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RIP Eugene “gene” Merril Deitch

Who doesn’t love Tom & Jerry and Popeye The Sailor Man? RIP Gene Deitch. The sad news comes our way as Eugene “Gene” Merril Deitch, American Director, Illustrator, Animator and Comic Artist died in Prague. He was 95 years and highly admired animated series for Tom & Jerry and Popeye the Sailor.

He gave us awesome Childhood memories and even today, we watch these Shows and read Books with kids who love these characters.

Gene Deitch directed 13 episodes of Tom And Jerry for MGM between 1961 to 1962 and also directed a few episodes of Popeye for King Features between 1960 and 1963. His animated short Munro wont the Best Animated Short Film Oscar in 1961, the first of its kind created outside US to win an Oscar. Gene Deitch is also critically acclaimed for directing animated feature Alice of Wonderland In Paris. Gene Deitch was honoured with the Winsor McCay Award in 2003 for his contribution to animation.

At Kidsfreesouls and Swagat Children Library, kids have engaged in Reading cartoons, watching Popeye the sailor man song and done the Cartoon Project.

Always thrilling and on a joy ride with so much fun to watch the hide n seek game of Tom and Jerry. Sometimes, Parenting is Panic, sometimes Fun. Sometimes struggle n strife. And sometimes, rosy n sweet. Or maybe scary when they have a cranky child. The trick of staying Happy, staying wise is to brush off the blues and Laugh. Together watching the fun Cartoons lightens the heart and brings relationship closer.

The message it conveys is deeper. You ocan find Ten Lessons you can learn from Tom & Jerry Cartoons here.

A lot more ! Just follow Kidsfreesouls Kids Corner, Cartoon fun.

Find more on Kidsfreesouls Kids Corner, Cartoon Fun and also find the Project at Slideshare : 
http://www.slideshare.net/Ilaxi/cartoons-project-for-kids

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Storytelling – Audio & Video Stories

Storytelling for Kids – Am sure many of you are listening to my Audio stories. My Grandson Hridaan loves Reading Pete The Cat. He watch @petethecatofficial Live on Instagram and all Amazon Prime Videos of Pete The Cat TV. Hridaan poses a pic of his Family which includes Pete – Hridaan loves Reading 5 Minute Pete The Cat 12 Groovy Stories. 

He says, “I am Homeschooling. I love to read Pete The Cat. I Love you Pete.”

This gave me the idea of Video Story Reading. I always upload Audio stories to my Facebook Page and You Tube while I tell stories at Swagat Children Library. I hope you like it. And, if you do, don’t forget to comment there. The recent video sotry is from 5 Minutes Pete The Cat which covers 12 Groovy stories.

My all Swagat Children Library Children and kids #Homeschooling with #homequarantine
will love to hear these Audio and Video Stories. Do #stayhome
#staysafe and Stay Connected Online.

Love you Kids and Read, Read, Read, Play, Play and Play. Have Fun at Home. ❤❤❤

View Full Story here on FB and You Tube 

Keep Kids Safe Online

Keeping your teen safe online is a top priority and worry for parents today. Kids do everything online, from learning to socialising, gaming to shopping. For teens, learning how to recognise the risks and protect themselves is a life skill they’ll need for years to come.

The first step to keeping teens safe online is to know what your child is actually doing online. Rather than banning it, you need to engage with it. Even if they’ve told you what apps they’re on, it can easily go over your head if you’re not in the know. Here’s a run-down of the main online platforms that teens are using at the moment.

Here’s The Parents’ Guide to Teaching your Teen Online Safety
https://www.mytutor.co.uk/blog/the-parents-guide-to-teaching-your-teen-online-safety/

A practical guide for parents on how to keep teens safe online, including useful summaries of popular internet apps as well as the types of threats teens could be exposed to online.

