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How can a person, especially one who generally remains at home to raise the family, earn money? What about someone who needs a side income gained on non-traditional hours? Anyone with a computer, tablet, or mobile phone and Internet service, can make some extra income. This can help the family, provide for “extras” we otherwise could not afford, or gain a young person some spending money.
InstaGC, as I mention this time every year, represents the most reliable way to gain extra income. Each user gets a referral link like https://www.instagc.com/1390585 to bring in others. We who use the site watch videos, fill out surveys, print coupons, and do offers. This last category includes things like testing out mobile apps, reading new magazines or books, and shopping in various places. On occasion, surveys lead us to product trials where we can make extra money, often in gift cards, in exchange for opinions on new products companies may be considering. Anyone 13 and up can join here from many nations around the world, although different locations receive different surveys and offers. We also receive bonuses each week on what we make, and those who receive access to InstaGC’s video wall can earn extra based upon how many videos they receive each week. This and the several other video walls on the site pay based upon the user viewing ads between the videos, but can be well worthwhile. Each one will offer different amounts of videos and ads based upon the viewer’s location and demographic data. Those with time on their hands can use Lucky Day on Android phones. Downloaded through the Play store, it lives up to its billing as a free, ad-supported lottery style set of games. Users get a code like USQT4L6 to share with others who follow them to the site. This generates some coins for the one sharing it and lets the site know who recommended whom. Lucky Day contains daily Lotto number games where people can pick their favorite numbers or do quick picks, as the would in an offline Powerball type game. Players can also enter raffles or try digital scratch-off tickets for anything from additional tokens to real money in various denominations. Once one accumulates $10 US in on the cash side, it can be sent to Paypal, and tokens can convert into Paypal payments or be received as gift cards to many retailers. Amazon account owners can set up stores as Associates or Influencers depending upon their number of followers on social media. I have my Associate Store at tracking ID wordsnpics20-20, which includes products reviewed on the last page of http://www.wordsnpicsbyveronica.weebly.com. Once a person has 3 verified sales created by visitors clicking through to Amazon and buying products, he or she can earn. Earnings can accrue in the form of Amazon gift cards to the user or direct deposits into a verified bank account. As with Lucky Day, a minimum of $10 US converts into the cash or cards from Amazon. These may sound like small amounts. However, during the holiday period, this adds up into various gifts and meal items. Everyone deserves help at this time of the year as well as all others, so why not give these apps a try?
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During the time in which we prepare
To gather and share Tokens of love and care In gifts and a traditional meal For which we all come to feel A sense of thanks so real For the times we Came through our times of tragedy Into a place where family Can give us comfort that dissolves to happy Days filled with joy and love Leading us to rise above The evils always seeming to lurk outside of Those places we Set aside either mentally Or in the physical world as sanctuary Where some choose to let others inside While many go there to hide As they sort who told truth from who lied In the grand decision of how to dust Off the world of whom they must Deal with and learn to trust To allow each person’s heart and mind An opportunity to heal and find The peace and love to be truly kind, Giving us all a mood Where we develop the attitude Of holiday style gratitude To extend out all year round Giving our souls a ground From which to become beauty bound. Does it seem that the start of school brings an unending parade of forms? Field trips, student information and health records, and so many fundraisers follow them home that it can wear out even the best parent. However, we can turn these dreaded items into teachable moments. After all, every parent welcomes a chance to impart life skills for a child. How can parents use the never-ending supply of forms this way?
