Parenting: Benefits of Reading

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In today’s article
Time Management – Starting Early
Health: Cranberries – are you getting enough
Parenting: Reading


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Time Management – Starting Early

In today’s article we thought we would look at some benefits for starting your day early. And there are a few!!! Listed below are seven benefits:
Work on yourself: It is a fantastic time to give direction to yourself and to see where you want to go.
Exercise: You can do you squats, go for a jog or do aerobics – afterwards you will feel energised and ready to progress the day.
Do important stuff – got a job that has been hanging over you? Why not do it first thing – it will be a great relief when you finish it, and you will feel energised to do the smaller stuff later in the day.
Longer day – the earlier you get up the more day light you have.
Meditate – not a huge one for me, but a lot of people swear by meditation first thing in the morning.
Beat the traffic – if you don’t like peak hour traffic, leave before it – the time saving benefits will be huge.
Do something for someone else – if you are wanting to do things for others but never find the time, get up early and do it first thing. It will be a great start to the day.

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Healthy: Cranberries – are you getting enough?

Cranberries, are an acidic berry that are rich in Vitamin C and contain some fantastic infection fighting properties.

To boot, cranberries also have heaps of antioxidant phenols – in fact more than 19!!! Making them a great way to protect yourself from Cancer.

BenefitsRecent scientific research shows from? Cranberry Institute (Massachusetts USA) that cranberries and cranberry products contain significant amounts of antioxidants and other phytonutrients that may help protect against heart disease, cancer and other diseases.
The majority of physicians and other health professionals believe there is a clear association between a diet high in fruits and vegetables and a low risk of chronic disease. Phytonutrients (naturally derived plant compounds), particularly antioxidants, are increasingly being shown to help optimize human health.
So make sure you buy some cranberries, or cranberry juice next time you are at the shops.

Parenting: Benefits of Reading

Editors Note: Today we have an article from Andrea Ross talking about the benefits of reading. Andrea runs the just one more book website, which is a 100 percent free site, and is powered on passion.

When our firstborn was a toddler and we were still adjusting to the financial impact of parenthood, my husband and I figured that the best way to decide which toddler activities to invest in was to list the various options, the benefits of each and then make an informed choice.

So away we went: swimming, music, dance, gym, books.

Although I was leaning heavily in the direction of expanding our tiny book collection, even I was surprised to discover, using common sense alone, just how much the benefits of reading outweighed all the others.

Reading a wide variety of well-written, engaging children’s books with our child would provide occasions for cozy, family bonding and easy, relatively cheap, entertainment any time any place. It would give us opportunities to laugh together, to learn together, to explore places, animals and situations that would feed her curiosity, prepare her for otherwise scary situations and ignite her imagination. It would provide a quiet, self-paced oasis in a fast-paced world. It would stretch her attention span. It would build patience.

Reading carefully crafted children’s books would increase our daughter’s vocabulary, her grasp of language and grammar and help her understand the structure of a story – a skill that would make learning to read much simpler, and would help her to understand and make herself understood in the world around her.

A daily, consistent and steady diet of high quality picture books, covering a wide range of attitudes, content, situations and storylines along with many examples of and an open invitation to process, compare and contrast would help our daughter learn to observe, differentiate, predict, infer and deduce. It would help her develop empathy, understanding and tolerance; to gather and synthesize information; to perceive the subtleties in the situations that surround her and to make wise, informed decisions.

We never did finish that list. We headed straight to the library.

Andrea Ross is co-creator of the Children’s Book Podcasts Just One More Book!! and Swimming In Literary Soup. Through these podcasts and their websites, Andrea and co-creator Mark Blevis are building a lively, interactive community that links children's book authors, illustrators, readers, librarians and publishers. Andrea lives in the heart of Canada's capital with her husband, two daughters and a ridiculously large number of children's books.


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In other views

Yesterday was Melbourne Cup Day which is a public holiday for much of Australia. The Melbourne Cup is a horse race, and is often called “the race that stops the nation”. While we normally don’t care to much for horse racing, and must admit we didn’t actually watch the race, we had an interest in one of the races earlier on in the day.

One of our friends from work, J.M owns a horse that was running. J.M has often seen his horse as a bad investment, to date it has only managed to come in near the back of the field at best – he always says at least it’s a tax deduction!!!

Yesterday was different; his horse got off to a bad start, but about half way through the race one of the horses at the front fell and took several other horses with it. The end result: J.M’s horse literally jogged over the line in second place. The horse is truly a good investment again!!! The odds were 20-1 so anyone who bet did quite well.

For background:

MELBOURNE CUP DAY
Australian certainly love their leisure. They also worship sport . Though renowned for their egalitarianism , they are found of "the sport of king ."And one race every year stops the entire nation from working . Even if they are not actually present - instead glued to their telvevision sceens or their transistors - Australiana all over the country , of every age and from every walk of life , follow the horse running in Melbourne Cup .
Melbourne Cup Day is fixed for the first Tusday in November . The race is recognized as one of the World 's greatest handicap races. It is held at Flemington , a Melbourne suburb which is called after a butcher who once lived there.
The first Cup was run in 1861 . There were 17 starters and , paradoxically , the prize - apart from the money (170 pounds ) - was not a cup at all , but a hand - beaten gold watch . Archer, the Winning horse , had walked to Melbourne from its stable in Nowra ,New South Wales , a distance of 500 miles (800km)


Cheers

Andrew Collings

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