Safety tips for using apps such as Instagram, TikTok (which has gathered 1 billion users in only two years), YouTube, Snapchat, Twitter and Whatsapp. These are the main platforms that teens spend their time on at the moment. But what are the main risks? The site also cover advice and safety tips for teens playing online multiplayer video games.
Other online safety topics and advice such as sharing personal information, socialising online, cyberbullying, harmful content, influencers, body image and mental health for teens online.

Links to additional internet safety resources for parents from well-respected sources such as the NSPCC and the UK government’s own guidelines.

A Parental Guidance is absolutely necessar. Keep Safe Kids, Stay Safe Home and let not the Coronavirus dare to come near you.

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The Homeschooling Indians

The Homeschooling Indians
– by Saju Joseph & Jane Joseph

Homeschooling is an alternative method of educating children at home. Through this book, the Authors intend to share their 7 years’ worth relevant experience on homeschooling from an Indian perspective.

They say, “In time, it dawned on us that most people in our country happen to believe that homeschooling is purely a foreign concept. On the contrary, a thorough study of India’s history and culture will reveal that the roots of homeschooling are remarkably embedded in the ancient Indian civilisation.”

This book is an opportunity to inform parents seeking guidance regarding the concepts, nature and methods of homeschooling from an Indian perspective and how to progress as Homeschooling Indians.

Table of Contents:

IntroductionHomeschooling roots in ancient IndiaThe downfall of Quality EducationWhy HomeschoolingHomeschooling challengesHow to start homeschoolingHomeschooling curriculumFather’s roleMother’s roleHomeschooling dayManaging home and homeschoolingDiscipline at homeKeeping children focusedFinal words

(More on The Homeschooling Indians Article )

You can buy at Amazon here or through Author website:

Credits : Saju Joseph and Jane Joseph work as a Digital Marketing Consultant. My family lives in Mumbai, India and my wife and I homeschooling our two boys. This blog is a collection of stories, lessons & experiences from our life. Hope you find them encouraging & helpful.

Author Webite

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Portrait

Thank you @aejazsaiyed (Facebook) for this lovely portrait – Sure is an Appreciation ! Draws attention – its combination of a shallow depth of field, composition, color, and lighting…the detailing is superb. Indeed picked up pic with expression, personality and mood 

Feature Writing

HOW TO BE A FEATURE WRITER?

Features are human interest stories that speak of people, places and situations. Celebrities, films, travel, music, sports, fashion, food, health, careers and such themes are the favourite hunting ground of Feature writers. Try it and you pop up with stories – News features and Timeless features that have intrinsic human interest to get updated. Features tend to be original and descriptive; original in ideas and writing skills. News stories often preclude description. Features writers can evoke imaginary stories, which would be edited out of a news story but subject to the journalistic standards of accuracy, fairness and precision. There are various Types of Feature writing which can be classified as follows:

Personality Features: It’s not everybody’s cup of tea to attain Fame and fortune. Fame and success stories are rare and conjure up the imagination of the readers who would find juicy fulfillment in them. It makes the reader dive into the hidden traits of a character with the effective newsworthiness and reality of truth. The rich and famous celebrities are a common subject that have a curiosity value.

Culture Features: Movie stars and pop singers are the role models of today that inspire the youth. Acting, gossip, mega success stories, flops, characters, comedy, tragedy etc. could be raw material for Feature writing.

Hi Tech Features: With the demand of Technical writing in the field of Computers, a lot challenge awaits for the Feature writers online as well as in the IT magazines. The leap of technology has left everyone breathless and feature possibilities are enourmous. Scopes to enhance technical writing is an endless learning and getting updated in the field of Technology.

Life Style Features: Changing fashion trends and life-styles makes an interesting reading. A passion for fashion and acquaintance with fashion moguls and a fondness for showmanship make a good fashion Feature writer. This is not a job of any Tom, Dick and Harry! All leading business magazines carry life style features which are more or less showpieces of a changing society and so, the competition is hand to hand for an exposure in writing with a flair as a Life style feature writer.

