Easy Way (A Blog For Children)

SMILE FOR YOURSELF AND FOR OTHERS!

What does a photographer say to us when we are getting ready to
get clicked by the camera? "Smile please " and we try to give our best smile , why ? Because smiling is the most beautiful expression of our face, it increases our face value and gives our face a positive look and who doesn't want to look good in a photograph , right ?

So when we can smile for a better photograph why can't we smile to make our life beautiful. A smile improves your outer look and it also presents you as a person with a positive attitude in front of others and that helps you a lot in today's stressful life.Every one loves to see a person with a gentle smile on his or her face .

Besides this, smile can do wonders from the health point of view.It reduces our stress, it stretches our muscles and expands our lungs. It also helps us to release our suppressed emotions and feelings and it lightens up our mood. Smiling slowdowns our heart rate and we feel calm and relax.

We should smile a lot but keep one thing in mind that we are not hurting anyone by our smile and we should avoid smiling on any sad occasion! So my dear friends smile for making yourself healthy and happy and smile to bring cheerfulness and positivity around you.

" A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles!" - William Hazlitt

- Aunt Mary

INTERESTING FACTS

I am again to share some very interesting facts you will enjoy them.
1. Do you know that teddy bears are named after 26th U.S President Mr.Theodore Teddy Roosevelt.

2. The penguins are the only birds which can swim but can not fly.

3. You will be a little surprised to know that lemons contain more sugar than oranges.

4.Trees are our best friends because they care for us, do you know? One tree filters up to 27 kg of pollutants from the air each year.

5.Cuckoo bird lays eggs in other bird's nest.Naughty bird!

6.If a crab's leg is cut off it can grow a new leg.

7.Nine out of every ten living things live in the sea.

8. Some singers can sing a note so high and so loud that it will shatter a glass !Isn't that amazing?

9.Greenland is the world's largest island.
10. Coral may look like a lump of rock,but it is made thousands of tiny animals.

So those are the facts for today .Keep smiling and take care :)

-Aunt Mary

Why the sun and the moon live in the sky ( African folktale )

Long, long ago the" Sun "and his wife "Moon" lived on the earth.

Water was a very good friend of Sun. The Sun often paid a visit to water .They spent good time with each other . One day the Sun said to Water, "O my dear friend, I regularly come to visit you and meet you but you never visited me , please come to my place some day It would be great pleasure for me and and my wife to have you as a guest". Water said, " Look , you are my friend and I do not want to trouble you and your wife, when I will visit your place my people will also come with me and you and your wife will have to drive out. I can visit you at only one condition if you build a very big compound ". Sun assured Water that he would build a very large house with a very big compound for Water and his people .

Sun returned to his home and asked his beautiful wife Moon
"O beloved, will you help me to build a large place so that my friend water and his people could visit us ." Moon answered, "Why not ? I will help you my dear." They started building a large compound.

When the compound was built Sun invited Water .Next day Water went to Sun's place and before entering he asked the Sun "Can I come in, are you sure ?" "Yes ! my dear friend please come in.", Sun said to water.Water entered in the compound and with him all the water animals and fishes also entered.
"Do you still want me to keep coming will it be safe for you?" Water asked . "Yes please come .",Sun said. Water continued flowing in with all fishes and animals . Soon the water level reached up to the neck of Sun and Moon . "Now what do you think ? Should I still keep coming ?". "Yes , please!" ,Sun said . More water flowed in.
Sun and his wife went to the top of the house.Again Water asked the same question and got the same answer by the Sun.Water overflowed the top and there was no place left for sun and moon. They had to go into the sky and are still there.
African folktale retold by -Aunt Mary

MAGIC OF DAWN (POEM)

Feel the magic of dawn
Before the sunrise,
Feel the magic of dawn
When the day arrives.

Feel the magic of dawn,
When night disappears, Sky becomes reddish,

And soft light appears.

Feel the magic of dawn,
When birds sing chorus,
The first song of day,
Song of wee hours.
Feel the magic of dawn ,
When a gush of breeze,
Slowly comes and says        "Wake up " to the trees.

Feel the magic of dawn
In the sound of prayer,
The beautiful sound ,
That blends with the air.

Feel the magic of dawn,
Before the sunrise,
Feel the magic of dawn
When the day arrives.
  -Aunt Mary

DOLLY IS" MY BEST FRIEND"

If you ask a little girl , "What is your favorite toy? ", most of the girls will say "I love dolls!". I think the parents of girls will agree with me that girls always prefer a doll over other toys. As a woman and as a mother of two daughters , I know that a small girl is so attached with her doll . I want to tell you an incident of my childhood days, my brother and I had a small fight and he hid my dearest doll which was a birthday gift from my grand father . Though my naughty bro felt sorry for what he did and gave back my doll with a big "I am sorry smile" but I still remember that how badly I cried for my doll and how happy I was after getting it back.

A small girl spends most of the time with her doll, she cleans her, changes her clothes makes her hair and cares for her. She likes to talk with the doll and share her feelings with her . Playing with a doll helps the little girl to grow as a person . It improves her communicating skills and helps her to express her feelings easily.
Doll-play makes a girl a caring and helping person she learns to take a good care of small babies, and that could be very helpful for the little girl her in future when she will have her own family and kids to take care of .