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Hi HomeMakers,
Is it my imagination or is time speeding up? My middle child left home to go to
university last week! It seems like only the other day that she started school.
It is sad when they have to shift to another city to continue their education
but all you can do is know you have done your best to equip them for life and
hope they listened to your good advice.
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If people look for the positives in life, they will see them and feel good. If they look for the negatives, they will see them and feel bad. While you need to be aware of the negatives if you focus on the positives you will have a much longer and happier life.
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Great contradictions:
• On one hand, I'm indecisive; but on the other, I'm not.
• If there's one thing I can't stand, it's intolerance.
• Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
• Death to all fanatics!
• The world's full of apathy, but I don't care.
• If we do not succeed, we run the risk of failure.
• I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous!
• I always wanted to procrastinate!
• Rehab is for quitters!
• To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion.
• My identity lies in not knowing who I am.
• I have this nagging fear that everyone is out to make me paranoid.
• There are only three kinds of people; people who can count and people who can't.
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Whiners - Those who look at what other people have and whine about the fact that they don’t have it too. The sort of people who do not take into account all the hard work and effort the person they envy has put into obtaining whatever it is the whiner envies, while the whiner sits on their backside doing nothing to attain their goal except complain how unfair it is that they don’t have what others have.
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If you keep rats or mice in too cramped conditions they will eat their young. As a child at a very small (1 teacher) country school our teacher decided it would be a good idea to keep pet mice for us to study. We started with just a few but their numbers quickly grew and their once palatial home quickly turned into an overcrowded squalor and the mice began to eat each other. Did they do so as a method of population control or due to the stress living in such cramped quarters produced?
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How we as a society treat our children.
The other day a single person with no children said to me “Being a Parent is easy!” The statement fairly made my blood boil. Then I considered their statement more carefully and decided yes anybody can be a parent but it takes a lot of really hard work to be a good parent.
Our society does not acknowledge people who are good caring parents, but we are quick to point out people who are bad parents and very poor at actually giving constructive help to these people.
If any of you have watched any of the parenting shows that have people come in to help parents with difficult children you should have learnt three things:
1) The best way to encourage good behaviour is to praise and reward it.
2) The best way to discourage bad behaviour is to ignore it as far as is
practical.
3) When you constantly tell people not to behave in a certain way you can end up
reinforcing that bad behaviour by reminding them about it. They hear the message
about the behaviour but not the “don’t do it” part.
Now I am not suggesting for a second that the government applies this strategy to its citizens, but I do think it could learn from what these behavioural experts have learnt about human nature.
Why do we not recognise and award parents who do a good job of raising their children?
It would not cost much to do so and could be implemented to involve people on a personal level and be a positive way of encouraging and reinforcing those behaviours that have proven to be great for children.
You could get schools to help run the contest by rating children on a scale of 1-10 on several key parental performance indicators:
School attendance, punctuality, appearance (is the child well dressed, clean, look well, happy and healthy), is homework done and handed in, does the child have a good attitude to learning, are they well behaved, do they use good language, do they eat dinner as a family etc. Do they bring a healthy lunch to school.
The competition would be open to all caregivers.
The other thing that could be done via this competition is parents who score very badly can be offered assistance to help them to be better parents. Essentially the scheme would be an inexpensive fence at the top of a cliff instead of our more expensive and normal practice of only helping at the bottom.
Please let me know what you think of this idea…
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Dear Diana,
Hi my name is Melanie and I have just finished reading your book Earn $50,000 per year as a house spouse. Thank you so much for writing such an awesome book!
I found your book at the Oxford Library and just love it, Where is the best place in Canterbury to buy a copy?
I also read you have 2 other books “Secrets of great cooking” and “How to build a happy family” I can’t find these books at the library and I was wondering if you could tell me where I could get copies of these as well. Thank you once again for such a fantastic book I have been telling all my family & friends about it. I look forward to hearing from you.
Melanie
Hi Melanie,
Thanks for the great feedback, I really appreciate it. You should be able to
order the book through any bookshop where it will probably cost around $35 or
you can buy the book directly off me for the special price of just $25.00.
You can find out more online at HomeMaking and even order online too or order by
phone, post or eMail.
While I have written the other books they have not yet been published.
Again thanks for the great feed back.
My eMail address is diana@allwaze.com and I’d love to hear from you. You can also use the HomeMaking forum anytime. Check out the interesting posts and it's totally FREE.
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Nothing new to report this month.
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10 minute chocolate self saucing pudding.
I came home late the other day with lots of tired hungry people and not much
food in the house. It took me 10 minutes from starting this dish to having it
ready to eat!