Travel Features: The Travel themes are a class apart for the adventure they hold in the writing themes. The Travel feature unfold the romance inducing the wander lust and creating a spell on readers making them fly on the seventh heaven. People and places are always exciting but the places recommended must be worth spending money, time and trouble. Travel features demand exceptional descriptive and narrative skills.

Hobby Features: People have pursued for various hobbies and a very few exceptional genre have the taste of interest in various hobbies. Stamp collecting, gardening, reading, music, photography are the common hobbies but some uncommon hobbies like cloud watching, bird watching, lizard eating, bees collecting etc. present exotic feature avenues. A hobby feature writing interests the readers that has to say about exceptional hobbies.

Concerned Features: These have the power to exposure the burning issues like the Education, poverty, corruption, drug addiction, women issues, hapless victims, etc The concerned writing calls for a debate to show the magnitude of the problem through cases, anecdotes and quotable quotes and a lot of writing stuff challenging the perspective.

Career Features: These features focus on Career guidance scaling to career peaks or career blues. Choosing the right career, getting started, aptitude and such feature writing are good breeding grounds for beginners. Stories that give insight to careers, role models, career planning, mid career crisis lead to interesting and informative feature writing especially for the people who have to decide the fate to earn their bread and butter.

Business Features: In a market driven world with day to day crisis boom, Business feature writing provides a platform to give a glimpse of the insight of the business world. Exploring ideas, opportunities, market trends, dizzy world of CEOs, Corporate ladder, alliances, mergers and various other feature writing on Business is a challenge and par excellence to rise faster than reporters and correspondents. Business feature writing requires special eye to vision the business – the expression of the art of minting money!

More on the Feature writing and one can pursue writing Event Features like the valentine day, Teacher’s day, Independence day, etc. themes. Feature writing on Health & medical issues, Sun sign writers or Numerical features like writing on the magic of numbers – astrology and numerology. Historical features can be made interesting with the perpetual spell of age old times with history, stories, unique features and more.

A 700 to 800 word limit will make an ideal newspaper feature whereas magazine features can be more elaborated and descriptive in nature with more than 15000 words! It is only required to be seen that the Beginning, middle and end part holds good in any literary exercise especially by adopting the four basic skills: a flair for good writing, an eye for the market, a talent for sound organization and writing skills.

So, Get Started, Get Going

Get UPDATED before you are OUTDATED!

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How to write Effective Press Note

HOW TO WRITE EFFECTIVE PRESS RELEASES  

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Many a times ‘Big shot’ companies need an exposure but stay cool, expecting the press to make their coverages. Sometimes the Press releases are sent but hardly noted by the Press too! Online Press releases is a different perspective altogether. Press releases are a great way to let the world know what’s going on with you, your company or your organization. Whether you’re promoting a new technology that may be of wide interest to the world or a local event that’s important to your community! A well-written press release can help you drive traffic to your site. If it works in affiliation, advertisement or strategic alliance, the stat counter too shows positive upward flow of exposure on the web. This is a sure fire way to generate traffic and be the pick of the web.

Get started with Freesouls Press releases  cool tips to shoot the charts:

Get to the point
The main reason for writing the release should be clearly stated in the first paragraph and/or the title. Focus on the basics: who, what, when, where, why and how.

Act cleverStarting with a catchy, cute, or memorable phrase or title is a grand way to get attention.

Length of ContentKeep it under one page – about 350 words. In fact, the shorter, the better. Don’t waste people’s time with flashy prose and lengthy build-ups, or you’ll lose your audience. If you have a lot ofinformation that needs to get out, make a Web page and paste the URL into the press release. Don’t send the attachments.  Explaining too much in a small space will reduce your effectiveness and attaching contents may not be opened.

Don’t forget the contact info!

