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I grew up in a home that was always filled with musical instruments. I must admit that I never had the aptitude to play them. When Olympia (Age 13) came home wanting to play violin through the school I was thrilled. After two years in which I have never heard her practice, I began to wonder. This year when I received last minute phone calls that she didn't need to be picked up after lessons I began to suspect. This mornings argument pretty much left no doubt. A musical instrument is not for everyone...

OK, so maybe it's not the plague but the Norovirus is running through the Sdyor house and it is not fun. You may have heard it called the Norwalk virus but my personal favorite is the Snow Mountain virus. Which if you live in New England is ironic because it's now February and it's the only snow we've had this year...

Volgens recente cijfers telt ons land meer dan 500000 kinderen die te kampen hebben hebben met de gevolgen van ADHD, en dit aantal neemt jaarlijks sterk toe. Deze psychische aandoening veroorzaakt in de eerste plaats aandachts- en gedragsstoornisen. Niet alleen bij kinderen, want nu worden ook steeds meer volwassenen getroffen. Een geneesmiddel tegen ADHD werd tot hiertoe nog steeds niet gevonden. De meerderheid van patiënten krijgt wél Rilatine te slikken. Dat geberut steeds onder streng toezicht van een arts, en dat is nodig. Rilatine heeft in sommige omstandigheden hetzelfde effect als een pepmiddel, dat zowel door studenten als sportlui veel wordt gebruikt om hun prestaties te verbeteren. Bij kinderen geeft het net een averechts effect en brengt hen eindelijk rust. Wat is Rilatine nu precies en wat zijn de nevenverschijnselen van dit geneesmiddel voor kinderen die gebukt gaan onder de gevolgen van ADHD?

As parents we must have done something right. None of our children seem to have any problems with how their bodies look. Body image issues are a large component of teenage angst and can cause depression, anxiety or worse yet make you believe Joan Rivers and the women from Mob Wives look better with plastic surgery. Of course I could be giving us too much credit as parents...

Laser focus. Total Commitment. On Task. These are buzz words of the business warrior. The person you want with you on your project and not competing against you for the same resources. In the Sdyor house that warrior is named James (Age 9). If he's in agreement with your agenda, and he rarely is...

Remember your first few Christmas after having a child. You wanted so badly to give them the best gifts you could. You scrimped and saved and looked at sale inserts out of the paper. Wrapped it up nice with bows and ribbons. You waited with pained anticipation for weeks until finally Christmas morning came....

One Note, Outlook calender, white board calender, Iphone reminder, yellow sticky notes and the ever popular note in pen on palm of your hand. There are so many different ways to help me remember things that I can't...

Cola is wereldwijd de meest populaire en gebruikte frisdrank. Niet alleen jongeren zijn er gek op. Het zoete spul wordt door jong en oud gesmaakt. Wat heeft deze frisdrank wat andere frisdranken niet hebben? En hoe meer cola je drinkt, hoe meer je ervan wil drinken. Zo kom je in een vicieuze cirkel terecht, die nog slechts moeilijk te doorbreken is. Cola is volgens wetenschappers nochtans niet de meest gezonde drank, integendeel. Naast cafeïne bevat het tal van ingrediënten die fel omstreden zijn. En voedingsdekundigen zijn duidelijk: de light versie is minstens even schadelijk voor je gezondheid. Kortom, wat doet cola met je gezondheid?

We are all guilty of it. We all do it either consciously or without knowledge. We categorize people. Jocks, nerds, beauty queens, serial killers. To put a label on someone is to diminish them, however slightly. To not see the full spectrum of what they entail. I was glad for the reminder...

James (Age 9) loves to sing. If he was from our parents generation they would say he knows the grooves in the record. He sings the songs he loves so much that he grows tired of them. Rather than find new songs to sing...

Like a hard boiled police detective novel, I have split up the suspects in order to get the truth out of them...

Wikipedia states that Reincarnation "best describes the concept where the soul or spirit, after the death of the body, is believed to return to live in a new human body." If you've ever been unfortunate enough to lose a parent around the same time you have a child perhaps you want to believe that...

The talk among teenagers and adults recently has been all about The Hunger Games. Hopefully children will take a life lesson or two away with them. Some may already have preconceived notions...

Learning how to win and lose is a large component of children's sports. It teaches them proper decorum and coping mechanisms to deal with adverse situations in life. Although these days with the helicopter parents getting air time, sports fanatical fathers making the news for the wrong reasons, and dance moms getting their own television shows, we may be going in the wrong direction...

The Sydor home is what you describe as spiritual, not religious. Basically we stopped being involved with organized religion because...

Summer is here and you know what that means? Young children who have two months of unstructured time to be creative and independent. How great it is when on day two of summer vacation they turn to you and say...

Hiện nay, tiếng Anh đã và đang trở thành thứ ngôn ngữ của toàn cầu. Nhiều bậc phụ huynh đã tính đến việc cho con mình học tiếng Anh ngay từ mẫu giáo. Tuy nhiên, nhiều bậc phụ huynh cũng lo lắng liệu việc này có ảnh hưởng gì đến tiếng mẹ đẻ của bé không?

I'm a giver. Mostly what I give is opinions. My wife Ann has threatened me with bodily harm if I state my opinions out loud. People seem to take my constructive criticism unconstructively. I don't see why...

The conversation at the Sdyor dinner table is often about food. Where vegetables grow, what type of trees the fruit are picked from, and what type and cuts of meats come from what animal. Over the years some of the kids have even paid attention. Sometimes too much so...