Into a glass microwave dish place 3 heaped tablespoons of cocoa, 1 heaped
tablespoon of soft butter 1 cup of brown sugar 1 teaspoon of vanilla and 2 cups
of boiling hot water.
Mix well by hand.
Into a separate bowl place 1 heaped tablespoon of butter, melt, add ½ cup of milk ‘zap’ in the microwave for 20 seconds on high. Add 2 heaped cups of flour, 2 teaspoons of baking powder. Quickly mix together.
Roughly and quickly roll into heaped teaspoon size balls and drop into sauce mix until all mix is used up.
Now place 1 cup of shredded coconut and ½ cup white sugar into the emptied dough bowl. Mix roughly and pour over dough balls.
Place in microwave and cook on cake setting if you have it or moderate for 2 minutes then high for 2 more. Cooking time can vary depending on microwave I find approximately 2 minutes with sauce boiling is about right. Alternatively 20 minutes in a moderate conventional oven.
This desert is best eaten hot on the night it is cooked and can be served with milk, ice cream or cream.
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Most of my life I have had a walnut tree and been able to eat as many nuts as I liked. I have never thought much about whether they were good for me or not except I have always known they were high in calories and so have restricted my consumption somewhat because of that. Having a look at the health benefits that walnuts can confer I think I will now ensure I eat more of them!
Walnuts are believed to have many potential health benefits For more than a decade of scientific evidence shows that incorporating walnuts in a healthy diet reduces the risk of heart disease by improving blood vessel elasticity and plaque accumulation. The key is to incorporate nuts as part of your daily diet without increasing your calorie intake. That is you replace other foods with nuts.
In 2003, the FDA recognised the benefits of nuts and their role in heart disease prevention by approving a health claim for 7 kinds of nuts (almonds, hazelnuts, peanuts, pecans, some pine nuts, pistachios and walnuts). These seven nuts were approved as they are the only kinds that contain less than 4g of saturated fats per 50g.
Eating just 4 Walnuts a day should:
• Help reduce likelihood of Heart disease,
• Help you sleep better,
• Reduce hypertension,
• Reduce likelihood of gallstones,
• Delay or reduce the severity of cardiovascular disease and neurodegenerative
diseases such as Parkinson's or Alzheimer's disease.
• Improve cognitive function,
• Help improve asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, and inflammatory skin diseases such
as eczema and psoriasis.
• Improve Cholesterol Profile in Persons with Type 2 Diabetes,
• In addition, walnuts contain an antioxidant compound called ellagic acid that
supports the immune system and appears to have several anticancer properties,
• Reduce Levels of Several Molecules that Promote Atherosclerosis,
• Increase happiness levels,
Walnuts are one of the best plant sources of protein. They are rich in fibre, B vitamins, magnesium, and antioxidants such as Vitamin E. Nuts in general are also high in plant sterols and fat - but mostly omega 3 fatty acids - the good fats that have been shown to lower LDL cholesterol. Walnuts, in particular, have significantly higher amounts of omega 3 fatty acids as compared to other nuts. Walnuts are a very good source of manganese and a good source of copper, two minerals that are essential cofactors in a number of enzymes important in antioxidant defences.
They also have been found to contain Melatonin an essential ingredient for a
good nights sleep.
“Studies in various countries suggest a connection between increased rates of
depression and decreased omega-3 consumption, and in children, the relationship
between low dietary intake of omega-3 fats and ADHD has begun to be studied. A
recent Purdue University study showed that kids low in omega-3 essential fatty
acids are significantly more likely to be hyperactive, have learning disorders,
and to display behavioural problems.”
Many studies have shown “a wide range of problems associated with omega-3 deficiencies. The American diet is almost devoid of omega-3s, except for nuts, such as walnuts, seeds and cold-water fish. Researchers believe that about 60% of Americans are deficient in omega-3 fatty acids, and about 20% have so little that test methods cannot even detect any in their blood.”
Walnuts are a delicious and versatile nut that can be incorporated into many
dishes. I once came home to find my family had made me a 7 course welcome home
dinner which included walnuts in EVERY dish! Of course they choose walnut wine
to accompany the meal!
To find our more visit these sites:
http://www.healthcastle.com/walnuts-benefits-heart.shtml
http://www.walnutinfo.com/health/benefits.html
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=99O
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I find it ironic the way many super models are so skinny if they were stock animals, their owners would probably be fined for cruelty because they are so blatantly undernourished.
Until next month take care of yourselves, count your blessings, enjoy life.
Kindest regards,
Diana.
P.S. Moving? Changed email accounts? Please drop me a note with your updated address. Every month I get hundreds of “address not found” replies.
To contact me please email me at diana@allwaze.com
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