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Many experts state that most of the students after learning new things begin to forget the information within 24 to 48 hours. So to offset the learning process vacation camps are a great source for the children to stay in the line. This reinforced education activity will make the children to strengthen some of their subjects.

Some tips are provided for your children to enjoy the learning process while they are away from school.

Children should be encouraged to write in their own style, like they should be told to write letters to friends or family members to describe their weekly activities and also make them to read his / her letters so loud that they can understand the flow. To improve or to make them love math, you should ask your children to assist in preparing a budget for monthly grocery. This way the children do not feel that they are doing some math, but feel that they are handling some important task in the house.

To increase the reading level in children, they should be made to develop the habit of reading books and libraries are the best source for this. In local libraries, they offer clubs and programs to children for free. Parents can take the help of the librarians to find a suitable book for their children.

Internet is a vast place to find numerous books and other children development resources and browsing through the Internet itself is a very encouraging activate. However, parents have to take proper measures before giving their children to use the internet. It is advised that parent's presence is very much important while children browse through the net.

To enhance the development of logical thinking and analysis children should be encouraged to play board games and puzzles along with their family members has this to give them more joy and also helps them to develop competitiveness. Playing games as well develop the confidence level in the children.

Building confidence in children is important as this allows the children to handle or face the situation confidently. This does not help them to handle the situation, but they can even outperform in their studies, and also they will be the lead in their group. The way of talking and presentation will be completely different than other kids whose confidence level is low. It is advised that parents take some of their time to build confidence in children and this will have a positive impact on the parents and children relationship. …

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What happens in a Mental Breakdown?

A nervous, mental or emotional breakdown may include a temporary collapse or disintegration of personality. This may involve an inability to function, depression, loss of contact with reality, manic episodes, anxiety and / or panic attacks.

A nervous breakdown can be disturbing, disorienting and frightening. It may come suddenly or last for several years. Depression, confusion or anxiety may accompany a feeling that you are out of control.
Nervous, mental or emotional breakdowns are lay terms. Nerves and emotions do not break down; these terms implying an emotional or mental collapse or a feeling of approaching collapse. These terms often refer to people who tried to hide unseen emotions, and finally let them out.

Warning Signs of Nervous Breakdown

Some warning signs can alert you that someone might be experiencing an emotional or relationship crisis. That person may need immediate help or attention.

a person can not cope with daily chores and responsibilities

a person's words make no sense (word salad)

a person threatens or tries to harm someone

a person threatens or tries to harm self

a person seems to see, hear, smell, taste, or feel things that do not exist

a person becomes destructive to possessions, home and relationships

If you see any of these signs, sometimes call a crisis help line or other source for help and information. Many cities have a suicide hotline or crisis hotline. In smaller towns, a hospital or medical center may help you decide how serious the signs are, and what you can do to help.

Stress & Emotional Breakdowns

Anxiety, stress and depression can occur when we suppress spontaneous reactions. They may occur when you feel that we have no choices. Undergoing stress you may feel on the edge of a nervous breakdown.

You may want to react to stressful situations by either getting away from the situation or fighting back. You can not always do this. If you can not run away or fight back, you might force yourself to stay. Your stress builds up.

The same thing may happen at home, or in your close relationships. You can change your relationships or learn to cope with stress. Either can keep you from feeling overwhelmed.

You can eat healthier. You can exercise for about half hour at least 3 times a week. You can get enough sleep. You can avoid alcohol and illegal drugs. You can take a vacation. You can learn how to relax. You can build and enjoy better relationships.

Coping with stress means learning how to communicate better. Reading about or taking classes in communication may help. Systemic coaching can help you recognize and change long-term relationship habits and complex relationship problems.

Personalities that Break Down

People who do break down often seem to be either people pleasing and / …

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The cold breeze of winter season and the first flakes of snow puts your countdown to your most awaited ski vacation to its end. However, snowing patterns have changed due to global warming, forcing ski resorts to use artificial means to create snow through snow cannons. Ski resorts usually use this machine to create the first layer of snow.

Snow cannons create snow by combining cooled water and compressed air. The compressed air serves three functions in the process of making artificial snow. First, it "atomizes" the water or splits them into many tiny droplets. Second, it blows the water droplets into the air. Lastly, it helps cool the water droplets as they fly into the air. During warmer days, they use an agent known as Snowmax – a protein which provides a nucleate for ice crystals, enabling freezing at temperatures around -3C.

Although considered to be a savior to most skiing resorts, these cannons have undesirable effects on the environment.

Since it uses water to create artificial snow, it increases water consumption. Based on an article published on Chamonet.com, it is estimated that snow-making in France uses more water than in a town with 170,000 inmates. However, there are resorts now that utilize treated waste water in order to create snow instead of fresh waters from reserves.

Moreover, it uses too much energy. It contributes further to the problem of global warming due to the amount of energy output it creates. In addition, these machines contribute to noise pollution. In fact, a single snow cannon creates sound between 60 to 80 decibels which is equivalent to the noise created by heavy traffic. This noise disturbs wildlife in the mountains.

In addition, let's not forget that these machines also use certain chemicals in order to produce artificial snow. And when the artificial snow melts, the residual of chemicals coming from the snow may affect vegetation.

Furthermore, artificial snow is much denser than natural snow so it melts much later than natural snow, thus increasing the volume of melted water that runs down the mountain, causing natural erosion.

Plus, the chemical additives used in creating artificial snow may find its way into rivers which supplies potable water for the resorts.

The use of treated waste water also raised alarms. They argued that chemicals used in treated water may cause further harm to the environment.

Bottom line is, while snow cannons may help sustain businesses, its detrimental effects to our environment could not be ignored. So how can we ski vacationers take an active role on helping keep the ski industry alive while still being environmentally responsible? Here are a few ways:

1. Take steps to reduce energy use . Unplug seldom-used appliances and turn off all the lights when you leave the room. While we can not put an end to the use of snow cannons for now, we can take necessary actions to eventually end climate change (and render snow cannons useless in the process) in our own little ways.
2. Go

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