How to Raise Healthy Kids

by Jennifer Dumas

Families struggling to raise healthly children in this fast food generation, are turning to organized youth sports to promote life-long healthy habits. Youth sports have many positive influences on the life of a child.

Children who exercise are more likely to continue the practice into adulthood. Regular exercise helps children maintain a healthy weight resulting in a positive self image, especially in girls.

Does your child struggle with self esteem? Children who exercise often have a more positive self image. Research indicates that exercise reduces stress ,depression,anxiety, Not only do children look healthier, they feel healthier!

Kids quickly learn that they have to work together for a common goal and that each person is an important part in achieving that goal. The concept of teamwork is a critical developmental skill that will impact them both socially and academicaly. Many will develop the leadership and initiative to help their team succeed.

Children quickly learn that teamwork is essential to their success. They identify strengths in their peers and find ways to untilize those strengths to acheive their common goal. They learn that it is to their benefit to stop and help a teammate develop a skill and become mentors their peers.

This is a win win situation for both parents and children! Children develop important life skills that will have lasting effects both physically, mentally, cognatively and socially. Parents have the piece of mind of always knowing where their children are and who they are with!

Organized sports are a great way for Children to develop important life skills that will have lasting effects both physically,intellectually and socially. Parents, if you want to know where your children are and who their are with, youth sports can make this dream a reality!

About the Author:

Jennifer Dumas is the mother of 2 and a dedicated SPORTS MOM . She is the owner of sportsmomboutique.com a website featuringin made to orderteamapparel for the mom who is her child's BIGGEST fan!

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Finance Tip of the Day

Have an emergency fund.
Have at least three months' income (some say six) in a high-yield savings account that can be easily accessed.

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11-year-old ends life over homework

11-year-old ends life over homework

5 Jan 2009, 0543 hrs IST, Ajinkya Deshmukh & Pranjali Kadhao, TNN

NAGPUR: Life ended cruelly and prematurely for 11-year-old Pallavi Uchitkar. An ace student of Sindhu Girls High School

in Jaripatka, Pallavi attempted suicide by burning herself on December 30 over some homework left incomplete. On Saturday, she succumbed to her burns.

Pallavi, a class six student, excelled in academics and was a fine public speaker, debater, singer and dancer. Her teachers and principal spoke highly of her and had made her a prefect. She was the recipient of many prizes for her talents.

The Uchitkar family had to attend a wedding in Saoner on December 27. Of the four daughters in the family — Arti, Shruti, Sapna and Pallavi; Pallavi was the only one who refused to come to the wedding, worried over her studies. “I was worried over having to leave Pallavi alone, and hence took her along anyway,” said Pallavi’s mother. Upon return from Saoner, the tired family slept and the girls missed a day at school.

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Ghajini cheers non-smoking lobby Ameer Khan Movie

‘Ghajini’ cheers non-smoking lobby:

Movie Conveys `No Smoking’ Message With Line ‘Yahan Smoking Allowed Nahi Hain’

Bharati Dubey & Malathy Iyer | TNN

Mumbai: After years of booing actors who light up on screen, anti-tobacco activists seem to have found something to cheer about in Aamir Khan’s ‘Ghajini’. The recently released film is sending out a no-smoking message, earning kudos from long-time crusaders on Saturday.
According to research, 52% of children have their first puff after watching a celebrity light up. Moreover, Union health minister Anbumani Ramadoss had requested Bollywood filmmakers to not show actors smoking on screen.
“We appreciate the efforts of and thank to A Murugadoss, the director of ‘Ghajini’, and Aamir Khan for highlighting such an important issue,’’ said Dr P C Gupta, director of Healis-Sekhsaria Institute of Public Health, who has been in the forefront of the campaign to ban smoking in public places. In ‘Ghajini’, the character played by Jiah Khan is walking down the steps of a mall when she spots some men blowing smoke in people’s faces inside the mall. The camera then pans to a ‘No Smoking’ board before Jiah says, “Yahan smoking allowed nahi hain.’’
When contacted, Murugadoss said, “I have never encouraged smoking in my films. If you look at this film, even the negative characters don’t smoke. In fact, the scene in the film that does have smoking is actually against smoking.’’
The director added, “Youngsters worship actors and follow them blindly. So I always try to project my actors in such a manner that his or her character does not glorify things that are not good.’’
Aamir himself said a balance should be struck between discouraging smoking and ensuring artistic freedom. “I fully support the drive to help people to quit smoking and I would strongly advise the youth not to get into this harmful habit in the first place. However, I don’t think a ban on smoking in films makes sense. Films are a creative medium and are meant to reflect different aspects of life, good and bad. Murder is illegal in real life, but we don’t put a ban on it in films. But we should definitely make every effort to discourage smoking in real life.’’
Regional officer Vinayak Azad, of the Censor Board for Film Certification, said there is still no official ban on smoking in films. “As for ‘Ghajini’ promoting the ban on smoking in public, it is a good thing and more producers should do this through their films,’’ said Azad.
Director Mahesh Bhatt had filed a case against the health ministry’s notification banning smoking on screen. The case is still pending in the Delhi High Court.
Bhatt said, “My writ has put a roadblock in the path of the government’s ban on smoking on screen.’’
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TRADE IDEAS

