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The opposite is true. When the fitness-minded get single-minded about their workouts, things can get pretty grim in the gym. People can lose all consideration for—or even awareness of— those around them. Maybe it’s all those mirrors. However, the very fact that gym activities are so “me” based makes courtesy an absolute necessity to minimize distractions and to promote safety. It’s a place where bad manners can cause physical injury to you or to others....

Walk around with $100 in your pocket sometime, and try to account for where you spent it when it’s gone. Chances are you’ll be amazed at how fast the money disappeared, and not all that sure about how you actually spent it. If you’re trying to control or cut back on daily expenses, however, it’s imperative you know exactly where your money is going. The topic of budgets is covered in Do You Need a Budget?...

Posting a list of acceptable and unacceptable behavior goes a long way toward establishing a peaceful home. It helps parents be consistent in discipline and helps children know exactly what is expected of them. Materials Markers Poster board Directions

The goal of science study Children’s interest in science often seems to decline in grade 4 and after. I suspect that this happens because science study is too often textbook-driven, passive, formal, and narrow in its scope. But the major goal of science study in these grades should be to keep children interested in science and cause them to believe that they can be successful science students. Not an easy task – but one that is critically important....

Now set up a system for filing the “papers”—all those letters, photocopies of censuses, documents, biographies, and so on that you have been systematically gathering. Consider creating files by various categories: Family name State County Subject Correspondence If you do not have enough papers in the file to create subfiles (shown in the following figure), then don’t. Generate new files only as the need arises. When you start your search, set up family files for each of the surnames you are tracing....

5 to 10 minutes Materials Masking tape3 small empty milk cartons2 kinds of colored contact paper Bell Directions Extensions Encourage your baby to shake each carton to find the sound.Take away the carton with the bell in it and give your baby only the empty ones. See how long play continues before your baby seeks the noisy one.Ask your baby to give you the one with the bell and keep asking if the wrong one is offered....

Annual Fees Intense competition among card companies has forced most of them to lower, or even drop, their annual fees. A research company in Maryland reports that more than half of all credit cards are available without an annual fee or that the fee will be waived if you ask. If you are paying an annual fee, it shouldn’t be more than about $20, unless, for some reason, you happen to have a gold card....

Observe for signs of shock, a concussion, or a skull fracture. Position the victim so he or she is immobile, in order to prevent further damage to both the brain and the spinal cord. Treat scalp cuts and wounds for bleeding to avoid infection. If you’re in a situation where you need to provide help to a person who has experienced a severe head injury, take care to lend the following first aid: If the person you’re helping has been knocked unconscious by the head injury, do not be surprised if she is in a highly agitated state when she becomes conscious....

Flashlight Directions

The Foley catheter is a device normally used to empty the bladder. But in this use, the balloon portion of it is inserted into the uterus and inflated, which puts pressure on the cervix to promote dilation and contractions. How It Works This induction method begins by your practitioner inserting the Foley balloon, sometimes using a speculum, into the uterus via your vagina. The balloon is placed between your amniotic sac and lower uterine segment (bottom of the uterus) on the other side of your cervix....

As you learned in Calcium and Healthy Bones, calcium is responsible for strong bones and teeth and for the proper functioning of blood vessels, nerves, and muscles, as well as maintaining healthy connective tissue. During pregnancy, calcium is especially critical because you have to worry about your own bones and your growing baby’s bones, tissues, and teeth as well. In fact, your baby counts on your calcium for normal development....

4 eggs ½ cup melted butter ½ cup rice flour ¾ cup sugar Pinch of salt 2 tablespoons water Baking tray, mixer, or hand beater

Stealthy Scavenger Hunt Make a scavenger hunt or treasure hunt a little more challenging by keeping hunters in the dark! Send them out with a list of items to find (be sure to define boundaries so they don’t stray too far away), or set up a trail of clues for them to follow—by flashlight. Flashlight Tag The classic! Mix hide and seek, tag, and the cover of darkness and you get this crowd-pleasing night game....

The Compiled Military Service Record Fires destroyed most of the records of the American Army and Navy in the custody of the War Department in 1800 and 1814. In a project begun in 1894, abstracts were made from documents purchased by the War Department from a variety of sources. Individual packets were created for each soldier, and the abstracted records inserted. Muster rolls, pay rolls, rank rolls, returns, hospital records, prison records, and others were examined....