Bullying is defined as repeated aggressive behavior toward someone to victimize or gain power over them. Bullying can involve a real or perceived imbalance of power between the bully (individual or group) and target (individual or group)

Perpetrators are described as generally authoritarian and may possess a strong desire to control or dominate. The perpetrator could be motivated by resentment too. In other words, much of society could qualify as a bully. Governments, organizations, families and many other groups could also fit into these categories.

But what is bullying?

Like trying to define pornography years ago, will you know it when you see it? But according to whom. And at what cost to our freedoms do these laws exact.

Is the United States bullying Iraq? Is the “global warming” crowd trying to bullying non-believers? Are parents of victims trying to bully others to pass legislation?

I understand this may sound insensitive. I can recall situations in my past that could include me being bullied (quite a few) and I can recall situations in the past where the above definition could define my behavior.

I’d imagine we all can cite examples of being bullied and, if we really looked inward – honestly, most people could find examples of doing the bullying. And it’s still bullying even if you have a good intention.

Come to think of it, throughout my week, I come across people and organizations trying to bully me. Should I go after them with this new law? Or simply walk away, turn the other cheek and take responsibility for my emotional fitness.

I fear the biggest victim of these anti-bullying laws will be our personal freedoms. Society is already headed down the road of victimless crimes. Hate-speech is already banned on many college campuses and the PC (politically correct) movement has greatly inhibited free speech. Bullying requires the acquiescence of the victim. Without their reluctance, there is no foul.

More disturbing, what is considered bullying by one person is considered obnoxious behavior by another. With a “real crime,” there is a clear victim. If I steal something from the grocery store, it is clear. If one person kills another, it is a clear crime, but bullying? It’s in the eye of the beholder, very dangerous ground.

There seems to be no responsibility placed on the subject of the behavior, only the perpetrator. So, can I claim I’m being bullied by the US Government to pay taxes I don’t want to pay? They are certainly demonstrating a strong desire to control and dominate me? What about a detective interviewing a suspect? Clearly using aggressive behavior to solicit information and control.

What, as a parent, do I see as the solution to bullying in school? I am raising my kids to be empowered, emotionally fit people. That means they learn that they (and them alone) are responsible for their emotions. Like Eleanor Roosevelt said years ago; “other people’s opinion of me are none of my business.”

I have children, if someone is treating my child badly, hopefully they will have learned enough to ignore or otherwise effectively deal with this person(s). If they lack the tools to deal with this, I see it as my responsibility (together with them) to help them deal effectively with their emotions.

If they continue to have difficulty, my child needs to continue to learn the skills necessary to deal with this. I know that anti-bullying legislation will not stop bullying and my child will need the tools to deal with it in society.

I can contact the school for assistance, I can contact the perpetrators parents, but ultimately, do I want a “law” against bullying? I think it’s crazy. If parents and teachers can’t deal with the situation now, how are they going to enforce the anti-bullying law? Call the police overtime they have a situation they can’t handle?

I haven’t addressed the bully in this article. Why? If someone is behaving inappropriately in school, the school can discipline him. If his (or her) parents care, they can address it as well. If he commits a crime, then he should be punished the authorities. Where I differ, is that a crime requires a victim and require objective evidence. Taunting, teasing and speaking badly to someone should not be considered criminal, or we’ll all have to keep our mouths shut all the time. And that’s not freedom.

Is this really where we want to go as a society? I feel for the parents of these kids that committed suicide. As a parent, our hope is to have our kids outlive us and live a long, prosperous life. And I feel, with suicide, there is more to the equation then one factor (bullying). Suicide is tragic, but do we, as a society, want to create “Nanny” legislation to deal with these subjective situations in school, that are already included in the titles, “Mom”, “Dad” and “Teacher?”

I think we’re better then that.

In cases when there is a subsequent marriage between the natural parents, the parties concerned must, at the time of their marriage registration in Thailand, petition also for the legitimation of their child.

If the father applies for legitimation, the mother and the child must express their consent to the application. This must be done within 60 days after the said filing. In cases when the child is still a minor, the mother or a designated guardian shall act as the representative of the child.

If the mother and child fail to appear before the Register to signify their consent to the application, the Registrar shall notify them of the father’s action for registration. It shall be presumed that the mother or child does not consent to the application if they would raise no objection or will not signify their consent within 60 days after the acceptance of notification. The 60 day period is extended to 180 days in case the mother and the child are outside Thailand.

