More Junk and that's getting to be more obese! More fruits and vegetables and that's the way to live healthy! - How often parents and teachers tell the children yet the daily diet consist of the Pizza, Burger and all sorts of canned food and desserts. Schools cutting Fats in Food is always found welcoming and classroom activities to enhance children, the importance of fruit and vegetables have found to be useful. Parents and teachers need to act as role models as they demonstrate healthy eating habits. Schools can have 'Fruit only tuck shops and integrate fruit and vegetables into a children's culture in a positive way.

20th October is know for US National Fruit Day - also when fruit is dipped in Brandy and served! (Refer Calendar on News Page)

Research finds that Children's consumption of Fruit is too low. One in ten eat No Fruit with children below six years. In Swagat, my findings reveal - hardly one child eats Fruit per week out of average 25 kids! The evenings are almost with Pizza and Sandwiches! There has been a rise in obesity in last many years and a considerable decline in spending more time for outdoor games. A diet with plenty of fruits and vegetables can help in tackling obesity. With pollution, asthma and wheezing is on rise all over the world and here comes in fruits and vegetables with all the Vitamin C to reduce the symptoms in children as well as adults. In 1991 WHO recommended that people should eat 400 gm (five portions) of fruits and vegetables everyday to reduce risk of cancer. Since than, fruits and vegetables are on top priorities. Well, here's Enchanted Learning with craft for kids - a 3D fruit Craft.

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Btw, 20th October night begins the Dussera Festival here with people eating fafda-jalebi - The National Fruit day is not at all celebrated here and I guess no thought is even given for fixing such Fruit Day. Parents and Teachers too have text book lessons to promote and healthy eating habits in most houses is the food - call it just food - be it, Gujarati, Italian, chinese, Continental, whatever. It's time to rise and shine esp. in my town which has become a heaven place for Food and Fast food! Here's a video on obesity - a Canadian Message which says a lot! Enjoy!

Boss's Day and it's ever the 16th October to get into good books of your Boss. But, how do you cope up Managing your Boss?

Well, a lot depends on 'Attitudes' and these Bosses are ones who rules. It's best to know the Secret of Success - what you really want and get the best out of it - or just chill!

A survey conducted for Deloitte & Touche, US revealed that job dissatisfaction was a leading reason people make unethical decisions at work. The survey 'Ethics and Workplace' further says,91% believe that workers who enjoy good work life balance are more likely to behave ethically. Here's the survey results that might be too useful to Management.

I think that the behavior of the leaders in the organizations; the managers, supervisors, Educator Heads or as in a newspaper, the main Editors and sub editors are more responsible to be the most significant factors in encouraging or discouraging good behavior at work. What they do matters, what they do perform, makes a big difference too. They are in some way observed, used as role models too, whether they know or not. Being straightforward, honest and treating all employees equally is a good example of management. Taking credits for someone else's accomplishment, lying to impress or even lowering down the employee is the weak point of the leader manager who do not know how to balance job satisfaction levels. Ultimately, the employee may try to be in books by pleasing the manager for some time but when the self respect or the ego hurts, the job dissatisfaction arise. Competition among employees are nevertheless charted programs for motivation and building team spirits but if management fails at levels of its own understanding, unethical acts arise out of bad behavior patterns of their superiors. After all, most of the Bosses are found to be "Too Ambitious" and will go to extreme points in many cases. Ultimately, a dissatisfied employee will face the grudge unless he becomes a leader.

I recommend a book for all those dissatisfied employees on "How to manage your Boss" . Bosses miss out the time factor in knowing the individual strengths of the employee and here is the book that guides to follow the path to show the boss how capable you are. The boss is a human mind with full of power and pressures which lead way to make him to be a politician too in his own field. The time now is of Generation Y who have innovative ideas of corporate responsibility and work performance.  Business leaders who want an authentic edge in recruiting this generation of workers must learn to listen to them in a fundamentally different way. Be it, Corporate or Education or any Management level, Generation Y is the future!

