Posts

Showing posts from 2012

Motivating children to LEARN - with a blog ???

Image
Motivating children to learn - with a blog? How do you motivate children to learn? That is a good question. For me, I try to find whatever interest my child has and I try to use that to teach them something I may find important. Be it math and the concept of money through a board game. It could be using television programs to teach them family values. It can also be by example, how I live and pointing out ( as to make it known and obvious ) to my children so that they can learn something new or important. Recently my nine year old son asked me to create a blog for him. He noticed my daughters and I’s small rivalry ( more like my small motivational taunts ) about how many visitors she is getting on her ‘word press’ blog compared to mine. I am pretty sure, just like my daughter did when she was younger, that he will probably lose interest in this blog. But my hope is, whether it is now or in a later date ( such as like my daughter ), this blog will motivate him to be creative. I

This kitty is not witty but wierd

Image
This kitty is not witty but weird The internet is littered with thousands of photos and videos of cats. Cats dancing, cats playing, kitty cats trapped in jars. In truth the internet should be called the catnet. With all these pictures of cute cats on the net, I am surprised to find a kitty that is cute yet strangely odd. To use my daughter vernacular: “this kitty is disturbing”. Now I just have to ask? Is it me or is it the kitty? Please look at the photo below of this cute little odd and disturbing kitty and let me know what you think. Trust me; I did not alter this photo. I found it on a wordpress blog: Enjoying the little things We were sitting around just searching the net and there it was. At first I didn’t notice the odd lips until my little girl pointed them out. This kitty is kind of freaky and I hope this blog was kind of witty. Please leave a comment about the kitty.

Book about children and Money- why?

Image
I had a friend ask me why I wrote a book for children that dealt with money. Especially considering the current atmosphere we’re in where so many people seem to dislike and even some what hate the rich & successful. That is a good question. But I think I have a satisfactory answer. First let me say this, the book is not about only making money. With that said: despite everyone’s apparent dislike for rich successful people, millions of people play the lotto every week, even twice a week. Why do people play? They play because they want to be rich. They desire to be that one percent. Why do people play scratch off games, gamble, play sweepstake games and even play bingo? They play all these games and more in order to win large sums of money. So let us first put aside the idea that people in general dislike or hate rich people. What people dislike and hate is that they don’t have this money – that they are not rich. So what I am trying to do in this book is to motivate childr

Motivate children to learn & be Successful

Image
My new book to 'Motivate kids' to learn and be successful I have spent the better have of my life trying to motivate my two children to do better, to be better. As a parent I guess it is natural to want your children to do more and to accomplish more in life than what you have done. Not that I am a slouch or a slave driver – I just want the best for my kids. I want them to have all the opportunities I did not, to basically enjoy the wisdom I have now and wish I had when I was a snotty thought I knew it all kid. Lets face it people, there is something about children in general that they are naturally born with – dreams, not every day average dreams. I am talking big dreams like flying to the moon by becoming an astronaut, being super famous or super rich. The kind of dreams that border on the impossible, even dreams like learning how to fly. Ask any child this simple question: how much money you would like to have? The answer is always – a lot or I want to be rich! The trut

Pre Order Halo 4 - my son is so giddy!

Image
Halo 4 - my son is so giddy. My son started drooling and was almost in a euphoric state when he saw the commercial for the new halo game – HALO 4. He about yanked my arm of trying to get my attention so I could see the commercial promoting the game. I didn’t want to let on but I myself had a bit of drool on my lip as I watch the promo. Sadly enough it is not out yet and you have to pre-order the game: I already visited Amazon to see if I could order it. check out one of the Halo 4 videos The question now is do I pre order it for Christmas or do I wait. If I wait I run the risk of not being able to order it – which would kill me just as much as it would kill my son. But if I order it now I will suffer wondering “when will I see the game?”….. oh the confusion. The funny thing is that my son is already expecting to receive this game – I want that dad! No please, can you, I would like: he just said – I want that Dad. Personally, I can’t wait to get it, it bring the inner c

My wife wants my life insurance - OH My Gosh!

Image
She is trying to KILL ME!!!!! For anyone who has read my blog for some time, by now you know I love my kids. I would and will do anything for them - my wife knows this too. I think she was using this love or weakness to her advantage. It was all a trick - you see. She tells me that taking my son to the air show event on Saturday would be fun, that it would be a great father and son moment. I said - I hate to fly. She said I didn't have to - my son could ride with other children and I can be safe on the ground. Lies; all lies I tell you! We get there early in the morning, it's a beautiful day and my son has no clue what is going on. We arrive and he is ecstatic - I was worried that he would be afraid and chicken out - or worst, start to cry. But he was a man, a big boy - but he wouldn't go up unless dear old dad went with him.... What? I had to say yes in front of all these people but on the inside I am screaming "oh hell no!" but I had no choice but to

Funny - Barbie found in my Fridge ? could die from cold...

