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Texting – The New Craze for Kids

I’m constantly surprised about the number of text messages youngsters can send out within a day. Back in our time in which 30 text messages each day was obviously an indication of an over-active social interaction.

However, right now this kind of number may elevate concerns relating to withdrawal and seclusion. Hundreds of texts or higher has become ordinary, and you have to be up close to the 300-a-day mark to be deemed as an “uber-texter” by your friends.

Even though most of these figures might sound unbelievably substantial to grownups, give some thought for a moment on just what your children aren’t doing while they’re text messaging. They’re not e-mailing and they’re not making phone calls. In accordance with recent reports, merely around 11 % of teenagers actually make use of an e-mail. Plus, just like any parent of a teenager is aware, call minutes would be the very least of your concerns with regards to creating a household mobile phone plan.

But wait, how might teenagers are likely to manage a hundred or maybe more text messages each day? And doesn’t the rest endure from school homework to valuable sleeping time?

The good news is, very important factor youngsters are truly great at is filtering. Although young children could receive as much as three hundred texts daily, they don’t reply to every one of them. They don’t really consider it wise to text back. They choose which text messages are considered their top concern, and so they are narrowing anything else away.

Furthermore, the very nature of sending text messages helps to keep communications brief and nice. Contrary to grownups that are usually more prone to spell out precisely what they would like to express, young children keep on the conversation to a very least.

Regrettably, numerous moms and dads can’t go beyond the numbers. Only this week, I just read one particular post in which one mom had confiscated her two teens’ cell phones immediately after she found out their monthly text counts had reached to 3,000 or higher. In today’s digital society that’s similar to grounding your children to be popular.

That’s not to imply that generally there shouldn’t be limitations and restrictions. No mobile phones inside the school room or even after going to bed must be the two rules, which can be constantly in place.

However, possibly we shouldn’t end up being way too concerned about numbers. Sending text messages has successfully changed the extended telephone calls many of us used to have with our close friends while we were young. That lengthy chitchat has currently been converted into a hundred or so text messages. It might not become our method of performing things. In contrast, that doesn’t make it a dangerous thing either.

567 days ago • Practical Tips, Rants, Technology & Gadgets • Tags:

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Dont Overlook the Essence of our Existence – Go Green

Don’t we think it’s time to start caring about what brings us sustenance just like the way we make some practice part of our daily living? Sad enough, we are not thinking towards that direction. We tend to prioritize profit over survival.

We give preference to things that are of short-term in nature rather than the long term issues; then, we don’t even care about how we interact with what provides us daily care – the planet itself. I guess you know by now, that I’m referring to Mother Earth. It is easy not to remember Mother Earth. We only remember it when Earth Day is around the corner, and pushes it away from our minds as soon as the Day is gone.

It’s unfair to overlook this essence of our existence. Fortunately, the buzz phrase recently is ‘going green’, at least, an indication that it is trendy to be earth-friendly. When we prioritize how we look over our values, it becomes easy to lose focus of the fact that we are human, and we tend to be consumed with the urge to ‘interact’ rather than ‘use’. We are drowned in the pursuit of wanting people to perceive who we are (our achievements), instead of seeing ourselves as an aspect of relationship interaction – which is really how we can express who we are.

Now, how do we keep Mother Earth healthy with ease? Find out;

The basic way is to recycle – this is supposed to be the second natural thing to do, unfortunately it is not. I plead with you to make an extra effort to recycle and also include composting as part of the habit.

Favor the products from recycled sources more. For instance, you can go to eco-fashion – it means favoring quality garments that are durable and can last until the clothing items resurface again to the fashion scene. Some big names in the fashion world are also beginning to clamor for eco-fashion.

Yet another way; go to the grocery store with your own bag; you can find a wide range of petite patterns that you can easily tuck away in your handbag neatly. Insist on products that are not toxic, not just for the good for the environment, but for your own good also (health wise).

Your eating habit should be such that is earth-sustenance prone, and not earth exploiting. It’s wiser to buy groceries from your neighbor farmer, or from the local market.

Whole food or produce purchase that requires little or no packaging should be favored.
Consider refilling water bottles from the water filter rather than buying and piling up more plastic water bottles.


614 days ago • Go Green, Practical Tips, Rants, Words of Inspiration • Tags:

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