13th Week in Ordinary Time
Thomas, Apostle
1st Reading: Eph 2:19–22
Now you are no longer strangers or guests, but fellow citizens of the holy people: you are of the household of God. You are the house whose foundations are the apostles and prophets, and whose cornerstone is Christ Jesus. In him the whole structure is joined together and rises to be a holy temple in the Lord. In him you too are being built to become the spiritual sanctuary of God.
Gospel: Jn 20:24–29
Thomas, the Twin, one of the Twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he replied, “Until I have seen in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger in the mark of the nails and my hand in his side, I will not believe.”
Eight days later, the disciples were inside again and Thomas was with them. Despite the locked doors Jesus came and stood in their midst and said, “Peace be with you.” Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here and see my hands; stretch out your hand and put it into my side. Resist no longer and be a believer.”
Thomas then said, “You are my Lord and my God.” Jesus replied, “You believe because you see me, don’t you? Happy are those who have not seen and believe.”
REFLECTION
Saint Thomas was a pessimist. Some people rejoice to see a glass half-full, but Thomas saw it half-empty. He was full of courage; but he also possessed a streak of fatalism. On Good Friday, he had lost all hope as they hung his master on a cross on the Roman killing fields of Golgotha. Then again, Thomas….."Doubting Thomas", as he is sometimes called…..was the first disciple to put into words the truth that Jesus is both God and man. We Christians know that Jesus was divine; human, of course, but not only that: he was unique, the one human being in whom God was incarnate.
Because of that, we must never lose hope! Forgiveness of our sins is found through our identification with Jesus’ self-sacrifice. We need to think of Christianity as more inclusive than any single doctrine. There have been many movements in human history, initiated by those simple but wonderful events in Palestine, centering around the person of Jesus. The older we become, the more we grow in wonder at the enormous and diverse effects in human history that can be traced to the teachings, the deeds, the death and the resurrection of that one, single man……Jesus Christ!
Friday, July 3, 2009
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Reducing Toxins in Your Body
I am about cutting through the nonsense and providing you specifics on what you can do to feel better everyday.
Practiced for centuries by many cultures around the world — including Chinese medicine systems — detoxification is about resting, cleaning and nourishing the body from the inside out. By removing and eliminating toxins, then feeding your body with healthy nutrients, detoxifying can help protect you from disease and renew your ability to maintain optimum health.
Too many people become obsessive about eating foods that are not organic in order to reduce toxins in their bodies.
Following are the 7 quickest and most painless things you can do in order to reduce the amount of toxins in your body:
1) Eliminate Diet Soda with artificial sweeteners (Try a Stevia alternative)
2) Eliminate fluoride toothpaste (try a natural alternative)
3) Install a water filter in your shower that eliminates chlorine in the water
4) Throw away the Windex and ammonia based cleaners and use a natural alternative
5) Eat fast food no more than once per month
6) East Organic foods at home at least 50% of the time
7) Install a water filter on your faucet for drinking water
I have found these 7 recommendations very easy to do and very painless. Since I implemented these, I am not going on 2.5 years without getting sick (longest stretch in my life).
Practiced for centuries by many cultures around the world — including Chinese medicine systems — detoxification is about resting, cleaning and nourishing the body from the inside out. By removing and eliminating toxins, then feeding your body with healthy nutrients, detoxifying can help protect you from disease and renew your ability to maintain optimum health.
Too many people become obsessive about eating foods that are not organic in order to reduce toxins in their bodies.
Following are the 7 quickest and most painless things you can do in order to reduce the amount of toxins in your body:
1) Eliminate Diet Soda with artificial sweeteners (Try a Stevia alternative)
2) Eliminate fluoride toothpaste (try a natural alternative)
3) Install a water filter in your shower that eliminates chlorine in the water
4) Throw away the Windex and ammonia based cleaners and use a natural alternative
5) Eat fast food no more than once per month
6) East Organic foods at home at least 50% of the time
7) Install a water filter on your faucet for drinking water
I have found these 7 recommendations very easy to do and very painless. Since I implemented these, I am not going on 2.5 years without getting sick (longest stretch in my life).
Friday, April 24, 2009
Earthquake Facts
-The largest recorded earthquake in the United States was a magnitude 9.2 that struck Prince William Sound, Alaska on Good Friday, March 28, 1964 UTC.
