Marble Maze for Kids - DIY Project.

My kid is five and half year old and is going to a Nursery School.I always try to look after his mental and intellectual development along with his moral character build up.

So I always try to make various toys and games for him that might tweak his mental and intellectual faculty. And in continuation to that few days ago I made a Marble Maze for him.

It's very easy and you can also make it yourself. For more Kid Idea click HERE

Things you will need:

• a cereal box
• marbles
• a scissor
• glue
• Some Star sticker or color markings.

How to make:

• Cut the cereal box so that you can have a tray shaped open-top box (as in the picture).
• Draw a maze pattern at the inner bottom of the box.
• Take the part you cut out before to make the cereal box open-top tray and cut that into pieces
• The cut pieces are to be glued on the maze lines
• Let it dry 
• Set the marking starts or colour the spots.
• As in the picture the green star is the  beginning point and the bottom red star is the ending point.

LETS PLAY IT NOW WITH MARBLE(S)!
It is a very nice game for kids. He will have to use his brain to find the way for the rolling marble from the Green Star to the Red Star.

You can use one marble at the beginning. When he will become used to make it more challenging. Just try two or three marbles at a time to win the game.

Take Care of your Wood Furniture

So  you have Wooden Furniture at home both useful and fancy. You choose them at the cost of money and time. But if they are not taken care of properly, they become embarrassing  pieces at home. Let us see how we should behave with them:
 

Do:

•    Wipe your wooden furniture everyday with dry and soft cloth.
•    To keep your wooden furniture shiny, have them polish every 6 (six) months. Do not mix various types of polish. Use any particular type of polish of your choice.
•    To get rid of wood insects spray Neem Oil every 6 (six) months.
•    If any of your wooden furniture is bug-ridden, first isolate it and then take necessary action.
•    If sun light enters into your room and reach your wood furniture, use heavy curtain.
•    At times of shifting your furniture, keep eye on the furniture joints – they may got broken.
•    Put some camphor or mineral spirit on soft cloth and rub, many of the stains will become vanish.
•    If you get scratch mark on your wooden furniture, you may use matching shoe polish.
•    To get rid of Cigarette stains, use scratch concealing polish.
•    Use table mat.


Do Not:

•    Do not wipe your wooden furniture with wet cloth. This will stain your furniture.
•    Don’t keep your wooden furniture in sun light. This will affect your wood colour and make them light. Wooden furniture in direct sun light may have crack as well.
•    Do not put water glass directly over the wooden furniture. Use tray to put the glasses. Otherwise, your furniture will get stain, rotten.
•    Don’t store your wood furniture in a place that is over hot or over cold. This will destroy your wood.
•    Don’t put hot dishes over the wooden furniture. They will discolor the

Bank Accounts ~ Basic Concept.

What is a bank account? Everyone here somewhat have an idea of that and my every BubbleWS friend has a bank account too.

Bank accounts are mainly of 2 types: Deposit Account and Current Account.

Deposit accounts are those where you lend money to the bank in exchange of profit and/or service. Whereas Loan Accounts are the just opposit. Loan accounts are those where bank lend money to you in exchange of profit.

Deposit accounts again can be of two types: Current Account and Savings Accounts.

Current accounts are those where you keep money and receive banking services including security in exchange of fees/charges. This is a demand deposit for the bank. That is, bank is liable to say your balance on your demand. Again Savings Accounts are those where you keep your money in the bank in exchange of profit along with security and banking services at cost.

Loan accounts are mainly of two types: Term loans and Continuous Loan. Term loans are those where you take a loan and repay the same along with interest within a fixed period of time. And Continuous loans are those where you do not have a time limit to repay the same along with the interest.

If you don't have a bank account any how, have one RIGHT NOW.

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When Your Finger Nails Talks with You

Yes! Your nails can talk.