This is a frequent mistake of first-timers. The press needs to know how to reach you in every way possible, so be certain to include your name, address, telephone number, email address, and URLs with everything you distribute.

Learn the correct style and tone
If you’re not familiar with writing press releases, visit www.PRNewswire.com   or www.Businesswire.com  and many such sites to freak a while and get inspirations.

Relax, keep cool & stay tuned if your Press release is not noticed! The Press print & Online media is exhaustive and may not respond prompt but you are there on the list somehow to be released. Or else, Just forget it. Keep the faith.

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MEDIA STORY

Newspapers, publications are usually issued on a daily or weekly basis and their main function is to report the news from North, East, West & South from all over the world. . Newspapers also provide commentary on the news, advocate various public policies, furnish special information and advice to readers, and sometimes include features such as comic strips, cartoons, and serialized books. Newspapers are daily, weekly, tri-bi-weekly, morning, evening or mid-day news and so on. Despite the development of motion pictures early in the 20th century, of radio broadcasting in the 1920s, and of television in the 1940s, newspapers remain a major source of information on matters ranging from details of important news events of human-interest. The recent figures speak of total numbers of Newspapers stand at 25,536 or more, maximum numbers (3564 plus) from Uttar Pradesh and lowest published from Dadra Nagar Haveli. Ranking languages in order are Hindi, English, Bengali and Urdu.

Early newspapers were small in size, usually consisting of only one page. They had neither headlines nor advertising and looked more like newsletters than today’s broadsheet papers with their bold headlines and numerous pictures. As time passed, newspapers began to compete more and more with one another to increase circulation in order to obtain more advertising, also a different type of journalism was developed, transforming newspapers with sensational and scandalous news coverage, the use of drawings, and the inclusion of more features such as comic strips. Technological advances helped to encourage the growth of newspapers. The development of the first Linotype machine in the mid-1880s speeded up typesetting by making possible the automatic casting of type in lines. Rotary presses were also improved, and newspaper circulation in large cities climbed into the hundreds of thousands.

Developments in paper, presses, engraving, and electronic, computer-assisted typesetting have all improved the quality of newspapers. Another 20th-century trend was the development of tabloid newspapers. The tabloid differs from the standard paper in its size, the depth of its news coverage, and the number of illustrations; the tabloid is usually about half the size of a standard paper, reports news in more condensed or shortened versions, and offers many more illustrations. Coverage of City happenings, relating to children, women, cookery, general & interesting features were made in tabloids.

Newspapers have specialized staffs. In addition to a news staff of hundreds of reporters and editors, the bigger papers also have sizable staffs in their advertising, circulation, and production departments. The publisher oversees all the operations, usually with the aid of an executive editor in charge of the news department, an editorial-page editor who supervises the commentary pages, and a business manager responsible for advertising, circulation, and production of the newspaper. For a typical large paper, the main news staff is located on one huge, unpartitioned floor of the newspaper plant. The staff usually includes “metro” or local reporters, photographers, artists, and editors who cover news of report and edit national news and foreign news. Additional staff members are concerned with business news, sports, and cultural events. Overseeing these editors and reporters are the executive editor, a managing editor that handles the day-to-day operations of the news staff, and various assistant managing editors. Some reporters cover the city news, the the city and suburban areas under the direction of the metropolitan editor. Other groups police department, or the courts; some are general-assignment reporters covering a variety of news events; still others are primarily investigative reporters often involved with stories about corruption in government, business, or labor. Many reporters cover only daily events—meetings of a city council, press conferences, fires, and accidents—while others work for weeks to develop in-depth articles.

Each day a newspaper’s editors decide what news and features to use. Because of space limitations, they generally select only those stories dealing with the most interesting and important events and developments. Reporters on large papers write their own stories on computerized electronic typewriters that display the articles on video terminals at their desks. Copy editors, who also write the headlines, then edit the stories.

