The Relationship Between Smoking in Movies and Smoking Teens The teen smoking rate in California is 14.6 percent, according to the California Department of Public Health (CDPH).May teenagers smoke Camel cigarettes or Winston cigarettes.The majority of addicted smokers took their first puff before the age of 18. The average age of the first time smoker is 14.These statistics are surprising given the decades of public education and research...more
Critical issues of teen's abortion Teenage abortion is a critical issue of today's world. The decision is based on the word "who chooses", parents or their pregnant teenage daughters. The majority of teenagers informed their parents about their pregnancy, some parents also support their daughter's decision about her pregnancy. But there are also a number of teenagers who do not tell their parents about their pregnancy and want to have...more
A study associating video game playing to improved laparoscopic surgery is the tip of the iceberg in the hot topic that is the positive effects of video games. According to Mitchell Wade, co-author of The Kids are Alright: How the Gamer Generation is Changing the Workplace, When you see studies that show surgeons or pilots improve their real world skills by using computer based simulations, aka games, you seethe line between real and not-real is fuzzy. Wade conducted extensive research on the effects of video games playing and its uses on the real world. Volunteer Learning EnvironmentVideo games are a great venue for kids to engage in global interaction voluntarily. With the fun that games provide, kids are not even aware that the games actually help to build team spirit, cooperation and encourage risk-taking in a risk-free environment. They quickly get rewards in the form of virtual prizes when they complete a certain task, and discover through repeated trial and error that its okay to make mistakes. Wade discovered that lessons learned become more important than the visuals displayed. Gender typing in videos and even violence and sex in graphics are less powerful than lessons on...more
Positive Reinforcement As Child Discipline Older parents might remember their parents giving them a 'swat' on the bottom when they were bad or didn't do what they were told. Today that is largely a taboo and most parents are turning to positive reinforcement as child discipline. A parent will either change the tone in their voice to one of...more
Boundaries For Your Children: Setting Them And Enforcing Them Sometimes children cross all boundaries and this is what brings them into conflict with their parents. Every parent desires to take the best care of their kids that they can and one way that they can do so is by defining the kind of behavior in their kids that is acceptable and...more
Birthday Party Ideas For Kids In Tampa & Zephyrhills, Florida Darin: Hi, this is Darin Spindler and today I am with Anthony Perrone, CEO of Pin Chasers bowling centers in Tampa and Zephyrhills, Florida. Anthony, today we're going to talk about birthday parties and some of the most common questions that parents have when booking an event with your bowling center. So why don't you go ahead and answer another one of those questions today.Anthony: Well, Darin, another question that folks have is what age groups do we have birthday parties for. And quite honestly, we have birthday parties for every age group, including adults. We start them from age four to eight, and we have Bowlopolis birthday parties. They are a theme party around our Bowlopolis character set with Bowlopolis DVDs passed out for every child.The next age group would be nine to preteen or nine to twelve. They're more entertainment based. We also have parties for the tweenage or predriving age, up until about age fifteen. We do a party that, again, is very entertainment based, very music video based, and each of our locations are able to have music videos to enliven the party.And then, of course, everything up...more
It's OK to Touch – A Fun Bible Object Lesson for Your Kids Remember hearing this from your parents when you were growing up: "Don't touch that! You might break it!" As parents, we direct our children to keep their hands off of lots...more
Power to Forgive – A Fun Bible Object Lesson for Your Kids Will God forgive every sin you commit? If you are His child, the answer is, "Absolutely!" He loves you and His forgiveness is powerful enough to cover over every sin. Matthew...more
Le Top: Unique Designer Clothing For Kids Le Top proudly brings to you a wide range of collection of kids products that would always keep your kid at the top, when it comes to cuteness and comfort. Le Top always believed in making products...more
Are You Tired of Teens Lying to You? Retrieve Deleted Text to Learn The Truth Copyright (c) 2010 Ed OppermanThere are many of us that would like to think that our teenager is much more trustworthy than telling us lies about the activities that...more
It is inevitable, your once little darling will turn into adolescent. Time for a bedroom makeover! The usual children design will be no longer appropriate for his teenage lifestyle. Switch to a more casual theme with a hint of pre-yuppie element in...more
Today classroom activities are not enough for children, they need to learn more. We need to teach kids more apart from mathematics and science. Children need to learn empathy to grow up into caring and responsible adults. Kids can learn empathy from...more