Nail talks through its color and shape. Yes, it talks to indicator your health condition. A healthy person’s nail would be light pink and it should not be pale, soft or fragile, or not even concave or convex in shape. To let you about some of your health conditions, you nails may take changes in color and shape. They can refer you to visit a doctor from a dermatologist to a psychiatrist. Let’s see how they talks with you:

1. Whitish pale: Whitish pale nail usually is a symptom of anemia. Lack of protein also gives pale look instead of pink as well. Kidney diseases may cause protein deficiency in the body.  Pale tongue, lower part of your eyes and skin indicate necessity of hemoglobin check in your blood.

2. Yellow: Your nail color turns yellow when it gets fungal infection. Besides, fungal infection makes your nail thick. You may need to take long term anti-fungal medication for its cure. Nail may also turn yellow due to Psoriases (see Fragile Nail).

3. Bluish: When your nails turn into bluish color, medics call it Cyanosis. It means oxygen is not reaching your blood properly. This may happen due to critical diseases in lungs or heart. You may also face bluish nails climbing over high hills or mountains as higher you go, the less oxygen you get in the air. However, bluish nails say you should visit a doctor immediately.

4. Fragile Nail: If your nail breaks bit by bit or becomes fragile, they are saying you that you are Psoriasis patient. Psoriasis is a complicated disease. It also affects skin, bone-joint and other places of the body. So it should be treated right away.

5. Cracked or Broken Nail Tip: Cracked or broken nail tip says that you have a bad habit of Nail Biting. Especially nervous children bite nails. This bad habit leads to fragile and thin nail. To get rid of it, visit a psychiatrist.

6. Concave Nail: Round shape swelling or concave nails are called Nail Clubbing. This is saying that you have critical diseases in lungs or heart. On the hand, due to serious anemia and deficiency of iron in body nails may becomes concave. Do not waste a moment and have an appointment with your doctor.

So nails are not only a harden part of your fingers, they are quite a good friend of you – warning you about your health. Keep in touch with your nail always.

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Tea: Variants and Benefits

Camellia sinensis is the scientific name of Tea plant. The buds and leaves are used to produce the popular beverage Tea.  It originates from the eastern world and spreads all over the world from China and Indian sub continent.  This tea is mainly cultivated in China, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.


Variants of Tea:

Depending on the processing of process types of tea is determined.

Usually the black tea we drink is processed through oxidation-fermentation. In this way tea gets more caffeine and less polyphenol.

On the other hand, when tea is processed through steam, we get green tea. Green tea contains more polyphenol  and less caffeine. So green tea is more active as anti-oxidant.


Benefits of Tea:

The polyphenol tea contains, flavonoid is the prominent. Flavonoid is very beneficial disease fighting Anti-oxidant.

It fights cancer and helps blood circulation.

It also helpful for neurological problems like Parkinson or alzheimers.

Proofs have been found that Green Tea helps to reduce weight and fat.

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Read: Benefits of Quiting Smoking

Gadget Caring Tips

Can you think of a single day without a gadget? From Cell phone to Laptop, Desktop, Television, washing machine, fridge, oven, every now and then we are dependent on them.  They all are our usual and inevitable part of our daily life. So importance of taking care of them is beyond any question. And it is also true that if they are not properly taken care of, you may face hardship in managing your periodical budget.

Lets us have some tips on taking care of these gadgets:

Computer:

• Unplug before you start to clean your computer. Use soft clean damp cotton cloth to clean your monitor. 
• Watch out for the excess water in the cloth that may drip – this can cause short circuit and damage the gadget permanently. 
•  To clean up the LCD/LED monitors, use soft and dry cloth. If your LED or LCD monitor is tainted with finger print or such, you can use LCD/LED monitor cleaner to clean it.
• You can even prepare homemade LCD/LED cleaner. Just add 40% white vinegar with 60% distilled water. 
•  To clean up mouse, clean it with soft cloth damped with little white vinegar and water.  In case of cleaning old ball mouse, take out the ball first. 
•  If any liquid or semi-liquid spills over your keyboard, immediately shut down your computer and overturn the keyboard. Use hair dryer to dry the keyboard.