There will be cases where the court will effect the registration of the legitimation. These cases pertain to instances where:

Upon finality of the judgment of the court, the judgment effecting the registration of the legitimation shall be produced to the Registrar, and the Registrar shall have the ministerial duty to cause its registration.

Within a 90 day period after the mother and child receives notification from the Registrar of the application for legitimation, the mother or child can notify the Registrar to make a record that the applicant is not a suitable person for exercising parental power over the child. This can be done by them regardless of whether the mother or child will object to the said application.

In effect, although registration of the legitimation is eventually caused, the father will still not be able to exercise in whole or in part such parental power because of the notification. The only means on how the father may exercise such power is if the court pronounces a judgment that the father may wholly or partly exercise parental power. In instances where the Court finds the applicant as unsuitable to exercise such power, it may, at the same time, decide on who shall exercise the power, or be named as the guardian of the child.

In cases where the mother herself has left her child to the care of a guardian alone, the father may petition for the lifting of the guardianship and for him to be given parental power over his child. There are also instances where the any interested person is allowed, within three months from knowledge of the registration of the legitimation, to apply to the court for the cancellation of the same, by reason of a known fact that the father who had caused the legitimation is, in reality, not the father of the child.

Whenever a child is the subject matter of a case, the court regards not only the letter of the law, but the best interests of the child. While the law understands that there is no substitute to the environment of a complete family, the law affords the child the opportunity to grow in the love of a deserving parent.

Let’s just dive in!

What is the meaning of term “glucose”. It is a form of sugar that passes through the human body via blood stream. The primary source of this glucose is the food rich in carbohydrate. The function of the pancreas is to regulate the level of blood glucose. The pancreas performs this function by secreting hormone termed insulin and glucagons. If the pancreas of the diabetic person is unable to produce the required amount of insulin for converting the provided sugars into energy; the body starts to face different types of problems.

Acceptable levels of blood glucose lie in the range of 70 mg/dl and 150 mg/dl. These blood glucose levels vary with different factors. These factors includes the type of the food, the time you last ate, the portion size of the meal and the physical activity you had in the previous few hours. If these levels are below or above the normal range blood glucose then they serve as a host of various chronic complications. If the level at any time is below 70 mg/dl then this condition is termed hypoglycemia. The main characteristics signs of hypoglycemia are lack of energy, mental concentration and irritable behavior.

If the blood sugar level rises further and crosses 150 mg/dl then the condition is termed hyperglycemia. Higher blood sugar levels than this range provides a host of many diabetic complications. Some common examples of these diabetic complications are blindness, kidney failure and amputation.

There are many blood sugar level measuring tests. These tests include

Fasting Blood Glucose Test

This test helps to ascertain the level of blood sugar after not eating anything for around 8 hours. The results of this test must be fee of any type of food factor. Typically for non diabetics the results must be in the range of 70 to 99 mg/dl.

Likewise there are random blood test and tests for measuring the value of sugar in the blood two hours after meals.

One of the most popular applications for magnetic signs is for vehicles. The business can put their name, logo, address and telephone number on the magnet sign for identification purposes. The sign is then placed on the side of the vehicle. It can be left there for months, or put on and taken off whenever it is needed. This prevents companies from having to paint a vehicle, which is expensive and essentially permanent. Vinyl lettering is semi-permanent and may be difficult to remove. Attaching a sign to a vehicle’s roof is another alternative to advertising the company information, but it often damages the paint and may scratch or dent the vehicle.

Magnetic vehicle identifiers can be used by several different people in the same company. They are simply kept in one location, taken when needed and returned upon completion of the client visit. This is helpful for sales staff who make calls in their personal vehicles on company time that do not have access to a company vehicle. Magnetic vehicle signs are placed on the driver’s side and/or passenger door and do not cause paint or body damage. They are also ideal for those making deliveries to military bases or contractors that require all vehicles entering the premises to have a corporate designation on the side for high security reasons.

During the renovation or construction phase of a business, entrances and exits are sometimes moved or redirected. It is important to let people know where to go or which door to use. This can be challenging when there is nowhere to install them in the ground or against a wall. Metal doors are the ideal position for temporary magnet signs, whether they are needed for a few hours to redirect visitors or for several months while an area is too dangerous for foot traffic. Temporary signage might warn people they need a hard hat in a construction zone or that hours have been temporarily changed due to workmen in the area. They can be removed when the work is complete.

