Share books with a child on World Book Day
This World Book Day SA, try these tips to get your children reading at home – a great way to influence your child’s educational success! Get reading with your children this World Book Day SA “Read this to me, please!” are the words we all love to hear from our children because they mean that […]
Video Games Help Treat Kids With Chronic Pain
Camille Bautista The Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., opened a new pain care complex on April 3, aiming to eliminate pain in young patients by using video games. Utilizing specially designed games combined with Microsoft’s Kinect technology, participants can improve their health without realizing they’re receiving treatment. The gamification places kids in an intergalactic world where they […]
When a Facebook Post Is a Cry for Help
By LIZ HERON In today’s connected world, it is not uncommon for high school and college students to use Facebook as a place to pour out their feelings, sometimes in intensely personal updates. Some are predictable melodrama and fairly harmless cries for validation — but not all. Facebook posts can serve as early warning signs for […]
Restaurant turns to Twitter to publicly shame customers who fail to keep reservations
You might want to think again before failing to keep a restaurant reservation after one eatery decided enough was enough and began publicly shaming no-shows on Twitter. Noah Ellis, the managing partner at the Vietnamese restaurant Red Medicine, said those people who booked a table but then never honoured their reservation ‘ruin restaurants’. ‘The a******* […]
Evaluating Telecommuting over Flexi Working Hours
Recently I was asked about the latest trends in mobile working also known as telecommuting. Some of my reflections are inspired by the outrage from Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer banned telecommuting. In most cases people were ranting and raving that her move was a throw back to the stone age. In most of the online […]