Layout editors of pages on which space has been blocked out for the day’s advertising determine placement of articles and illustrations. Features such as crossword puzzles etc. are run every day in approximately the same place in the paper.

There are also four News Agencies that operate to provide news which are (a) Press Trust of India (b) United news of India (c) Samachar Bharati (d) Hindustan samachar The first two supply news in English whereas the other in Hindi and other languages.

The biggest cost in the publication of large papers is newsprint, which amounts to about one-third of the total budget. The major income comes from the source of Advertisements.

Newspaper publishers have now plunged online with the use of computers and television to transmit news, advertising, and other information directly into homes. Some people believe that the newspaper of the future will not be printed but will be an electronic information service instantly available in every home.Many Newspapers are already being surfed on the Internet – SAMBHAAV, being the first Gujarati Daily to be on the Internet with a million of Readers from all over the world visiting the site in 1997-2004 when I was Editor Online for Sambhaav. Virginia, USA Readers top the rank of readers online with Chinese, Korean Language sites also, sending their traffic to Sambhaav. The Sambhaav Supplements Kidsfreesouls is now an Independent Net Newspaper online with Freesouls ‘Another Newspaper online’ providing Information, Education, Entertainment. The Asian Age is an International Newspaper which is widely read apart from newspapers like New York Times, Times of India, many more now as years roll by….

The Print Story of the Newspapers

Perfecting Printing press

Continuous roll or Perfecting Printing press can create thousands of double sided impressions in an hour. The press pass a paper from the huge roll through a set of revolving cylinders, then set it over a special cutter generating large sheets that could be folded into newspapers. In 1871, American Richard March Hoe perfected the continuous roll press that produced 18000 newspapers in an hour.

Mass publication and circulation of literature was possible when invention of Printing Press was made by Johann Gutesburg in 1480. An operator worked a lever to increase or decrease the pressure of block against paper with the use of olive oil, first print press and heavy screw to force a printing block against paper below. However, only 250 one sided paper prints could be produced.

The Chinese translation of Diamond Sutra as Buddhist text was first printed in carved wood blocks in AD 868 – Earliest Printed Book

Chinese translation of Diamond Sutra

Offset Printing press

Modern Printing techniques uses advance technology to rapidly produce copies of originals. After the staff generates master copy of paper, each page is photographically transferred to plastic coated zinc or alluminium printing plates. Covered in ink, these plates then transfer their images onto paper in printing press. The printing press contains cylinders that rapidly rotate continuous webs of paper while printing with use of quick drying ink. Multi colours are printed in one pass. Process colour printing uses four transparent ink – cyan, magenta, yellow and black. Computers today, can generate images for printing reducing time and expense required to produce printing surfaces for all major processes. Computers are routinely used to create artwork, typeset, scan and retouch photographs and merge all these elements together on a single piece of film or directly on the printing plate.

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Happy Kids, Happier You

Credits: Neuroscience News

When you say “thank you”, do you really mean it or is it just politeness to which you give little attention? Neuroscientists have found that if you really feel it when you say it, you’ll be happier and healthier. The regular practice of expressing gratitude is not a New Age fad; it’s a facet of the human condition that reaps true benefits to those who mean it.

Psychologists Dr. Robert Emmons of the University of California at Davis and Dr. Michael McCullough of the University of Miami published a study in 2015 that looked at the physical outcomes of practicing gratitude. One third of the subjects in the study were asked to keep a daily journal of things that happened during the week for which they were grateful. Another third was asked to write down daily irritations or events that had displeased them. The last third of the group was asked to write down daily situations and events with no emphasis on either positive or negative emotional attachment. At the end of the 10-week study, each group was asked to record how they felt physically and generally about life.

The gratitude group reported feeling more optimistic and positive about their lives than the other groups. In addition, the gratitude group was more physically active and reported fewer visits to a doctor than those who wrote only about their negative experiences.

