Being a kid

Kids are copy cats. It is funny to watch my little daughter imitating her parents. We encourage her to do as much as she can. The first step for her is, watching us and tries to do exactly what we do. I love to watch her when she tries to make me to sleep, tell me a story, wear like me, and even be mad to me. It is the way that she uses to learn. The important thing is being a good model for our kids; they more likely to watch us than listen to us.

How you can improve your brain

There are a lot of ways to improve our brain. As everyone knows, some nutrition is useful for healthy brain, so we have care about what we eat. It is especially important for unborn baby and after that during growing up. Lack of some vitamins and nutrition in our daily diet cause some diseases. Vit. B12 and Omega-3 are two important supplements for brain. Salmon, nuts, egg, green vegetables and milk are source of these supplements. Some brain exercises like readings books, puzzle, word cross, chess, and Sudoku help brain to work properly. The people who suffer of Alzheimer also are recommended to do this kind of exercise. We know how alcohol, cigarette, and drugs have harmful effects for brain. The important thing is to get rid of bad habits. The last thing that makes our brain fresh and healthy is a good sleep. Our brain controls all our body and their activities. In the whole, changing our lifestyle and habits help to improve our brain.

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The meaning of flowers

Flowers have a special meaning for every one for a long time. We show our feeling like happiness or love by giving people different colors and types of flowers. Sometimes we receive flowers for togetherness or loss .In the other word flowers help us to show our feeling instead of saying words. Also the numbers of flowers we get from our friends, relatives or anyone have a different meaning. Here are some of flowers’ meaning; ROSE, RED: Love, passion, respect, courage, I love you, beauty, pure and lovely, prosperity.
ORCHID: Rare beauty, love, refinement, beautiful lady, Chinese symbol for many children, mature charm, beauty, long life.
MAGNOLIA: Dignity, love of nature, nobility.ated with twenty-eighth wedding anniversary
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The influence of Toys on Children

It is known that how toys influence children and shape their personality and characters. Some researchers believe that nature of children affect their behavior and for some nurture is more important. They also agree with the idea that the type of toys children play with, influence their conversation. For example toys like grocery toys make, especially girls, talk more and for boys it is a little different because they like play with toys which they can take part and put them back together. One of researchers at the University of California believes that both girls and boys need task –oriented toys to improve their relationships and being social. It is parent’s responsibilities that choose right toys to help their children to develop their conversation. The variety of toys that parents buy for children is very important, because these toys make children to act differently in different situations.
Parents know how Kids like various toys, for instance, when they go shopping with their kids, in toy stores children are very excited and they want to play with all toys. We can help them and buy which they are more interested on it and match with their age. The one I bought for my son was Lego and it was very helpful because he played in different ways, so I did not buy a lot of toys. Legos are bought in different shapes, parts, and sizes. It depends on what your kids likes more. My son interested on plane and I bought one that have plane parts, airport and also pilot and passengers. He put the parts together and built an airport and with pilot and passengers he made a lot of stories and also helped him to improve his conversation. Because of influence of toys on kids, it is our responsibility to choose right one.

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Losing wiegth

Have you ever tried one of diet fads like potato diet,popcorn diet,carbonhydrate or peanut butter diet to lose weight? maybe you try a lot of diets for a long time to lose weight, but after that you gain again.Recently I heard about a diet from one of friends in Europe that If you eat pineapple three times a day, it helps to lose your weight. I did not have any idea about how it helps to lose weight, but when I search about pineapple I think may be it works. After tring crazy diets, it looks good idea. Pineapple contains an enzyme which called bromelain and it truns to anti-inflammatory ingrident and help the mucles and make skin more elastic.Also it helps with digestion in the intestine tract and it was believed that it burns up fat.As pineapple is available in every season ,it is easy to try this diet, because it is natural and include vit.C, B1 and magnesium. I will try it.

Manti

This recipie is for yogourt lovers!if you like to eat your meals with yougurt, this recipe is for you.Acually this traditional Turkish recipe is a little hard and takes time,because you have first, make a dough,then after rolling cuting it in little squre or triangle shapes, but you can make it in easiest way.The only things you need are, one pack tortellini,(I prefer which is filled with meat) yogurt and spicies. cook tortellini in boiling water with one tablespoon salt. Make sure they pieces are cooked fully.Then use strainer to remove water and put in the plate.Add yogurt and garlic suffieciently.fry red powder pepper a little and pour it on the dish.you can add dried mint. Enjoy your meal.