The largest recorded earthquake in the world was a magnitude 9.5 (Mw) in Chile on May 22, 1960
-The earliest reported earthquake in California was felt in 1769 by the exploring expedition of Gaspar de Portola while the group was camping about 48 kilometers (30 miles) southeast of Los Angeles.
-Before electronics allowed recordings of large earthquakes, scientists built large spring-pendulum seismometers in an attempt to record the long-period motion produced by such quakes. The largest one weighed about 15 tons. There is a medium-sized one three stories high in Mexico City that is still in operation.
-The average rate of motion across the San Andreas Fault Zone during the past 3 million years is 56 mm/yr (2 in/yr). This is about the same rate at which your fingernails grow. Assuming this rate continues, scientists project that Los Angeles and San Francisco will be adjacent to one another in approximately 15 million years.
-The East African Rift System is a 50-60 km (31-37 miles) wide zone of active volcanics and faulting that extends north-south in eastern Africa for more than 3000 km (1864 miles) from Ethiopia in the north to Zambezi in the south. It is a rare example of an active continental rift zone, where a continental plate is attempting to split into two plates which are moving away from one another.
-The first "pendulum seismoscope" to measure the shaking of the ground during an earthquake was developed in 1751, and it wasn't until 1855 that faults were recognized as the source of earthquakes.
-Moonquakes ("earthquakes" on the moon) do occur, but they happen less frequently and have smaller magnitudes than earthquakes on the Earth. It appears they are related to the tidal stresses associated with the varying distance between the Earth and Moon. They also occur at great depth, about halfway between the surface and the center of the moon.
-Although both are sea waves, a tsunami and a tidal wave are two different unrelated phenomenona. A tidal wave is a shallow water wave caused by the gravitational interactions between the Sun, Moon, and Earth. A tsunami is a sea wave caused by an underwater earthquake or landslide (usually triggered by an earthquake) displacing the ocean water.
-The hypocenter of an earthquake is the location beneath the earth's surface where the rupture of the fault begins. The epicenter of an earthquake is the location directly above the hypocenter on the surface of the earth.
-The greatest mountain range is the Mid-Ocean Ridge, extending 64,374 km (40,000 mi) from the Arctic Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean, around Africa, Asia, and Australia, and under the Pacific Ocean to the west coast of North America. It has a greatest height of 4207 m (13,800 ft) above the base ocean depth.
-The world's greatest land mountain range is the Himalaya-Karakoram. It countains 96 of the world's 109 peaks of over 7317 m (24,000 ft). The longest range is the Andes of South America which is 7564 km (4700 mi) in length. Both were created bythe movement of tectonic plates
-It is estimated that there are 500,000 detectable earthquakes in the world each year. 100,000 of those can be felt, and 100 of them cause damage.
-It is thought that more damage was done by the resulting fire after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake than by the earthquake itself.
-A seiche (pronounced SAYSH) is what happens in the swimming pools of Californians during and after an earthquake. It is "an internal wave oscillating in a body of water" or, in other words, it is the sloshing of the water in your swimming pool, or any body of water, caused by the ground shaking in an earthquake. It may continue for a few moments or hours, long after the generating force is gone. A seiche can also be caused by wind or tides.
-Each year the southern California area has about 10,000 earthquakes. Most of them are so small that they are not felt. Only several hundred are greater than magnitude 3.0, and only about 15-20 are greater than magnitude 4.0. If there is a large earthquake, however, the aftershock sequence will produce many more earthquakes of all magnitudes for many months.
-The magnitude of an earthquake is a measured value of the earthquake size. The magnitude is the same no matter where you are, or how strong or weak the shaking was in various locations.
-The intensity of an earthquake is a measure of the shaking created by the earthquake, and this value does vary with location.
-The Wasatch Range, with its outstanding ski areas, runs North-South through Utah, and like all mountain ranges it was produced by a series of earthquakes. The 386 km (240-mile)-long Wasatch Fault is made up of several segments, each capable of producing up to a M7.5 earthquake. During the past 6000 years, there has been a M6.5 about once every 350 years, and it has been about 350 years since the last powerful earthquake, which was on the Nephi segment.
