Kids on Social Media, how can we monitor them.

The knowledge of man become wider and wider, the technology continued to modernization, the mind of man filled with things in this world on how to do new thing, what is to invent in the near future.

Today computer device are highly use, this are not for adult only, our young child also exposed in using computer. Not like us we know what we get in the internet, but the young one is not, they only knew is it is good feeling when you touch the high-tech computer.

When I first learned about the computer, I was wonder, in this computer you can learned everything, in just a tip of your finger you reach the world, it was a happy feeling that I first touch the computer keypad and began to play the game in it, I become curious in the net, then I surf and surf, I didn’t learned computer in the school, I learned it in the office, after office I open the computer then I play and surf because its prohibited to play during office hour. It’s a good feeling if you get the extra ordinary thing like computer at that old days, but now it’s not extra ordinary anymore.

Other kids is like me when I first learned the computer, today computer has many application now, many site that is not appropriate to our child, a highly informative, highly dangerous too for them. They can learn good thing, also a bad thing. Sometime, they get their action in the computer, we can’t blame them at their age they are still exploring, what we do is, monitor them, computer are very useful, others can’t live without this technology,

How to monitor our kids engaging in social media?

• In facebook let’s add them as friend, in this way we can know their activity, their friend, their post, we can interact to them in chatting, by this also they become aware of their moves because they know you are watching.
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• In twitter we can do the same be follower of him or her, and any other social media, if you want to hide your identity you can change your name in this way you can monitor their activity without their knowledge.
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• One of my niece was leaving with me, he like to surf in the net, he is about 12 years old, I was wondered because there is a time when he use the computer he closed the door of computer room, what I do is, I open his computer, in computer, there is a archive that all the site you opened was store there, it is the history folder, I open it and I saw there is a porn site, further more when I open his video there is a unpleasant video of him. I didn’t confront him, I just delete the video and reset the history, it’s enough, when he find out what I do he will be aware of it already, the second time I do it, there no more like I found before.
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• Sometimes they become more knowledgeable in computer surfing, than us, you will amaze, how do they found it? it’s just, fine but they need guidance, sometime what they found in the web affect in their life, always check their laptop, the site they open if it not good, delete then explain to them about it. They are young like I say they are still exploring and this exploration affect their life, bad or good defend on how we guide them.

We become more and more modern, our tools become sophisticated, it became dangerous too, and it can ruin your life and change your life. Let’s use these modern tools for good, still leaving with God. He allowed everything not to forget Him but to praise and remember Him.

Guide To Sleeping Positions | The Collective Intelligence

 To sleep perchance to dream—and reveal who you really are.

Professor Chris Idzikowski, director of the Sleep Assessment and Advisory Service, analyzed the six most common sleep positions in a survey conducted with 1000 participants and found that not only do these positions affect our health—but they're also linked to specific personality types.

Guide To Sleeping Positions | The Collective Intelligence

Short tips on Dicision making.

A decision making is not easy you have to think it carefully, here is some simple tips to help you, in decision making.

 

1. A decision making arises from a clear need, from which you can build on your objective,

What is your need? you have to make sure if you need to do this or that and then your objective your aim that you must do it than the others.

 

I was on the way home but it’s too early, I said what shall I do at home, so, while I walking going to bus station my mind scrambling, what will I do, I go to mall to buy a shoe or going home but it too early, because the mall was still closed its about 2 hours before the mall is open, its playing in my mind and finally I decided,  I thought I need to buy shoe, so, I go to the mall and buy shoe, I need  it because, if I didn’t buy it now, I have no time to come back at the mall anymore, my time is limited. After I establish my need I decided to do it right now, that I have a time.

 

2. Make sure to gather data, fact and information pertaining to the matter you need to decide on.

Some point to know, and to consider, a data from this you can declare your right decision.

 

3. From having information that is fact based, you can now draw up your option.

You have to decide which thing you’re going to do first, of course the most important and needs.

 

4. In weighing your option, look at the practicability, impact, execution and most importantly, that sustainability of the option.

After examining the fact and data, it times to declare you decision.

Addiction: How can we change?

I don’t want to smoke anymore, I will stop my smoking, this is the word of smoker who is want to stop his addiction to cigarette, but after a few days of stopping, he started smoking again, and returned to his old habit. this is just one of many bad habit that we want to resist. but we have no power to continue our task to stop it, we become relapser.

Relapser is the one, who have a limited view in recovery, people with certain personality traits have higher than average relapse rates, those who regularly backslide had trouble expressing anger were perfectionist, blamed other for their problem, sometimes antisocial and thrill seekers, by their emotional distress, they going back to their habit when they feeling lonely or worried, other people are turning to substitute devices like artificial cigarette, other say it is not good, so, they going back to real cigarette again.

Relapse is an act or an instance of backsliding, worsening, or subsiding, to slip or fall back into a former worse state, it means, after stopping, they return again to their old habit, and they become worse than ever before.

Its really hard for a person to change, they need help and guidance to be able to do their task to change, How to take away the addiction or to any habit that you want to stop?

