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<i><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;">When looking for the right Schooling for your child, these days their is a lot of choices. </span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;">I recently spoke with Kay from Montessori Australia to find out what these infamous schools around the country are really all about.</span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">The Montessori approach fosters children's love of learning and encourages independence by providing an <a href="http://www.montessori.org.au/montessori/environment.htm" style="text-decoration: none;">environment</a> of activities and materials which children use at their own pace. This builds self-confidence, inner discipline, a sense of self-worth and instils positive social behaviour. The approach forms the basis for lifelong learning.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">In today's world it is more important than ever that children become motivated individuals able to develop to their full potential. Montessori takes into account the whole child and his place in the community, hence its relevance for today and the future.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">Montessori educational programmes are offered for children from <a href="http://www.montessori.org.au/montessori/infancy.htm" style="text-decoration: none;">birth to three</a>, <a href="http://www.montessori.org.au/montessori/preschool.htm" style="text-decoration: none;">three to six</a>, <a href="http://www.montessori.org.au/montessori/primary.htm" style="text-decoration: none;">six to twelve</a> and <a href="http://www.montessori.org.au/montessori/adolescence.htm" style="text-decoration: none;">twelve to eighteen</a>years of age. Montessori professionals also work to support the needs of children outside the classroom setting, with a particular emphasis on parent education and community outreach programmes.</span></div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nhtTH6VTClk/VUgc6r-ilQI/AAAAAAAACGU/NXgepMpJSz4/s1600/Screen-shot-2014-02-11-at-21.18.13.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><img border="0" height="134" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nhtTH6VTClk/VUgc6r-ilQI/AAAAAAAACGU/NXgepMpJSz4/s200/Screen-shot-2014-02-11-at-21.18.13.png" width="200" /></span></a><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Montessori education is growing steadily in Australia. There are currently around 210 schools and centres nationwide. The majority of Montessori schools are run by community-based, non-profit associations. There are a growing number of privately owned centres as well as programmes within public school settings. Montessori Indigenous learning programmes are also emerging, and Indigenous communities appreciate the fact that their own culture is respected within Montessori classrooms.</span></div>
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<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Tracy" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Jeff Tracy">Jeff Tracy</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Leader of IR</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Ex-astronaut, Air Force colonel,<br />businessman</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil_Tracy" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Virgil Tracy">Virgil Tracy</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><i><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbird_2" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Thunderbird 2">Thunderbird 2</a></i> pilot</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Painter, musician</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><br /></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Tracy" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Alan Tracy">Alan Tracy</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><i><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbird_3" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Thunderbird 3">Thunderbird 3</a></i> astronaut<br /><i>Thunderbird 5</i> Space Monitor</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Motor racing champion</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><br /><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-85" style="font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"></sup></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Tracy" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Gordon Tracy">Gordon Tracy</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><i><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbird_4" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Thunderbird 4">Thunderbird 4</a></i> aquanaut<br /><i>Thunderbird 2</i> co-pilot</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Oceanographer,<br />Olympic diving champion,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Bentley:_EG.2C_95_15-6" style="font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbirds_(TV_series)#cite_note-Bentley:_EG.2C_95-15" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[14]</a></sup><br />ex-WASP Aquanaut</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><br /></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tracy_(Thunderbirds)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="John Tracy (Thunderbirds)">John Tracy</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><i><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbird_5" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Thunderbird 5">Thunderbird 5</a></i> Space Monitor<br /><i>Thunderbird 3</i> astronaut<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-86" style="font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbirds_(TV_series)#cite_note-86" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[Note 5]</a></sup></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Astronomer, writer</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><br /></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brains_(Thunderbirds)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Brains (Thunderbirds)">Brains</a></td><td colspan="2" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Engineer, scientist, inventor</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><br /></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin-Tin_Kyrano" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Tin-Tin Kyrano">Tin-Tin Kyrano</a></td><td colspan="2" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Maintenance technician, laboratory assistant<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Bentley:_EG.2C_95_15-7" style="font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbirds_(TV_series)#cite_note-Bentley:_EG.2C_95-15" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[14]</a></sup></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><br /></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyrano" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Kyrano">Kyrano</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Manservant, cook</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Botanist, scientist</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><br /></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandma_Tracy" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Grandma Tracy">Grandma Tracy</a></td><td colspan="2" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Housekeeper, cook<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Bentley:_EG.2C_95_15-8" style="font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbirds_(TV_series)#cite_note-Bentley:_EG.2C_95-15" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[14]</a></sup></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><br /></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Penelope_Creighton-Ward" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward">Lady Penelope<br />Creighton-Ward</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">IR's London agent</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Aristocrat, socialite</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloysius_Parker" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Aloysius Parker">Aloysius Parker</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Penelope's butler and chauffeur</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Ex-professional safe-cracker<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Bentley:_EG.2C_95_15-9" style="font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbirds_(TV_series)#cite_note-Bentley:_EG.2C_95-15" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[14]</a></sup></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><br /></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>She is candid, honest and tells of her gift and the messages the after life wants us to learn and embrace while we are here. </i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>It is a powerful message in which Louise sums up very well and something that will change the way you move forward in life and understand about our purpose.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>I was delighted she gave us the opportunity to hear these important lessons and the gift is what your want to do with them and how you want to incorporate that into your own life.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7;"> <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><strong>"What I share with you is a divine lighthouse from spirit, a selfless non-judging beacon to guide you all through the troubled waters of life. Take this guidance with love and all truth and allow yourself to also shine".</strong><br />As an evidential medium, it is always my pleasure to serve the spirit world and be the voice of your loved ones. The purpose of mediumship is to provide healing and proof of consciousness that your loved ones survive the process of physical death and continue to live in spirit form.<br /><br />I understand the importance of providing evidence that you have spoken to your loved ones in the spirit world through my readings. I work hard with the spirits to provide this evidence through identification (names, ages, descriptions), events, personal details and above all, a healing message of love.<br /><br />This work would be impossible without the love and support of the helpers here on the earth plane as well as "Team Spirit", my guardians in the spirit world. Both these teams are pillars on each side of this bridge which links the two worlds together. I extend my grace and gratitude to you all as well as the senders and recipients of all spirit messages across this healing pathway.<br /><br /></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">THE ROSIE PROJECT WAS COMPLETE BUT I WAS UNPREPARED FOR THE ROSIE EFFECT.</span></span></div>