-There is no such thing as "earthquake weather". Statistically, there is an equal distribution of earthquakes in cold weather, hot weather, rainy weather, etc. Furthermore, there is no physical way that the weather could affect the forces several miles beneath the surface of the earth. The changes in barometric pressure in the atmosphere are very small compared to the forces in the crust, and the effect of the barometric pressure does not reach beneath the soil.
-From 1975-1995 there were only four states that did not have any earthquakes. They were: Florida, Iowa, North Dakota, and Wisconsin.
The core of the earth was the first internal structural element to be identified. In
1906 R.D. Oldham discovered it from his studies of earthquake records. The inner core is solid, and the outer core is liquid and so does not transmit the shear wave energy released during an earthquake.
-The swimming pool at the University of Arizona in Tucson lost water from sloshing (seiche) caused by the 1985 M8.1 Michoacan, Mexico earthquake 2000 km (1240 miles) away.
-Earthquakes occur in the central portion of the United States too! Some very powerful earthquakes occurred along the New Madrid fault in the Mississippi Valley in 1811-1812. Because of the crustal structure in the Central US which efficiently propagates seismic energy, shaking from earthquakes in this part of the country are felt at a much greater distance from the epicenters than similar size quakes in the Western US.
-Most earthquakes occur at depths of less than 80 km (50 miles) from the Earth's surface
-The San Andreas fault is NOT a single, continuous fault, but rather is actually a fault zone made up of many segments. Movement may occur along any of the many fault segments along the zone at any time. The San Andreas fault system is more that 1300 km (800 miles) long, and in some spots is as much as 16 km (10 miles) deep.
-The world's deadliest recorded earthquake occurred in 1556 in central China. It struck a region where most people lived in caves carved from soft rock. These dwellings collapsed during the earthquake, killing an estimated 830,000 people. In 1976 another deadly earthquake struck in Tangshan, China, where more than 250,000 people were killed.
-Florida and North Dakota have the smallest number of earthquakes in the United States.
-The deepest earthquakes typically occur at plate boundaries where the Earth's crust is being subducted into the Earth's mantle. These occur as deep as 750 km (400 miles) below the surface.
-Alaska is the most earthquake-prone state and one of the most seismically active regions in the world. Alaska experiences a magnitude 7 earthquake almost every year, and a magnitude 8 or greater earthquake on average every 14 years.
-The majority of the earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur along plate boundaries such as the boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American plate. One of the most active plate boundaries where earthquakes and eruptions are frequent, for example, is around the massive Pacific Plate commonly referred to as the Pacific Ring of Fire.
-The earliest recorded evidence of an earthquake has been traced back to 1831 BC in the Shandong province of China, but there is a fairly complete record starting in 780 BC during the Zhou Dynasty in China.
-It was recognized as early as 350 BC by the Greek scientist Aristotle that soft ground shakes more than hard rock in an earthquake.
-The cause of earthquakes was stated correctly in 1760 by British engineer John Michell, one of the first fathers of seismology, in a memoir where he wrote that earthquakes and the waves of energy that they make are caused by "shifting masses of rock miles below the surface".
-In 1663 the European settlers experienced their first earthquake in America.
Human beings can detect sounds in the frequency range 20-10,000 Hertz. If a P wave refracts out of the rock surface into the air, and it has a frequency in the audible range, it will be heard as a rumble. Most earthquake waves have a frequency of less than 20 Hz, so the waves themselves are usually not heard. Most of the rumbling noise heard during an earthquake is the building and its contents moving.
-When the Chilean earthquake occurred in 1960, seismographs recorded seismic waves that traveled all around the Earth. These seismic waves shook the entire earth for many days! This phenomenon is called the free oscillation of the Earth.
The origin of the name of the San Andreas Fault is often cited as the San Andreas Lake. However, based on some 1895 and 1908 reports by geologist A.C. Lawson, who named the fault, the name was actually taken from the San Andreas Valley. He likely did not realize at the time that the fault ran almost the entire length of California!
-The interior of Antarctica has icequakes which, although they are much smaller, are perhaps more frequent than earthquakes in Antarctica. The icequakes are similar to earthquakes, but occur within the ice sheet itself instead of the land underneath the ice. Some of our polar observers have told us they can hear the icequakes and see them on the South Pole seismograph station, but they are much too small to be seen on enough stations to obtain a location.
The largest recorded earthquake in the world was a magnitude 9.5 (Mw) in Chile on May 22, 1960
-The earliest reported earthquake in California was felt in 1769 by the exploring expedition of Gaspar de Portola while the group was camping about 48 kilometers (30 miles) southeast of Los Angeles.
