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I have always speak about SUCCESS as making it to smile before retiring to bed at night. I believe that the secret to a successful future is to own our every decisions, given that we are fully convinced on what is best for ourselves.  There is no room for regrets in my philosophy. I have always owned my time as it is mine to enjoy or waste.  The same is true when it comes to decision making, whether is it decided in haste or with full consent and willingness, it should be owned as wherever it leads us, we have a lesson to get and a weapon to bring once we face the future.  

We will agree that future is nothing but the result of what we do in the present.  Taking the past out of the context as it has past already, we all just have the present moment- a series of present moments. The idea of the present is even hard to explain as we say finish saying “present”, it has already past and we are already in the “future” which is better termed as present.

Many preschoolers have a love affair with science. They may adore dinosaurs and to spend long hours on their favorite dinosaur book. Love Bugs, and they can spend whole afternoons looking for bugs under rocks in the yard. It 's always good to spark or encourage a budding interest in your child's preschool, and doing some simple experiments together is a great way to create and maintain the idea that science is fun and not boring. Here are some simple science experiments for preschool go started.Color celery or flowers - A classic experiment in preschool is to dye stalks of celery. Simply fill a glass with water and add food coloring. Let the child experiment with how much to add. Next, take a stalk of celery with leaves, cut ½ inch off the bottom and stick it in water. In a couple of days you should start to see some color on the leaves, and if you slice the celery stalk in half you can see bands of color running up the stem, which shows that celery has been drinking the water. If you want to change the experiment a bit ', take a bunch of white carnations at the store and let your child color them. Make a rainbow in a jar - Fill a large glass jar with water and let sit out the current calm. You should set up a couple of hours before the experiment so your child does not have to wait too long. Next, add a few drops of food coloring to the jar from a height of 1-2 inches above the water. Use primary colors (red, yellow and blue) to the best effect. Now just watch and enjoy the results as the colors spread and merge. It is advisable to repeat the experiment using small individual pots so that the preschooler can practice color mixing.Make salt dough clay - Kind of a science in preschool and experience the art in one.Stir together: 2 cups white flour, 1 cup salt, 1 cup cold water and 2 tablespoons of cooking oil. Let your child knead until it forms a soft ball, then shape it in different forms by hand or with a cookie cutter. If desired, this clay can be baked in an oven at 300 degrees until hard (maybe an hour or so), then painted after it cooledSprout seeds in a jar - Another classic experiment used to make at most 'asylum. First choose some dried beans such as pinto beans and soak overnight. Line a large glass jar with paper towels. Place the beans between paper towels and glass (so you can see it) and pour a little 'water on the bottom of the vessel. Place the pot in a sunny spot and have your child add water every day and see what happens. If your child enjoys this experiment could be extended by putting a jar in the dark and one in the sunlight and see what happens. Or, try using different types of seeds in the experiment to see what will sprout and not.Play has some bugs - Many preschoolers Love Bugs and easy way to encourage their interest is to bring home some bugs for some days as a science experiment in progress. My daughter was holding a container of millipedes on the porch for a few months last summer. Millipedes are an easy choice for a first pet bug. You can find them huddled under rotting logs or under your back porch. Just add to a container with a couple of inches of soil and some rotten leaves. Every few days give them an apple core or scrap of other fruits to eat and mist with water to keep the soil moist. Millipedes millipedes have your child (older child and millipedes) and continue until you want. For other ideas, bug-like pets, Seymour Simon's book "Animals in a Jar" is a great resource.

Do you have friends? Most people say they do and probably done the most to do, but when was the last time you thought that the friends you had or even what the word means anymore? Probably quite a while. This post make you think about it. I think of friends for some time. Especially since my move to Tennessee. Since I like to write words mean something to me. When I was raising my children I taught them to use words correctly. Oh, not always say something like really bad instead of really bad. This is an Americanism. However, I have been riding on using the right word at the right place and for good reason. The word friend is one of those words. This word has become so diluted that I firmly believe he has lost much of its meaning for us today. We have friends on Facebook, we have lists of friends on our cell phones, we BFF and everything else. The word does not mean anything anymore and that's unfortunate. I think this is one of the few things left in the world should have real value and we went and depreciated. So what is a friend? For me a friend is someone who is with you through thick and thin. good and bad times, sometimes fat and lean. If you've already seen the movie Tombstone those are friends. Now I'm not saying that a friend should be prepared to sacrifice their life for you. This goes far beyond friendship. A parent would for their child or spouse to the other and it's beyond friendship. But a friend should be there if you ask them something that can be embarrassing or that might put them out. A real friend would not ask unless it was important and a true friend to answer such a request would not refuse if in their power. It has nothing to do with the violation of the law or borrowing large sums of money or being unethical. A real friend would never ask another to do all these things. But asking for help in job searches, requesting a reference, asking feelers or asking help build a website when you know your friend has the skills, a good friend to come. I think, at least in this economy, many of you can relate to what I say. Now the friends must be honest with one another. If someone asks a friend for a recommendation for employment and the demand is not the qualified person, instead of saying it will be done and is not a true friend would simply tell the truth. A friend is always honest. Sometimes even your friends can hurt you and still be your friends. That's why I say the word friend was diluted. We all have knowledge. We all know people. We call them our friends. They really are not. They are just people we know. Some of them we like to be around from time to time. Some help us when they are moving or painting a room or picnic and need a hand moving things organized. They are good people, nice people, helpful, but they are not really friends. Friends, in my opinion you can rely on through most anything. I am honest in saying I do not have many friends. I'm not to arouse pity or sympathy, but as an honest statement. A statement I expect to challenge my children when they were growing up on if they said they had many friends. I say I do not have many friends because I want friends like a treasure, something precious. Few people get to be my friends. So today, if you followed my challenges from time to time, take it. List of your friends. Hopefully, if you are married, your spouse will head the list. The spouse must absolutely be a friend. If not then you need to reconsider the relationship. But what other friends do you have? How much can you really, really count when the chips are down and you ask for help? Take inventory of your friends. They are a treasure that you probably do not realize you had. If the number is very low do not worry. It's probably right. If the number is big, then you are either blessed or you hold your friendship too cheap. Only you can decide. Once you have your list letting them know they're your friends. They are a treasure and they should know that you keep them in this esteem. That's what friends do to each other. That's what makes them unique. That's what friends.