<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">GREETINGS. My name is Don Tillman. I am forty-one years old. I have been married to Rosie Jarman, world's most perfect woman, for ten months and ten days.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Marriage added significant complexity to my life. When we relocated to New York City, Rosie brought three maximum-size suitcases. We abandoned the Standardised Meal System and agreed that sex should not be scheduled in advance.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Then Rosie told me we had 'something to celebrate', and I was faced with a challenge even greater than finding a partner.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">I have attempted to follow traditional protocols and have sourced advice from all six of my friends, plus a therapist and the internet.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">The result has been a web of deceit. I am now in danger of prosecution, deportation and professional disgrace. </span><br style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">And of losing Rosie forever</span></span><br />
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We can set up anywhere really; Park, Camp ground, sports field, backyard, front lawn, back deck, verandah, dining room , any space really.</div>
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Pretty Picnic can provide great styling and props for your occasion. We love fresh flowers and earthy elements. We can provide complete table scaping for your event including full silver service 3 course meal table set up and equipment. </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.66em;">It's time to follow your dreams and find real </span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 23.239999771118164px;">fulfilment</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.66em;"> for you and your family.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Kristin Mc Donnell has a joyful spirit and if you are women looking to start a small business and follow your dreams, she is defiantly the person to help you do it with great success.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For those that want it, how to LEVERAGE yourself within your business and develop a passive income, so you can finally have the freedom and opportunities to do the things you really want.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most importantly, I am someone who will guide you through the process (however much hand holding you feel you need), give you proven, tried and tested systems and strategies to implement into your business.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Without change, there will be no results, and without the results your still stuck where you are right now and not where you want to be (on a beach sipping cocktails, right?).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am now living my dream assisting amazing female Entrepreneurs and small business owners create </span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also want to note that I am a big believer in making sure you are not alone on this journey. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Starting your own business can be challenging, scary and also isolating. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Meet Kristin at her next Work Shop in Sydney on July 23rd 2015</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b><i>Most 24 year olds concerns revolve around themselves and their immediate needs which seem to be of the upmost of importance, Their is nothing wrong with this my entire 20s seem to simulate that message. Its confronting and refreshing to meet someone who walks her own path and that path is lead by the needs of those who no longer have those freedoms.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>Jessica Leslie is an incredible 24 year old, of whom is wise beyond her years.</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>Her messages are simple and leave you with more questions for yourself to answer then you could ever expect.</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>It is her love of God which has sent her on journey and with a strong family behind her, </b></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>Once a fortnight you will find Jessica heading to the City to hand out her Blessing Bags to the homeless ensuring these people are taken care of with life's basic essentials. She speaks of the importance of looking people in the eye and addressing everyone directly reinforcing that each of us holds so much worth.</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>It was a blessing to meet her and my gift is her story.</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;">I can't take credit for the name, it was given to me by fellow peers at university. In a class with 4 Jessica's, you have to get creative. Jeslie is a delicious mix of a big heart for the people, a warm smile and a keen eye for innovation and world changing design.</span></div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CqZoAP5WiDs/VNf5AFAuDPI/AAAAAAAAB0o/pqi5OzI70aY/s1600/526615_e986090fc0de40dbae2b4b1f3d31023e.jpg_srz_374_578_75_22_0.50_1.20_0.00_jpg_srz.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CqZoAP5WiDs/VNf5AFAuDPI/AAAAAAAAB0o/pqi5OzI70aY/s1600/526615_e986090fc0de40dbae2b4b1f3d31023e.jpg_srz_374_578_75_22_0.50_1.20_0.00_jpg_srz.jpeg" height="320" width="207" /></a><span style="color: #351c75;">So, who is the face behind the name? That would be me, Jessica. I am 2 years an Interior Designer, and 23 years a humanitarian. In 2012 I graduated with a Bachelor Degree of Design in Interior Design (Hons) from the University of Technology, Sydney. From there I worked at Chen Lu Studios as a Visual Merchandiser for French Fashion House Hermès, for 4 fashion seasons. I moved from there to work as an Interior Designer for distinctive Living Design, specialising in both commercial and residential projects, and still work there practicing design.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">I balance my creative passion with my humanitarian passion. I began my humanitarian endeavours in 2014 volunteering at a soup kitchen. From there I realised my passion for it and have began to also make this my career. I am starting small and am excited to continue to grow. As Mother Teresa says "If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one". I am starting off with the one and hoping to feed the hundreds.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">"Love looks like something" - Heidi Baker. To a homeless person, love looks like a blessing bag.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">The bags themselves are backpacks, therefore re-usable by the recipients. Inside the bags are all the items we consider to be the bare essentials. This can include: bottled water, museli bars, chewing gum, toothpaste / toothbrush, deodarant, hand sanitiser, body lotion, lip balm, cleansing wipes, thermal socks, gloves and a beanie. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Blessing Bags are for the homeless and for those struggling to make ends meet. They are given with a smile and a listening ear, while some enjoy the conversation, others humbly take the bags and continue on their journey. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">We make the bags and deliver them once a fortnight. Our map at HQ shows us where we have been, how many bags were dropped off, and the estimated homeless population of that area. We find ourselves most busy in Sydney CBD and Parramatta CBD. If you happen to see us out on an early Saturday or Sunday evening, come by and help out.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">After conversing with the homeless and studying homeless demographic maps in the Sydney area, we learnt a few things </span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Homeless people are those who have been laid off their jobs multiple times, who had dysfunctional family lives, who had rough childhoods and are unable to find work because they might be illiterate. And because of their previous circumstances, they had no family, no friends to turn to. So instead they turned to the streets.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">As F. Scott Fitzgerald puts it, "Whenever you feel like criticising anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">"The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it" - Mother Teresa. Because what can be more satisying than knowing you just helped a young family get through the week by passing them some bread?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Soup Kitchen is a community event. It takes a whole lot of volunteers who are passionate about it to make for a successful night. The Soup Kitchen we are associated with runs the following stations for the visitors: tea, coffee & snacks, delivery of visitors food bags containing their selected items picked up from FoodBank during the week, dinner and products to pick up for free which can include: bread, dairy, fruit & veg and cereal.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Soup Kitchen is made up of two sets of people</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Volunteers. Every Friday night volunteering 2 - 3 hours of their time to help out.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Visitors. The visitors vary between young struggling families, homeless, mentally and physically disabled and the retired. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">What we get out of it. Our main reason for going there is to give, yet in giving we receive. Every Friday we are pushed or challenged in a new way and each time we learn something about our own capabilities. It keeps us growing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">The effect that our actions have. This is one to carry into our day to day life too. We never fully know the extent of a smile, a friendly conversation or giving someone bread actually has, simply because we have not been in their situation. We figure their situations haven't been great, so by our actions we want to give them a ray of light.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">"It's not complicated. Just love the one infront of you" - Heidi Baker. The one and every one. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">'Ich and Du' is German and literally translates to 'Me and You', said to be a strong phrase for a close connection between two people. A connection that we are trying to maintain not just with close friends, but with people that come into our daily lives. We are trying to elimate the 'its' and turn them into 'you'.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">You know the tele-marketers that will call you right on dinner time? Or the lady walking too slow down the street or the trainee employee that accidentally gets your order wrong? Those people, which usually we refer to as 'its' are the people that this is for. We want to make the 'its' people too, because in actual fact, they are.