Better Physical Health
Other research into the physical effects of gratitude report even more tangible results. Focusing on the positive and feeling grateful can improve your sleep quality and reduce feelings of anxiety and depression. (2) Furthermore, levels of gratitude correlate to better moods and less fatigue and inflammation, reducing the risk of heart failure, even for those who are susceptible.

Gratitude and Your Brain
The reasons why gratitude is so impactful to health and well-being begin in the brain. In a neurological experiment conducted by researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles, brain activity was measured using magnetic resonance imaging as subjects were induced to feel gratitude by receiving gifts. The areas of the brain showing increased activity were the anterior cingulate cortex and medial prefrontal cortex—those associated with moral and social cognition, reward, empathy, and value judgment. This led to the conclusion that the emotion of gratitude supports a positive and supportive attitude toward others and a feeling of relief from stressors.

The positive influence of gratitude on mental health continues past a particular event if the emotion is relived:

“…a simple gratitude writing intervention was associated with significantly greater and lasting neural sensitivity to gratitude–subjects who participated in gratitude letter writing showed both behavioral increases in gratitude and significantly greater neural modulation by gratitude in the medial prefrontal cortex three months later.”

In fact, this lasting effect is psychologically protective. In adolescents, feelings of gratitude have shown an inverse correlation with bullying victimization and suicide risk.

Gratitude affects brain function on a chemical level and its practice promotes feelings of self-worth and compassion for others.

We can perceive and experience gratitude and its many characteristics in a very broad spectrum.

Openness and willingness to experience gratitude affects not only the individual but her/his interpersonal relationships; a common strain in relationships is caused by repeated negative feedback by one or both partners without off-setting gratitude. (9)

Steps to Becoming More Grateful
In times of hardship or stress it might seem difficult to be grateful. But if you really think about it, we all have something to be grateful for. If you engage in only one prayer, let it be simply a heartfelt “thank you”.

Here are three easy ways to put yourself in the mindfulness of gratitude.

Keep a daily journal of things you are grateful for—list at least three. The best times for writing in your journal are in the morning as your day begins or at night before sleep.

Make it a point to tell people in your life what you appreciate about them on a daily basis.

When you look in the mirror, give yourself a moment to think about a quality you like about yourself or something have recently accomplished.

Through the power of gratitude, you can wire your brain to be optimistic and compassionate, making you feel good. The more you look, the more you can find to be grateful for. This positivity can extend to those around you, creating a virtuous cycle.

Neuroscience Reveals: Gratitude Literally Rewires Your Brain to be Happier

Sources : DailyHealthPost

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Khushi’s Blog

Free Verse Poem on Chameleon

By Khushi Parikh

You are camouflaged but I know you are there

A fascinating chameleon

You are the game changer as well as a colour
changer,

You are fast but quite peculiar.

Confuses everyone with your silly pranks,

Makes me want to do that too.

Skinny legs deceive us completely.

Sticky legs with webbed feet.

360 degrees eyes which are oblong and wide.

You slither all way but you don’t know where
you wither.

You are determined to stand apart from others,
you are sparkling from the core.

Slimy,sticky,hairy,scarybut you are deceptive
on the fore. I wonder how fascinating you are, your presence is a bit weird ,

You leave your footprints which makes people keen!!

George The Boy Who Had Funky Specs!!
By Khushi Parikh

George the boy, who had funky specs,

He loved playing video games of T-rex.

He watched Netflix all day long,

And his temptations were very strong.

He flaunted to his friends,

And now he was in the tech trends.

He drifted away from his peers,

He became antisocial but had no tears.

He was all alone,

Left only with a bad tone.

His addiction caused frustration,

He ended up with depression.

It took him a year a or two,

To shrug of his blues.

Slowly he came out of his trauma,

And he came out of FOMO.

He met his mates once again,

Also got a pet whose name was Ben.

Ben was quite naught,

His moves were all flaunty.

It’s all about life,

With no more strife.

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