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Price : $17.99
Features
- Motorized, quacking shape and color matching game
- Comes with bonus rubber ducky
- Includes 12 plastic ducks, motorized pond and instructions
- For 2 to 4 players, Ages 3
- Requires 2 "C" batteries (not included)
Product Description
After a long day of swimming, playing and eating by the pond, the parents are calling their little ducks home. But they all look the same! Can you find the ones that match your symbol to win the game? Watch the ducks bump around the pond and listen to them quack Every player is given a duck family, color and shape - pick up the ducks and see which ones match Try to remember which ducks are yours when you see other players picking them up The first player to find all three ducks from their family wins!
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Pete went bunji jumping, much against his better instincts and dread of heights. Still, the drive to achieve new things and react to new experiences drove him to the edge of a 100m platform hanging over a canyon in New Zealand.
Waiting in line for the moment, your mind and body are screaming at you to stop, go back, go home, go to the pub instead. The instinct for survival it as its strongest, because the mind insists that by jumping you will die. To push past that instinct requires a monumental surge of courage, and a substantial twist of madness.
Ahead of the trembling, gibbering Irishman was an Englishman. A big, rugby playing Englishman without a care in the world. Nonchalant to the extreme, on his first bunji jump and treating it as though he were about to step onto a bus. No shred of fear, dread or excitement. He chatted happily with the folk around him, who could hear nothing except the staccato thud of their heart beats and the flow of adrenaline draining through their underwear.
The Englishman, yawning happily, took his place on the platform and smiled vainly at the onlookers. The two guys at the top, tying his bunji on and very experienced at this, exchanged sly glances. A nod and a wink passed between them, unnoticed by everyone except Pete the Irishman, whose senses were heightened to a point only experienced by those undergoing a near death experience. Everything in Technicolor, moving in exquisite slow motion.
Mr Fearless moved to the edge. He took no notice of the elastic around his ankles, didn’t look at the drop below him, and lazily raised his hands in preparation for a dive into an infinity he regarded as a jump into his local pool.
The countdown: Five …….. Four ……….Three ………..Two …………One ..BUNJI!!!!!
With a smile of assurance Fearless fell forward.
At that optimum moment, when the point of no return had been reached and gravity gleefully plucked its victim off the platform, the two bunji technicians let out a howl of panic and screamed, NO!! NOT YET …..COME BACK…….WE FORGOT TO…………
The next three seconds in Fearless’s life were fraught with anxiety. He made no sound, but what went through his head as he left the bridge turned his bravado to mush.
Half way down he emitted a strangled scream not of this Earth, and experienced an explosion of blind panic.
Of course, our two at the top were only kidding.
Asked afterwards why they pulled such a malicious stunt, they said it was simple. Fearless just wasn’t enjoying himself, they said. He’d paid his money, and didn’t feel anything. The idea of bunji is to face then overcome fear, while at the same time experience a massive surge of excitement.
They believe Fearless got his moneys worth.
Rob Daniel is a children’s author, memory and self-esteem teacher. He lives in beautiful Albany on the south west corner of Western Australia, has a passion for mangos, the Greek Islands and coaches three soccer teams. He sort of still plays himself!
Rob creates ‘turn the page’ children’s e-books with illustrators from around the world. You can check out and if you like, buy his books from http://www.chocmint.com You’ll also find an opportunity to join the chocmint adventure yourself, if you have a passion for writing and illustrating for children.
LATEST book published ‘A Tail’s Tale’, illustrated by UK artist Elizabeth Stringer. Part proceeds from these books go towards sponsoring children at the BearCare orphanage in Kitgum, Uganda run by the extraordinary Murray Kidd.
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Kindness is a very important part of living. There are many opportunities to practice kindness. Again, it is a choice that you need to make. Kindness is one of the higher vibrations of energy. It is also an energy that transforms. Kindness affects you and it affects the other person. Kindness is also an energy that can be passed on. Many great things happen when you are kind.
People respond favorably. It brightens a person’s
day. It uplifts and encourages. Sometimes an act of
kindness can create such an impact that the person remembers the moment for the rest of his or her life.
Perhaps you will remember too. When you are kind
it puts people at ease. It allows someone to get through
an awkward moment and not feel judged. Kindness is not
something that can necessarily be paid back. It propels
someone forward from a stuck space. Kindness can be
moved forward. When someone is kind to you, you can
pass it on. You can extend the original act.
Many people are so hurt and so wounded that they
need a lot of kindness. They need gentleness.
You can be a person who makes a difference in their
lives. It doesn’t take much to be kind. A smile, a gentle
look, a gentle touch on the arm, a hug to let them
know that you understand and you don’t judge them.
Saying it’s “okay,” or “things will get better,” is all that
they may need to hear. A small gift can make someone
feel very special: flowers to someone who doesn’t expect them,
or telling someone that she is beautiful when she doesn’t feel it
and no one has ever told her. She will remember you.
There are many ways to be kind to someone, from
simple ways to very big and directed acts of kindness.
One act of kindness can affect great changes. It can
create a chain reaction that grows bigger and spreads
wider. If you think about ways to be kind, I’m sure that
you can come up with many. Practice random acts of
kindness. Any one can be kind at any time. It doesn’t take an
extraordinary person. If you stay in the moment and really
respond to what is happening, opportunities appear for you
to be kind.
Remember that you don’t know who may be
observing that act of kindness. You don’t know how someone
else might be impacted. The idea of kindness might be spread
from you to that person, allowing her to carry something
greater with her. You don’t know if that act of kindness
might change her or encourage her to greater heights.
So why don’t you try a random act of kindness? I think
you’ll like how you feel, and you will like the results.
Yoga Kat–aka Katheryn Hoban is a yoga teacher with twelve years experience. She teaches children’s yoga ages 3-6, and 7-12 and Adults privately in NJ. She is the author the book DAUGHTER BELOVED which will come out next year. She has created a children’s affirmation CD (ages 3-6) and an affirmation CD for adults. Yoga Kat is available for speaking or writing and can be reached at katscoolcorner@yahoo.com or 201 970-9340