One plus one
More and more often these days I find myself wondering if online math help would have been much different a decade and a half ago, if Internet at home had been available to me and my young family. Math help would have been a boon with my sons growing up and in school. I was a young and unemployed full time mom at the time, and could have appreciated all the assistance that an online math tutor could provide. Ever since I started to be on the Internet on a regular basis I found that it was the best, if not only at times, source of information for me, especially in times that I needed free online math help.
My daughter and youngest child Maia, now five years old, learned to read on the internet. It was on a site called starfall.com which I now recommend to all of my friends with pre-school kids who have access to the internet at home. She learned not only to read, but to count and to do simple addition through its online math tutoring section. The only disadvantage to online tutoring is that my daughter did not learn to write by hand, actually holding a pencil to paper, because she had become accustomed to typing her letters and numbers out on a keyboard.
But that’s been remedied by going to kindergarten school, starting June of this year. Now her handwriting is quite legible, and coupled with reading on her books and on the internet I believe she has taken in far more information than her classmates who are less exposed to the internet. Of course, internet learning should not completely replace parent- or teacher-supervised learning. Human interaction, after all, is probably the best teaching tool a young person can have.
Weight watch-me-not
And while we’re on the subject of holidays, it’s also when I start considering weight loss pill after brands that didn’t really do anything for me except raise my blood pressure and make me cranky and difficult to live with.
So I got to thinking, rather than worry about my weight, why don’t I just eat and the heck with it, I just want to enjoy life (responsibly of course) by eating what I want to eat, albeit in limited amounts. I’m over trying to be Dawn Zulueta in the Marie France billboard just outside my office on EDSA.
THAT time of the year
Now that it’s THAT time of the year it’s also the time to review each and every light fixture in our homes, as a safety precaution, especially if your electrical wiring is, as it is in our house, hidden behind the ceilings. This, as I say over and over again, is an old house that we live in, and much of the wiring is hidden behind wooden walls and ceilings, now mostly damaged by the flood brought about by Typhoon Ondoy.
Electrical wiring is a pain to check out in cases like this, but it is always a good think to err on the side of safety.
Gimme a break
Though the farthest from my mind is taking time off and heading for myrtle beach vacation rentals, I can’t help but think a break might be a welcome thing for me these days.
Just this morning as I was preparing for work, it just happened so suddenly: a sudden stab of pain just under my left shoulderblade, and slowly spreading around the underside of my left armpit. It felt like a giant hand was squeezing my side, with its fingers digging into my chest and my back.
I even thought, for a second, if this was what a heart attack felt like.
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