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This is the time of year, you think about a vacation trip, or going to camp for the summer.
How about taking a book with you to read when you have a few minutes free to yourself or before going to sleep.
- Reading is fun
- Reading will help you in school
- Reading is entertaining
- Reading is a good way to pass time
- Reading is a good way for you to learn about what interests you
- Reading will help you understand what you read better
- Reading can help you grow your vocabulary
- Reading can help you with your writing
- Reading can help you retain what you read better
- Reading can help build character
Librarians will help you find books on subjects that interest you and are age appropriate for the age of the reader. This means that the librarian will help you pick a book on a subject that younger readers and their parents will be comfortable with you reading and won’t be too many words younger readers won’t understand.
Librarians can be your best friend helping you with books and subjects that interest readers of all ages. As you get older, they can help you learn how to find books for yourself.
You may need to write projects for school, as you get older, the library and the books inside are great for these reports on your own or with the librarians help finding the right book or books you need.
As a person in his 60s is still an avid reader, writer and book reviewer.
Pick up a book and read it, ask your parents to take you to the library, talk with the librarian and find a book on a subject that interests you.
Robert Medak
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Do You Read Books?
Author Ray Bradburysaid, “You’ve got to love libraries. You’ve got to love books. You’ve got to love poetry. You’ve got to love everything about literature. Then, you can pick the one thing you love most and write about it.”
It’s not just about wanting to write, but about learning new things. Whatever subject you want to learn about, there are books that will help you learn.
It’s my personal philosophy to try and learn something new every day. I could live in a library or bookstore and be very happy. I have been an avid reader for as long as I can remember. I have read books by Isaac Asimov to Emil Zola. I have read books of poetry, novels, short stories, mysteries, myth, religion, philosophy, physiology, zoology, phytology, botany, mammals, reptiles, etymology, and more. This is because I like all types of reading and learning things.
By reading books, you can learn about other countries, cultures, space, and many other subjects that may be of interest to you. The most powerful item in my wallet is my library card, which allows me to borrow books and read about different times, places, and times.
I have helped in literacy programs, and feel that anyone who is able to read and write should help others learning English, or those who haven’t learned to read and write, so that a new and brighter world opens before their eyes.
It’s by reading and helping people to expand their abilities that we who help, gain as much as the ones we help.
I feel that everyone should be able to read and write in their native language, which in America is American English although America has no official language.
Congress tried many times to have English declared the official language congress has never passed a bill to make it so.
Do yourself a favor, go to the library and check out a book and read it from cover to cover, you might enjoy the journey it takes you on. Remember this quote from Ray Bradbury, “I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can’t really put a book on the Internet. Three companies have offered to put books by me on the Net, and I said, ‘If you can make something that has a nice jacket, nice paper with that nice smell, then we’ll talk.’ All the computer can give you is a manuscript. People don’t want to read manuscripts. They want to read books. Books smell good. They look good. You can press it to your bosom. You can carry it in your pocket.”
Robert Medak
Published Freelance Writer, Editor, Reviewer, Marketer
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Picking up Stray Animals
Should you pick up stray animals?
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The question is, can your family afford to take care of the stray while you search for a possible owner. It would be nice if the animal had a chip, or had a collar with the information needed to get the stray back to an owner.
If there is no chip or any information about the stray, making flyers about where you found the animal and placing them near the spot, so if there is an owner, they can contact you about the animal and you can return it to them.
If no one calls about the animal, you must make the choice to keep the animal and take care of it if you can, or to call your local animal control to come and pick up the animal. This choice must be a family decision, if you choose to keep the stray, than it is up to you to care for that animal.
Taking care of a stray means taking the animal to a vet for a health check, shots, medication, or anything the stray may need after the vet gives it a .
If the stray is healthy, it is up to you to care for the animal if it needs food, water, playtime, exercise, a place to sleep, maybe even a fenced yard. It all depends on the stray.
You don’t want more animals than the regulations allow for where you live, but if you do decide to keep the animal because you can’t find an owner, remember that there is a lot to do when you’re caring for any animal.
You also want to introduce the new pet slowly to make sure that it gets along with any other pets in the house. Do this by letting them meet outside somewhere away from the backyard, or any place that the pet you have feels is theirs.
Watch for any signs that the new animal and any you may have are comfortable with each other, which may take a few days.
Enjoy pets because they will teach you many things.
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How to Control Diabetes
Whether you’ve been diagnosed with either Type I or Type II diabetes, it is an individual and a family affair.
As a child everyone wants to be just like all of the other kids at school, and you may think that because, you have diabetes that you are not normal any more. This is not true; with the rise of obesity, more children will receive a diagnosis of diabetes.
What to do about diabetes
As a child, you may be required to take pills or shots. With the improvements in delivery systems for insulin, you may not need a bottle and syringes as in years past. You will however, need to listen to your doctor and your parents about monitoring your blood sugar to help maintain a healthy A1c (A blood test that tells how well diabetes is controlled. Usually a 3-month test.), which your doctor should do. From this test, your doctor can adjust your medication to the right level for you.
Your family can be sure that you get a proper diet and exercise to help control both weight and the amount of exercise to help you control your diabetes. The better the control of your diabetes equals the possibility of fewer problems in the future.
Some of the effects of less than good control of diabetes are things like neuropathy (loss of feeling due to nerve damage), cataract (a problem with the lens of the eye), retinopathy (a problem with the inner eye), kidney problems, and more. This isn’t meant to scare you, but to tell you what might happen, not what will happen. It all depends on how well the diabetes is controlled, and that is up to each individual and no one else.
Your parents can help, but it is finally up to the person diagnosed with diabetes to care for themselves. No one can make you take care of your blood sugar control, they can only help you learn how and to make sure that you test your sugar level.
On days when you are sick, your blood sugar can go up and steps need to be taken to monitor it more closely, because if it goes too high or goes too low, there can be problems and a doctor may need to be called.
This is why you need to test your blood sugar on a regular basis. It will help establish a normal range for you so that if it goes outside your normal range, you can take steps to regulate your blood sugar. You should also learn the signs of low and high blood sugar. Also, be sure to drink plenty of water to keep hydrated.
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A good starter pet for young children
For children around the age of eight a good starter pet is a hamster. Some parents may not believe so since hamsters are nocturnal. Put the hamster in the child’s room so they can watch over it.
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The hamster sound be placed in the child’s room and the child should be placed in the child’s room and they should be responsible for keeping the hamster’s area clean, the animal feed, watered, and the bedding clean and fresh.
Hamsters are also a good pet because they are active and should keep the child’s attention, while other pets may not. The hamster lives in a habitat that can be expanded giving the child a project and learning about the responsibility of caring for a pet.
Caring for a pet takes time and a degree of commitment. If a child has a hamster for a pet, over time parents can determine how committed to the care and feeding of the pet a child is and will not tire of the novelty of having a pet.
Since hamsters live for a relatively short time compared to other animals, and hamsters are easier to be adopted than many other types of animals. Adult dogs and cats as an example are harder to adopt since most people want a puppy or kitten.
Having a pet means that you are making a commitment to take care of that pet for its lifetime. Pets are not something disposable that you have for a short time get tired of it and then take it to the pound not caring what happens to the animal.
Think about this, most shelters are over populated and do not have the space for the pets they have now. If they need more space for unwanted pets the ones that haven’t been adopted may be put to sleep.
Please, if you get a dog or cat be sure to neuter the pet and remember that a dog or cat may live for 15 to 20 years. I have one cat that is 17-years old.
Robert Medak
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