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Features
- Compares populations and land areas between locations
- Tells distances between points even estimates flight time!
- Plays national anthems and popular songs
- Identifies continent name, population, land area, highest point
- Includes bonus E-Book-Cd of Hector the Collector (19.95 Value)
Product Description
Aspiring young jet setters play six exciting multi-level games with up to four players. Using just the touch of an interactive pen, your child explores the world and learns thousands of amazing facts. But this talking globe isn’t just for the kids - the whole family will love to challenge their knowledge of world geography. Tourists, frequent fliers and globetrotters welcome! Begin the adventure by exploring the world using the interactive pen. Touch the globe with the pen to compare population and land area between two locations, to learn flying time between two locations, and to learn facts about continents, countries, capitals, music, currency and more. Or take the Eureka Challenge and go head-to-head with up to four players. This rotating globe and talking atlas features a world clock, interactive pen, volume control, headphone jack and automatic shut-off.What it Teaches?The Explorer Globe teaches geography - including the name and locations of countries, capitals, continents, bodies of water -music, population, currency, highest point, time zone, distances between locations, and comparison of land area and population between locations.Ages: 8 & up.AC Adapter Sold Separately.
Nov
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November 25, 2008
Help your child in piano lessons learn to be organized and they will learn a whole lot more. If your child can?t seem to get from A to B without wandering through everything else in the alphabet first, they?re going to have difficulty accomplishing their goals. I?m not trying to say that all learning is linear, that would be false and simplistic. Achieving our dreams, however, demands specific attention to the goals that will bring them to life. Otherwise we might as well be rubbing a lamp and waiting for a genie to appear and grant our three wishes. You child would have better luck winning the lottery! so don’t put off helping your child learn how to go about managing their time.
The first step in getting your child organized is to explain that their is a difference between a dream and a wish. A dream is something that we plan and work toward until we accomplish it in the future. A wish is a fantasy that doesn?t happen in real life. Sure it’s fun to imagine a wish when we blow out the candles on our birthday cake. but no matter how many birthday candles we blow out, simply wishing won’t make our dreams come true. There is no genie to grant our wishes, but we do have the power to bring our dreams to life by being good stewards of our time and talent.
Reading stories to your child about how musicians and other people in history have achieved their dreams is a great way to help your child explore their own potential. You can also encourage your child to interview members of your community who have developed musical skill or particular expertise in another area to find out how they went about accumulating the knowledge and skills necessary to reach their goals.
Then help your child set piano goals and determine what good habits they will need to achieve these goals. Good habits are the key to staying organized. Keeping a piano journal is the best way for your child to stay organized toward achieving their piano dreams. Get your child a piano journal and help them write down their goals for the year, their goals for each month, and their goals for this week. For each specific goal help your child identify corresponding good habits that will help them best accomplish them. As your child achieves their goals light a candle for them to blow out! Tell them to think of their piano dreams while they are blowing it out and how it is coming to life.
Children will waste more time when they don?t know what they are trying to accomplish. The best way for your child in piano lessons to stay organized and use their time wisely is by having a great plan to guide them that they have worked on and invested themselves in.
For great home piano activities parents can use to help children ages 5 to 11 develop their musical talent, visit Piano Adventure Bears Music Education Resources You?ll find a treasure box filled with piano resources to create an exciting musical adventure for your child - right in your own home! Visit their website and subscribe to their f?ree internet newsletter so you can download f?ree piano sheet music and mp3s of original piano compositions.
These exciting stories, games, piano lessons, and inspirational gifts feature the Piano Adventure Bears, Mrs. Treble Beary and her new piano student, Albeart Littlebud. Young students follow along with Albeart to learn what piano lessons are all about in a fun way that kids readily understand appreciate. Click here to visit PianoAdventureBears.com For a wealth of information about piano lessons, visit tallypiano.com
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November 25, 2008
Attention parents: It’s back-to-school shopping time. This year, do your kids a favor by NOT buying them everything they claim they need. Of course, you will probably purchase some clothes, shoes, and school supplies.
But when it comes to expensive name brands, sports logos, celebrity-licensed items and electronic equipment, it’s better to set limits — not only for the sake of your wallet, but also because it is psychologically healthier for your children. Here’s why:
- Kids who get everything they want develop expectations that this will always be the case. This leaves them ill prepared to deal with the world later, as adults.
- Kids who get everything they want develop a sense of entitlement, with the assumption that things should come easily and on demand. Not only is this unrealistic, but such a sense of entitlement fosters a very self-centered view of life, which can lead to relationship problems as adults.
- Kids who don’t have to work for things are deprived of the opportunity to develop self-esteem. Self-esteem doesn’t come from the brand of sneakers they wear. Nor does it come from merely being told that they’re a good person. It comes from a sense of competence, which develops through sustained effort toward a goal (e.g., saving up for those special sneakers.)
- Research shows that kids who don’t learn to postpone gratification may not develop the “emotional intelligence” that is important for long-term success in life. Emotional intelligence includes skills such as self-control, confidence, empathy and communication.
So, to help both your wallet and your kids, here are some tips for setting limits on back-to-school expenditures:
1. Decide in advance how much you plan to spend. Divide your list into two categories: Necessities and Want-to-haves. Concentrate on the former.
2. If your children are of middle-school age or older, involve them in the planning. Give them a budget and show them the sale flyers. See what they can come up with. When kids are involved in all stages of a decision-making process, they are more cooperative.
3. For younger children who demand a cartoon logo on every article of clothing, tell them how many such items you will allow, and let them pick the specific items. For example, if you allow two, they might pick a sweatshirt and a backpack, or a jacket and a notebook. You can also set a dollar limit on items with licensed characters. Allowing some degree of choice helps younger children feel a sense of mastery and control.
4. When you go on the shopping trip, don’t rush through it. Allow time for lunch or videogame breaks. In this way, the shopping trip becomes a shared family experience, not just a mad rush to acquire things.
5. Set limits not just on the dollar amount you’ll be spending, but also on what is acceptable. Your teenager may insist on certain clothing styles that you don’t approve of. If she starts arguing with you at the store, calmly tell her it’s time to go home. If she continues arguing in the car, don’t try to reason with her; she’s too angry to listen to logic at that time. However, you can offer to take her shopping on another day when she has settled down.
6. If your child insists that he absolutely needs something that is not in your budget, make a deal with him to allow him to earn money toward it by doing extra chores. However, don’t buy the item until he has earned the money. This is very important, because it helps your child learn to plan and to work toward a goal. He will also appreciate more an item that he had to work for.
7. If you’re like many parents, you try to set limits or to say “No”, but the kids whine and complain so much that you eventually give in. Try your best not to succumb. If you give in, you are inadvertently teaching your children that if they whine long enough, they will eventually get their way.
Pauline Wallin, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist in Camp Hill, and author of “Taming Your Inner Brat: A Guide for Transforming Self-defeating Behavior” (Wildcat Canyon Press, 2004)