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">This is a new concept to us, recently spoken to us by a very wise man. And it makes sense to us because</span><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit;">We are all people and we are all equal. While you are impatiently waiting for an 'it' to do their job, have a think about what is going on in their lives, we do not know their situation. We should try our best to approach every 'it' with the same love and kindness that we would show our family and friends. In a simple 5 minute transaction, they transform from an 'it' to a 'you'</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #674ea7;">I met Lou Pollard on a Saturday afternoon for our live interview about her work as Doctor Quack and I have to say it left my heart filled with joy and my belly full of laughter, and its contagious. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #674ea7;">She is a very special Mother of three that shares her time dressed to impress as her Alter Ego Doctor Quack.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #674ea7;">I would love you to hear her story and the impact the Humour Foundations Clown Doctors have on children that are in pain and often very sick. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #674ea7;">She is inspiring in every single way and you now have an opportunity to keep their wonderful work going by supporting them with a donation.</span></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;">“Your sense of humor is one of the most powerful tools you have to make certain that your daily mood and emotional state support good health.”</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;">~ Paul E. McGhee, Ph.D.</span><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;">Humor is infectious. The sound of roaring laughter is far more contagious than any cough, sniffle, or sneeze. When laughter is shared, it binds people together and increases happiness and intimacy. Laughter also triggers healthy physical changes in the body. Humor and laughter strengthen your immune system, boost your energy, diminish pain, and protect you from the damaging effects of stress. Best of all, this priceless medicine is fun, free, and easy to use.</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;">Laughter is a powerful antidote to stress, pain, and conflict. Nothing works faster or more dependably to bring your mind and body back into balance than a good laugh. Humor lightens your burdens, inspires hopes, connects you to others, and keeps you grounded, focused, and alert.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;">With so much power to heal and renew, the ability to laugh easily and frequently is a tremendous resource for surmounting problems, enhancing your relationships, and supporting both physical and emotional health.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;">Laughter is good for your health</span></h3>
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<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Laughter relaxes the whole body.</strong> A good, hearty laugh relieves physical tension and stress, leaving your muscles relaxed for up to 45 minutes after.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Laughter boosts the immune system.</strong> Laughter decreases stress hormones and increases immune cells and infection-fighting antibodies, thus improving your resistance to disease.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Laughter triggers the release of endorphins,</strong> the body’s natural feel-good chemicals. Endorphins promote an overall sense of well-being and can even temporarily relieve pain.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Laughter protects the heart.</strong> Laughter improves the function of blood vessels and increases blood flow, which can help protect you against a heart attack and other cardiovascular problems.</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;">Lowers stress hormones</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;">Decreases pain</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;">Relaxes your muscles</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;">Eases anxiety and fear</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;">Relieves stress</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;">Improves mood</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;">Enhances resilience</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;">Attracts others to us</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;">Enhances teamwork</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;">Helps defuse conflict</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;">Promotes group bonding</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;">Laughter makes you feel good. And the good feeling that you get when you laugh remains with you even after the laughter subsides. Humor helps you keep a positive, optimistic outlook through difficult situations, disappointments, and loss.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;">More than just a respite from sadness and pain, laughter gives you the courage and strength to find new sources of meaning and hope. Even in the most difficult of times, a laugh–or even simply a smile–can go a long way toward making you feel better. And laughter really is contagious—just hearing laughter primes your brain and readies you to smile and join in the fun.</span></div>
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<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Laughter dissolves distressing emotions.</strong> You can’t feel anxious, angry, or sad when you’re laughing.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Laughter helps you relax and recharge.</strong> It reduces stress and increases energy, enabling you to stay focused and accomplish more.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Humor shifts perspective</strong>, allowing you to see situations in a more realistic, less threatening light. A humorous perspective creates psychological distance, which can help you avoid feeling overwhelmed.</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;">Humor and playful communication strengthen our relationships by triggering positive feelings and fostering emotional connection. When we laugh with one another, a positive bond is created. This bond acts as a strong buffer against stress, disagreements, and disappointment.</span></div>
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<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;">Watch a funny movie or TV show.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;">Go to a comedy club.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;">Read the funny pages.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;">Seek out funny people.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;">Share a good joke or a funny story.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;">Check out your bookstore’s humor section.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;">Host game night with friends.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;">Play with a pet.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;">Go to a “laughter yoga” class.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;">Goof around with children.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;">Do something silly.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;">Make time for fun activities (e.g. bowling, miniature golfing, karaoke).</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;">Shared laughter is one of the most effective tools for keeping relationships fresh and exciting. All emotional sharing builds strong and lasting relationship bonds, but sharing laughter and play also adds joy, vitality, and resilience. And humor is a powerful and effective way to heal resentments, disagreements, and hurts. Laughter unites people during difficult times.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;">Incorporating more humor and play into your daily interactions can improve the quality of your love relationships— as well as your connections with co-workers, family members, and friends. Using humor and laughter in relationships allows you to:</span></div>
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<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Be more spontaneous.</strong> Humor gets you out of your head and away from your troubles.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Let go of defensiveness.</strong> Laughter helps you forget judgments, criticisms, and doubts.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Release inhibitions.</strong> Your fear of holding back and holding on are set aside.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Express your true feelings.</strong> Deeply felt emotions are allowed to rise to the surface.</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #351c75;">Laughter is your birthright, a natural part of life that is innate and inborn. Infants begin smiling during the first weeks of life and laugh out loud within months of being born. Even if you did not grow up in a household where laughter was a common sound, you can learn to laugh at any stage of life.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;">Begin by setting aside special times to seek out humor and laughter, as you might with working out, and build from there. Eventually, you’ll want to incorporate humor and laughter into the fabric of your life, finding it naturally in everything you do.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;">Here are some ways to start:</span></div>
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<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Smile.</strong> Smiling is the beginning of laughter. Like laughter, it’s contagious. Pioneers in “laugh therapy,” find it’s possible to laugh without even experiencing a funny event. The same holds for smiling. When you look at someone or see something even mildly pleasing, practice smiling.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Count your blessings.</strong> Literally make a list. The simple act of considering the good things in your life will distance you from negative thoughts that are a barrier to humor and laughter. When you’re in a state of sadness, you have further to travel to get to humor and laughter.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When you hear laughter, move toward it.</strong> Sometimes humor and laughter are private, a shared joke among a small group, but usually not. More often, people are very happy to share something funny because it gives them an opportunity to laugh again and feed off the humor you find in it. When you hear laughter, seek it out and ask, “What’s funny?”</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Spend time with fun, playful people.</strong> These are people who laugh easily–both at themselves and at life’s absurdities–and who routinely find the humor in everyday events. Their playful point of view and laughter are contagious.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bring humor into conversations.</strong> Ask people, “What’s the funniest thing that happened to you today? This week? In your life?”</span></li>