Image
Funny - Barbie found in fridge. Start of an interesting morning. OK, who wakes up in the morning with only one thing on their mind [ need a cup of coffee now ] and is confronted with a Barbie doll in the fridge? Apparently I am the only one to have this happen to them? Really, I knew my wife was making a wonderful decorative birthday cake for my lovely niece, Aaliyah. The cake, this I knew. What I did not know, what I did not expect at seven in the morning after a late night TV binge, that as I opened the fridge door to get milk for my desperately much needed cup of coffee - was to find Barbie staring back at me. It was traumatic, it really was. Those cold blue eyes, glazed lifeless look and oh so creepy smile? She was in the cake, the cake was wrapped in plastic and she had her hands up like as if she was reaching for me... Disturbing. Of course, after my initial shock, I couldn't help but laugh as I thought - Man this would make a great blog. I normally write blogs about the dec

Fun Get-away indoor water park fl coco keys

Image
A fun get away week-end At Water-park hotel Coco Keys Summer fun week-end trip to coco keys in-door water park - Florida’s best and possibly only indoor water park. That’s right - I took the family on a week end get away and I even took my niece “Aaliya”, hope I spelled her name right, with us. (* read about her scare below) It was great, personally I love Coco Keys hotel water resort. It has an indoor water park - YOU CAN’T BEAT THAT! At least from my point of view. Like I’ve said before, me an the hot cancer causing sun are not friends. My wife may life sitting in the sun baking herself into a nice brown golden {possible cancer causing ] tan - me, I avoid it if I can. After all, he needs to suffer the after effects, like my wife, with the sun burn, the peeling and all that discomfort. But I like Coco Keys for several other reasons: The price of the room includes the water park tickets. They have three water park sections [ of which two are under shade ]. They three sections are slit

Homemade Hamburgers - fun mini Burgers

Image
Homemade Hamburgers - fun mini Burgers Ok, you saw my wonderful post about the best Hamburger ever, and now I have the "Homemade Hamburgers" fun mini blog post. Ok, I am stuck on burgers! It was Saturday morning and I decided to have a fun filled day with the family. What says more fun, or can create a happy fun fill atmosphere than - yes, FOOD. I figured with all my free time, 5 weeks of free vacation time, that I should spend some extra time with the family having fun. After all, I have so much to spare [ unlike my wife who has to work.... I quietly giggle deep down inside ]. So Friday I did some grocery shopping - and decided I, no we, were going to make mini hamburgers. Yeah, let’s get the grill, stoke the fire and get a cooking people. I had seen several blogs about friends and family coming together to cook. They are all in the kitchen working together to make a wonderful meal. I wanted that. That's right, I wanted to get together with no distractions, no hassles,

Best Burger in Village Inn – hungry for meat!

Image
Best Burger in Village Inn – hungry for meat! I don’t know if it was the “Best Burger” I ever had because it was, or because I was hankering for a slab of juicy all beef meat. At any rate it was the best burger I’ve had at village Inn in a while. Then again, it’s been a long time, since I enjoyed a real large all you can eat forget the calories, cholesterol and fat burger in a while. All I know is – I started my 5 week vacation, yes I said 5 weeks and I was going to celebrate. The funny thing about enjoying the “best Burger” ever as you can see – I took lovely pictures – I even made my wife take pictures of me enjoying my delicious burger. But like I said – it was funny because while we’re taking pictures of this massive burger – the manager seems to run on over and tells us not to forget “#villageInn” – what? My daughter had to explain to her usually tech savvy dad that this was a way of “tagging” pictures on facebook. Oh, I thought he was referring to twitter – no she said “you do

Video Chat with up to 12 people at once - for FREE

Image
Video Chat with up to 12 people at once - for FREE I've been watching my daughter and this interesting Video Chat system - she has instant messaging, video chat, video sharing and she can talk with up to 12 people all at once. For teenagers and large families - I think it's great. Skype is nice but watching my baby girl talking with two of her friends [ her being the third person ] is kind of cool. Did I mention you can video chat with a group - all at once, at the same time! How it works? You use group video to video chat with up to 12 people at one time on a call. Simply start a call and then add contacts from your contact list . All platforms including PC, Mac*, Facebook, Android and iOS currently support the group video chat experience. 12-way video chat for FREE Group video feature is the only service that lets you have 12 video windows for FREE. The free group video chat service can be used for work with colleagues, or just chatting with friends and family ( in my daug

More funny pictures, images of children

Image
More funny, silly pictures & images of children Please don't be offended - it's all in fun. Live laugh and avoid any cameras you see.... LOL. Just look at that scared funny face.... Mom, do something come'on.... Well it may sound funny and strange - but your never too young to worry about your health..... You go man lift those weights, give me three sets of 10. Feel da burn man, feel it.. You have to be kidding right, this one is obvious - "GOT MILK"? Keep your Ipad, Ipod and your Face Book - we're too busy living.... Sometimes we are so busy being busy that we forget to stop and smell the roses. We forget to laugh, to enjoy the short life we have, the simple pleasures in life. I hope you took this moment [ and blog post... ] to do just that. Crack a smile, let it out and luagh at that picture.... that was funny and you know it.

