White Roses

By Luann Hays

 With school almost out, summer is the perfect time to rediscover the outdoors. Experiencing nature’s wonders firsthand — admiring a garter snake slithering in the grass, planting flowers in the yard or devouring strawberries picked fresh from the garden — can prove as captivating as anything on the TV or video-game screen. So begin today to get your kids to celebrate and capture summer outside with our living planet.

Parents searching for inspiration don’t have to look far to identify great outdoor activities that are nearby, easy and fun. And the benefits are enormous, studies reveal. More-active kids do better academically. They score higher on tests of concentration and self-discipline. They show better coordination, balance and agility, and they’re sick less often. They are less likely to bully, be violent and to vandalize. And they are more likely to develop their imagination and the sense of wonder.

“Unlike television, nature does not steal time; it amplifies it,” contends award-winning journalist and child advocate Richard Louv, whose book Last Child in the Woods coined the term “nature-deficit disorder” and also triggered a nationwide “No Child Left Indoors” movement. “In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace.”

Not as many children today are discovering the outdoors. In a typical week, only six percent of children ages 9 to 13 play outside on their own, while a typical child in the U.S. watches more than three hours of television daily. The decline in outdoor adventuring is cited as one reason why the obesity rate has more than tripled the past three decades, to 17 percent from 5 percent, for children ages 12 to 19.

But getting your kids off the couch and out into the neighborhood for memorable adventures is easy and enjoyable. “We realize it can be a challenge for parents to identify outdoor activities that kids will consider fun,” says Jennifer Hanley, outdoor living and gardening expert at The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company. That very premise inspired the National Gardening Association — in conjunction with ScottsMiracle-Gro - to feature guides to creative, outdoor activities on www.kidsgardening.org. The site offers a wealth of ideas on how to get kids outside and in tune with their natural surroundings this summer.

Hanley’s nature and garden-related suggestions include a stroll around the yard or the neighborhood park to introduce children to the six basic parts of plants and their functions; planting perennials that live and bloom year after year; and designating a day for immersing children in nature — without TV, computers and video games.

Whenever a child laments, “I’m bored, there’s nothing to do,” recommend any of these options and add enthusiastically that you will be glad to join in the adventure:

* Starting a learning garden in the backyard or neighborhood plot. This helps kids learn about taking care of plants (and the animals drawn to the plants) and respecting the environment and nearby nature. Your kids can take photos of the garden as it grows and produces whatever they’ve planted.

* Bird watching and identifying trees and plants that appear in the yard. These activities often entice older kids, especially if they understand that a periodic bird or plant census helps detect any significant shifts in their populations.

* Recording sight, hearing, smell and touch observations on walks in your neighborhood, which helps kids hone their sensory-observation skills. They can log the information they gather using a scientific approach and even make drawings to chronicle their observations.

Janet Fouts, a West Virginia environmentalist, invented nature games with her daughter, Julia. In one game called “The Sound of a Creature Not Stirring,” they would listen for sounds they couldn’t hear — an apple ripening, dew on the grass, an earthworm moving through the soil, and a spider weaving its web, among others. Fouts maintains that this attention to nature’s details helped in her daughter’s speech development, writing, artwork and keen attention to detail.

By making outdoor activity fun, parents play an integral role in helping children appreciate the beauty of nature in their surrounding areas and understand the importance of being environmental stewards, starting in their own backyard.

Luann is the owner of Send Flowers Online, a comprehensive online florist. Luann offers many beautiful floral bouquets as well as a large selection of giftbaskets and unique gifts. The site also provides a variety of articles and info. pages about flowers and gardening.

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Gifts for your loved one’s

By Muhammad Aslam

 Gifts are the symbol of love, the affiliation, the kindness, the florence, the closeness no matter how far you are from your loved ones in distance but gifts keep you together. The bond is much stronger than the rocks and the feelings are softer than the petals. Living far from your family, your loved ones do not mean you are separated; the gifts always keep you close. On a mothers day when your mom feels she is alone, you being away from her, and some one at the door knocks, and on opening the door she finds a person carrying gift in his hand send by her son, there is no better moment she could think of. Joy of a father could be seen if a son or a daughter living abroad send gift to him on Fathers day and valentine thinks she is the most luckiest valentine on earth if she gets a gift on valentine day despite you being abroad and thousands miles away from her. The gaps created by the distances could be narrowed by the gifts. Pakistan is a country of great heritage and culture where relationships are given a great respect. Many Pakistanis work abroad living away from Pakistan but there is always home at back of their mind. Sending gifts to Pakistan is no more a problem but an ease through send-gifts-to-pakistan website where we deliver gifts to your families, to your loved ones on your behalf. You just choose what you want to be delivered, and leave rest to us. No matter where ever in Pakistan you want to send gifts, we are there to serve you on any special occasion you like, whether its a Mothers Day, a Fathers Day, Valentines Day, Eid, Birthday, Wedding etc.

Send Gifts to Pakistan on Valentine’s Day on February 14.

On this traditional day lovers express their love for each other by sending Valentine’s cards, presenting flowers, or offering confectionery.

This day is most closely associated with the mutual exchange of love notes in the form of “valentines”. Modern Valentine symbols include the heart-shaped outline, doves, and the figure of the winged Cupid. The rise of Internet popularity at the turn of the millennium is creating new traditions. Millions of people use, every year, digital means of creating and sending Valentine’s Day greeting messages such as e-cards, love coupons or printable greeting cards as well as sending gifts through couriers and other means of communications. Send-gifts-to-pakistan.net is another way you can send gifts to your valentines.

Send Gifts to Pakistan on Mothers Day

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new

On Mother’s Day I have written a poem for you. In the interest of poetic economy and truth, I have succeeded in concentrating my deepest feelings and beliefs into two perfectly crafted lines: You’re my mother, I would have no other!

Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn,

Hundreds of bees in the purple clover,

Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn,

But only one mother the wide world over.

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs… since the payment is pure love

Doesnt a mother deserve a gift from her children on this day? Think over what she did for you in your childhood, in the nights you were sick, at times you were down, and stood in front of you to take your every problem, your every difficulty, your every hard time on her own shoulders only because she loved you the most. Now on Mothers day, you can show your love to her by sending her gifts through send-gifts-to-pakistan.net.

Send Gifts to Pakistan on Fathers Day

You can express your love and gratitude to your father, grand father, uncle or a person who is like your father living in Pakistan by sending gifts to Pakistan. The idea behind these cute and some attractive gifts on Father’s Day is to say Thanks to your Father for all his care, sacrifices and affection for you. Fathers are :-

“F” aithful.

“A” lways there.

“T” rustworthy.

“H” onoring.

“E” ver-loving.

“R” ighteous.

“S” upportive.

A father is a guy who has snapshots in his wallet where his money used to be.

None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of such a Father who has not his equal in this world - so great, so good, so faultless. Try, all of you, to follow in his footsteps and don’t be discouraged, for to be really in everything like him none of you, I am sure, will ever be. Try, therefore, to be like him in some points, and you will have acquired a great deal.

Send gifts to your father in Pakistan on Fathers day and show your love, your affection, your affiliation with him on this great day.

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