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Camera:

• Keep Camera cleaning kit for regular cleaning your camera.
• Use soft brush or soft tissue to clean dust and dirt on the lenses.
• Do not spray liquid over the lenses.
• Never rub hard your lenses even with tissues.
• Your camera lense may get fungus, if remains idle for a long period, so preserve them along with Silica Gel bag. It will absorb excess moisture.

Cell Phone:

•  To wipe out dirt or finger print over the cell phone use damp soft cloth.
•  If this does not work, you may use little detergent or white vinegar, stains will be gone.

Television:

• Unplug the power source before attempting to clean your television.
• Do not spray directly over the screen. Apply little white vinegar or cleaning spray on paper towel and wipe.
• Use vacuum cleaner to clean the back of your television.

Optical Devices:

• Optical Devices like CD/DVD player malfunctions if they are dusty. So clean them few alternate days.
• Vacuum cleaner and blower are good instruments to clean them.
• Sometimes disk player cleaning disks works fine too.

Oven:

• Try not to pre-heat oven beforehand.  Use the oven till it is hot inside.
• Never keep the oven door open.
• Add vinegar/lemon juice to soft cloth and clean your oven. This will also make the inner odor disappear .

Other General Tips:

•  To keep your computer well running use Anti Virus and Anti Malware.  Update them on regular basis.
•  Back-up your Computer, Camera, Mobile data on regular basis. They may become life saver for you.
• At times of outing try best to choose the cleanliest bag to pack your gadgets. 

Read about Dos and Don'ts of Wood Furniture Care.

Banking: Keep Your Money Safe

Why do you keep money in a Bank? Two reasons: You want them safe, you want profit from them.

Yes, I'm talking about the safety of your hard-earned money kept in a bank. Our first impression on any Bank is that it is trust worthy and every banker is honest. There is nothing wrong in it. But accident happens - intentionally or unintentionally.

It is you who also have some role for their safety. So, how would you keep them safe there?

Here are some SIMPLE TIPS for you:

KEEP YOUR CHEQUE BOOK SAFE

Senior bankers say Cheque is a poisonous snake. It is not only true for bankers but also for yourself.     Cheque is the first evidence that you have ordered for money from the bank whether your signature exactly matches or not. So keep your cheque book safe under lock and key.

DO NOT SIGN HERE AND THERE UNNECESSARY

Some people have a habit of signing here and there unnecessarily - on bits of paper, tissue paper, west paper, cereal boxes etc. If you have this habit, quite. Quite this habit right now. You never know who are the fraudsters, even you trusted next desk colleague can be the person or even your son at home. Don't let anyone unnecessary chances of copying your signature.

CHANGE YOUR CARD'S PIN OFTEN

This thing we don't do just due to laziness. It does not take even more than a minute, but we don't do it. Please change your card's pin often. This is very easy task in any ATM machine. Never ever keep the PIN provided by the Bank. That PIN is actually to have your first access with the card.

NEVER KEEP YOUR PIN WRITTEN

Another silly mistake made by many and throwing their money at risk. Never keep your PIN written anywhere in any form. How would you then memorize your PIN? Again, never memorize the PIN, you will certainly forget it someday. Instead set your PIN with such a memorable year of your life that you will never forget before your death. See you have a lot of memorable year your life, aren't you?

TAKE ACCOUNT STATEMENTS PERIODICALLY

Collect your account statement periodically and check them.

UPDATE YOUR INFORMATION

Always update your information with the Bank. Your present address, contact number(s), profession, etc. Whatever information you provided with your bank account must be updated if they are changed by any how.

