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Watch your Kids While Watching TV

Television becomes one of the most important devices which takes place in almost
houses. It can unite all members of the family as well as separate them. However, is it
important to know what your kids are watching? The answer is, of course, absolutely
Yes and that should be done by all parents. Television can expose things you have
tried to protect the children from, especially violence, pornography, consumerism and
so on.
Recently, a study demonstrated that spending too much time on watching TV during
the day or at bedtime often cause bed-time disruption, stress, and short sleep
duration.
Another research found that there is a significant relationship between the amount of
time spent for watching television during adolescence and early adulthood, and the
possibility of being aggressive.
Meanwhile, many studies have identified a relationship between kids who watch TV a
lot and being inactive and overweight.
Considering some facts mentioning above, protect your children with the following tips:

Limit television viewing to one-two hours each day

Do not allow your children to have a TV set in their own bedrooms
Review the rating of TV shows which your children watch

Watch television with your children and discuss what is happening in the show

More Dust Bins is Cleaner

To improve comfort and cleanliness at the school, there should be an increasing
number of dust bins.
When we look at classroom, school corridors and schoolyard, there papers, mineral
water cops, straws, and napkin everywhere. The condition of unseemliness really
hinders learning and teaching environment. They can be filled out with water coming
from the rain. This can be placed for mosquito to spread out.
Anyway I notice that most of the students have responsibilities for their school
environment. They put their litter on the proper place but some of them are not diligent
enough to find the dust bins. The numbers of the dust bins in the school are not
enough. More dust bins should be put beside each step, outside of the classrooms and
some along of the corridors. Probably one dust bin should be in every ten meters. So
when students want to throw away their litters, they can find the dust bins easily.
When school is equipped with sufficient dust bins, students do not have problem of
discomfort any more. So provide more dust bins and school will be very clean and
become a very nice place to study.

Where Should Be after High School?

The National examination result will be publicly enounced in next short time. Euphoria
will flood for those who get success. In the other hand, It will be sorry to hear that
there are some of them do not succeed in their national final examination. For those
who succeed soon will think to decide; where will they be after graduating high
school? Actually it will be easy to decide for those has been arranged and thought
earlier but for those have not planed yet, it will be quite confusing.
Continuing study or looking for work is the primary choice among them. When they
think about continuing study, they will think hard about the time and cost. How long
the higher study will last? And how high is about the cost. In the same way, when they
think about straightly seeking job, what skill and competence they have got is a big
matter of questioning. So, doing both choices in the same time is an alternative.
Continuing study as well as seeking job is possibly done but it will be hard for them.
Conventionally studying in the university needs much time to spend especially in the
first year. It is true because they have to do and adapt a lot of things in their new
higher school. it will be very hard to looking for job. Therefore it should come to their
mind of continuing studying at higher school from their own home. As result, the
available time will be more flexible for them. Then it will be very possible to seek job
and get the appropriate one. This type of studying is publicly known as distance
learning.
As the alternative method of studying, besides the conventional studying which
students and the lecturer have to meet in the fixed time and place regularly, distance
learning provides possibility to grow better. Possibly working and studying surely will
create high quality graduate. Distance learning should appear as a considerable
choice for them.
Learning English through music and songs is Fun
Learning English through music and songs can be very enjoyable. You can mix
pleasure with learning when you listen to a song and exploit the song as a means to
your English progress. Some underlying reason can be drawn to support the idea why
we use songs in language learning.
Firstly, the song stuck in my head Phenomenon (the echoing in our minds of the last
song we heard after leaving a restaurant, shopping malls, etc) can be both enjoyable
and sometimes unnerving. This phenomenon also seems to reinforce the idea that
songs work on our short-and-long term memory.
Secondly, songs in general also use simple conversational language, with a lot of
repetition, which is just what many learners look for sample text. The fact that they
are effective makes them many times more motivating than other text. Although
usually simple, some songs can be quite complex syntactically, lexically and
poetically, and can be analyzed in the same way as any other literary sample.
Furthermore, song can be appropriated by listener for their own purpose. Most pop
songs and probably many other types dont have precise people, place or time
reference.

In addition, songs are relaxing. They provide variety and fun, and encourage harmony
within oneself and within one group. Little wonder they are important tools in
sustaining culture, religion, patriotism and yeas, even revolution.
Last but not least, there are many learning activities we can do with songs such as
studying grammar, practicing selective listening comprehension, translating songs,
learning vocabulary, spelling and culture.
From the elaboration above, it can be concluded that learning through music and
songs, learning English can be enjoyable and fun.

The importance of Reading

I personally think that reading is a very important activity in our life. Why do I say so?
Firstly, by reading we can get a lot of knowledge about many things in the world such
as Science, technology. Sports, arts, culture, etc written in either books, magazine,
newspaper, etc.
Secondly, by reading we can get a lot of news and information about something
happening in any parts of the world which can we see directly.
Another reason, reading can give us pleasure too. When we are tired, we read books,
newspaper or magazine on the entertainment coloumn such as comedy, short story,
quiz, etc. To make us relaxed.
The last, reading can also take us to other parts of the world. By reading a book about
Irian Jaya we may feel were really sitting in the jungles not at home in our rooms.
From the facts above, its obvious that everyone needs to read to get knowledge,
information and also entertainment. Or in summary we can say reading is truly
important in our life.