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What's in a name?<br /><br />Well, according to an annual survey for the company School Stickers, these particular children's names are synonymous with bad behaviour.<br /><br />School Stickers track children's behaviour and digitally reward well behaved kids, collecting and analysing data based on one million entries.<br /><br />They've released the list from 60 000 kids tracked, and here's what they've come up with:<br /><br /><br /><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Top 10 Worst-Behaved Girl Names:</strong></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"></strong><br />1. Joseph<br />2. Cameron<br />3. William<br />4. Jake<br />5. Joshua<br />6. Jamie<br />7. Lewis<br />8. Benjamin<br />9. Ethan<br />10. Luke<br /><br /><br /><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Top 10 Best-Behaved Girl Names:</strong></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"></strong><br />1. Jacob<br />2. Daniel<br />3. Thomas<br />4. James<br />5. Adam<br />6. Harry<br />7. Samuel<br />8. Jack<br />9. Oliver<br />10. Ryan<br /><br /><br />The Managing Director of School Stickers, Neil Hodges, explained that the list is a bit of fun -<br /><br />"The annual “Santa’s Naughty and Nice list” is just a bit of fun, and obviously there are many Ella’s and Joseph’s that are perfect little angels, just as I’m sure there are many Amy’s and [Jacob’s] that can be a bit of a handful."</div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490293747400574081.post-6604199693230463362014-12-03T21:46:00.003-08:002014-12-03T21:46:33.678-08:00What you need to know about Family Day Care in Australia and It might surprise you!<div style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 99;">
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<li style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 5px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Opportunities to learn through play-based exploration in a small group in a home environment</span></span></span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 5px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Socialising with mixed age groups in family settings</span></span></span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 5px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Opportunities to be an active participant in making decisions and planning for learning experiences</span></span></span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 5px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Participating in activities provided to suit the child’s individual needs - such as singing, story telling, make believe, play, creative experiences and inquiry based projects</span></span></span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 5px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Providing a connection with their local community by way of outings which may include visits to the library, parks and shops</span></span></span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 5px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Opportunities to engage within a larger group of children through regular, supervised play group sessions and visiting other Educator’s environments</span></span></span></li>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 5px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Families working in partnerships with Educators and Coordinators to ensure children’s cultural background, interests and strengths are celebrated, shared and enhanced</span></span></span></li>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>What is family day care?</strong><br /><br />Family Day Care is an approved form of child care that is provided in the family day care educators own home. Family day care educators are early childhood education and care professionals, registered with a family day care service that is responsible for approving, supporting, training and advising its educators.<br /><br /><strong>How is it similar to centre based child care?</strong></span></div>
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<li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Family day care provides early childhood education and care services for children across Australia.</span></li>
<li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Family day care operates under the same National Quality Framework (NQF) as other forms of childcare; incorporating national regulations, quality and qualification standards, educational frameworks and an assessment and ratings process.</span></li>
<li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Parents are eligible to the same Federal Government Child Care Benefit and Child Care Rebate subsidies.</span></li>
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<strong><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How is it different to other forms of child care?</span></strong></div>
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<li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Your child’s education and care is provided by an individual educator who is an approved, early childhood education and care professional, operating within their own home.</span></li>
<li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Educators work with small groups of no more than four children under school age.*</span></li>
<li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Educators work in partnership with a local approved service who provide regular visits to monitor the children’s progress and to provide support.</span></li>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">* An educator may care for 3 additional school age children, outside of school hours. Ratios currently vary between states & territories. This will be standardised nationally on Jan 1, 2014.<br /><br /><strong>What are the benefits of family day care?</strong></span></div>
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<li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The home based setting provides a familiar, safe and secure learning environment.</span></li>
<li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Current research confirms the importance of strong relationships with significant adults to a child’s early learning; family day care’s small group environment facilitates strong bonds and promotes effective early learning and social development. </span></li>
<li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Family day care can offer care during standard hours, evenings, before/after school, during school holidays and in some cases overnight and weekends.</span></li>
<li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Family day care can provide education and care for children from babies to school age; offering the possibility for siblings to be cared for together, all in one location.</span></li>
<li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Family day care provides experiences which reflect the diversity of your community. </span></li>
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<strong><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Did you know that across Australia:</span></strong></div>
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<li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Family day care has operated for over 35 years.</span></li>
<li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over 98,000* families use family day care.</span></li>
<li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over 165,000* children are enrolled in family day care.</span></li>
<li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are over 25,000** family day care educators.</span></li>
<li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are 675* family day care approved services.</span></li>
<li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Family day care is the major provider of regulated, flexible, non standard hours child care.</span></li>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>About family day care educators</strong><br /><br />Family day care educators are approved, early childhood education and care professionals who engage in the principles and practices of the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) and work within the requirements of the National Quality Framework.<br /><br />In order to provide a safe educational environment for your child, there are requirements for all educators to:</span></div>
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<li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hold or be actively working towards a Certificate III level education and care qualification.</span></li>
<li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meet national standards which include maintaining quality learning programs, safe and hygienic learning environments, record keeping and qualifications. </span></li>
<li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maintain current first aid and CPR certificates and training in the emergency management of asthma and anaphylaxis.</span></li>
<li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maintain a clearance for working with children.</span></li>
<li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Participate in regular support and monitoring visits conducted by their coordination unit.</span></li>
<li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Attend training, meetings and workshops periodically to maintain currency of skills and knowledge.</span></li>
<li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maintain current public liability insurance coverage.</span></li>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Enrolling your child in family day care</strong><br /><br />Approved service staff are the initial contact point for advice and information about family day care. They will work with you to match your child care needs with the best care environment for your child taking account of diversity of language, culture and ability to ensure the right fit between children, educators and their respective families.<br /><br />Pending availability, you will usually have the opportunity to meet with a number of educators in selecting the service that best meets your needs.<br /><br />The approved service may also offer relief care if your usual educator is unwell or plans to take leave. </span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Roboto Slab, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;">What a spectacular and festive sight you will see this Christmas in Sydney's Martin Place, </span></span></i><i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Roboto Slab, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;">Through out the day light up with the magic of reflection that dances over the pavement that is created by these giant banners that grace the streets. As the sunsets these festive flags wave a sea of vibrant colours and turn Martin Place into a disco that highlights the colour and beauty of our Cities nightlife thats happening around you.</span></span></i><br />
