Positive Expectations create Positive People

This post is about the importance of positive expectations from children by parents, teachers and elders. When others expect positive qualities from a child, it is almost sure the child will produce expected results.

Children are easily labeled as brilliant, smart, naughty and with hundred other labels. Children get this labels primarily from their parents and other senior members of family, then from teachers and finally from peers.

What does this do to the child? Think about it. There is subconscious psychology at play. When a child is expected to behave in a certain manner, he or she is automatically programmed to respond in that certain way.

He or she thinks is the normal way for him to respond.

The best thing parents, elder members and teachers do to their children is therefore put positive expectations from your children. No put downs.

I have heard many teachers saying to children "You are always like that" whenever they find any fault.

The better way would be "I believe you are well behaved children knowledgeable about right and wrong. What happened in this specific incident?". This put children to think what has happened that lead to a wrong action by them.

'You're always like that' is the subconscious license for the children to continue what they do.

You are brilliant at Math, you learn language quickly etc are positive vibes teachers and parents should always feed the children.

Heard the story of Thomas Alwa Edison going to school? Edison, the great inventor of all times had little formal education.

One day little Tom returned from school with a note from his teacher, which stated that Tom was an idiot.

To which his mother replied. He is no idiot. He is brilliant. I will teach him. I don't know the name of the teacher, but that little Tom has given many gifts to almost all of mankind.

Putting positive expectations on children by parents has strong positive influence on your children. Same is true for negative expectation, but understand whenever you say negative things about your child it has destructive force on him/her.

You are Special and Important

Read the headline once again, I really mean you are special and important. No one in this world is created insignificant. There are times when you are put down by others. But you must understand that you are special and important.

You will not get the special and important treatment from all the walks of your life. This doesn't tell you are lesser important person, or you are less special.

You should not imagine that you are special and important. You should not think you are special and important. Instead you must understand you are special and important. You must know you are special and important.

There is a sea of difference between imagining or thinking and really knowing.

With imagination, you think it is only imagination. With thinking you think it is only your thoughts. But the correct knowledge that you are important will prepare to see the life in a whole new light.

To whom are you important to. Atheists excuse me. You are an important creation of GOD. You are special to the almighty.

The second person whom you are important to. That person is yourself. If you don't feel important and special to yourself, there is no point in thinking that other people will think so. Treat yourself as if a VIP, a special guest to the world for a very short period of enjoying this world. Give yourself all the special treatment you can.

What are the specialties you have? You are able to read this article, you are intelligent enough to understand and take action on what I say.

You have special hidden talents that may be in sleeping stage now. Brush it up now and you will identify how special you are.

Give your body the best food. I mean your body, not your taste buds. Give your body the nutritious food it deserves to stay healthy for the years to come.

Give your mind the best food. Just like your body needs food, your mind also needs food. Here you can take food from a platter to feed your mind.

What you are doing is continuously feeding your mind with strong positive beliefs. Read the success stories of people who have scaled the peaks of success with sheer determination. Also read the story of people who enjoy their life 'irrespective' of backlashes and hardships.

Give yourself a gift today. UNDERSTAND today that you are a special person. You are an important person.

Presto and HP Email Printer

Grandparents and great grandparents now can receive emails without worrying about making wrong clicks on mouse, thanks to Presto and HP email printers specially designed for technology challenged persons receive emails and photos on a paper.

Wow, I've to even worry if any one of the end users of this combo read this post, sometimes maybe not.

Presto, a startup company offers a simple solution to receive emails without requiring a computer or broadband connection. The receiver however needs HP email printer ($ 249.99) connected to a telephone line. The user doesn't even have to switch on/off the printer.

The receiver is assigned an @Presto.com email id. The mails that received at this id are stored in Presto servers until they are sent to be printed to the receiver printer at predetermined time, several times a day as Presto say. The printer works only when you have email ready to be printed.

There are different attractive templates to print photos and text in an attractive manner.

There is nothing to worry about hundreds of spam mails eating up your printing paper. Presto sends emails from a pre-approved list only. The receiver can choose a handful of senders to send them emails and photos.

There is a monthly charge of $ 9.99 to receive emails via printer from Presto. It is a small amount when compared to the joy of seeing the photos of grandchildren or great children who may be in another continent.

http://www.presto.com/

Blogads Ad Network

Blog Ads, located at http://BlogAds.com offers blog writers sell advertising space of their blogs to advertisers who want to get exposure for their products through the network of participating blogs.

The ad formats from Blog Ads are quite attractive, with lot of space for an image and a very long description.

This is not CPC or cost per click advertising. Blog publishers and advertisers can agree upon a rate for publishing the ads. The contract is for a week, a month or for three months. Publishers can review their prices.

Blog Ads take a commission from the price.

Since the advertising space is purchased directly by the advertisor, a publisher needs to ensure that the advertisement will be displayed on a prominent location, mostly top in the page.

It is a bit trickier than Adsense because of the bargain process involved. Also if your blog is not that popular, advertisors will not be interested in your blog.
Signing up for blogads is not open for all, but someone has to invite you to the publisher network (I didn't get an invitation till now).

