Are You Protecting Your Child��s Hearing Properly? 5.2 million 6-19 year old have hearing loss directly related to noise exposure*. Don’t let your child be part of this unfortunate group.PEACE & QUIET “Offer your child peace and quiet,” says the Noise Center. “Noise poses a serious threat to children's hearing, health, learning and behavior.” (And I can’t think of an adult who functions well in a noisy environment either.) “Peace” and “quiet”...... Similar Editorial : by Angie Dixon. | Source : Teenager Help
Six Things You Can Do To Protect Your Child��s Hearing 5.2 million 6-19 year old had hearing loss directly related to noise exposure according to the 3rd National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2000, reported on Dangerous Decibels, http://www.dangerousdecibels.org . According to a study done by Montgomery and Fujukawa in 1992, “Over the last 10 years, the percentage of 2nd graders with hearing loss has increased 2.8 times; hearing loss in...... Similar Editorial : by Angie Dixon. | Source : Teenager Help
Tech Abuse And Your Child: What You Can Do New technology brings new ways to stay in touch and guard your child's safety but it also brings new ways to steal, cheat, bully, act irresponsibly, and harm others.Bullying via camera cell phones and Internet is an international problem and misuse starts younger than you might imagine. BBC reports that one in nine 5-9 year olds has a mobile phone, and over a third of primary school children with...... Similar Editorial : by Sam Vaknin. | Source : Teenager Help
The Best Way To Protect Your Children In The Car Car seats may be required but there’s one other thing you should be doing to protect your children in the car, because the best-constructed car seat in the world doesn’t insure they’ll live through an accident.Prevention is the best cure, and driver error has been documented to contribute to over 90% of collisions.Your distractibility is crucial, and once again one of our best technological...... Similar Editorial : by Jane Fulton. | Source : Youth Programs
Need A Great Family Or On-Your_Own Winter Activity? When the holidays are over, and winter sets in, sometimes we’re looking for things to do. The same can be said of retirement, or if you’re just ready for a change-of-pace in your life, and a new interest. Well, if you start planning now, by this time next year you could be watching a lot of interesting things in your own back yard by turning it into a Backyard Wildlife Habitat. An official...... Similar Editorial : by Johnette Duff. | Source : Family Activity
Celebrate St. Patrick With Family Dia dhuit, hello!“The road from Chicago to Ireland is marked in green,” they say, and the annual dying of the Chicago River emerald green is described as “right up there with the parting of the sea by Moses and the Pyramids of Egypt.” Well, what’s a little blarney, it’s St. Patrick’s Day.And how is this different from the normal murky green of the River? “The difference,” the official Chicago St....... Similar Editorial : by D. Halet. | Source : Family Activity
Family Spring Outing: Wildflowers In Texas It’s a tradition to get in your car in the spring and go look at the wildflowers. Nearly everyone in Texas has a photo of their kids in the bluebonnets. BLUEBONNETSTypically, in my photo album there’s a photo of me in the bluebonnets taken by my grandmother, a photo of my sons in the bluebonnets, taken by me, and a photo of my granddaughter in the bluebonnets taken by my daughter-in-law....... Similar Editorial : by Lorraine Pirihi. | Source : The Family Tree Maker
Tips For The Thanksgiving Pre-Game Jitters No, I’m not talking about the football game, I’m talking about everyone’s coming to your house this year for Thanksgiving and you’re getting the pregame jitters. When it’s all rumbling around in your head and you can’t take action, you can get a case of the nerves. What to do? Let’s apply some EQ (emotional intelligence)!EMOTIONSSort through the emotions to get them organized and under management....... Similar Editorial : by Bonnie P Carrier. | Source : Surprise Birthday Party Invitation
Add The New Braunfels Texas Wurstfest To Your Fall Travel GEMÜTLICHKEIT (warm friendliness, good cheer)“Willkommen zum WURSTFEST! Prosit, und hab' Spasz!” is the slogan for this really appealing annual event. It means “Welcome. Cheers! To your health, and have fun!”Combining a unique German community in South Texas, great food, fabulous bands imported from Germany for the occasion, amusement rides, affordable entry, a well-run event and often beautiful...... Similar Editorial : by Skye Thomas. | Source : Fishing Florida Guide
Nature In Texas Ooops. Oh those engineers. When they reconstructed the Congress Avenue Bridge in Austin, Texas in 1980, they inadvertently created a unique ECO-TOURISM DESTINATION, and an experience not available many places in the world. The bridge was evidently the perfect roosting place for bats and now houses the largest urban bat colony in North America. Yes, not only does Texas have the Alamo, it’s very...... Similar Editorial : by Valerie Dancer. | Source : Fishing Florida Guide
Ee The Bats In Texas Q: What is Texas best known for?A: The AlamoQ: And what else?A: Having the largest bat colony in the world, and the largest urban bat colony in North AmericaWHO KNEW?Interested in partaking of this opportunity? It could even bring you luck. To the Chinese, bats are thought to bring good luck and happiness. They symbolize health, long life, prosperity, love of virtue and natural death.If you’re...... Similar Editorial : by Jimmy Spier. | Source : Fishing Florida Guide
Catch The Bluebonnets In Texas This Spring If you haven’t seen the wildflowers in Texas in the spring, you haven’t lived! The highway medians and hillsides are full of color – bright red, yellow and blue, pink and cream – but you better look out because cars are always pulling off the side of the highway to ogle and take photographs. It’s a tradition to get in your car in the spring and go look at the wildflowers. Nearly everyone in Texas...... Similar Editorial : by Lorraine Pirihi. | Source : Fishing Florida Guide
Dauphin Island, AL: An Idyllic Beach Vacation Part of the fun of vacationing on Dauphin Island is driving there. Coming east on IH-10 from Houston, you will watch the landscape change dramatically as you experience the states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and finally Alabama. And then you can easily include Florida while you’re there, too. As you near your destination, you’ll see men wearing big white boots for clamming, known locally as ...... Similar Editorial : by crerem. | Source : Beach Resorts