USE SMS ALERT BANKING

World have become modern and so the Banking. Almost all banks in the world now have this technological facility. Whenever any transaction is made in your account, you receive an SMS in your cell phone instantly. This alerts you of your banking transactions. So any unauthorized transaction can be detected and instant action can be taken to save your money at the Bank.

KNOW BANKING, LEARN BANKING/ UNDERSTAND BANKING

Know banking, learn banking and understand banking. Many of us don't care for that. Wrong. Bank is the place where you pile all your labour sweats. So know about it. Learn about banking system. Understand how it functions.

Hope you will practice these and have your money safe and sound in the Bank's vault. Take care.

Instant Benefits of Quitting Smoking

To every smokers smoking is a great fun, relief and enjoyment. So why would they quit smoking? Really, why would you in this present world of no due?

Just check out some of the good reasons and instant benefits you will get starting from the very day you quit smoking:

• Excess Carbon monoxide in blood will cleared within 8 (eight) hours
• A large amount of Nicotine will be cleared within 5 (five) days
• Your feeling of taste and smell will improve within 1 (one) month.
• Your skin will become smoother, tighter and beautiful within 1 (one) month
• Your lungs activity will start improving within 3 (three) months.
• Risk of Hear Disease will be decreased by half within 12 (twelve) months

Now tell me, are not these good enough? I have not even mention the factors of fatal Lungs Cancer in the above list.

Share this with your friends and let them know these facts too and be benefited.

How to Make your Child Eat Food.

“No, I won’t……I won’t EAT……” is the dialogue almost every mother hear from her little children. As though, it has become their habit. As if they never have the appetite.

IF YOU ARE ONE OF THEM, you may be endlessly anxious for your child, thinking “Is my child sick? How on earth would I feed my beloved child?”

BUT THE SPECIALISTS THINK THE OTHER WAY. They say that distaste to food in children does not always mean the child is sick. In most cases children show distaste towards food due to food menu not liked, served the same menu again and again, presentation of the meal not attractive and like.

SOMETIMES, PARENTS BECOME TOO ANXIOUS and create over pressure on their children to feed their meal. As a result the food itself becomes something disgusting to them. And this is the situation you are to actually worry about.

TO UNDERSTAND IF YOUR CHILD REQUIRES MORE FOOD, measure his weight. If his/her age and weight are proportionate, there is nothing to worry. And if his/her weight is less than the prescribed weight in accordance to his/her age, the child needs to be fed more. Also may require visiting a doctor.


SO, YOU ARE THINKING WHAT TO DO? In fact, try to find out the reason - why your child does not eat? Find out his/her taste – what he/she likes to eat? And be innovative and tactful in food preparation, presentation and serving. This will bring back their appetite.


HERE ARE SOME TIPS FOR YOU :

•    Try to take family meal altogether, that is every member of the family in a single sitting. Let your children have seat with all the family members at the meal time. Make it a habit for them; this will teach them to take meal in time.

•    If same type food is given to your children, they will become bored and grow distaste to food. So make variation to their meal. If one type of food is not liked by them, try another.

•    Feed your child according to his taste and time. Never create pressure on him to take food; he or she will become afraid of food. Rather, you may try to feed him keeping him busy on toys, cartoon or storytelling etc.

•    Sometimes children don’t like to take rice, so at times prepare vegetable hotchpotch (sabji-khichuri) and feed them.

•    Do not give Milk before going to bed. This will make them feel full-stomach and will not want to eat after wake.

•    Too much Fast-food, Chips, Chocolate, Ice Cream destroys hunger and appetite for normal food. Keep them away.

•    Measure weight every two months.

•    Make a meal time routine for your child. Instead of giving food now and then, wait for the meal time.

•    Cook your adult meals with less hot and serve your children. They will grow habit of taking meal like other adult family members.

•    Sometimes children don’t like to eat at home, but takes meal at school Tiffin seeing other children eat.

•    You may ask them what they would like to eat.

•    Decorate food on plate. They will become interested to take them.