What you think does matter

Killer frogs found at golden gate in California - OMG! Run for the hills, save yourself and your baby - maybe the hubby if you think he is worth it. But by all means run, run, run!! Wait...  Breaking news: killer frog is toxic only to animals not humans? Oh, so sorry for the scare. So what's the big deal and why did the news on google have titles like: Killer frogs found! I guess it's easier to attract visitors and views if you exaggerate a bit ( I'm guilty of that here). So what is a killer frog? The killer frog is technically: the Cane Toad. The cane toad (Bufo marinus), also known as the giant neotropical toad or marine toad, is a large, terrestrial true toad which is native to Central and South America, but has been introduced to various islands throughout Oceania and the Caribbean. It is a member of the subgenus Rhinella of the genus Bufo, which includes many different true toad species found throughout Central and South America. The cane toad is a prolific bree

Good financial advice from young Hip Hop contest winner - this is what we should be looking for in our youth. I am pleased that this medium (hip hop) was used to try to reach the hearts and minds of our youth who need to prepare for their financial future. Like the rapper says "Money runs the world, I can't change that", But how you manage your money - that you can control. BOYS & GIRLS CLUB TEEN WINS NATIONAL FINANCIAL LITERACY HIP HOP CONTEST PRESENTED BY CHARLES SCHWAB FOUNDATION Song by Blake McGuire Produced as Music Video by Multi-Platinum Music Producer Kevin "KHAO" Cates and Featured on First-Ever Financial Literacy-Themed Album What happens when you couple the musical talent and creativity of today’s youth with one of the most important topics among teens? This year’s Money Matters Music Mogul (M4) Contest, presented by BGCA and Charles Schwab Foundation, generated top talent from across the country and showed teens the power of financial

You have to laugh I think it's funny. Life is good, until...... May 5, 2013: A great gray owl is photographed just moments before snatching up its prey. The photo is from an extraordinary sequence of images by photographer Tom Samuelson along Lake Superior just south of Two Harbors, Minn. For get that it's cold. Forget that he is in his underwear. This guy is 77 yrs. old - damn! A 77-year-old retired teacher exercises in his underwear in Jilin, China.

Funny silly pictures and my funnier thoughts. I'm too cool Dude. May 6, 2013: A man rides his scooter as the street floods from torrential rains in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Personally - I think this one is cool. But still - don't expect a tip. Robots deliver dishes to customers at a Robot Restaurant in Harbin, China.

Silly thoughts of these interesting funny silly pictures I have run across online. China, may be a nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there. Personally, I've also had nightmares about forgetting where I parked my car - but this is worse. May 7, 2013: A resident walks past a car parked amid debris at a site demolished as part of a street broadening project in Taiyuan, China, on May 6. The site used to be a parking lot. The owner of the car could not be reached, so the workers were told to carry on demolition operations around it, according to local media I have to admit - this is what I call entertainment. Winter swimmers box on the frozen Songhua River during the Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival in China.

Part 1   7 ways: Motivating learning in young children  (part 3 ) 6.        Risk : believe it or not children need to learn how to take risk – calculated risk. By this I mean that they have to be willing to fail and most importantly – how to deal with and overcome the fear of failure. It is a basic human nature, to fear failure. Why, because failure means lose, a cost and a price. No one likes to fail – that is just the way it is. But in children, the fear of failure nurtures a desire not to try, to attempt, or to excel. We all do, adults just like children – we fear failure so we avoid doing anything we think we will fail at. We have to teach children how to learn from mistakes, how to manage mistakes in order not to fear mistakes. There is a saying: it is better to have loved and loss than to have not loved at all. The same goes for life, except we call it missed opportunities; I could have, should have, but I didn’t. If kernel Sanders of Kentucky fried chicken: if he woul

7 ways: Motivating learning in young children (part 2) 3.        What is value : this may be one of the most difficult things to teach any child. What is value? How do you go about giving value to things and most of all, to one’s self? Children are surrounded by all sorts of influences, from their parents, teachers, from their school friends and even from that box called the television set (cable, internet, and so forth). The problem is they need to know the value of things: this is important and this is why purpose and understanding comes first before value. When a child has a purpose and they understand the importance of the order of things – they can better understand the value of things and the value of why they need to do things. Have you ever bought a gift for your child only to have it lost or broken, if you replace it quickly they lose all site of the value of that gift. They leave it about, easily forget it and more. But if you had this same child work several days o