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The Best of Educational Toys for Kids
Posted by adoex in Healthy Education, Healthy Education For Children on January 1, 2012
If you are a parent of young children, you are well aware that early education should be part of every child’s healthy growth. Educational toys are some of the most handy and best educational material you can find for kids. From their infancy, kids must be given toys to play with to pave the way for the development of the brain, visual awareness, motor skills and sensory stimulation. Building blocks are perhaps the most basic but most important toys for a toddler. Children recognize and identify figures by touching and handling them rather than by absorbing information from books. Blocks which have numbers and letters on them in bright colours are more striking to kids. Stacking blocks and toppling them also give kids the idea of gravity, balance, shape, sizes and symmetry.
Puzzles are great for pre-school kids to identify colours, shapes and sizes and how to coordinate them. You can choose word puzzles and picture puzzles for them to connect words and pictures. Get your kids to pick a hobby from an early age by introducing them to sets of beads for stringing, magic tricks, stamp and sticker collections and paintings. Creatively crafted kids educational toys by Melissa and Doug have been favourites among children and parents alike. Encouraging girls to play and be creative at the same time with fashion designing, portfolio sketching and dress making is an interesting way to promote aspirations. The award winning children’s toy manufacturers, Fashion Angels has a range of educational fashion designing toys. Giving your kids knitting and sewing kits also help them to learn life skills, while engaging in a hobby.
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Fitness Education – Why Your High School Coaches Might Suck
Posted by adoex in Fitness Healthy, Healthy Education on January 1, 2012
While I am currently suffering from long lasting shoulder injuries, I cannot stress the importance of exercising with caution. Surely you’ve heard of the phrase, “No pain. No gain”. So often, the goals of working out are simply to lift more weight than the person next to them and for a longer duration. The lack of guidance among teens is dangerous to say the least.
Looking back on high school, I lifted more weight while under the supervision of my coach, even though I’m much bigger and stronger now. I was practicing improper form (swinging weights) and over exertion, while my diet was simply terrible (no breakfast, bread sticks for lunch). As one could imagine, despite exercising many times a week, my results were poor and it’s not just me. Anyone that is exposed to exercise through high school may not be educated well enough to take exercising seriously. Even high school athletes may learn to practice improper diet and exercise technique.
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