Working 9 to 5 Can Really Be So Bad!

Workin' nine to five 

What a way to make a livin' 

Barely gettin' by 

It's all takin' and no givin' 

They just use your mind 

And they never give you credit 

It's enough to drive you 

Crazy if you let it.

There goes the lyrics of Dolly Parton's Grammy mega hit song from the  80s. Supposedly describing the sentiments of a hard working woman working round the clock earning a living. The same song has been for some time become the national anthem of office workers not only in the US but elsewhere in the world. Business industries worldwide have since then follow the office working hours from 9 in the morning  until 5 PM in the afternoon or basically the regular working hours of 7 to 8 hours each day.

But it seems Dolly has been right all along that working long hours could barely get things done, less productive and can really drive one crazy to death!

Humans are workaholic by nature.

Have you ever wondered why human civilization thrive? It is human nature to produce and do something for ourselves. We were never idle nor stop. Nothing within us are lazy. All our body parts ever since each one of us were born are moving and ticking just like time.

  

Work 'til you drop. 

Abuse was the root of all evil. Anything in excess is bad. And that include work abuse using our bodies. Doctors all along has been telling us that long working hours can basically worn out our body leading us to develop different ailments and health conditions. In a research study published last October 2015 by the medical journal Lancet conducted on 600,000 working individuals from Australia, united States and Europe reveals that people who work 55 hours or more per week have 33% greater exposure for stroke and 13% greater risk of developing coronary heart disease.

Better days.

Thirteen years ago, Toyota of Guthenburg in Sweden was already running its company based on a six-hour daily work routine and has defied the odds from other companies who has more working hours by making the company more productive and profitable. And the best part of it was that employees of the company are more professional,happy and fulfilled.Other companies in Sweden have followed what the company has done and even other nations in Europe and the Middle East were greatly considering  adopting the scheme.

Working 9 to 5  for the longest time maybe the best and peak hours where businesses appreciates productivity. But as time ages and changes, the human body depreciates and wears out making it dull and counter work productivity. Our hearts may be willing to work but not our body. Maybe its time we listen to our body and be kind to it for without it, we cannot work.  Without manpower, no business will ever thrive. And everything eventually will cease to exist.

Working 9 to 5 Can Really Be So Bad!

Workin' nine to five 

What a way to make a livin' 

Barely gettin' by 

It's all takin' and no givin' 

They just use your mind 

And they never give you credit 

It's enough to drive you 

Crazy if you let it.

There goes the lyrics of Dolly Parton's Grammy mega hit song from the  80s. Supposedly describing the sentiments of a hard working woman working round the clock earning a living. The same song has been for some time become the national anthem of office workers not only in the US but elsewhere in the world. Business industries worldwide have since then follow the office working hours from 9 in the morning  until 5 PM in the afternoon or basically the regular working hours of 7 to 8 hours each day.

But it seems Dolly has been right all along that working long hours could barely get things done, less productive and can really drive one crazy to death!

Humans are workaholic by nature.

Have you ever wondered why human civilization thrive? It is human nature to produce and do something for ourselves. We were never idle nor stop. Nothing within us are lazy. All our body parts ever since each one of us were born are moving and ticking just like time.

  

Work 'til you drop. 

Abuse was the root of all evil. Anything in excess is bad. And that include work abuse using our bodies. Doctors all along has been telling us that long working hours can basically worn out our body leading us to develop different ailments and health conditions. In a research study published last October 2015 by the medical journal Lancet conducted from 600,000 working individuals from Australia, united States and Europe reveals that people who work 55 hours or more per week have 33% greater exposure for stroke and 13% greater risk of developing coronary heart disease.

Better days.

Thirteen years ago, Toyota of Guthenburg in Sweden was already running its company based on a six-hour daily work routine and has defied the odds from other companies who has more working hours by making the company more productive and profitable. And the best part of it was that employees of the company are more professional,happy and fulfilled.Other companies in Sweden have followed what the company has done and even other nations in Europe and the Middle East were greatly considering  adopting the scheme.

