Today, with the urban farming movement exploding in popularity, more and more people are discovering how simple it is to raise chickens in their own back yards even if they live in a city. Raising chickens at home is an especially enriching experience for children who may never have had any contact with egg-laying domestic poultry before.1.)  Children see where food really comes from.Children, who might previously have only known supermarket shelves, get to see where food really comes from when their hens lay fresh, delicious, chemical-free eggs.2.)  A great way to teach youngsters responsibility.Chickens are easy to look after but need daily attention.  When your child takes on the job of feeding, watering, collecting eggs and seeing that the chickens are safe in their coop every night, they learn pride in themselves and responsibility.3.) Draw your kids away from  TV and video games.Chickens get your kids away from the TV, the computer and video games.  Caring for hens and chicks gives your child a daily task interacting with real creatures in the real world.  They spend time in a healthy outdoor activity.  And they get to share the same experience as their grandparents and all the generations before who lived and worked on farms. They will remember it fondly all their lives.4.) Kids can see new life emerge first hand.When baby chicks hatch from eggs, children get to see new life beginning right before their eyes.  This is an incredibly thrilling and educational event.  Chicks hatch in about three weeks so you child can keep track of the eggs if they are under a setting hen.  Or, if you have opted to hatch fertile eggs in an incubator, you child can be involved from the start, turning the eggs every day, checking that the temperature and humidity are just right, and even helping the baby chicks out when they begin to peck their way through their shells. Kids won’t want to miss a moment of the drama.5.) An invaluable lesson in self sufficiency.By producing eggs and meat in even a small back yard, you teach your children a lesson in self sufficiency.  They learn that they can feed themselves independently and, by doing so, reduce the need for huge commercial chicken operations which have over 100,000 chickens packed into restricted cages.  Your family is reducing its footprint on the planet.So if you want to give your children a hands-on experience with fascinating, useful creatures, and you don’t have room for a cow or a goat, then a small flock of chickens is much easier than you think for just about any back yard. The Parents’ Guide to Raising Backyard Chickens for Kids, gives parents all the knowledge they need to make keeping chickens at home a success just about anywhere. Get yours at:www.hamilhouse.com/parent-1.htmgogi berries

Homeschooling Math can be a major challenge for many parents. Using Math games to teach 7-13 year olds is a very big boon however. The mention of ‘Games’ captures the attention and focus of all young students. Imagine being able to let your children learn Mathematics through playing Mathematical games. This can produce an enormously positive effect on your children. Picture the amount of energy and motivation that your children have as they play a competitive game of sports or video game. It is this spirit of wanting to win that led to the creation of ‘Winning Maths!’   Shimes Education’s ‘Winning Maths!’ games are topically focused and they can be played in any Mathematics class setting, as long as there is pencil or pen. In fact, besides home-schooling parents, they can be used by private tutors and teachers as well. There are variations in difficulty levels within a game that allow it to be played not only between student and teacher, but even between students themselves.  After learning the basics of, for example, addition, parents can play a round of addition games with their children to get them familiarized with the rules. The children can be left on their own subsequently to challenge each other to the Math games. This prospect of a challenge amongst friends will motivate children to brush up on the relevant Mathematical skills. They can then play the Math games like Tic Tac Toe against each other at home or on the move.   Teaching Math to children need not be a chore. With foreseeable need of their Math skills (in games), children can be very motivated to grasp their Math concepts well. Furthermore, these Math games help to take a small portion of video game time away from children and get them engaged in a more constructive manner; getting them to subconsciously revise their Mathematics! Plus, it is a huge bonus for everyone. Parents are happy, and so are children. More importantly, this is one very simple way to teach Math faster. The author is the founder of Shimes Education and Ace Tutors. You may find the Winning Maths! eBooks at www.ShimesEducation.comemail image control