-Before electronics allowed recordings of large earthquakes, scientists built large spring-pendulum seismometers in an attempt to record the long-period motion produced by such quakes. The largest one weighed about 15 tons. There is a medium-sized one three stories high in Mexico City that is still in operation.
-The average rate of motion across the San Andreas Fault Zone during the past 3 million years is 56 mm/yr (2 in/yr). This is about the same rate at which your fingernails grow. Assuming this rate continues, scientists project that Los Angeles and San Francisco will be adjacent to one another in approximately 15 million years.
-The East African Rift System is a 50-60 km (31-37 miles) wide zone of active volcanics and faulting that extends north-south in eastern Africa for more than 3000 km (1864 miles) from Ethiopia in the north to Zambezi in the south. It is a rare example of an active continental rift zone, where a continental plate is attempting to split into two plates which are moving away from one another.
-The first "pendulum seismoscope" to measure the shaking of the ground during an earthquake was developed in 1751, and it wasn't until 1855 that faults were recognized as the source of earthquakes.
-Moonquakes ("earthquakes" on the moon) do occur, but they happen less frequently and have smaller magnitudes than earthquakes on the Earth. It appears they are related to the tidal stresses associated with the varying distance between the Earth and Moon. They also occur at great depth, about halfway between the surface and the center of the moon.
-Although both are sea waves, a tsunami and a tidal wave are two different unrelated phenomenona. A tidal wave is a shallow water wave caused by the gravitational interactions between the Sun, Moon, and Earth. A tsunami is a sea wave caused by an underwater earthquake or landslide (usually triggered by an earthquake) displacing the ocean water.
-The hypocenter of an earthquake is the location beneath the earth's surface where the rupture of the fault begins. The epicenter of an earthquake is the location directly above the hypocenter on the surface of the earth.
-The greatest mountain range is the Mid-Ocean Ridge, extending 64,374 km (40,000 mi) from the Arctic Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean, around Africa, Asia, and Australia, and under the Pacific Ocean to the west coast of North America. It has a greatest height of 4207 m (13,800 ft) above the base ocean depth.
-The world's greatest land mountain range is the Himalaya-Karakoram. It countains 96 of the world's 109 peaks of over 7317 m (24,000 ft). The longest range is the Andes of South America which is 7564 km (4700 mi) in length. Both were created bythe movement of tectonic plates
-It is estimated that there are 500,000 detectable earthquakes in the world each year. 100,000 of those can be felt, and 100 of them cause damage.
-It is thought that more damage was done by the resulting fire after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake than by the earthquake itself.
-A seiche (pronounced SAYSH) is what happens in the swimming pools of Californians during and after an earthquake. It is "an internal wave oscillating in a body of water" or, in other words, it is the sloshing of the water in your swimming pool, or any body of water, caused by the ground shaking in an earthquake. It may continue for a few moments or hours, long after the generating force is gone. A seiche can also be caused by wind or tides.
-Each year the southern California area has about 10,000 earthquakes. Most of them are so small that they are not felt. Only several hundred are greater than magnitude 3.0, and only about 15-20 are greater than magnitude 4.0. If there is a large earthquake, however, the aftershock sequence will produce many more earthquakes of all magnitudes for many months.
-The magnitude of an earthquake is a measured value of the earthquake size. The magnitude is the same no matter where you are, or how strong or weak the shaking was in various locations.
-The intensity of an earthquake is a measure of the shaking created by the earthquake, and this value does vary with location.
-The Wasatch Range, with its outstanding ski areas, runs North-South through Utah, and like all mountain ranges it was produced by a series of earthquakes. The 386 km (240-mile)-long Wasatch Fault is made up of several segments, each capable of producing up to a M7.5 earthquake. During the past 6000 years, there has been a M6.5 about once every 350 years, and it has been about 350 years since the last powerful earthquake, which was on the Nephi segment.
-There is no such thing as "earthquake weather". Statistically, there is an equal distribution of earthquakes in cold weather, hot weather, rainy weather, etc. Furthermore, there is no physical way that the weather could affect the forces several miles beneath the surface of the earth. The changes in barometric pressure in the atmosphere are very small compared to the forces in the crust, and the effect of the barometric pressure does not reach beneath the soil.
