Communicating with our children can be a difficult task at times.
Providing a Safe and Secure Home for your Child
Accidents in the home are the primary cause of death in U.S. children. By taking a few simple precautions, these injuries can be avoided, making your home safe for your child and the children who visit it.
In your kitchen, you should be sure to install safety latches on cabinets and drawers. This helps keep them out of the everyday household chemicals you use to clean your home and dishware with, and also keeps them from grabbing sharp objects like scissors or knives from inside the drawers. Use the back burners when cooking on the stovetop, and keep the handles of your pots and pans turned out of a curious child's reach while cooking.
Safety latches should be installed on cabinets and drawers in your bathrooms as well to keep them out of unsafe household cleaning products and medicines. Be sure to unplug any electrical appliance such as a blow dryer or curling iron directly after use and put out of a child's reach. Teach them early that electricity and water do not mix and that no electrical appliances of any kind should ever be immersed in or placed under running water. Toilet locks should also be used in homes that have small children to keep lids down. Young children are 'top heavy' and can easily fall into a toilet if they lean in to play in it. Since a young child can drown in less than just an inch of water, it is imperative to closely supervise them in the bathroom at all times.
Around your house, be sure to secure furniture such as bookshelves and heavy furniture that could tip easily to the wall using brackets. Use doorknob covers to keep them out of rooms with potential hazards and to keep them from leaving the house unsupervised. Make sure your window blinds do not have looped cords on them as they can present a strangulation hazard to a young child. And always cover your electrical outlets with protective covers to keep small fingers from them and small objects from being inserted into them.
Check your house over carefully for other potential hazards and address them immediately. With these precautions and some common sense, your household will be your child's haven.
Perfect Parenting
Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind. Franois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Although predictability can be tiresome for adults, children thrive on repetition and routine. Each year thousands of children continue to die as a result of physical abuse. Accommodate when possible to avoid an outburst. Accept and celebrate your child's uniqueness.
Babylonian Slave System; we are still working it.
Babylon the cradle of civilization developed a slave system, to better control them. Slaves worked 5 days a week with 2 days to rest, leaving them no time to rebel.
After a term of loyal slavery, they were free to become citizens of Babylon.
Children born into slavery were freed with their parents to further encourage compliance.
We are working in the evolution of the Babylonian slave system and it is obsolete in a post industrial digital age. In order to keep this system running; we have inbuilt design faults in our products and technology. This is wasting our planets resources as well as robbing us of the promise that technology would give us more leisure.
Technology should be at the service of humanity and nature instead of humans and nature being at the service of technology.
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Babylonian society consisted of three classes they are the awilu, a free person of the upper class; the mushkenu, a free person of low estate; and the wardu, or slave. Most slaves were prisoners of war, but some were Babylonian citizens. For example, free persons might be reduced to slavery as punishment for certain offenses or children could be sold by their parents. Slaves were the property of their master and were severely punished if they attempted to escape. However they usually were well treated. Slaves had certain legal rights and could engage in business, borrow money, and buy themselves out of slavery. The children of a slave who married a free person were free.
http://library.thinkquest.org/12096/frames/dunes/babylon.htm
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The Babylonians had an effective lifestyle, which required little change to it during a 1200 year span. They had a very "down-to-earth" lifestyle in which law and justice was a key concept of. Everyone had certain legal rights-women, men, and slaves. The economy came from many sources, which shows how stable the civilization was. In the Babylonian civilization, the political structure was strong, and the laws were very strict. This kept the people in line.
http://www.onlineessays.com/essays/history/his057.php
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Both slave-owning and slave societies that were part of the major cultural traditions borrowed some of their laws about slavery from the religious texts of their respective civilizations. Principles regarding slavery that proved to be either unprofitable or unworkable were among the first to be discarded. An obvious example is provided by the Old Testament law that Hebrew slaves were to be manumitted after six years (Exodus 21:2; Deuteronomy 15:12). A similar general recommendation that slaves be freed after six years in bondage was adhered to by many Islamic slave-owning societies; it helps to account for the ferocity and frequency of their slave raids, for they had a need for constant replenishment of their slave supplies. In Christian slave societies, on the other hand, the principle that the tenure of slavery should be limited was almost completely ignored. (see also Christianity)
Many Islamic societies, generally prescribed that slave owners had to free their slaves after the passage of a number of years, essentially the length of time they considered it took for an "outsider" to become an "insider."
http://www.cyberspacei.com/jesusi/peace/abolitionism/slavery.htm#_T...
Author: JezebelDecibel
Keywords: Babylonian Slave Modern Day Slavery Technology Environmental Work Retirement Humanity Jezebel Decibel
Added: November 6, 2007
A serious repetitive pattern of lying should be cause for concern.
So expect nothing but the best from your children and watch them fulfill your expectations. Accidents in the home are the primary cause of death in U. Show your child that you mean what you say. |