Forms can teach all children valuable lessons. The youngest pre-K and Kindergarten ones, of course, will learn differently than high schoolers. All ages need the skills they pick up by seeing and filling forms. A website such as http://www.zerotothree.org can help a parent discover the best ways to word things for the youngest of children. The youngest and those with the smallest amount of reading skills come first. As soon as children prepare to enter school, take them to enroll. Read with these children the forms they have. This helps them learn new words, if a parent can explain or help them look up the words. When my children mention having a form for me, I ask something as simple as, “Where is it?” This way, they know I need to see it before it has a chance to slip my mind. More advanced readers in Kindergarten and the primary grades need new paths to learning here. Continuing to explain language in the forms provides them a good linguistic foundation. At this phase, I also began to ask my girls questions about what information they thought goes on the form. Make it a fun “interview,” and most children will go along with it. How do we word these questions? Begin with basic ones like, “Who are you? “or “Where do you live?” If these don’t work, or you need more ideas, look to http://www.positiveparentingconnection.net for ideas. All through elementary school, I have done this question and answer session with each form. I let the girls observe as I filled out each piece of paperwork carefully, so teachers could read it. I also made sure to teach the girls how to make a schedule of what form needs to be given to the teacher on what date. This way, they also gain valuable time management skills applicable to homework and projects as they grow. I’ve always found that helping children with time management pays off the most. Even when it takes longer for one to grasp the idea, she eventually applies it. Since learning to write, both girls put their activities on the family calendar once we adults approve what they want to do. Thus, they see how multiple people can fit schedules together when it becomes necessary. Children’s Village of Washington County, on the web at http://www.chldrensvillagehgr.com suggests teaching children pertinent personal information around second grade, when they are more likely to recall it if asked. After a second-grade trip there, my younger daughter came home asking for our names, address, phone number and other contact info. I let her watch me provide it on the homework sheet, and we discussed in which situations to use what information. She said Children’s Village had taught her that in emergencies, the authorities would need those items. I informed her how school wants the same things plus the number of people per household. We talked about how schools need it, so they know the area in which they operate and why different groups of people or areas need different services, like free lunch. We expanded into how we do not give our contact information to people we don’t know and that we adults need to meet those people the child knows so we know whom to trust. As the children learn to read and write, forms also give us other lessons to teach. I always made some extra copies of forms for this purpose. Let the child read as much of the form as he or she can to you. Then, give him or her a pencil to try to fill it out. Discuss afterward why his or her answers work or don’t work. Show the child how to spell words that may be wrong on his or her copy. Let the child work on writing legibly on lines with the extra copies of forms. This will help the youngster discover how to do these functions, very useful things to know for later. I noticed that once my older daughter entered middle school, she could write legibly enough to begin filling out some forms. At this point, I let her take over the shorter, simpler forms. She began to fill any lines that asked for printed information. In our county, this means she writes parent information such as my husband’s and my name, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses on the forms. Then we look it over, and when the information is accurate, we sign on the relevant line. We adults also fill in driver’s license and Social Security numbers when the forms need them at this age. I also kept filling out medical history forms, so we could discuss different conditions, what they meant, and whether she had any of them. This alleviates her having to Google too much and keeps what I need to tell her at her level. Handling information in this way or Googling questions together helps promote a level of respect many parents and children find lacking in their relationships. I used the method to teach my girls they can come to me for any question and I will either answer it or look it up with them. Both continue to ask me to this day what the fancy medical terms mean. I am glad to be able to set them up for success later, as they will now be less likely to need explanations from others. Plus, we get to talk about how to run responsible online searches, looking for reliable sources such as http://www.webmd.com or http://www.mayoclinic.org for medical questions. The girls can then expand this idea out as they decide what sites will best inform them on other types of projects. I have found that teachers are impressed when youngsters enter a class already knowing how to do such searches. I showed my girls that a person can sometimes get clearer ideas of where to look for necessary information by changing one or two words in a search string. Both seem to enjoy doing their own searches now, with me acting as backup to whether a given site sounds legitimate or useful. As a student reaches high school, he or she can learn his or her own Social Security number. I always told her to keep this secret as she would a password to keep others from stealing her identity. High schoolers will need their Social Security numbers to be able to later apply for college, jobs, and eventually do their taxes once they enter the adult world. High school provides a great time to show young people how to fill out job applications. When she entered ninth grade, I handed over all filling out of school forms except adult signatures to my older daughter. In our house, if she leaves any more than a parent signature line open, the activity does not happen for her. She also bears responsibility for putting her activities on the family calendar to make them happen. We answer her questions if a form comes worded in a way she has not seen before. This technique becomes more important as we let youngsters take over their medical forms and they begin to try applying for jobs and colleges. She now knows quite a bit of what a person would need to know to fill out a medical history for a new doctor. We also have discussed many times over what personal information relates to what form or situation and when to leave out certain things. For the reasons above, the process of filling out forms gives us many opportunities to teach our children. The youngest ones learn to read, and eventually write, as they mimic us in the act. We can give them functional knowledge and vocabulary for the future. As the children grow, we can teach them what they need to perform valuable and useful online searches. We can use the lessons as ways to build trust and in each other as parents and children. From this, they glean how to discover who else they can trust and when to share their personal information. Learning to fill out many kinds of forms on their own while young will also set up valuable life skills many otherwise never have. This allows them to enter the greater society prepared to learn other things. They then can become more productive citizens and carry an ability to help others on basic tasks, improving our world through self-sufficiency. |
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