Mary Jean Wall

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Family Time and Logic Games for Children

The field of logic is a fascinating study area for many students that serves them well past their educational period and well into their professional fields. Meanwhile many other adults simply consider logic to be a state of mind, and have no educational background. That’s where the validity of the field is sometimes mistaken and becomes blended with personal views and beliefs. Logic is its own area and is strongly related to many careers including law, philosophy, social sciences and beyond. And developing strong logical skills in your children is one of the best tools you can give them, and can also be quite fun and intellectually, as well as creatively, stimulating.

You don’t have to wait until your children are in college or taking advanced classes to give them a boost in logical deduction, thinking and analysis. It’s easy to structure some dinner discussions, family games and/or activities around logical their development. There are plenty of great logic puzzles that will activate their thought processes and stimulate logical perspectives and mentality. These games and puzzles can focus on pets, topics like dinosaurs, names, states, etc. and most of them can be personalized for your child or children and their specific interests.

For instance, if you have a cat, dog and a bird in the family home and three children, you can secretly assign a pet to each child. Create a graf that lists the children’s names on the down column and pets names across the top. Then let your children fill in the boxes according to specific statements you provide. For example, you can say, Bob’s (insert name of child) pet doesn’t bark. That will eliminate the dog from Bob’s possibilities. Continue with comments that serve as clues to which pet belongs to whom, such as Sue’s pet can’t fly and Mary’s and Bob’s pet doesn’t purr. The children should ex out each box that eliminates a specific pet from their name. This goes on until one of the children figures out which pet belongs to whom.

This is an example of a fun and easy, as well as easily guided and created, logic puzzle for children. There are plenty of study guides , resource tools and other online options for creating others. And as your children’s skills develop further you can increase the complexity and difficulty level accordingly. This also contributes to family dynamics, connections and can be fun and even enriching for parents. One of the great perspectives on educating children is the interest in continuing one’s own growth and learning. It’s also one of the best ways to build strong family bonds . And providing your children with solid skills at an early age is one of the best advantages you can give them in preparing for adulthood.

Posted November 17th, 2011.

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Canadians Focus on Higher Education for Women

The women and the girls are not alone in Victoria, Canada. When moving to a new city or new country there are many things to consider such as job opportunities, safety. Apartment rentals Victoria BC has a solution which was set in place by a few women almost one hundred years ago, and that is the Canadian Federation of University Women . Now this organization has more than two hundred and fifty members, all of whom meet to support each other and to find that support when they themselves need it the most. The club focuses on women and girls obtaining experience in higher education and on women’s rights issues, but also provides a lot of support in friendship and activities that provide fun and relaxation as well.

This is an ongoing and consistent kind of support system as meetings are held each month without fail. Not only are there these standard meetings but each neighborhood holds meetings within the various communities as well. With over 40 interest groups that include book clubs, hiking, social issues, culture and the arts, and investment advice, the women of Victoria find the support they need to become and to continue to be active and viable in their community as well as becoming all that they are meant to be individually. This is not only a positive community aspect, but also serves as an essential role mole for the rest of progressive societies. Recognizing the significance women have on culture is something that began in the 20th Century and is becoming fully realized in this one.

To make the choice to move to Victoria and rent Starlight homes means that one will be moving up and forward in their lives. The CFUW also offers grants and scholarships to girls and women who are looking to further their learning and their educational goals. This fund started in 1919, with a total some of fifty dollars. Now, almost one hundred years later the club has been given numerous awards and recognition for their philanthropic achievements. All of this takes planning and a looking towards the future…40 years ago they began planning for today, by setting up a sub-division called the Scholarship and Bursary Society. The goal was to make certain that this kind of support would continue, and it has. All donations and collections from fundraising events over the years was put into a fund, invested then, so that they can invest in the women of today.

Posted October 31st, 2011.

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