Here are some tips;

• Make sure you are ready, it’s a commitment if you are not really willing to make a break you‘ll finds subtle ways to sabotage yourself.
• Use Spiritual resources, it’s the best if you are ready, give yourself completely to God, it’s like turning away from sin, read God words, joined in Church that can change you, there is a saying "if your Religion can't changed you, change your Religion" or talk to the Church leader, and become active in Church activity.
• Break it down, making change a day of a time, abstainer need to set a short term goal, at least three weeks to form a new habit, only, after you've reach your goal, and set another again until it gone.
• Find what starts your craving (strong desire) keep a journal, record frequency duration, intensity of craving and what set you off? It will help you to prevent your craving.
• Plan how you'll respond to a craving whether you are expecting it or not, at times an urge will break across you with the force of a tidal wave and you may easily succumb, so, you know ahead of time what defenses you will use when you feel your craving, do something walk, play a game, anything just to pass your craving, it is just 3 to 10 minutes then your craving has gone.
• Adapt new habit, your emotional needs will not end automatically when your addiction does, to prevent falling back into your old habit, ask yourself what attracted you to the addiction in the first place and then set up alternative, if you go to bar with companion try to join in a volunteer group, want to do with your hand do some gardening and many more alternative.
• Enlist other, join for a cause to help other who has the same case as your, let them learn from your experience.
• Reward yourself, every time you passed in the temptation give something to yourself.
• Don‘t give up, by monitoring your behavior and emotion you‘ll have a better chance of stopping the slide from temptation to release.

Hold on to God He say “He will make all thing new” (rev 21:5) He can change you.
Have faith in God, ask God to help and guide you in your task, ask Him to give you a stronge desire to fight, resist your bad habit. it's impossible to man but it's possible to God.

EDSA, Provincial bus ban. How to deal with it, base on my experience.

The Newest Philippines Southwest Integrated Provincial Transport System will be use starting August 6. 2013 means all Provincial buses routing Cavite to Batangas going to manila are just until Costal road and can’t go to or pass EDSA (Epifanio Delos Santos Avenue High Way) according to the news.

This is another burden for the commuters who are everyday going home to the province. Before, they can ride Provincial bus in the EDSA, need not to go to terminal and spend extra time and money. But now, they have to go to terminal.

There is nothing we can do about it, we should follow. It’s not for one people, but for all, to cease the heavy traffic at EDSA. The authority implemented it already before, but it didn’t follow, the provincial buses still picking up passenger along EDSA and the commuter too. Now the Authority made an integrated terminal to force provincial bus to cease passing and picking up passenger at EDSA.

The time it was implemented, my friend told me, he got a difficulties  riding a jeep going to terminal, at that time, he was leaving in the province passing south expressway, before it was easy for him, walking from their office going to EDSA to ride provincial bus until "the no provincial bus allowed to pick up at EDSA" implemented. It takes 1hour for him to reach provincial bus terminal, it’s so hard, and you will reach your home at very late night. So he asked me, what must he do, he seek my advice.

As a friend I give him my advice that I done before, when I got a problem like him, and maybe the others too, well, here is, take it from me.

• First we calculated his transportation allowance, how much his allowance for one month.

• Then we canvas how much the rent for room, near the place of his office.

• After calculating his allowances for one month, we compare the price of room rent to his monthly allowance. for example, monthly his allowance is 6 Thousand Pesos, that is 200 per day, 100 going to manila, then 100 going back to province, very cheap than the other provincial bus fares, but what is his concern is, the time and difficulty of travel, so, that’s for 30 days bus fare.

• We calculate his food allowance, for example 200 Pesos, including breakfast, lunch and snack for one month, also 6 Thousand pesos, total of 12 Thousand a month, what a shocking expenses just for him? half of his salary in one month, that is just example, he can’t bring food because no one will cook and he leave their home as early in the morning to elude traffic in the street.

• After calculating everything, the bus fare, food and time, he decides to rent a room near their office, and he save some money from 12 Thousand Pesos.

He goes home every weekend and leave Sunday night.

There are several laws, order and ordinance that really become a burden to us, our law maker didn’t do law for the benefit of one person only, but for all, so, we should accept it, if we are affected by this law, what we can do is, adjustment for our self.

How can you use your Android phone as a tool for writing a Blog?

 

 I didn’t promoting this Alcatel one touch 918N, I just want to share my happiness for having this, and I use it for making my blog.

This my 2nd time to have a Alcatel unit, it was years 2006, if I’m not mistaken, my last Alcatel was not good, it’s easy to break, but now it’s more advance.

I acquire this new Alcatel last year 2012, its has a low monthly payment plan than the other, that why I choose this, this is my first android phone, it very useful for a blogger like me, ask me why, because in this unit I can make my blog easily, at my spare time, I don’t need a pen and paper to write my blog, it’s very comfortable.

 Here is how you can use your andriod phone as a tool for writing a blog.

• First, I download color note app, from Google play, Alcatel has its own built in note, but I want the one has a color. some built in note app in the cellphone have a words limit, if you reach that limit it will automatically direct you to another page, so, your article will cut, not like the color note I've been download, you can continue you article without cut or going to another pages of note, you can send it to email in the whole paragraph, its easy.

• From this color note app, I write my blog, when my blog is done; I email this to my Gmail.

• From Gmail inbox, I copied it, then paste to my blog site, to facebook or to twitter, and or to other social media sites.

• Then, just a little editing it’s ready to publish it.

 

It’s like a computer you can browse what site you want, you can copy anything from the website to color note, like letter, picture, and article.

Other thing I like here is you can turn on and off the mobile data connection, so, you have no worry to get a big bill at the end of the month, not like other its always on, it come to 32 gig memory card, it really very useful to me, it like a mini computer, Wi-Fi, dual band and affordable.