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Developed through Art & About Sydney, Street Light Disco is a joint initiative between City of Sydney and Office Feuerman, a design office based in Sydney and New York.</div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.68em;">Feuerman has taught in graduate architecture programs at Columbia University and University of Pennsylvania and has coordinated and taught interior design at Pratt Institute. Since 2012, he has been the Course Director for the Bachelor of Design in Architecture Program and Senior Lecturer at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS).</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.68em;">Feuerman received a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University and a Bachelors of Architecture from the California College of the Arts.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The announcement that spawned the headlines actually appeared in the scientific literature on October 27. <a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/10/23/1418895111.abstract" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The paper</a>, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) got little attention then, mostly because the scientists didn’t think to call it a stupidity virus.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What the <a class="exit_trigger_set" href="http://www.forbes.com/colleges/johns-hopkins-university/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Johns Hopkins University</a> scientists found was that in a small sample of 90 people, some 43% harbored a virus called chlorovirus ATCV-1 in their throats. Though we’re all colonized by viruses and bacteria that don’t make us sick, this was of interest for two reasons. First, it was previously known to infect algae, and viruses aren’t thought to jump easily from one kingdom of life to the other. And secondly, they found a very small correlation between infection and performance on a couple of cognitive tests. Infected subjects appeared to be slower at processing visual information.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In another part of the study, the scientists showed that mice deliberately infected with the virus were slower to solve certain puzzles – thus lending some backing to their interpretation that the virus is having some effect on certain mental abilities.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Purdue University virologist David Sanders said he would need to see this replicated before he’d believe the claim. One possible problem is the possibility that samples from the patients might have been contaminated with the algae virus. Contamination wrongly led scientists a few years ago to <a href="http://www.nature.com/news/the-scientist-who-put-the-nail-in-xmrv-s-coffin-1.11444" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">link a virus called XMRV to chronic fatigue syndrome</a>. “That was a total disaster,” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He also raised questions about the peer review behind the paper. The journal, PNAS, allows authors to choose their own reviewers in some cases. “Something is wrong here…I don’t know how the experiments happened,” he said. “This is a whole bunch of random data stitched together with little real basis for making any conclusions.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s provocative, and perhaps worth a follow up study, but unlikely to have implications for human stupidity. What’s fascinating is that if confirmed, the findings hint that some of those seemingly harmless viruses or bacteria that live with us could have a subtle influence on us after all. We’re already getting data suggesting that your intestinal bacteria influence your tendency to store excess fat.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are also hints that a common parasitic infection called toxoplasmosis could change people’s personalities or put them at higher risk of mental illness. The parasite is acquired from contaminated food, water, soil or from scooping the litter used by an infected cat – hence a spate of recent headlines along the lines of “Is your cat making you crazy.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are other infectious agents that can cause mental illness – syphilis and rabies, to name two. But those are pretty obvious diseases. There’s something about stealthy agents influencing us that seems to cause a lot of angst.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But what made this algae virus news go viral was the decision on the part of someone to frame it as a “stupidity virus”. Here’s <a href="http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-11/10/virus-that-makes-humans-more-stupid" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wired</em>,</a> for example:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What’s misleading here is the story never reveals who is being quoted saying “makes us more stupid.” The implication is that it’s the scientists or someone in authority. But there’s no such phrase in the paper or the press release from Johns Hopkins University, nor does the story seem to include an interview.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The source may have been Newsweek with its story, <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/american-researchers-discover-stupidity-virus-283319" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“American Researchers Discover Stupidity Virus.”</a> It says:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is not exactly what the study said. For one thing, as Sanders pointed out, the virus doesn’t attack human DNA and the researchers never make that claim in the paper.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why would the researchers even think to look for an effect on cognitive traits? The paper said that since the cohort being tested was taking part in a cognitive study, the scientists had a bunch of cognitive data available.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because the individuals in the study cohort were also participating in a study of cognitive functioning (15), we examined the association between detection of ATCV-1 DNA and performance on a battery of cognitive tests.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They found statistically significant but very small difference on several of the tests – including measures of visual information processing speed and attention. I couldn’t find the word “stupid” in any form, and the only time I could find the word “intelligence” was when the researchers admitted that infected and uninfected scored the same on a test called the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It may be there was no real hypothesis being tested but that the study is what scientists call a fishing expedition. Those can be useful for generating hypotheses to be tested but any correlations they turn up need to be confirmed.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Studies of this type can lead to spurious correlations through a problem called the <a href="http://articles.philly.com/2012-06-06/news/32056679_1_researchers-esp-study-daryl-bem" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">multiple testing effect or the look elsewhere effect, </a>depending on the field. If scientists are fishing through a large number of possible correlations, they increase their odds of finding some kind of pattern. Think about how unlikely it is to get 7 heads in a row if you flip a coin seven times. Now think about how likely it would be to get seven heads in a row eventually if you tossed the coin 1000 times. If you have a group of people with the infection and without, and you test them on enough things, some differences will inevitably turn up by chance.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That may not be the case here. It’s possible that this common virus is having a deleterious effect. Scientists should follow up this with a bigger study. The fact that some huge portion of the population (at least in Baltimore) carries this virus is surprising. There seems to be little understanding of how one acquires it – or avoids it. Nor does anyone seem to know how long it’s been tagging along with people or how it ever got from algae to people. It’s worth a closer look.</span></div>
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<i>She has all the riches, she is a Mother and adored by her husband, surely she has to stop as some point and realise their is a deeper issue here.</i><br />
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<i>I am happy to post the images of the world getting a giggle out of KK's Paper Shoot as it reminds me I am not alone when I am shaking my head with concern as just how far this women is willing to go to violate herself for more media attention. I sadly think this is her drug of choice.</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;">When so many brands and businesses are competing for consumers’ very fickle attention, a celebrity like Kim Kardashian keeps a captive audience of 18 million social media followers and makes millions.</span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Number one.</strong> Be a friend of the media and the media will be a friend to you. When speaking to reporters, Kardashian goes a step beyond what most other celebrities do. you can tell Kardashian’s had training. She walks the press line slowly, addressing each reporter with patience and courtesy. She looks each interviewer in the eye and shows her individual attention that reporter, and that reporter only until she's finished the interview. Kim also knows how to “smile with her eyes”--a Tyra Banks tip she discussed when she guest judged on<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> America’s Next Top Model</em>.</div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Personal style is a funny thing, isn’t it? For starters, it’s well … personal.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Which means what YOU like to wear may not be the same as what I like to wear. But do you know what?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">That is a very good thing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Imagine if we were all walking around dressed EXACTLY the same. Cookie cutter versions of ourselves greeting us at our local cafe, at work or on the school run.