Home Schooling - To Teach Or Not To Teach

Author : Michael Russell
You have finally done it! The terrible twos are done, the tumultuous threes have passed and the torrid fours are behind you. It is time to send your bundle of joy to kindergarten! Especially if you are a stay at home mom you may be dreaming of a full or half day of alone time while your youngster scampers off to join the educational system. Or are you excited? Many highly traditional mothers who stay home, decide to teach their little ones themselves a la home school. The reasons for this particular choice are many and along with them, come advantages and disadvantages.Home schooling is exactly what it sounds like, opting to teach your child in the comfort and security of home. The parent (or sometimes home tutor) is required to follow the curriculum put forth by the school district or state that they reside in. This means that the child must accomplish certain educational requirements based on their grade level. Being home schooled is carefully monitored by the school district because at a certain age, the child is tested to make sure that they are up to the standards of education, especially when the child reaches higher grade levels.Home schooling has its advantages in that the child will have one on one teaching which is a lot more conducive to learning at each level. More time can be spent on subject areas that are difficult for the child . Another advantage being that the way each subject is taught can be more creative. For instance, a child learning about certain animals has the leisure of an afternoon at the zoo to discover and learn. Parents may also feel that home schooling their child will keep their own moral and ethical standards better instilled in the child, due to the fact that the parent is home all day to monitor what the child learns and experiences.While home schooling can be very positive academically there are some downfalls to it. One such downfall is the lack of social interaction the child may face. Part of growing up and learning is interacting with other children and dealing with all kinds of social situations, being both positive or negative. Along with this is how well skilled the adult is in teaching the child. A parent must have a good relationship with the child and have an exceptional grasp of the information that they are teaching. If there is no consistency as far as home school hours and what is accomplished , the child may fall behind academically. To be a home school parent, organization is a must.Being home schooled or not is a decision that each family must carefully consider before moving forward. The main goals should be to give your child a quality education while fostering his/her social development. If the parent thinks that being home schooled is the right option for their child, they should take full advantage of all the information they can find in libraries, their school district and even the internet to help them be an exceptional teacher for their child.. If done the right way, your child will be the exceptional and well rounded person that you aspire for them to be.Michael Russell
Your Independent guide to Home School
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How To Increase Your Adsense Earnings

Author : Steve Hill

In this article I give advice about ways in which you can increase the amount you earn from Google adsense. I run adsense on a number of my sites and it is proving to be a very good form of second income. Many other people are now putting the code onto their own sites which can help them to pay for hosting and domain renewal costs.Should you run adsense on your website?In my opinion there are many positive reasons to have these google ads on your website but there are also reasons why you may not want them on there. On the positive side you are of course likely to earn money when people click on one of the ads, this can be a useful income, however unless you have either a high traffic site or a large number of sites, you are unlikely to get rich from it.On the negative side when people click on one of the ads it is actually taking away that visitor from your site. If you are offering a service it therefore probably is not worth signing up for adsense for that site. If the site is purely for information purposes I would say that it is worth adding the code.How to increase your adsense earningsThere are many ways in which you can blend the adverts into your website by choosing a particular colour for the ads as an example. Placement of the ads is also quite important and there is information on the Google site which advises where to put the adverts for maximum impact.I believe the best way to increase your earnings however is to get more traffic to the website. There are many ways of doing this:Google adwordsYou can create an advertising campaign using google adwords. You could opt to pay near enough the minimum fee per click and this will keep the costs down. People will then visit your site and hopefully click on one of the other ads, therefore making you money.This can work very well for certain subjects, but not so well for others. It is a matter of trial and error, I always run the adwords for around a month and then evaluate if it is worth carrying on after that point.It is obviously important that we do not spend more on our own advertising, than we are likely to earn.Purchase a text link adThis is becoming more and more popular as one way backward links are becoming ever more powerful in the eyes of the search engines. These type of links are however quite hard to come by.By purchasing a text link advert you are likely to have an increase in web traffic from two avenues. Firstly from the advert itself and also from the page rank value of the backward link.At articles-submission.com you are able to purchase nine of these permanent backward links for only ?50, which includes a link on a page rank five page.Writing articlesWriting articles can also help you to obtain more visitors to your site. The people who read the article are potential visitors, you also obtain a one way backward link from the article directory which you submit the article to, and other webmasters may also include the article on their own site, thus creating another one way backward link. These backward links help to increase your overall page rank. The higher the page rank, the more traffic you should receive.Link exchangeExchanging links with other websites which are hopefully in the same business sector as your own, also has value. These links are not as powerful as the one way links mentioned above but are still worth seeking.You can e-mail or phone other webmasters to ask if they would be happy to swap links with your site.Build a site networkIf you have the time and available funds you could also consider building a network of sites, all on the same theme. Each of the sites in the network would have a link pointing to the main site. They could also have adsense on the sites thus increasing your earnings in a two-fold manner.I hope this article helps you in your quest to increase your adsense earnings. Stephen Hill helps to promote a number of websites including:stutteringcheap ringtonesaviation cleaning products