-From 1975-1995 there were only four states that did not have any earthquakes. They were: Florida, Iowa, North Dakota, and Wisconsin.
The core of the earth was the first internal structural element to be identified. In
1906 R.D. Oldham discovered it from his studies of earthquake records. The inner core is solid, and the outer core is liquid and so does not transmit the shear wave energy released during an earthquake.
-The swimming pool at the University of Arizona in Tucson lost water from sloshing (seiche) caused by the 1985 M8.1 Michoacan, Mexico earthquake 2000 km (1240 miles) away.
-Earthquakes occur in the central portion of the United States too! Some very powerful earthquakes occurred along the New Madrid fault in the Mississippi Valley in 1811-1812. Because of the crustal structure in the Central US which efficiently propagates seismic energy, shaking from earthquakes in this part of the country are felt at a much greater distance from the epicenters than similar size quakes in the Western US.
-Most earthquakes occur at depths of less than 80 km (50 miles) from the Earth's surface
-The San Andreas fault is NOT a single, continuous fault, but rather is actually a fault zone made up of many segments. Movement may occur along any of the many fault segments along the zone at any time. The San Andreas fault system is more that 1300 km (800 miles) long, and in some spots is as much as 16 km (10 miles) deep.
-The world's deadliest recorded earthquake occurred in 1556 in central China. It struck a region where most people lived in caves carved from soft rock. These dwellings collapsed during the earthquake, killing an estimated 830,000 people. In 1976 another deadly earthquake struck in Tangshan, China, where more than 250,000 people were killed.
-Florida and North Dakota have the smallest number of earthquakes in the United States.
-The deepest earthquakes typically occur at plate boundaries where the Earth's crust is being subducted into the Earth's mantle. These occur as deep as 750 km (400 miles) below the surface.
-Alaska is the most earthquake-prone state and one of the most seismically active regions in the world. Alaska experiences a magnitude 7 earthquake almost every year, and a magnitude 8 or greater earthquake on average every 14 years.
-The majority of the earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur along plate boundaries such as the boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American plate. One of the most active plate boundaries where earthquakes and eruptions are frequent, for example, is around the massive Pacific Plate commonly referred to as the Pacific Ring of Fire.
-The earliest recorded evidence of an earthquake has been traced back to 1831 BC in the Shandong province of China, but there is a fairly complete record starting in 780 BC during the Zhou Dynasty in China.
-It was recognized as early as 350 BC by the Greek scientist Aristotle that soft ground shakes more than hard rock in an earthquake.
-The cause of earthquakes was stated correctly in 1760 by British engineer John Michell, one of the first fathers of seismology, in a memoir where he wrote that earthquakes and the waves of energy that they make are caused by "shifting masses of rock miles below the surface".
-In 1663 the European settlers experienced their first earthquake in America.
Human beings can detect sounds in the frequency range 20-10,000 Hertz. If a P wave refracts out of the rock surface into the air, and it has a frequency in the audible range, it will be heard as a rumble. Most earthquake waves have a frequency of less than 20 Hz, so the waves themselves are usually not heard. Most of the rumbling noise heard during an earthquake is the building and its contents moving.
-When the Chilean earthquake occurred in 1960, seismographs recorded seismic waves that traveled all around the Earth. These seismic waves shook the entire earth for many days! This phenomenon is called the free oscillation of the Earth.
The origin of the name of the San Andreas Fault is often cited as the San Andreas Lake. However, based on some 1895 and 1908 reports by geologist A.C. Lawson, who named the fault, the name was actually taken from the San Andreas Valley. He likely did not realize at the time that the fault ran almost the entire length of California!
-The interior of Antarctica has icequakes which, although they are much smaller, are perhaps more frequent than earthquakes in Antarctica. The icequakes are similar to earthquakes, but occur within the ice sheet itself instead of the land underneath the ice. Some of our polar observers have told us they can hear the icequakes and see them on the South Pole seismograph station, but they are much too small to be seen on enough stations to obtain a location.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
7 Ways to Get More Energy
1. Replace Coffee with Peppermint Tea
According to Alan Hirsch, director of Neurological Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago, the aroma of peppermint keeps us awake and energized. Whereas, coffee aroma dries our kidney glands and gets us tired easily.