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">BOR-ING.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Celebrate our differences, I say. Show them off. Wear them on our sleeve … or dress, coat, pants or statement necklaces.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">When I left my previous life as a fashion journalist and magazine editor for a regional Australian newspaper, I could not have envisioned just what would unfold.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">My former personal styling business grew from nothing. Actually, that’s not true. It grew from a handful of beautiful business women, friends who knew me and knew that I wasn’t going to make them wear anything that would leave them anything short of confident.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">They let me into their wardrobes <em>(this is such a personal thing)</em> and they let me guide them to make new clothes shopping choices. I’m incredibly grateful they did because what started with a handful of people grew into a client list that reached more than 150 before I stopped offering one-on-one sessions at the beginning of 2012 to concentrate on helping women on a wider scale through this blog.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Those 150-plus women proved to be the best kind of market research that anyone could hope to have access to.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Because I’m here to tell you nothing you don’t already know already … no two women are the same.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">The common denominator among these women – and many more through this blog – is that they were all looking to re-discover their style. They knew it was in there, they just didn’t know how to unlock it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">The other huge thing I’ve discovered is that it’s really difficult to fathom how to unlock your style when you reach a new stage or age when the only fashion cues around you are magazines aimed at <em>(much)</em> younger women on <em>(much)</em> higher budgets.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">I am in my mid-40s and I refuse to wear denim cut-off shorts on the grounds that my legs are so not made for them but I also refuse to be pigeonholed into a style of clothing that others suggest women of a certain age should be pigeonholed into.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #351c75;">Style does not come with a use-by-date.</span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Style is dressing to suit your shape, your personality and your lifestyle.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">It’s about owning your style. And not giving two hoots if someone else doesn’t like it. They don’t have to like it because it’s YOUR style.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Style is about getting up each morning and putting on an outfit that makes YOU smile. Even if it’s just one piece in that outfit that causes even the smallest upturn in the corner of your mouth … because God knows we all have THOSE days.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">The feedback I’ve received over the past six years is that getting to that end point – that point where you exude confidence from knowing you’ve created a wardrobe and beauty routine that works – can seem like a difficult place to reach.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">And that is how Unlock Your Style will help.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">The book <em>(you can read the back story as to how it came about <a href="http://www.stylingyou.com.au/2013/07/styling-you-book-deal/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="The Styling You book deal">here</a>)</em> will take you through a step-by-step process to unlocking your style.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">I start with our mindset. It’s not about dressing for a certain age. It’s not about waiting for the next 5kg. It’s about feeling good right now. Today.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">I share my style stories – perms, scrunchies and taffeta frocks are very much up for discussion.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">And I give you concrete advice and help on how to edit your wardrobe so it works for you, how to shop for clothes that you’ll actually wear and feel fabulous in and how to gain that all-important change-room confidence with every purchase.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">On the beauty front, I dish out my skincare, makeup and hair tips – all with a busy woman in mind. We don’t have time for fuss but we want to feel pretty damn good.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Unlock Your Style is not about bombarding you with so-called style rules. It’s about helping you feel confident in your style choices – because when you feel confidence in those choices you can face whatever that throws at you.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">This is a book for a girlfriend, a sister, your mum – any woman in your life who is looking for a boost.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">18 Excellent Gifts for Kids That Aren't Even Toys</span></h1>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">All of us who have children have too many toys scattered throughout the house. No matter how diligent we are about keeping them at bay, it seems to be a constant fight. It's especially hard when special days come and we want to give gifts to our children, or grandparents want to give gifts.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Gifts are good things!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">But, too much of anything isn't good.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">A great way to combat having too many toys is to shift all the gifts to non-toy items.</span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #351c75;">18 Non-Toy Gifts for Children</span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Classes. </strong>Music, dance, riding, drawing -- classes are a great way to encourage children in their interests and let them know that you pay attention to them and what they enjoy.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Memberships. </strong>Zoo, science museum, children's museum, YMCA membership, etc. These are particularly great for family gifts! Many young families want to enjoy day outings, but affording them can be a challenge, so give them the gift of a yearly membership.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Subscriptions. </strong>Kids enjoy getting things in the mail. Why not encourage their reading by getting them a magazine subscription for something they are interested in!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. Events. </strong>Movie tickets, or tickets to a play, concert or sports event are really exciting! Having an event to look forward to makes the rest of life more enjoyable.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. Activities. </strong>Mini golf, bowling, skating rink. These are so much fun! And a big part of the fun is going together. Children love spending time with the adults in their lives; they want to see you enjoying your time as well as enjoying them.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">6. Recipe and Ingredients.</strong> Kids love cooking with their parents. Baking something special or cooking dinner is an ideal time to spend together and learn life skills. Print out a recipe, purchase all the ingredients and set a date for cooking together.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">7. Crafting Date. </strong>Our daughter loves making crafts. I do, too; I really do enjoy the creative aspect. But I rarely take time out to do it with her. These crafting dates mean the world to our creative little girl. Keep a basket of craft supplies and get out a book for inspiration. We like <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sneaky Art: Crafty Surprises to Hide in Plain Sight,</em> by Marthe Jocelyn.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">8. Arts and Crafts supplies.</strong> If your craft box is running low, stock up a little on things you need. Add in something fun the kids haven't used before. A gift of arts and crafts supplies often brings on the imagination, and kids can't wait to get to work!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">9. Coupons. </strong>An envelope of coupons that they can "spend" at any time: I'll do one chore -- no questions asked; movie and popcorn night, you pick the movie!; 1:1 game of cards or basketball (whatever the child's interest is in); sit and read a book with me; stay up 1/2 hour past bedtime.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">10. Restaurant Gift Card.</strong> Dinner, ice cream, coffee, cupcake -- whatever suits their fancy! Give them the freedom of inviting whomever they wish: it may be mom or dad; it may be a grandparent, aunt or even teacher they would like to spend more time with.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">11. Dress-Up Clothes.</strong> These do need to be limited, but two dresses and a couple play silks can get hours and hours of play!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">12. Books.</strong> We get a lot of books from the library, but there are some that I just can't find there, or it takes us longer to read through. We have read through the entire<em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Little House</em> series, <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Narnia</em>, and are working our way through Shel Silverstein's books. Be sure to pass the books on when you are done, so they don't clutter up your home.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">13. Clothes. </strong>When kids only have a certain amount of clothes, they often enjoy getting clothes. Make it a point to get something that fits their style. That may mean Western clothes, superhero, fancy dresses, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">14. Snacks. </strong>If your child is a foodie, they will love this! Some homemade granola or cookies made just for them is a special treat!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">15. Outdoor Supplies. </strong>If you are an outdoorsy family, giving kids their own fishing tackle or gardening equipment can be a big deal. It's also something that gets left on the shelf in the garage, so you always know right where to find it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">16. Telling Time. </strong>Many children these days don't know how to read analog, or find it takes too long to think about it, so they search for a digital watch. Getting them a cool watch makes them want to be able to tell time on it. Boys, girls, and even teenagers can be excited about this.