A Bakugan Battle is not the latest version of mixed martial arts, staged in a caged ring. It is a great interactive board game for a kid that combines the appeal of a television show, and the skill of a board game. The best part is that a Bakugan Battle is not as expensive as a video game, and requires no more than table space to set up. Bakugan Battles can be for up to six participants all the way down to one participant. This makes the game even more appealing as it does not require at least two players to play. Kids can enjoy this game as an individual, or with their friends. The ins and outs of a Bakugan Battle are quite simple to follow. Each player starts the game with a magnetic battle card and an action figure “sphere”. The players roll their sphere toward the magnetic cards, which should “open” the sphere revealing an action figure. The sphere is also magnetic, and activates when rolled at or near the magnetic ability cards. Points are gained by the action figures being opened on different magnetic ability cards. The basic principles of the game allow the players to test their skill at controlling the speed and direction of each roll. The Bakugan Battle also tests the imagination of the player. Bakugan Battles can be staged by purchasing the Bakugan Battle Pack, which can be found in many places on the internet. The Battles are often a fun, safe and inexpensive way for kids to interact with each other, without the violence of some video games or traditional sports. Waging a Bakugan Battle can be more than just a cool board game for your kids. These games can fuel the competitive spirit, and the growing mind or imagination. A Bakugan Battle can be a sure fire way to teach kids the spirit of competition and the sense of sportsmanship. what you just learned about bakugan battle is just the begining. To get the full story and all the details, check us out at bakugan-battle-pack.wetpaint.com
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Something all parents face by the time their kids have gotten through their teen years is that most kids between the ages of twelve and eighteen are just too cool for their parents.It’s not difficult to get your younger kids to sit down and play a game of Chutes and Ladders with you, but just try dragging your thirteen year old away from the Xbox for a game of Candyland. It’s simply not going to happen. When you hit a certain age, flying jets and causing massive explosions in front of the TV just seems so much more stimulating than playing a board game.This only contributes to the problem so many parents have during the teen years; how do you get your teens to spend quality time with you? What can you do to find some common ground between yourself and your kids and provide an enjoyable experience for both the parents and the teens?Well, it’s not going to be playing Candyland, that’s for sure, but… something is certainly lost in the realm of video games. While they can certainly help you hone your “twitch reflex”, teaching you to snap your sights on some monstrous space alien with your laser cannon in a split second, the vast majority of games do not encourage much else in the way of personal or mental growth beyond developing that reflex. In other words, fast thumbs aren’t all there is to be gained from playing games.Delving into game philosophy, many players of games like Chess and Risk emphasize gaming as a path of knowledge and self improvement, much like seeking a higher education or studying the martial arts. While games like Chutes and Ladders may be fairly limited in this regard, as they are largely simplified to be easier for young children to grasp and become good at (hence, teens finding them dull and unstimulating), the opposite is true of a game of Chess.Strategic games like Chess, Risk and Stratego offer a practically infinite number of possible situations, and within those endless possibilities is an equally endless opportunity to improve at the game.The ‘hook’ of these board games is the bitter taste of defeat, to be perfectly blunt. If you lose your first game of Chess to your father in less than five moves, it’s tempting to ask for a rematch, even if ten minutes ago you had referred to Chess as “That boring game that old guys play in the park”. As mythologist and Jungian psychologist Joseph Campbell put forth, there’s a strong desire in most children to earn their parent’s respect, and that includes trying to best them at games of their own choosing.How skilled you are at a game may not seem very significant. After all, who ever made it into a top ranked university thanks to their undeniable skill at Scrabble? However, learning to improve at a game teaches several habits that can be applied in life. For example, learning to do away with bad habits of laziness. In a game of Chess, it’s tempting to put all of your focus on your Queen, your most powerful move, since that seems the quickest, easiest way to victory. However, no game of Chess has ever been won with a Queen alone. Setting up your pieces to utilize them to their full capacity requires patience, forethought and some degree of imagination.As you develop a tendency to do away with lazy habits in a game you play regularly, this tendency will often find its way into your life, as well. Just as a martial artist might work for years on improving their punch, making it faster, more powerful. They may never actually get in a fist fight outside of the sparring ring, but by learning to spot their bad traits and habits and replace them with useful ones on the mat, they tend to take this approach to life, as well. Yogee.com.au is a leading Australian online toy store. Visit yogee.com.au for a wide selection of Kids Toys at discounted prices. To save money on your next purchase, please visit Toys.WP Robot Wordpress Autoposter

In today’s world, as parents, we need to make an extra effort to keep our kids active and to teach them to interact with other people face to face. This is something that parents used to do without giving it much thought. But today, many youth spend a lot of time watching TV or playing video games. Many of the interactive games they play online keep them sedentary and anonymous. A lot of the communication comes through online chat, games and texting instead of face to face. There are many things that parents can do to help their children in these two areas, but one solution to both problems, that your kids will enjoy, are game tables. These fun game tables come in many forms, so you can find something that the whole family can enjoy. Let’s take a look at some of the options available. The air hockey table has been around since the 1970’s. This great game was an instant hit and quickly appeared in homes around the country. It only took a few years before it became competitive with world championships. A miniature version of actual hockey, the puck floats atop a layer of air that is blown through holes on the table top. You score by hitting the puck into your opponents goal. Though the concept is simple, there is also much skill that is employed in the top levels of the sport. This is a fast action game that people of all ages can enjoy. It is highly competitive and will have your kids returning over and over again, keeping them very active. Foosball makes for very fun game tables and have been around since the mid-twentieth century. A table top version of soccer, it is also very competitive. It can be played with two players or in teams of two for a total of four players. This allows more people to interact at a time. Pool tables have been around for a couple of hundred years and offer a myriad of games that can be played. You can play games that involve anywhere from two to many players. Though not as active as the previous two games, it is great for having fun and interacting with other people. Of all the fun game tables out there, one of my favorite is table tennis. This game can be very active and can be enjoyed by players of all experience. You can play one-on-one, with pairs, or around-the-world which can involve as many players as you wish. Though around-the-world starts out slow, it definitely picks up pace as people drop out of the game. If you cannot decide which table is best for your family, or each member has a different opinion, then you should go for the All-in-1 fun game tables. A variety of number of games can be available in different tables, but some of the higher quality tables have two or three games. These types usually involve tables that flip over, with a different game on each side. Such as pool on one side and air hockey on the other (a pockey table!). Most will at least include a third game, usually by placing a removable table top onto the pool side, you then have ping pong. Other tables will have up to 10 games, but a majority of them are smaller games like backgammon and poker, not active games as we have discussed. It is obvious that any of these games will allow your kids to be more active, but it also encourages great personal interaction between the players, and as an added bonus it promotes good sportsmanship. So if you would like to teach your kids some of these essential skills in life, then an investment in any of these fun game tables could be just what you need. MJ is a freelance writer for Clickshops, Inc. where you can find a great selection of <a href="http://www.fungametables.com” rel=”nofollow”>fun game tables for the whole family to enjoy at www.fungametables.com
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