Don’t Raise Fat Kids

If you have a fat kid you are not about to do society any favors. I just read some very disturbing statistics about how obese people in our culture just become one big burden to society.
Our populations are getting bigger and so our are kids! Coincidentally are kids are getting bigger and bigger, especially when it comes to growing sideway.
According to a National Health and Nutrition Examination that was done in the United States in 2004 a whopping two thirds of kids in the United States were overweight and nearly one third in total of those surveyed could be classified as clinically obese.
I am here to say this is not okay! Being that fat is an ethical issue! Why create such an unnecessary load on our health system. As little kids grow up to get fatter. As people get fatter and fatter, our health system gets strained and then these health systems reach the breaking point.
If you are obese you have a moral obligation to do something about it. Health systems all over the way are already starting to turn away people who are ruining their health on purpose by smoking. There is now the question of how fat people might be just as bad as smokers.
If you know somebody who is overweight you might want to point out to them that they may not be able to receive treatment for any conditions that they bring on themselves in the near future. This is because many systems simply cannot afford to take care of people who don't know how to take care of themselves. Part of self-care is managing your weight simply because weight gain leads to all kinds of chronic and even lethal health conditions that require medical treatment in a hospital or long term treatment.
The same thing goes for your kids. You do not want them being turned away from hospitals in the future because you raised them to think fat was okay.
Many people put off the task of losing weight because they feel that their problem is too big to deal with. It can also be really hard to put your kid on a diet. I know because I have tried many times.
The risks in undergoing serious medical treatment are much higher for overweight individuals so if you want your kid to be rich, make sure he is skinny too! It's not just a cliché!

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Teaching Your Kids Spanish

It's not a bad idea to teach your kids Spanish, especially if you live in the United States. In fact the language outstrips English as the most commonly spoken language in the big urban centers.
When looking for a Spanish course for your child make sure it is organized in a way that will make sure they learn fast. Make sure that they can learn the easy consonants and vowels first. A good course will teach them how to pronounce the more difficult consonants secondly. An effective course will then proceed to go on to teach your child all about greetings, plurals, genders, nouns, adjectives and pronouns. Your child should also be taught how to conjugate verbs and understand the complicated stress and accent marks.
The good news is that most kids learn how to speak Spanish quite quickly as it is quite an easy language to learn. It is not as complicated to get to know as French or English. The most difficult thing about it knows which direction to put accent or stress marks so that you are pronouncing words correctly.
If you need to learn Spanish too you could also go to night school or to your local Learning Annex to learn Spanish. Most high schools and universities also have courses that are labeled Spanish for beginners.
If you want to teach yourself Spanish there are all kinds of programs that you can find online that can help you accomplish this goal. Some of these language programs are available as audio disks and others you can get as MP3s. These teaching programs really do vary in price so it really is worth it to shop around before you buy.
It is also a good idea to read reviews of these language learning products to make sure that they will indeed help you become a fluent speaker. One way to find out if these products are good is to read what other customers have had to say about them. You can find reviews of almost all language teaching programs online.
You might also want to try a cultural immersion program. This is the scenario where you send your kid to another. He or she learns the language simply mingling with the local people. This method of learning a language works really well for younger people.
You and your kids can learn the language by attending the local schools, seeing movies in Spanish and getting a job that forces you to only speak Spanish. The best country to do this in is Spain but there are islands in the Caribbean, such as the Dominican Republic where mainly Spanish is spoken. It's easy to pick this up. You know you have mastered a language when you start thinking in it too.

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