When Webtop takesover Desktop

Desktop to Webtop; are we ready for the Opportunities and Challenges?

Web 2.0 is no longer at our doorsteps, it has taken a seat in our living room. With variety of programs and solutions to manage all your desktop applications online, a webtop brings both opportunities and challenges.

Opportunities of Web Top Publishing
Online document creation solutions like Google Documents, it is now easy to sidestep the restrictions of desktop publishing. You go webtop with such online documents creation and managing solutions.

Such solutions also allow collaborative development of content, i.e. different persons can work on the same document at the same time. Imagine three professionals from Bangalore, Sydney and Los Angeles working on a document at the same time.

With reliable servers, there never arises an issue of most dreaded data loss. All personal and business data are safe and always accessible from any computer connected to the internet.
One can create a PDF document without using a software like Acrobat. Ebook publishing can be a collaborative project with never-before ease.

Challenges of Webtop Publishing
There will also arise challenges such as leakage of sensitive business data like customer list, financial details and personal details like bank account details.

These become challenges especially when people take a lax look on security issues. These things can mostly happen, but are avoidable by observing basic internet security measures.

Help Pooja Find Her Parents

Four year old girl seeks her parents

Pooja is a normal four year old girl. This girl from somewhere in the northern part of India is now at Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of Southern most state capital of India. A lot of people she would rejoin her parents sooner than later.


I was quite surprised to receive the same email forwarded from different friends and again seeing the same mail at a Yahoo Group and at orkut.com community message. The common theme of all the mails was an appeal to humankind to help a four year laz find her parents. She was separated from her parents somewhere in the past.

Pooja, apparently from Northern India reached the hands of Kerala Police when they stiffened the stand on abusing children for begging. Pooja, the girl retrieved from a Tamil nomadic group. The beggar gang leader lied before magistrate that Pooja is his daughter but she was lucky to be rescued and be sent to Nirmala Bhavan Sisu Bhavan, a caretake place for young children in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. Pooja is the company of 24 other kids at the place.

Pooja slowly learns to speak Malayalam and teaches others Hindi film songs.

According to Pooja her father is Raju and mother is Munnadevi of Nagaluppa. Since then police has searched all places in Northern States of India for Nagaluppa the place name. The searches gave no results.

Meanwhile some persons set up a website at http://helppoojafindherparents.org/, a website that tells known details about the girl.

Now enquiry calls come in search of Pooja from Europe, US and all parts of the world. Finding real parents of the girl becomes a tough task and only DNA tests tell the real parents.

I don't forward any mails. Here too I didnt forward the mail, but post the message here as a blog post. Now you have the message, pass this message to as many people as possible - you may be becoming part of new history of love, compassion and humanity.

image from http://helppoojafindherparents.org/

When Technology Becomes Politicised

War against multinational corporations, globalism and other intellectual enemies were always a necessity for the communists of Kerala, more so than anywhere else in the world.

The latest war take by coms is against Windows OS. They today want Linux OS installed in all computers of Kerala. Ough, their teeth and nail war against computers is not buried in memory yet.

Think people of Kerala, what good has the fight against implementation of computers brought us. It only pushed us back by 20 or 30 years. While other states of South India embraced computer implementation of computers, we were busy preventing the entry of this mamoth enemy that would leave thousands of us unemployed, because then we were at least somewhat brainwashed that a computer could do the job of a thousand people and 999 people will be left unemployed with the coming of a single computer. Nice logic, nah?

The people got enlightenment when one of their leaders visited some foreign countries where he saw thousands of young people employed with different computer application jobs.

Yeah, they were magnanimous in 'correcting' their mistakes, but by the time Kerala has already been lashed back by at least 20 years behind Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.

It is a happy thing they acknowledge computers today. Now they are educated so much that they are fully aware of the dangers of proprietary software like Windows OS. Free and Open Source Software is their need of the hour. Implementing Linux is a burning desire.

As soon as they came to power they have took the first steps of installling Linux in all school computers of Kerala. Now, they want to find teachers experienced enough in Linux atmosphere to teach tens of thousands of children.

What a great scenario, isn't it? A state full of Linux OS computers, but with little people with enough knowledge in handling Linux.

You are fully aware of the previous war against this giant called computer. Now we have another enemy in desktop.

Reading this much down, don't think I am against Linux. In fact I appreciate Linux for the open environment it provides. But are enough teachers of Kerala today capable of handling Linux Platform?

Attempts of computer education to teachers really was a hard task for instructors. Now think about our teachers memorizing 50 lines of Linux Programming.

Yeah, but we are always ready to fight unknown enemies. Because if we stop fighting, our great party will go to shambles. Followers always need to struggle and hope for a bright future, where easy to use software has no place, it must be Free and Open. By free we always mean 'free meals'. Is there really a thing called 'free meals'? I thought no.

This struggle against Windows Operating System and over-enthusiasm to implement Linux will effectively deprive our little children of new technology. Yeah, Linux education is needed, but without the support of a pool of knowledgeable instructors, mass implementation proves futile.