The Olympic Games

The opening and closing seremony of olympics were amazing and I watched on the TV two times.Also I watched some games, but the best game was the hokey game which was played in the last day of olympics (Canada and U.S.A).The other interesting thing that I saw everywhere were critters and they are symbol of Vancouver olympic games.Sumi is a spirit animal who lives in mountain and it is mixture of bear,thuderbird and whale who protect the land. Miga is a young bear who likes adventures and Quatchi is a young sasquatch who comes from mysterious forests of Canada.These three mascots greeted all atlets, visitors and fans in Vancouver during olympic and paralmpic.Most people bought these lovely mascots for memory of olympic games in Vancouver.

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Spring and newlife

In the bigining of Spring or on the twentyfirst of March Iranian people celebrated their new year which is solar year and very meaningful.The soil is starting to be warm and all plants and trees are waking up.Nature start to change;everywhere is green and trees are blooming.You cannot stop looking to this wonderful view everywhere.Not only plants and animals wake up from long sleep, people are more emotional and with their deep feelings, life looks differently.They hope to be strong and healthy and they also look forward the best life in the future.

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Eucation System in Turkey and Canada

Education system is the most important point which differs in each country. Comparing education system between Canada and my home country (Turkey,) shows a lot of differences. First, education starts from age seven and each student has to finish grade 12 which is free and compulsory. There are many different subjects that have be thought, for example, reading and writing Turkish alphabets, math, social, history, geography, second language and etc. Students begin their studies by memorizing and do a lot of home work which make more pressure to students and their family. The other point is the number of schools and universities do not match the number of students. Generally, most schools are in urban areas, so for children who live in rural areas, it is very hard to go to school. Sometimes they walk to another locations for a long time with difficulties like weather conditions to go to school. Finally, the most important point is the board examination or in the other words, national exam for entry to the university that students are struggling with it for a long time. Now a day the ministry of education and the directory of universities are discussing to solve the problem and cancel the board exam.
Unlike Turkey, Canadian Students start their education from age four or five that means Kindergarten and then, they continue their studies until grade 12 and also it is free. The way teachers use for teaching is different; from the beginning, they try to make students like their school and their new environment. Students play and then learn and they also are encouraged to discover and research so they can understand what kind of subjects they are interested on. They can easily show their talents and it makes them to be more successful in their future education and their life. Teachers do not believe on more homework in primary school, especially in elementary school and it makes some newcomer parents worry about their children because they believe that without homework their kids cannot be successful. Of course in upper grades they get a lot of homework, but these assignments are more likely researches that help them when they enter to university or college. In addition there are a lot of schools, colleges, and universities in every area and it is easy to find a school close to your house, for example in one location you can find more than two elementary or high schools. At last, because of the adequacy of schools, students do not worry about board exam. There is no Canada-wide entry exam for university. If their average mark during high school is high enough, they can continue their education in university and if not, they can go to college and after two years they can go to university. Each country value education in different ways, but the important thing is without education ,a country cannot develop.

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Jelly Shoes

One of crazy fads in 1980’s was Jelly shoes which was very popular and came back in 2003.I think young women at that time could not forget this fancy shoes. The most popularity of these plastic shoes was in European countries. Jelly shoes were cheap and fashion designers made them in different colors, so they are very attractive. Women, especially young women could not stop looking to these colorful, transparent shoes for their summer holidays. They spent their money to buy different colors. Once, I tried, but the result was terrible; I cannot stand for an hour! Although, they looked beautiful they were not comfortable. There is no matter how these shoes comfortable, healthy or not, people like to follow fashions and being a part of a group.

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Improving Vocabulary

Improving English language is everyone’s primary goal. There are a lot of methods to learn, and of course it varies to everyone. For learning English we need English words (vocabulary). More English words we learn make us to understand and use them more and more in daily speech. Some prefer to memorize or look up in the dictionary, and for some it is better to use flash cards or reading as much as they can. We also can use the way which toddlers use to learn automatically. They do not need take lessons! For example my two year old daughter knows a lot of words which I do not know yet. We don’t speak English at home, but the only way she can learn is watching TV. She listens many times and catches a new word, then tries to use it when she is speaking. She uses it as much as she can to complete this word in her brain and then another word starts. There is another way but, it is better to sat it a game—Scramble-- which is not only fun also is very useful to learn English words. I think this game is popular in every country. You must think carefully to find right words to win, and also you can learn a lot of vocabularies from the people in your group .There are no limit age for this game, so you can play it with your family. Cross word-word puzzle is other way that you can learn different words and renew your general knowledge as well.

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