Wouldn’t it be nice if we were to have a garden swing such as this in our garden? Feel the fresh air on our face and smell the flowers?

Before the Play Station 3 was made available to the market, they were introduced to the public through the Sony Expo 2007 in Hawaii. Click here, here and here to read about the said event which happened during the first week of November.

Now that PS3 debuted in the USA last Friday, November 17, 2007 release, everybody was not surprised to see very long lines of people waiting to buy the game gadget. Click here and here to read about the long lines. When people wait in long lines to buy something that is expensive, they have money with them. When people are just on the streets, waiting in line, tired, hungry and cold, some would take advantage of them. How? Click here. When the demand is high and the supply is low, people will take advantage. How? Through scams, of course. This article/forum describes what the scam is all about. And now eBay is also warning customers who may want to avail PS3. Click here to read. For more PS3 articles, click here.

Hmmm…I wonder what and how Filipinos are doing to get hold of these gadgets.

Because I work with my students on a one-on-one basis, I can observe them closely. Most of the time, I can see the top of their heads (for those who are shorter than me) especially when they are working/concentrating on their worksheets. I have noticed that some of them have dandruff. These students who are pre-adolescents and adolescents, they know that they have dandruff. Even my daughter who is 11 has dandruff. This has been a puzzler to me. Some of them use a popular anti-dandruff shampoo, which I read from a health magazine yesterday, is considered a drug because of its active ingredient called pyrithione zinc or selenium sulfide. The question is, is it safe to use anti-dandruff shampoo for our children?

Click here to read about pyrithione zinc.

Click here to read what selenium sulfide is.

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SITTING

Many activities that we want to do, require that we sit. We sit at home, in school, in the workplace, when we travel, in a doctor’s clinic and just about anywhere we tend to go. We sit while working on a computer, driving a car, seeing a movie, eating in a restaurant, etc. Most people can sit, that is, they are physically capable of doing the action.

At times, we have to remain seated when we would rather not, e.g., in a hospital’s waiting room. When we remain seated for a very long time, we may get fidgety, but we usually stay seated. Sometimes if we do stand up, we lose the seat to those who are not sitting down, especially in a crowded room.

Children with limited attention span generally do not like to sit except when they choose to, and sometimes only they are involved in an activity they have enjoy doing. This inability to sit at other times, severely limits the activities and experiences they can be involved in. Why is it important to sit, and to remain sitting?

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Sometimes, we feel that life becomes more complicated when we see clutter around us. We either 1)organize, 2)ignore, 3)plan how-to-get-rid-of-the-clutter-one-of-these-days or 4)altogether remove everything in its place and start over. I confess that I am guilty of the 3rd option. I have read somewhere that to be able to keep your home organized as well as clean, one needs to just sweep/vacuum the floor everyday, dust the furnitures once a week and throw things that haven’t been used for a few months. Of course there are those of us who cling to things we own for reasons only we ourselves can understand.

Below is a list of steps that may help how we organize the clutter around us:

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What exactly are executive functions? Executive functions are actions, tasks and responsibilities that require:

• planning
• flexibility
• organization
• self-monitoring

So we think these tasks apply only to executives? Nope, these tasks apply to students too. Students have loads of work to complete: worksheets to do, homeworks, projects that require research, scientific experiments, and a whole lot of other stuff that needs to be submitted on time. Not just on time, it should also be able to follow the instructions given, accurate, well-researched and organized.

Children with learning disabilities have problems in the executive functions. These are manifested in different ways:

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