2. Eat right
Leaving an empty and hungry stomach for three hours would drastically reduce our blood sugar. You would easily get tired and somehow emotionally unstable. Moreover, it would make you want to eat more than ever. Have high vitamin B snacks in between meals to maintain your energy. Banana, almond, low-fat-yoghurt, and fresh berries won’t hurt!
3. No Alarm
A research by University of Washington School of Medicine has proven that sleeping with a light on enhances our energy, mood, and productivity. Using alarms to wake up in the morning would only get you stressed.
4. Body Butter Treatment
Massage your back and ankle with lavender, peppermint, or lemon body butter to get you relaxed and energized.
5. Massage
A massage smoothens our blood flow, and therefore freshen up our body. Pay a visit to a day spa to get a professional treatment.
6. Play with water
Have a long warm bath or sauna to relax your intense muscle and tired body.
7. Doing nothing
Make time to have a complete rest by doing nothing. Your body needs to have a break every once in a while.
According to Alan Hirsch, director of Neurological Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago, the aroma of peppermint keeps us awake and energized. Whereas, coffee aroma dries our kidney glands and gets us tired easily.
2. Eat right
Leaving an empty and hungry stomach for three hours would drastically reduce our blood sugar. You would easily get tired and somehow emotionally unstable. Moreover, it would make you want to eat more than ever. Have high vitamin B snacks in between meals to maintain your energy. Banana, almond, low-fat-yoghurt, and fresh berries won’t hurt!
3. No Alarm
A research by University of Washington School of Medicine has proven that sleeping with a light on enhances our energy, mood, and productivity. Using alarms to wake up in the morning would only get you stressed.
4. Body Butter Treatment
Massage your back and ankle with lavender, peppermint, or lemon body butter to get you relaxed and energized.
5. Massage
A massage smoothens our blood flow, and therefore freshen up our body. Pay a visit to a day spa to get a professional treatment.
6. Play with water
Have a long warm bath or sauna to relax your intense muscle and tired body.
7. Doing nothing
Make time to have a complete rest by doing nothing. Your body needs to have a break every once in a while.
Friday, March 13, 2009
How to make your home a greener place
Step1:
Have your child save empty tin cans and bottles in a box or bag by the refrigerator. When the bag gets full, remove and store in the garage. When your child saves up five to ten bags, haul them to your recycling center and let them keep the money. Teach them recycling and saving money.
Step 2:
Find old ankle socks in your drawer. Have your child paint or color on the socks with fabric markers or paints. These become special dusting mitts for their hands. When they're ready to dust, they can slip on the mitts, get to work and throw them in the wash when they're done.
Step 3:
Keep an Energy Saver chart by your child's bed. Every time they turn off a light, radio or television that has been left on in the house, they get a star sticker on the chart. Twenty stars gets them the energy-friendly prize of your choice, like going on a walk or a hike with mom or dad.
Step 4:
So many papers come from school in backpacks. Every week, have your child collect their papers that only have writing on one side of them. Keep a stack near the computer and reuse the blank sides of these papers in the printer.
Step 5:
Instead of buying new clothes for the school year, visit the thrift store with your kids. Let them help look for quality used clothes at bargain prices. You'll grow some thrifty adults with healthy values as well as reusing items that are still in good shape.
Have your child save empty tin cans and bottles in a box or bag by the refrigerator. When the bag gets full, remove and store in the garage. When your child saves up five to ten bags, haul them to your recycling center and let them keep the money. Teach them recycling and saving money.
Step 2:
Find old ankle socks in your drawer. Have your child paint or color on the socks with fabric markers or paints. These become special dusting mitts for their hands. When they're ready to dust, they can slip on the mitts, get to work and throw them in the wash when they're done.
Step 3:
Keep an Energy Saver chart by your child's bed. Every time they turn off a light, radio or television that has been left on in the house, they get a star sticker on the chart. Twenty stars gets them the energy-friendly prize of your choice, like going on a walk or a hike with mom or dad.
Step 4:
So many papers come from school in backpacks. Every week, have your child collect their papers that only have writing on one side of them. Keep a stack near the computer and reuse the blank sides of these papers in the printer.
Step 5:
Instead of buying new clothes for the school year, visit the thrift store with your kids. Let them help look for quality used clothes at bargain prices. You'll grow some thrifty adults with healthy values as well as reusing items that are still in good shape.
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