a brittle self-esteem. The environments that spawn this condition are often influenced by parents or caretakers who are perfectionist, or who manipulate through conditional love. They are the unwitting caretakers who say things like, “Why can’t you be more like your cousin Jane? She’s always getting good marks.” Or perhaps, “Your room is so messy. You’re never going to amount to anything.” These kinds of scenarios inflict incredibly subtle mental and emotional damage. In essence, the child’s subconscious mind is being told that it’s flawed; that the child will never succeed and has no right to be taken seriously. This is the way fragile self-esteem and limiting beliefs are established. OK, so how do we transform these patterns? Although there are many ways, I recommend hypnotherapy. Since the patterns are in the subconscious, you must address them at that level. A nationally-certified hypnotherapist can get the belief identified, and initiate a plan for its removal and replacement. The first step though, is to realize that you might have these unsupportive patterns that I’ve described here, and to then choose to do something about them. Your decision will empower you. And the movie? Ginger, one of the main characters, says, “The fences aren’t just around the farm, they’re up here in your heads.” Truly, fate is a joke. You can take control of your destiny, despite your biography. Powered by HI-RanK Promotion |
| Who are You, Really?
March 26, 2009 at 11:48 am
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|  Sofia Filosofia asked: One of my Blogger friends, Maddie, recently wrote about her experience of having her blog flagged by the Blogger robots, who thought she herself might be a robot. It must be a very unsettling experience - just think, how do you PROVE you aren’t a robot? It’s not quite such a simple question as it sounds. Of course, you know that you are NOT a robot (don’t you?) but how do you demonstrate it? Recent developments in technology make it possible to program a machine to make responses to questions or comments which are what we would expect from a human. The kind of randomness that we associate with human behaviour can be built in to the program. The responses (and initiatives) of the program can be adjusted to take account of attributes, so you can make a robot program respond in the characteristic way depending on age, nationality, occupation etc. These are what people are thinking of when they talk about a person’s identity, but if attributes can be programmed in, then identity can also be programmed. I have seen advertised on the web some softwares that claim to be able to “spin” articles, that is, to take some existing articles (or blog posts?) and spin them into a thousand new articles, all unique in the eyes of a search engine robot, and all LOOKING like they were written by a human. I have no idea if the claims are true, or just advertising scams, but if they are - well - how do you REALLY know that this post, for instance, is not written by a robot? The classic robot filtering device in use on the net is the word verification box. This seems to work quite well, but who knows? The next thing is a voice recording, or a live audio convo, or a photo, or a video. But all of these things can be manufactured. Let’s assume you have found out that someone is human, not robotic. The next question you ask is, who are they? This is a question about attributes again. (Age, nationality, race, education, industry, occupation, interests.) But these are the wrong questions. Another friend of mine did a brilliant post about racism. It highlights the stupidity of making a judgement about people based on their skin colour. It’s a pre-judgement, a prejudice. But in the same way, people make all kinds of pre-judgements based on the attributes of a person. Thus, a 14 year old female is expected by some to only be interested in pink fluffy things. If she then expresses an opinion, or spells words correctly, or uses words of more than one syllable, people may suspect she is not really what she says she is. Look at Meghna’s blog for evidence of this kind of question. But suppose you find out they have the attribute they claim. Then you say, ah yes, well they must be a brainy type. And so then you are surprised when you find they really do like pink fluffy things as well! This is because you are stereotyping them, trying to make them fit your prejudice idea, so that you don’t have to go out of your comfort zone. The reason there is so much of this going on is because so many people allow themselves to conform to the stereotypes put on them by other people. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Break out of your stereotype! Many many times, people say, how can you possibly know that at your age? The answer is: read! But the question itself is demeaning. It’s saying, what right have you to behave out of character, to act in a way that destroys my carefully nurtured prejudice about you, to take me out of my little comfort zone? An interesting philosophy topic is to ask, how do we know that anyone else exists at all outside ourselves? Again, this is not such a simple question as you may think. Let’s suppose you ask your friend, or your teacher, or even your mother: Do you exist? They will obviously reply, yes, (or even no, as a joke) but as you know, a program inside an organic matrix that looks like a human body can do that too. Any response could be programmed. So whatever you ask that person, their response follows the expected pattern. This branch of philosophy is called the Theory of Knowledge, and it contains many problems that are still unsolved, but are even now being highlighted by current events in technology. And how can I possibly know all this? Well, of course, I read about it! Powered by HI-RanK Promotion |
| Did you Hear the One About the Funny Quiz That Was Walking Past a Graveyard?
March 26, 2009 at 10:46 am
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| Brian asked: Q. My company publishes a monthly employee newsletter. My boss asked me to write a funny quiz. I’m not exactly a stand-up comic. Help! A. Ah, the funny quiz. Lucky you! It’s not often that a company has an official sense of humor that they are willing to display for all to read. This is going to be a great assignment for you! A funny quiz is typically one where the questions and answers have no real purpose other than to make the quiz taker laugh. Although almost anything goes, there are some taboo subjects. Off hand I’d say that anything that pokes fun at a specific person, or groups of people, as well as anything that’s anti-semitic, racial, sexual, political, or religious should be off limits. Remember, what one person thinks is funny can offend someone else. Even seemingly innocuous subjects like “hillbilly” or “redneck” jokes might not be funny to someone who lives in the mountains or the deep South (like I do). You can think of a funny quiz as a series of one-liners with multiple-choice punch lines. Because you are writing for a company publication you have a built-in “affinity group” as there is bound to be some common subjects that are company related and could be made into something funny. For example, if you work for a software development company then you might have a question that asks: What’s longer: A CEO’s week or a programmer’s week? If you’re not laughing then you have never had a programmer tell you that the project will be ready in a week. You need to walk a fine line even when using subjects like this in your funny quiz. Say that your company just posted a 4th quarter loss because a new software product missed its launch date by a “programmer’s week”. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to determine that you are about to tick off a lot of people if you add that question to your funny quiz. Try to avoid wornout jokes or cliches. A funny quiz should be funny, not lame. For example, still on the software train of thought, a question like… Q. How many programmers does it take to change a lightbulb? A. None. They don’t do hardware. …is older than the mystery meat in that Tupperware container in the back of the lunchroom refrigerator. No one is going to laugh at that one. No laughing = not a funny quiz! The best thing to do is to keep an eye out for humorous, safe things to poke fun at and then write a funny quiz question. My advice is to start right now and don’t wait until one hour before deadline. The only thing that’s less funny than a lame funny quiz is no funny quiz at all! Powered by HI-RanK Promotion | | | 
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