Articles Archive for April 2008
Just for Fun »
I’ve been tagged. I’m going to change the rules to suit myself slightly;
a) I’m going to take the first part of mother at large’s answers and complete them myself.
b) I’m going to offer two answers to each, one will be a truthful answer, one will be completely false. I realise this defeats the purpose of the meme, but hey, it might be fun! Here goes…
1. My favourite food is…. Salad
1a. My favourite food is… Seafood
2. I get pleasure from… Cleaning
2a. I get pleasure from… …
In the News »
Women Work Harder Than Men (and other interesting facts)
Women work two-thirds of the world’s working hours, buy earn only a tenth of the world’s income.
I found this fact to be particularly disturbing, although not really that surprising. There is still huge inequality in the developing world, however, that’s not to say we don’t have our own issues here in Britain, like the inequality of wages. If we are all being fairly remunerated for our efforts then what’s the problem with making the figures public knowledge? Problem solved. …
Poker »
My brother taught me to play poker about two years ago during a home tournament with friends. I now play online at party poker under the nickname ‘Eccy100′ (if anyone wants to join me)* and just recently (the past couple of months) I’ve been playing at a local casino. I’ve made it to a few final tables, winning £250, £75 and £40 at each visit.
I tend to go through phases with hobbies (we call them mini-addictions in my house!), last year it was blogging (still going …
Parenting »
Biologist turned child psychologist Jean Piaget was born in Switzerland in 1896. Piaget’s studies focused on the intelligence and social awareness of young children. In the 60′s educationalists developed new teaching methods from Piaget’s findings such as ‘learning through play’ and ‘reading readiness’, these methods are still prevalent today.
The idea of egocentric speech also came from some of Piaget’s work, the theory being that young children communicate in a way that is focused on the self “Erin wants to go swimming”, “Erin is eating a banana”, they find …
