Managing children’s computer use at home

Well, it’s not a surprise anymore when I read a recent article about computers being a time-wasting appliance for some students.

Sure, we know students need to have computers to be more efficient in school, and they need to keep up with technology and work on their computer skills. But the article also revealed that some households, especially the lower-income ones, tend to have students not focusing on studying when using the computers, instead they spent a lot of time with, what else but, playing games.

Thus, parental supervision is really important for kids using the computers. The Internet can be a big help when it comes to doing research, but it also provides so much temptation for time-wasting activities with its limitless offering of multimedia, social networking and gaming resources that can easily distract even the most conscientious student in class.

A bit about my mom

My mom was into life insurance before, in fact she was made a district manager right away even if she wasn’t an underwriter yet (she did a lot of catching up of course, in fact she received recognition for coping up with her first quota fast!), just because she had a group, a sales force of friends who were into books – a known brand of encyclopedias. She went into this just so that we, the children, could have our own sets (yeah not just one or two!) of different types of books. However, after sometime, she left these two lines for as she said, she’s a civil engineer and she loves to be in practice of her profession.

A blessed couple

My cousin is a bubbly sports lover and gym enthusiast. It was in one of the popular gyms patronized by the upper level class where she met her now hubby who was attracted to her at first sight. He happened to be a part-owner of the gym, being a sports and gym enthusiast himself. It’s nice to know that they both share the same interest in keeping fit and living an active lifestyle.
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Baveuse

If the title sounds weird to you, it also does to me. I don’t even know how to pronounce it or say it properly.

Now with the Windows 7 Starter on my netbook, the Baveuse font is not installed, thus I had to do a search online. So glad it is freeware! Thanks to the font author Ray Larabie for sharing it to the public. FYI, font designer Larabie has already created about 383 free fonts from 1996-2001 before designing fonts for commercial use.
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