The Scrabble - All a game of fun and learn. I remember the word trivia games we played at the Talkcity chatrooms and still the game is great going all the time pick. Scrabble was introduced in 1948. These days it is produced in 27 languages, according to Mattel Inc., which owns the non-American rights to the game. Scrabble ranks # on Top 10 games in Kidsfreesouls List of games. Rest follows Monopoly, cake mania and all leading to X Box games like the recent Halo 3 - The Master Chief who makes it Big.

Teaching Board games to kids is just challenging and fun learning. The spelling rules as well as building a vocabulary is all in process as kids engage to a word building play activity. With Hangman and other spelling activities, encouraging a child is quick and easier while sparing a few moments for play. With a scrabble, an age appropriate spell fun works best as you begin to play with the letters, keeping in mind, the vowels and consonants which are verbally formed. Kids can have a Family Game Night, ready with the word list so as to be easy with the game. When I play the game of scrabble or rather allow the class kids to engage into a Scrabble game activity, the first thing I noticed is the enthusiasm as they can make their own words. Of course, we do have cheaters who spell wrong and yet, make it appear correct. This is when we find children disappointed and embarrassed when we can emphasize on what it is to learn or what means 'winning'.

Well, for the online free plays, here's Mattelscrabble and AOL games for the game lovers. And here's on Honing Sports Spirit - an article in my book - Grab a copy NOW for the read. Btw, here's recent Worksheets of Wordsearch added to the Wordsearch index and Ctrl+Print for classrooms. Enjoy!

The other day, I mentioned of the yearly Blogger's Choice Awards for the Blogs on my Ex-Editor's Blog. These Awards are for the Blogs that make an impact on the Blogosphere. You can find their last year's winners here on the site with links to the Best Blogs in various Categories.

For this year Nominations, you can Brag their badge on your Blog. The Voting is open till 19th October and the winners will be announced on 10th November 2007 at Las Vegas, NV. The Awards are sponsored by Payperpost and other Advertisers.

Kidsfreesouls.com is bragging the Badge here for your information. I am sure, you will find good Blogs here in their Parenting section. As such, the Best Award comes along when our hard work is really appreciated but more, our efforts are made use in some way - be it information, education, entertainment or any constructive way.

Click to enter your Blog through this link and stay tuned in here for more news and scoops of information. Enjoy!

Parents Guide to Social Networking and we end up with a list of guides to protect kids to safe surf on the web. Most of the kids in India are found to be on Orkut, Facebook or Hi5 with the knowledge of Parents irrespective of what scraps they send. Parents often feel the pride that their children are on computers and the schools have even called for the laptops to be compulsory.

Social networkings can be potentially damaging and too harmful if proper guidelines are not adhered. What every parent or a teacher need to follow is the privacy policy, Net Etiquettes and chat etiquettes too. Do not stop them to surf these sites but instead be friendly. Converse with them, Install softwares and place the kid friendly sites for them to surf, encourage your kid to share profile with you. It may so happen that the child might have multiple accounts too. And mostly, share the experiences and joys of surfing. Here are some good tips on Google News Section on Kidsfreesouls News Zone.

All Social Networkings are not harmful but it is upto ownself to follow the self discipline. The Google features are hence, the best used in classrooms and every parent or a teacher need to adopt to Google Tools - why, you can even make a page on Google for Online Homework Assignments or share your links too. Here is a created Google Page of Kidsfreesouls. Enjoy!

We all know, President Bush has proclaimed on Dec 18, 2001,  September 11 as "Patriot Day."

Here, on the State Gov website, his speech says, "On this first observance of Patriot Day, we remember and honor those who perished in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. We will not forget the events of that terrible morning nor will we forget how Americans responded in New York City, at the Pentagon, and in the skies over Pennsylvania -- with heroism and selflessness; with compassion and courage; and with prayer and hope.....(Read More).

Kidsfreesouls tribute to all the departed souls. A gloomy sadness fills our hearts with the memories of the departed souls - Be it any calamity and it's human loss that fills our hearts with emotions.

Children are always the silent observers. They respond faster to the influences around them. We need to build the Pillars of Character right from the start. Stop the kids from being criminals has all tips on this here. A Peace Song and a Peace lesson too.