Refrigerator magnets are one of the oldest means of publicizing or commemorating an event. They are used for spirit, novelty and promotion. School and team names and mascots can be emblazoned on them. Silly sayings or participation in events can be touted and stuck on the refrigerators. These novelties are useful for holding children’s artwork, family photos, reminders and notable paperwork. Flyers for upcoming events can be attached to the refrigerator beforehand and later removed and replaced by something else after that calendar date has passed. Some people like to put magnets on their refrigerators as decorations, not holding up anything at all. They turn a plain white appliance into a focal point of activities and fun. Collecting souvenirs from different vacation destinations and sports teams is also a popular pastime that attracts magnets to refrigerators.

Modern day society has a whole philosophy now built around healthy eating and cooking. Buzzwords such as “zero calories” or, “no trans fats” are constantly in our faces and that isn’t even mentioning the attention being given to low carbohydrate eating. For a simple rule of thumb, if you’re looking for the healthiest, low fat ingredients to cook with, shop in the outside aisles at the supermarket. You’ll find the freshest food such as dairy, bread, eggs, vegetables, and meats in the outer aisles of the store. This same design is used in most stores.

Cooking meals low on carbohydrates is easy to do if you’re well prepared and stocked up on the essential items to make it work. Don’t buy empty carbohydrates that don’t really fill you up. Always look for the better option. For example, whole wheat is better than white flour. You’ll get better nutrition from whole flour, feel more satisfied when you eat it, and you won’t need to eat as much to achieve that nutrition than you would with white flour. Choose fresh fruit and vegetables and lean meats, and cook meals based around these. You’ll find it easy to leave out the empty carbohydrates.

For those who prefer to eat the vegetarian way, most supermarkets offer a salad bar. In the busy schedules most people have, it can be difficult to find time for preparing vegetables as part of your meal. This is a great solution and a good one-stop shop for the ingredients for an easy stir fry meal. For meatless protein options, chickpeas or tofu are a great choice.

It doesn’t really matter what kind of cooking you like to do. Allow yourself room to fail and room to improve and grow in your skill. Messing up is part of the learning game. Be prepared to try out new things and adjust as you go.

Entrepreneurship is a good option for people who are unhappy at their jobs. People who do not like to be a serviceman, who like to sit on the boss’ chair; who like to control and not be controlled! The people who are capable of producing great ideas on their own (or in other words the creative people) usually do not like the vision of doing things on somebody’s command. They probably thought of setting up a business but lack of principal thwarted them. Well, the good news is that the internet has enabled us to set up low funding businesses. Even owning a website can prove to be a good business today.

Suppose you have an online business of some sort. In today’s economy the key reason why a business is so easy and so profitable (once you have the right vision and you follow the right path) is the global economy. The third world countries or the ones that are very poor have great supply of technology savvy knowledgeable people; and what’s more that supply is cheap. An entrepreneur can aspire to manage the whole responsibility of his own business himself, but only in the initial stage. Once the business is grown, it is not possible to manage the whole stuff himself.

For example if you have a software business, its manageable to write the codes by yourself at first (if you are able) but once it grows, you cannot possible do all the work. You have to manage your clients, think about getting new assignments, advertising, marketing etc. This is where outsource force come into play. If you need labour anyway, why not employ the cheap ones. If your cost of business is low, your output maximizes and so does your profit.

The global economy has produced several good results. While one of them is an open and growing market, the other one is outsource force. An entrepreneur can employ a work force that is knowledgeable, experienced and yet cheap. The overseas market is an area that has a low economy so a person from the advanced world can employ seven employees and pay them together an amount that is equal to the salary of one good employee at his own country. Thus both the outsource force and the entrepreneur is happy and the business runs well!

However, this type of insurance only covers the losses of the other party. You, as the owner of the policy and your property are unprotected. What is noteworthy with this insurance policy is that it protects from you being held responsible for the other party’s damages.

There are different types in this category of insurance policies such as:

Based on the brief explanations given above on the different policies, we can summarise the meaning of Liability Insurance in this manner:

It can be any type of insurance policy that will protect an individual or business from a risk where they can be sued or held legally liable for something such as malpractice, injury or negligence. This insurance policy will cover both legal costs as well as any legal payouts for which the insured would be responsible if found legally liable.

This is a simpler definition – an insurance which protects a person or entity from claims initiated by another party.

Childhood asthma and adult asthma have the same underlying cause — inflammation of the airways. This inflammation makes the airways overly sensitive, leading to signs and symptoms that range from minor coughing or wheezing to serious flare-ups that interfere with breathing.

