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Archives for August, 2007

Twelve Tribes of Israel Word SearchThis wordsearch activity can help kids to understand and memorize the lesson about twelve tribes of Israel.

Just click and download the link below.

Twelve Tribes of Israel

Word Seach from Book of Old TestamentWord search games are useful if you have some time to fill in before your Sunday School starts, or afterwards, when you are waiting for parents to arrive to collect their children. This can be printed out on paper for handing out to each child, or alternatively on an acetate sheet for use on an overhead projector.

Download : Word search from Book of Old Testament

TV addictionThese days, parents have been concerning by their kids TV addiction. Even some called the TV as “electronic babysitter” or “plug-in drug”. Studies show that people watch amazing amounts of television; in fact, children often spend more time in front of the set than in school. So what can you do if you fear that the tube is invading your life?

These are 10 tips to limit our kids’ TV viewing

  1. Train the children to ask for permission to turn on the TV.
  2. Turn the TV off during the meals time.
  3. Do not allow children watching TV while they need to do their homework or others housework.
  4. Set a good sample for the children by limiting our TV viewing too.
  5. Do not allow any set of TV in our children’s room.
  6. Accompany our children watching their favorite program.
  7. Discuss with our children what they see on TV.
  8. Turn off the TV when the selected program is over.
  9. Check the TV program on the schedule guide.
  10. Limit daily television watching to one hour or less for preschoolers and two hours or less for early school-aged children.

I also found this ebook titled Parenting Secret by Martha Stevens, mother of five is a great resource to raise our kids.

Learning to Write Children BookAlmost everyone assumes that writing children’s books is so easy. That’s why children’s books are the most over submitted MSS in the publishing industry. But it’s less than a quarter of one percent of all submissions is ever published. I found this fact in the Robyn Opie website. She is a great children’s book writer, author of more than 60 children books. She gives some advises in her website. One of them is, she suggests us to learn various categories of children books and also recognize the different types of children’s books for different age groups. She also said that there were restrictions within these categories. If we able to recognize these, we can be focus on what story we are going to write. More complete tips can be found in her ebook, “How to Write a GREAT Children’s Book“.

Deal with Your Kids Bedwetting

by Winny So 

Deals with Kids bedwetting ProblemBedwetting is a problem that many of the children or even their parents face every night. Parents with children who are bedwetting must have try their very best to help their children dealing with bedwetting.

FACTS
Children usually start to stop bedwetting at 2, 5 year olds. They start to stop bedwetting at day and then night. Read more… »

 

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