 How to Geek: Do Video Sharing Services Care if You Share Your Account?
Article by Andrew Heinzman Photo by Anna Kraynova/Shutterstock Do you feel like a rogue bandit every time you log in to a friend’s streaming account? If you do, you probably shouldn’t feel that way. Streaming services don’t care about account sharing. Streaming websites don’t want to give their service away for free. They just don’t punish users for account sharing, and they usually enable the practice by allowing multi-device simultaneous streaming. In fact, some streaming services have figured out how to capitalize off of account sharing and quietly encourage it. Note: The above comes directly from their website. Click here to read more.
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 Engaging Your Kids’ Inner DIY
Article by Amogh Srinivasan With summer vacation right around the corner and the looming idea of camp and summer activities, the initial thought many parents have right now is “what can I do to keep my children entertained and occupied?” A daunting question every parent faces as the school year winds down. With the advent of the digital age, engaging kids has become easier, yet cumbersome, with the notion of digital privacy and protecting ourselves from the unknown. Outlined below are a few ways to keep your kids engaged, nurture their inquisitive side, and build a skill set that they can be proud of with the help of useful technological apps. Note: The above comes directly from their website. Click here to read more. Power of Positivity: Tired of Robocalls? Stop Answering Your Phone
If the idea of ignoring your phone sends you into a fit of cognitive dissonance, then congratulations, you’re a well-adjusted human being and a perfect target for robocallers. Phones have been around for well over 100 years, and we’ve spent that time developing a complex and universal system of phone etiquette. You answer a call with “hello,” you end a call with “goodbye,” and you politely spend the last three or four minutes of a call repeating “okay, yeah, right, uh-huh.” But it’s the very first step of phone etiquette that robocallers use to take advantage of us. When you get a call, you answer it. Why? Well, according to Volume 5 of the American Telephone Journal—published in 1902—ignoring a phone call is rude and wastes “some seconds or minutes” of the caller’s “valuable time.” Note: The above comes directly from their website. Click here to read more.  Power of Positivity: Scientists Explain 5 Hobbies That Make You Smarter
Any activity that stimulates your brain may improve your intelligence. Yes, you read that right. Even some television shows (think The History Channel or National Geographic) can make you a smarter egg. Of course, you want to find the right hobbies that can make you smarter. Not all hobbies are created equally, however. Lounging about glued to the tube will do next-to-nothing for your smarts. The same goes for “hobbies” like social media (blah!) or reading up on celebrity gossip in the latest issue of “Trash Magazine.” Note: The above comes directly from their website. Click here to read more.  Power of Positivity -
San Francisco Man Repopulates a Rare Butterfly At Home The more humans encroach on wildlife and the natural environment, the more species will be driven to extinction. The California pipevine swallowtail is a gorgeous blue butterfly that has called San Francisco home for hundreds of years. However, since urban expansion has been increasing since the 20th century, sightings of this butterfly have steadily declined. To give you some background on the pipevine swallowtail, the butterfly’s life begins inside little red eggs that lie on top of leaves and tree branches. Then, the eggs crack and black caterpillars with orange spots emerge, eventually transforming into the breathtaking blue butterflies. Note: The above comes directly from their article. Click here to read more.  How to Geek - The Worst Things About Owning a Smarthome
Written by Josh Hendrickson Sometimes owning a smarthome feels like becoming a part-time electrician, only without proper training. Old houses have all sorts of “gotchas,” and some issues you may encounter are out of date wiring, non-functioning doorbells, and thick signal-killing walls. You might even discover you can’t use a wired video doorbell at all—and it may be prohibitively expensive to fix it. Take it from me. My house was built in 1956, and I can’t use smart light switches because it doesn’t have neutral wires in half the rooms in the house! Most smart switches need a neutral wire, but in the 1950s neutral wires weren’t called for in the electrical code. Work done on the house brought a few rooms up to code, but it’s inconsistent at best. If your house isn’t up to code, getting it there means calling an electrician. They’ll have to run wires through your home, which may be difficult or impossible, and you’ll spend quite a bit in labor alone. Note: The above comes directly from his article. Click here to read more.  Building Your Discipline Toolkit From a Biblical Perspective
By Danny Huerta, MSW, LCSW, LSSW What do you think of when you hear the word discipline? Many people immediately make the association with "punishment." And, according to the Focus on the Family website statistics, a lot of people are asking whether spanking is biblical or not. The truth is, the Bible – and the dictionary, for that matter – take a much broader view of discipline. Note: The above comes directly from Mr. Huerta's article at Focus on the Family. Click here to read more.  Is Spanking Biblical?
By Danny Huerta, MSW, LCSW, LSSW How often have you heard the adage, “Spare the rod; spoil the child?” What verse is that anyway? The truth is, that’s not in the Bible anywhere. It’s a misquote of Proverbs 13:24 which states “whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.” Notice the emphasis on “diligent to discipline.” Discipline is not a synonym for spanking, but rather a reference to the parents’ role to teach, guide, correct and love their children. And that is accomplished through a comprehensive set of discipline tools. Note: The above comes directly from Mr. Huerta's article at Focus on the Family. Click here to read more.  To Spank or Not to Spank?
By Danny Huerta, MSW, LCSW, LSSW It’s one of the most common parenting questions, especially for young parents. The topic charges emotions and often sparks controversy. The problem is, there’s not an easy answer. Parents need to evaluate their own personality and parenting styles and decide for themselves. One thing is for sure. If your family chooses to discipline through spanking, it needs to be the most infrequently used tool in a comprehensive discipline toolkit. Note: The above comes directly from Mr. Huerta's article at FOTF. Click here to read more.  Focus on the Family:
How and Why Dads Should Connect With Their Kids Written by Meg Meeker I have spoken to thousands of fathers across the US and, without fail, several come up to me after a talk and say, "Thank you for your encouragement but I'm just not doing a very good job." They look at me with pleading eyes that say 'I desperately want to do better.' We have a national crisis on our hands: we are living in a culture that doesn't like dads very much. Media, music and magazines berate men. Advertisements on television portray fathers as weak, distant and stupid. One car commercial shows a father throwing a ball to his son. He is inept, but a voiceover informs viewers "at least he can leave the child his car." Note: The above comes directly from their website. Click here to read more. |
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