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">17. Games and Puzzles.</strong> Games and puzzles are great activities for when kids have to be indoors. It's a good practice to have individual quiet times during the day, and having a puzzle to sit and work on by themselves helps brain development and problem solving skills. Games teach a lot, too! My kids talk about how they passed geography, just because we played Risk when they were little. Monopoly and Payday have been popular and help cement math skills. Memory games are great for younger children.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">18. Calendar. </strong>Many children like to know what is going on, what day it is, how many days until ____. These kids are the ones who want to know what the plan is for the day, the order in which things will happen, what time friends are expected over, etc. They struggle with spur-of-the-moment and can be frustrating if you are a spontaneous parent. But celebrate it! These children have many strengths, and make our world run more smoothly. :-) Embrace their inner schedule and get them their own calendar. They can write down their own classes, appointments, playdates, etc. And if they ask you, send them to their calendar so they can get used to being in control of their own schedule. You can even schedule "spontaneous days," so they know that something different will happen that day. Trust me, it will help them enjoy the spontaneous outings!</span></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #351c75;">Rachel Jones is a blogger and mother of six. She runs and writes for<a href="http://nourishingminimalism.com/2014/07/18-non-toy-gifts-for-children.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">nourishingminimalism.com</a>, where this piece first appeared.</span></em></div>
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<span style="color: #777777;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HrwiW-_m3Fw/VFv4PWSSpbI/AAAAAAAABr8/Pi2dX4COna8/s1600/Jenni-left-Louise-right-from-Paging-Fun-Mums.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HrwiW-_m3Fw/VFv4PWSSpbI/AAAAAAAABr8/Pi2dX4COna8/s1600/Jenni-left-Louise-right-from-Paging-Fun-Mums.jpg" height="200" width="200" /></a> </span><span style="color: #0b5394;">Louise & Jenni, best friends who live two streets away who met in antenatal class seven years ago. Both have two kids (boy and girl each – baby lotto!) and just love all things crafty! THEY love to have fun with the kids and inject the trials and tribulations that is often motherhood with some FUN!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Their aim for our kids to look back on their childhood and think “man we had fun!” So channel your inner crafter, photographer, cook, artist, decorator and designer and join us on the journey to being the funnest Mummy you can be!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">We love our <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="ext-link" data-wpel-target="_blank" href="http://wp.me/p3Voxt-2Ft" rel="external nofollow" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s linear; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s linear; vertical-align: baseline;" title="No Cook Playdough Recipe">No Cook Playdough Recipe</a> </strong>and make it all the time, so we used that recipe and added blue food colouring and sparkly glitter to create a ‘Frozen’ like playdough that I bet Elsa & Anna would love to play with!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">To make your own you will need:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Mix flour, salt, cream of tartar and oil into a large mixing bowl.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Add 5 – 10 drops of the blue food colouring to 1 cup of boiling water</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Add the boiling water and mix well. *Please take care when using boiling water around children.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Add as much glitter as you like! We used LOADS! (probably about 50 grams)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Stir well until the mixture is well combined</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Roll it out on a flat surface and you are ready for some Frozen playdough FUN!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So you’ve landed here because a) you want to look after your skin for the future or b) you want to look younger <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">now, right NOW DAMMIT</em>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you’re in the latter camp then fair enough. We live in the age of instant gratification and it’s much easier to live your life without the unsexy limitations of liberal sunscreen application and not drinking your body weight in vodka.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whether you want to age gracefully or the smallest hint of crow’s feet has you researching Botox treatments, the pressure to look ‘good for our age’ is greater than ever. Blame <a href="http://www.mamamia.com.au/entertainment/kristian-alfonso-plastic-surgery/" sl-processed="1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="FLUFF: See the 50-year-old actress who refuses to get plastic surgery.">50-year-old celebrities who deny having plastic surgery</a> and put it all down to a strict yoga routine and kale.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s inevitable that as we age our skin will lose elastin and collagen and wrinkles will begin to form, but there are many non-invasive things you can do to prevent your skin from looking like Cameron Diaz’s neighbour, Magda, in <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">There’s Something About Mary</em>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know what you’re thinking, <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Nic, hyaluronic acid sounds scary, why on earth would I want to put that on my face?</em> Sure, anyone telling you to put acid on your face doesn’t sound legit, but hear me out.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hyaluronic acid (HA) is found naturally in your body, it’s the gel-like stuff that stops your joints and bones rubbing against each other and more importantly, it hydrates your skin and hair. It gained momentum when a reporter discovered HA was the reason that 90-year-old’s in a remote Japanese village had wrinkle-free skin, luscious hair and the flexibility of Jane Fonda in the 80s. It was found that soya and tofu from their diet sent signals to their cells to make more hyaluronic acid. Suddenly thinking about eating more tofu? Maybe bathing in it? Me too, and this brings me to my next point.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ask any makeup artist or skin esthetician (and I have) about how to get a flawless complexion, and they’ll say it’s all down to <a href="http://www.mamamia.com.au/wellbeing/healthy-eating-rules-break/" sl-processed="1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="The healthy eating rules you’re allowed to break.">eating well and a regular skincare routine</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know, to us instant gratifiers it’s not the news we want to hear. But until Science invents a pill that can give us glowing, perfect skin, it’s down to us – and what we put in our mouths. The best fruits and vegetables that contain skin-boosting goodness (Vitamin A, C and E) are: nuts, seeds, oranges, papayas, mangoes, eggs, spinach, sweet potatoes, capsicum, broccoli, peaches and spinach.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You know it, I know it: wearing sunscreen is not only beneficial for preventing skin cancer; it also helps to stop premature ageing. Those pesky UVA and UVB rays can even get you though car windows. The best way to avoid wrinkles and age spots is to apply a high SPF factor sunscreen, and reapply it through the day if you are going to be in the sun a lot. No exceptions. ‘Kay?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ok, pop quiz time: <a href="http://www.mamamia.com.au/social/turning-thirty/" sl-processed="1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="10 brutal but beautiful truths about turning 30.">does dry skin cause wrinkles?</a> If you answered yes, then sorry but no dice. Dry skin exacerbates wrinkles because it makes them more visible, but it’s not the cause itself. Environmental factors such as the sun, smoking, inadequate diet, and not getting enough sleep or properly cleansing the skin are all responsible for wrinkles and fine lines forming on the skin.</span><img alt="drink water 2 5 ways to look younger. (No yoga or kale required)." class="alignleft wp-image-352287" height="304" src="http://cdn.mamamia.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/drink-water-2.jpg" style="border-style: none; float: left; margin: 0px 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;" title="5 ways to look younger. (No yoga or kale required)." width="342" /></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Proper washing and exfoliating will help reduce the appearance of wrinkles and fine lines. I repeat: proper washing and exfoliating will help reduce the appearance of wrinkles and fine lines.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>Meet Nicky Champ, Style and Beauty Editor at Mama Mia, </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is nothing like parenting to transform you into a <a href="http://www.mamamia.com.au/parenting/dinner-hacks-for-mums/" sl-processed="1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="7 mummy hacks that will change the way you cook dinner.">super-efficient person.</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By 8am you’ve usually done a load of washing, made two or three different breakfasts, wiped bottoms, been responsible for getting two or three people dressed, picked up everyone’s breakfast remnants off the floor, wiped up tears, removed excruciating Lego from your foot, battled over not watching another episode of Peppa Pig for the umpteenth time and attempted to make it out the house with everyone’s <a href="http://www.mamamia.com.au/entertainment/movies-that-make-you-cry/" sl-processed="1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="We pinpoint the exact moment you started crying in each of these movies.">emotional states intact. </a>This last one rarely ever happens.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So while you’re 200 times more efficient as a parent, there are some things you can only ever do while your kids are being looked after.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I never realised how much I loved shopping until I had kids. Actually, that’s a lie. I never knew how much I liked doing it on my own until I had kids. I remember trying to navigate into a clothing store with my four-month-old baby in her huge pram. The music was too loud, she started crying, the shop assistant was judging me, and I took out a rack of clothing trying to back my way out of the shop. It was one of those clear moments where I stepped outside my body to see my old life vanishing before my eyes.