Childhood asthma can be so severe that it is practically debilitating, and can really take one’s childhood away from them. If your child has asthma, also known as pediatric asthma, it is important that you make yourself as educated as you can on the disease and also that you watch and make sure that their symptoms do not worsen.

Warning Signs.

The warning signs in childhood asthma are

Wheezing is often heard when a person with asthma exhales, but may also be heard when a person inhales, tightness of the chest or coughing during or after exercise or activity shows that this is a trigger of your asthma. However, it’s better to control your asthma than to avoid exercise.

Treatments for Childhood Asthma.

The good news is that there are a lot of treatments available now, some of them are:

Natural asthma treatments are as much about thinking and acting smart as they are about adding non-Western approaches to your management program. For instance, the best natural treatment is to avoid known triggers.

Home remedies for asthma attacks are available through the holistic methods which treat the symptoms of asthma as more of an allergy based condition. However, there are a few natural asthma remedies that an individual can utilize to help strengthen the lung capacity as well as rebuilding the body.

Although there is no known cure for asthma, modern asthma medications and natural asthma treatments, can effectively reduce a child’s symptoms and allow him to lead a full and active life.

An Emergency Plan

Any asthma attack can be life-threatening, so have and emergency plan of action agreed with y our doctor for very severe attacks.
At the start of the attack give your child his usual reliever. Wait about ten minutes and if there is no improvement send for an ambulance.
Repeat the treatment until the breathing symptoms improve or until help arrives.
Give your child steroid tablets if they’ve been prescribed by your doctor
Keep your child in an upright position.
Call your doctor or an ambulance or take your child to the nearest hospital.

Summary:

One of the most damaging of these for children is the belief that the condition will improve every seven years or can even disappear completely.

Unfortunately, any apparent improvement is probably due to hormonal changes as the child’s immune system matures. The underlying condition does not go away and not managing it can lead to long-term lung damage.

For people who have senior citizens at home, you are advised to get dental plans for them so that you can get your finances protected. However, frankly speaking, in United States, there are only a few insurance companies which offer dental coverage for people who have reached the age of 62 and above.

Let me share with you 4 simple steps you can take in order to get the right plan for your beloved parents or grandparents:

Since you are looking for dental plans for elderly people, you need to look for relevant providers. You are recommended to check with the American Association of Retired Person. For your information, this association provides dental coverage for its members. If your family members are not their members, you may consider getting them the memberships so that they can obtain the necessary benefits. At the same time, you are reminded to check with your state office to find out whether there is any dental plan available for senior citizens. In general, state government usually provides subsidy for elderly people so that they can get dental coverage at affordable premium. If you are looking for more varieties, you can search online to look for other insurance providers.

You can call up the local insurance agents to find out more detailed information about the dental plans. It is important for you to know your investment cost as well as the coverage clauses. The average premium charged for this kind of plan is around $500-$600 per year.

Before taking up the plan, you are advised to consult your dentist or any dental clinic which you are familiar with. You need to get second opinion to find out whether the plan really suits your elderly family members’ needs.

You are encouraged to get the quotations and plans from different service providers so that you can make proper comparisons.

Imagine if we could get back to that kind of experience in our work life. It might even be called play life. Now that would be a revolution!

A lot of organizations fall into the “daily grind” doing stuff that is not interesting, or of questionable usefulness and mind-numbing, like — meetings, decision delaying, “decidaphobia,” or action-avoiding.

Dynamic measures of team effectiveness are how well can they keep focussed on how much is decided and committed to in a meeting versus how much work actually gets done. Distraction is not an option for high performance teams.

People loose focus on key actions. The not urgent, not important drowns out the urgent and important and the not urgent, important.
People get too results-oriented without diagnosing the issue properly. Then they are off wasting time and money tilting at wind mills.

End every meeting with clear action items, deadlines and responsibilities, with names attached. Ask each person to VERY BRIEFLY summarize those things. When they are speaking look into the whites of the eyes of each person as they speak. This will help get the non-verbal message that you are serious about accountability.

Measure progress — or lack of it. Celebrate “wins” to keep everyone on the vision.

Keep people aligned and engaged so they “get” importance of their actions and how, what they are doing is contributing to the business moving forward.

Every action, every behaviour, every interaction has financial consequences — either positively or negatively.

Persistently, consistently and clearly monitor how much is committed to versus how much gets completed.

Someone once said, “A brilliantly executed, simple idea is better than any idea executed poorly.”

Do you have the mental discipline to create a team that performs at a high level and is so engaged, aligned and competent that they are like we were when we were kids playing with our little red wagons? Now that would be a fun place to play at work.