Working 9 to 5  for the longest time maybe the best and peak hours where businesses appreciates productivity. But as time ages and changes, the human body depreciates and wears out making it dull and counter work productivity. Our hearts may be willing to work but not our body. Maybe its time we listen to our body and be kind to it for without it, we cannot work.  Without manpower, no business will ever thrive. And everything eventually will cease to exist.

Coping up With Preschoolers’ Challenging Behaviors

The preschool age from 3 to 5 was said to be the ideal age for children to enter school.  During this age level, children quickly learn language and start to interact and socialize. At this age level, children are just about beginning to contain some of their challenging behaviors and exhibit self-control.  This was also the point where parents along with their other caregivers must partner in addressing the children’s challenging behaviors.

What are challenging behaviors?

Challenging behaviors are said to be those culturally abnormal mannerisms with much intensity, frequency and duration.  Challenging behaviors are any of those difficult behaviors we normally experience with toddlers and children. They are most common between the age of 0 to 3 and the so-called preschool years. During this stage, children are trying to struggle in developing and learning self-control and self-regulation.

Managing Challenging Behaviors

As a parent and caregiver of children going into this difficult stage of children’s emotional maturity, you need to be equipped with the right ways on how to respond about it.  Proper limitations must be learned and adhered to in order to swing off these difficult manners.  Below are some suggestive ideas on how to manage the children’s experiences on their challenging behaviors.

Keep them occupied.  Making children engage themselves in activities or things of their interest would help keep off their difficulty and sway off from having their bad day.  Just keep in mind to only choose those activities or things that were neither too difficult nor easy so as not to repeat the child’s difficult behavior cycle all over again.

Visualize.  Children make it easier to understand if the activities involved contain appropriate visuals for them to better manage their struggles.

Get them involved.  Children loved to participate in things. They follow the lead. They will do what you teach them to do. If ever you noticed, they sometimes mimic what you are doing. Without your knowledge they sometimes learn your ways and mannerisms.

Integrate rules.  By creating simple rules appropriate to their age, they can easily catch up on how routines will be done correct and with the right values.

Give appropriate options. It is wise to introduce options to your children as a way for them to cope and as remedial measure to their challenging behavior. The options you will give must be appropriate for their age level for them to manage the struggle easier. Explaining the pros and cons and the effect of their actions will greatly help them in taking wise options making them learn to value the option they will take.

     

Let them have enough & undisturbed rest. One cause of children’s restlessness was due to the fact that they lack sleep and rest. In a study led by Dr. Jodi Mindell, a Philadelphia pediatrician published in the website of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, inadequate and poor quality sleep for children may lead to having difficulty in regulating their moods. Dr. Mindell, suggests the following pattern of restful sleep for the following age levels:

• 3 months - 1 year need about 14 - 15 hours a day.
• 1 – 3 years should sleep for 12 - 14 hours a day.
• 3 – 5 years need 11 – 12 hours of sleep a day.
• 6 – 12 years require sleep for 10 – 11 hours a day.
• 12 – 18 years should sleep between 8.5 – 9.5 hours a day.

The children’s challenging behaviors were often defense mechanisms for them to handle a situation. Teaching them how to manage and contain these difficult stages will not only make them conquer their emotional episodes but will likewise make them well and be better children. Through this practice of making them control and manage their challenging behaviors as they go through every stage in their lives lead them to handle their problems and emotions easily and be better individuals. 

Ecouture: More than Just a Fashion Statement

Ecouture:  More than Just a Fashion Statement  

Not just a fashion design.

Each moment of our lives we've been almost dependent on everything Mother Nature has been offering.  All our senses greatly depend on it throughout our lives.  What we breathe, eat and clothe ourselves all rely on the bounty of nature.  We co-exist with each other. Without nature’s bounty we will perish and even cease to exist. Thus, going back to the basic and being natural has always been the best way to live and sustain ourselves even on how we clothe our bodies.  

Over the years, fashion brands rally not only by what’s hip and trending on the haute couture. In fact, the concept of going green does not only apply in terms of health and wellness.   Even the fashion industry was now giving more sensible concern on going green and getting sustainable. Nowadays, going back to the basic using earth and environment friendly designs has become an advocacy and the core values of many fashion brands.  