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That definitely wasn’t the last time I attempted <a href="http://www.mamamia.com.au/parenting/shopping-centre-banning-kids/" sl-processed="1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="BLOG: Shopping centre ‘bans’ screaming kids. Give me a break!">shopping with my daughter,</a> but now the stakes are much higher. As a three-year-old, she’s too old to be in a pram (or refuses to be anyway), has a habit of opening the changing room curtains when I’m half naked and likes to go AWOL when she’s hit her boredom levels, which is usually after about five minutes. <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">(Mums, if this scenario sounds horrifyingly familiar to you, make sure you check out the video at the end of this post – guaranteed to make you chuckle.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I’m going to confess that I’ve never been big on exercise. I prefer to read a book than hit the pavement running, but never have I missed exercise as much as I do now. My childfree friends make plans to take advantage of unlimited yoga passes and schedule in soft sand running to get fit for summer. My attempted exercise mostly involves incidental walking, which is usually halted every minute to smell a flower or play with a rusty gate or argue about why it’s not such a good idea to run onto the road.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To squeeze in a regular exercise plan I’d have to get up at 5am while everyone’s still in bed, and<a href="http://www.mamamia.com.au/wellbeing/how-to-get-out-of-exercising/" sl-processed="1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="The most common excuses for not exercising. Sound familiar?"> I can count on one hand how many times that’s actually happened. </a>When I get some time to myself, one of my favourite things to do is try a new exercise class or bliss out at an extended 90-minute yoga session. Heaven.</span></div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">5. See a movie / not exist in a pop culture black hole.</span></strong></h3>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am in a pop culture black hole. The last movie I saw at the cinema was The Descendants and that was at one of those mums and bubs sessions. I had to feed and change my baby during the course of the film so I can’t even tell you how it ended or what it’s even about.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What I can tell you is the name of every single character on Peppa Pig, recite the words to several Dr Seuss books with my eyes closed and bore you with endless details about my firstborn’s toileting habits.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">See? This is why<a href="http://www.mamamia.com.au/parenting/sat-10-things-one-told-daughter/" sl-processed="1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="10 things no one ever told me about having a daughter."> I need to get out more.</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The next time I can arrange a babysitter I plan to see Gone Girl before it hits DVD. Wish me luck.</span></div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What would you do if you had a whole day child-free?</span></em></strong></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 0px 2px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you are a new mum then breastfeeding can help some mums to lose weight. It burns more calories and can help your tummy size reduce. But be warned, for every mum who has found that breastfeeding has helped weight loss there is another mum who saw themselves gain weight due to increased appetite</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 0px 2px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do not get sucked in by fad diets that promise to see you lose 5kg a week. These fad diets are unhealthy, cut out vital food groups that you need for energy and see you lose fluid and muscle which is why the weight comes back on very soon after losing it. You can see <a href="http://www.losebabyweight.com.au/choose-healthy-eating-over-a-diet/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #ee0d9d; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">here about why fad diets are so bad for us</b> </a>and why you should eat healthily instead</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 0px 2px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Don’t put pressure on yourself. Being a mum is hard work – emotionally and physically and if you have put pressure on yourself to lose a lot of weight in a short space of time and you don’t lose what you want each week, it can really get you down and make you feel depressed. Instead, only think about losing weight when you feel physically and emotionally ready and strong and then aim for a healthy 500g – 1kg a week.</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 0px 2px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">See it is as a long term change to a healthy lifestyle. And even though you may want to lose a big chunk of weight in a few weeks, this is not sustainable and it will be hard to be on a restrictive diet when you have so much going on in your life and need energy. Instead, see it as a long term goal. And if you lose 500g a week over, 20 weeks that is 10kg – which is a big number and by doing it in a sensible and healthy way you won’t find it hard to lose either</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 0px 2px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Try our <a href="http://www.losebabyweight.com.au/shop" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #ee0d9d; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Healthy Mummy Smoothies</b> </a>- they are the perfect solution to the busy mums breakfast and/or lunch and take 2 minutes to make whilst giving your body everything it needs from a protein, fibre, vitamins and minerals and will keep you full and satisfied until snack time – plus are breastfeeding friendly. You can read more about the smoothies and <a href="http://www.losebabyweight.com.au/why-the-healthy-mummy-smoothie-is-different/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #ee0d9d; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">what makes them different here</strong></a>. And you can see the <a href="http://www.losebabyweight.com.au/nutritionist-backing-support/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #ee0d9d; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">independent nutritionists reviews on the smoothies here.</b></a></span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 0px 2px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Start trying new foods and introducing healthy meals to your family – we have heaps of <a href="http://www.losebabyweight.com.au/recipes" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #ee0d9d; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">easy recipes on our site</b></a> to help and inspire you</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 0px 2px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you are looking for a more structured plan to follow then try our <a href="http://www.losebabyweight.com.au/28-day-diet-exercise-plan-ebook-preview/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #ee0d9d; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">28 Day Diet & Exercise Plan</b></a> (which is breastfeeding friendly but is also suitable for all mums whether you are breastfeeding or not) – you can <a href="http://www.losebabyweight.com.au/28-day-diet-exercise-plan-ebook-preview/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #ee0d9d; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">preview the 28 day plan here</b></a></span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 0px 2px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aim for easy and gentle exercise – such as a daily walk</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 0px 2px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Try our Exercise DVD – it is broken down into 10 and 15 minute workouts and is safe for post baby mums to do too and you will burn approximately 450 – 550 calories an hour and <a href="http://www.losebabyweight.com.au/healthy-mummy-post-pregnancy-exercise-dvd-preview/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #ee0d9d; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">you can preview it here</strong></a></span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 0px 2px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Make our protein cookies and snacks so you have your own home made protein bars – without all the gunky ingredients found in most protein bars. You can see lots of yummy <a href="http://www.losebabyweight.com.au/category/protein-cookies/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #ee0d9d; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">protein cookies and bar recipes here</strong> </a>- which many mums have found have helped milk supply too</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 0px 2px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If it is your tummy area you really want to focus on then <a href="http://www.losebabyweight.com.au/how-to-lose-stomach-fat-2/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #ee0d9d; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">see all you need to know on what to do here</b></a></span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 0px 2px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Always have pre prepared and <a href="http://www.losebabyweight.com.au/category/snacking-suggestions/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #ee0d9d; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">healthy and protein based snacks</strong></a> in the fridge so you have metabolism boosting and healthy snacks to eat so you don’t end up eating wrong foods. You can see some of our favourite snacks <a href="http://www.losebabyweight.com.au/category/snacking-suggestions/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #ee0d9d; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">here</strong></a></span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 0px 2px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cut out processed food and things like white bread,rice and pasta and have wholegrain and wholemeal versions instead which are high in fibre and vitamins</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 0px 2px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Increase your fibre and lean protein – both key in keeping you full and fibre aids digestion and protein helps to build lean muscle</span></li>
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