TRADE IDEAS FOR January 2, 2009

UPDATE SOON

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4. Buy Gitanjali - 71.5 - Sl 70 - Tgt 72.75 74.15
5. Buy Neyvelilig - 69.8 - Sl 68.5 - Tgt 71.3 73.25

* If the stock opens more than 2% in adverse direction please discard the call.

NIFTY Views

Nifty today showed a spurt from 2995 levels to 3015 leaving a gap of 20 points creating an the start of an inverted U. Most probably we should see nifty coming to 2995 -3000 levels tommorow before any upmove.

Otherwise we would be touching the resistance point of 3075 tommorow. As i said in the Blog as a "bling bling" for 2009 - Gitanjali Gems and Jewels, you can accumulate this stock with a medium term veiw.

"Have a nice trading day"

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REVIEW: Ghajini

The film seldom gives you a moment to stop and think how stupid it might actually be

Watching him in Ghajini, I don't think I've seen Aamir Khan having this much fun as an actor in a long time.

It's an old-fashioned entertainer with a half-convincing plot, packed with enough gratuitous violence to qualify as a B-movie really; and like the most popular B-movies ever, the biggest strength of Ghajini lies in the fact that it's a fast-moving roller-coaster ride that seldom gives you a moment to stop and think how stupid it might actually be.

In a premise clearly inspired by Christopher Nolan's Memento, Aamir Khan plays Sanjay Singhania, a hot-shot industrialist who turns into an obsessed killing machine dedicated to tracking down his girlfriend's killer. Having been hit on the head with an iron rod, he suffers from short-term memory loss and can't remember anything for longer than 15 minutes; as a result he must tattoo his body with instructions that will lead him to his prey.

Abandoning Memento's fantastic non-linear narrative and opting for the more conventional flashback device, writer-director AR Murgadoss throws in an engaging back-story in the form of leading lady Asin (playing smalltime model Kalpana) and a love story brimming with originality and the kind of gentleness that you don't see at the movies anymore. It's a romance that takes you by surprise, and to an extent puts the film's intense action into perspective too.

Faithful remake of the director's Tamil blockbuster, Ghajini is over-the-top and exaggerated in its comedy, its action and its drama, but what irks you most are the half-dozen or so creative liberties and coincidences that the makers resort to, in order to bail themselves out of tricky screenplay situations. Here's a little sample - you're expected to believe that Sanjay Singhania is a well-known millionaire industrialist, and yet no one has seen him in pictures or in person.

A violent movie to end a violent year. We didnt need more
violence in our lives. Not a movie for kids definitely. They
might get influenced by the motto of the movie which is
revenge. In the land of gandhi, we need to spread non
violence and love. I sincerely hope aamir comes up with a
light hearted comedy next year. Humour, laughter is the need
of the hour. I hope he keeps aside his perfectionsitc
illusions and comes up with a light hearted comedy. May be
andaz apna apna 2 is what the people need. I hope salman and
aamir team up!! Hail humour and not revenge!

hemanth Dec 31, 2008 at 01:33 AM

Mr gaurav......I think that you do not know wat movies
are......U do not understand dem

Raunaq Dec 31, 2008 at 12:24 AM

This is a movie from the studio18 stable.........Buzz18
belongs to tv18 ......Same group........Hence the review is
biased.........Infact on moral grounds, rajeev masand should
not review the movie.



i dont think the movie deserves 3 stars. Its below average
and 2 stars is what it deserves and that is what it has got
from so many different reviewers.



dont think that we cannot see through all this.

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