Extreme Fishing - forget Monster Fish

Image
Extreme Fishing - forget Monster Fish When you hear the words "Extreme Fishing" you usually think about a few things: 1- Monster fish / giant huge fish. 2- Hot girl [women] with huge or large exotic fish [ if your a guy ]. 3- Exotic large fish you never dreamed existed - monster or prehistoric fish. But as I pondered trying what I call real fishing, you know that latent desire to catch that elusive Moby dick. Uhm, I mean really huge fish like an Alaskan Halibut or something wild like that huge bluefin . As I did some research I ran into some interesting truly extreme fishing. These people take their fishing serious - extremely serious, so much so that they do what is ever possible to make that great catch. Here are some of the extreme fishing I found and honestly - will never think of trying. One of the most iconic scenes your bound to see in Sri Lanka is stilt fishing. They spend hours sitting on a thin plank, hoping to catch one or two fish about 5 cm-long,

Funny short joke Heaven or Hell? Politically incorrect

Image
Funny short joke - Heaven or Hell? It may be politically incorrect but it is funny. We have a funny wierd sense of doing the stupidest thing simply becuase our leaders, elders, mentors and the like - told us too. My father in law told me about how one day he walked into a chinesse resturant and he asked for a meal and then asked how large was the dish [ he didn't want to over eat ] and the owner came running from the back complaining that the dish was fine and told him to sit down. Without thinking he just simply followed the guys instructions without a second thought. Then after a few minutes he realized what happened and he was upset with himself becuase he just followed the guys orders without thinking. He was disgusted with himself that he let the guy tell him what to do and he quitely took it. He said "I am the customer and I let him tell me what to do..?" I have to admit, I've been there before.... I find myself wondering "Why did I blindly follow what I wa

Glow in Dark IPHONE ??? cool...

Image
Glow in the Dark IPHONE !!! I am not a fan of the Ipone but when I saw this man it looks cool to me. SlickWraps protect all your portable electronic devices with style. It's lightweight skins come in a multitude of colors, designs, and textures, and they that it has been tested to safeguard against fingerprints, dust, scratches, and other stresses. They strive to constantly innovate their product offerings, and recently exclusively launched the iGlowPhone, which turns a plain iPhone or iPad into a glow in the dark conversation piece. Glow in the Dark iPhone Use SlickWraps on all your electronic gadgets: Cell Phones (iPhone, HTC, Samsung, Motorola) iPods iPads MacBooks eBook Readers (Kindle Fire) Gaming consoles Headphones (Monster Beats) Made in America Plug: This products is made in the USA, and the mission is to provide supreme protection, while offering an affordable stylish solution to bulky cases. I am going to have to check out if they have a glow in the dark wrap for my H

My Wife, funny Joke death … ?

Image
My Wife, funny Joke death … ? My Wife, funny Joke about death . You have to admit - what man doesn’t think about it. You have to laugh. During their vacation to Jerusalem, the man’s wife passed away. The undertaker told the husband, "You can have her shipped home for $3,000 dollars, or you can bury her here, in the Holy Land, for only $150." The man thought about it and told him he would just have her shipped home. The undertaker asked, "Why would you spend so much money to ship your wife home, when it would be wonderful to be buried here and you would spend only $150?" The man replied, "A long time ago a man died here, was buried here, and three days later he rose from the dead. I just can’t take that chance." Order your copy @ Amazon Marly's Million Dollar Coat Hanger Girl Power Empowerment - and a cute entertaining story. Funny Joke Death - I know you think it’s a bit morbid, but if you can’t find laughter in life or in the possibility of

Find best names for Baby in Sci Fi show?

Image
Find best names for Baby in Sci Fi show? Baby Names? How to get & find best baby names ever - Pinterest it? What, yeah - or take it from a popular TV show like I did. That is right, when faced with the big question "what to name my baby girl or baby boy" - forget that this name will follow them thru elementary school, middle school, high school and beyond - just be creative. Or if you can't handle the stress - do what I did, I named my daughter after a Deep Space Nine Star Trek character.... Keira Nyresse. That's right I admit it, I was a big Trek fan, what of it? No seriously, I did. I bring it up because I just got into Pinterest [ it only took forever to join, had to ask to join and then when I was invited - it took three weeks for them to open my account ? ]. But like I was saying, I was getting to know Pinterest and I decided to "Pin" a very funny picture [ at least in my mind ] that I saw at a wordpress blog [ see picture "Hello my name"

The Hunger Games - Is the "Movie" all that? Review

Image
The Hunger Games - Is the "Movie" all that, damn straight it is! The Hunger Games , the Movie - is it all that - damn straight it is! If you go by the hoopla and the box office numbers - it's the best thing ever. I admit it, I went to see it on its first day – on the ticket line to see the movie I read about how it made $19 million during its midnight showing the night before [ impressive ]. But does this make it a great movie or just the only good thing that was available? Did the hype build up suspense and is it only the teenagers and the pre-teens that made this blockbuster turn out so big? The reason I bring it up is because the only reason why I saw this movie was: 1- It seemed action pack compared to other movies and it gave me the twilight kind of vibe [ yes I liked twilight, I favor the last three so far, but enjoyed the books more ]. 2- My daughter insisted on watching this movie over the Lorax - she is 14 what do you expect and again, she is a big fan of Twiligh