Category : General Online Promotion

TIPS ON CHOOSING CHIC SPRING FASHIONS YOU WANT TO KNOW

Author : Bridget Allen

When the snow starts to melt and flowers begin to dot the
scenery, you know it is spring! What better way to celebrate the
coming of the season with packing away your heavy winter
sweaters and coats and welcoming the spring season in with
pastel colors, feminine prints, and gauzy clothing? When it
comes time to plan your spring wardrobe, it may be tempting to
run around in thin, flutter sleeve shirts and flirty skirts, but
your local weather may not allow it. Keep your physical weather
in mind before you buy silky tops, cropped pants, and flippant
skirts--finding yourself out in the cold!

Many places in the country equate spring with rain. If you live
in an area where the March, April, and May showers mean
summertime flowers, then take this into account when choosing
your spring fashion wardrobe. Consider purchasing a fantastic
rain jacket, cute rain hat, or fantastic umbrella to warm off
the wet weather and remain dry. Also, the trend here of recent
allows individuals to wear brightly patterned galoshes with
everyday clothing in order to protect your tootsies from the
puddles.

If you area allows warmer clothing to be ushered in with the
spring season, then do not hold back! Choose strappy heels that
will provide your feet with a much needed break from stuffy
boots. Do not forget to treat yourself to that lovely pedicure
and paint your tootsies a lovely pastel shade of pink. Find
flirty dresses, skirts, and tops that are one hundred percent
feminine and spring-like. You may need to look into a couple of
cardigans to cover up on the chilly days, but look for one with
pretty trim like lace or crochet. Finally, lighten up from those
heavy wool pants and choose lightweight trousers that are
crisply pressed and khaki in color.

However, many of us live in areas where spring only means winter
with a few more flowers. If you find yourself stuck in winter,
even though spring has arrived, change your state of mind. Even
though you may still need those heavy coats, perk it up with a
brightly colored faux flower corsage. Look into swapping out
those dark winter colors for light springtime colors like pinks,
green, purples, white, cream, and blues. If you find you need
those winter boots, still treat yourself to a pedicure to perk
up your tootsies to feel more spring like on the inside.

Category : Organizing

The World's First Self-Cleaning Toilet Seat is Here - Part of the Touch Free Restroom System from ASC Hygiene Service, Atlanta, GA

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In the 21st Century public washrooms can be completely non-touch, thereby, improving the hygiene of an establishment. We start with the CWS CleanSeat as our key component which is manufactured in Switzerland by CWS and holds worldwide patents. It is produced by a company with 50 years in the washroom hygiene industry and an established product in European hotels, restaurants, airports, and corporate facilities. The CWS CleanSeat has been in use for over 10 years in Europe, and has an installed customer base of more than 100,000 locations. First, with the simple motion of a hand, the CWS CleanSeat automatically hygienically cleans and dries in only 15 seconds. It is entirely Non-Touch. The CWS CleanSeat was designed primarily for commercial restrooms (A home version will be available soon). The CleanSeat fills the need for a simple, effective, economical solution that will provide customers with a value added service and increased peace of mind. ASC offers non-touch soap dispensers, non-touch towel dispensers, non-touch faucets, etc. Read the health reports on our website to learn the danger of bacteria is public restrooms. Bacteria is transferred from person to person by people touching the same things in a common area. ASC has eliminated the need for employees and customers to touch anything in the public restroom. If bacteria cant find a place to keep transferring to it will just die out, therefore making even for a safer restroom.AmeriSwiss Company (ASC) a Preferred Distributor of the CWS CleanSeat and all the CWS restroom hygiene products introduce these fine products at the Florida Restaurant Show September 19-21 and the ISSA Show October 14-17 and was the buzz of the show and over 10,000 industry professionals stopped by our booth.For businesses to be successful, image by the public is very important. Yet there is one area that most businesses neglect when it comes to that image, their public restrooms. That no longer has to be the case thanks to the Touch Free Restroom System developed by ASC. In addition, the whole restroom is made sanitary by eliminating the need for customers and employees to touch any item in the restroom. In addition, ASC is looking for exclusive distributor to sell and service its products in the United States.

Category : Rugby