Today, fashion was more than just a hype.  Fashion has become a statement of advocacy and has been a significant social lifestyle of living! It’s the very essence of what the late great Martin Luther King Jr has once said:  “We are not only what we eat, we are what we wear and we are everything we are thanks to the world’s work!”

The Dawning of awareness.

The heights of the human rights activism during the 1960s paved way to the dawning of the so-called eco fashion awareness which since then continually reshaped its path into the fashion world. Its entry into the fashion mainstream highlighted the likes of Esthetica, Bowman & Auria and other sustainable fashion brands responsible in kindling the social awareness on sustainable clothing and revolutionizing the fashion industry. The rise of Eco fashion has proved that ethics can blend along well on fashion designs and make a wearable statement.

Be one with nature.

Eco fashion  is the new green! Sustainable fashion were made with no less than all the goodness of nature. So, next time you see the word ‘made with sustainable materials’ in your  garments  do remember that they were made by people who have the passion for compassion and thoughtfulness not only to nature and environment but humanity as a whole.  You, therefore need to wear them with confidence and allow yourself to feel the bliss and loving warmth of Mother Nature hugging your body.   

Eco fashion  is the new green!

Ecouture is Mother Nature's haute couture statement!

Life is Such!

Today, I stumble upon phrases on a poem from a movie founded on love and sacrifices.  The title of the post was not its original title.  It was the phrase most often use in the movie to coin on every life challenges encountered by the main characters.  But the poem was a real passion of how love has been to many. Read through it and feel it within your hearts and spirits:

The butterfly may keep looking

Lingering amongst the flowers.

Yet months and years would just fly by

Life is a game of seconds

Love is an immortal secret.

 A moments charm is only to go to waste.

Stories about us pile up and live on.

Its easy to leave some things behind

Yet at times I’d rather have you on my mind.

And relish a loss even til the end of time!

Who can shake the world like I do?

Oh if I could find you in the next life!

Memories fly like cotton in the wind!

I’m grateful I have had you.

And all that heart wrenching sweetness.

Who is the dream of my life

The most beautiful goodbye.

In our next life we sure will love all over again.

Just let me bear all the jealousy and pain.

Even my shadow is in full bloom

And charm the world even with tears?

In our past life we vowed to meet  in this place again

Who is now preparing for me the most brilliantly painful goodbye.

Who can shake the world like I do?

Oh if I could find you in the next life!

Memories fly like cotton in the wind!

I’m grateful I have had you.

And all that heart wrenching sweetness.

Who is the dream of my life

The most beautiful goodbye.

In our next life we sure will love all over again.

SUCH IS LIFE! So be it!

'Such is life!' Most of us, just like in the movie have said the phrase when we can no longer define what circumstances we've been through.  But life goes on and we need to live it according to our destiny and fate.

Chicken in Blue Pants

My apologies to animal rights activists. No offense meant. I just wanted to share this because it made me smile today and lightens my gloomy day.  hope it did some positives on you as well. By the way, thanks  to the original uploader of the video. I owe you a smile!

The Supermilk Called Mothers Milk

[photo from catersnews]

Ever since, we were always reminded that:  "Mothers milk is  the best there is. And that there is really no substitute for it.

Yes, its true mothers milk was the prime nourishment of every newborn baby because it was the only milk and nourishment the baby has ever known ever since the baby was a fetus.

So, what else does a mothers milk have to be the considered the best? The colostrum boosted by antibodies and leukocytes contained in mothers milk was the baby's defense against diseases and bacteria  during the first few days after birth. Colostrum was that thick, sticky  yellowish to orange fluid secretion from the breast of a woman during pregnancy and just a few days after delivery of a baby and before the actual lactation process begins. It contains precious fat soluble, with high carbohydrates, protein,  maternal antibodies and other immune activating nutrients. The mammary gland of a woman's breast will stop producing Colostrum the week after the baby's birth.

This is the reason why breastmilk is the Supermilk among any other milk ever known by human.