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What’s Wrong with Playing with Toys nowadays ?

I hate technology and I love it. I am caught in a trench where I worked for an IT company and yet I dislike what the future IT can do to the society. The future concepts of the world in 10, 20 and even 50 years time will be beyond what you can imagine.  I […]

You Don’T Trust Me

If there is magic bullet that children especially teenagers, use on their folks, a perfect phrase that melts the toughest reslove of a parent within seconds, it is these four words, You don’t Trust Me.
The instant a young person accuses us of being suspicious, of imaging the worst about him, we start back-pedaling.
“No dear, it’s not […]

Blogging on you and your family. Is this Good or Bad ?

Once during a media interview on my company’s new product, I mentioned that I allowed my child an hour on computer and even have a blog dedicated to her. The media editor immediately commented, “I do not think it is a good idea. There are just too many “Bad”guys lurking around the cyberspace. Some of […]

Debt is Salvery

The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. ~ Proverbs 22:7
Let’s look at a couple of words more closely.
Rule comes from the Hebrew word mashal - maw-shal’ - have dominion, reign. I also looked up dominion in the dictionary. It means the power to govern, domination, master, owner.
Servant comes […]

Good Sleep= Good Grades

Most kids will tell you that school starts when the bell rinsg in the morning. But research says it actually starts the night before, when their heads hit the pillow.
You wouldn’t want your child going to school without his homework, would you? Well. allowing him to go without a good night’s sleep isn’t much different. Both […]

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