Researchers of the University of Guelph in Ontario found that the average daily intake of omega-3 EPA and DHA was only 31.5 mg. The same group was children ages 4-8. However, the recommended intake is 90 mg per day. The study indicated that 78 percent of the children were far below the recommended level.

Omega-3’s are important for neurological benefits and cognitive function. It may help improve behavior, learning disorders, and hyperactivity disorders.

How can you get your child the recommended dosage?

The best sources for omega-3 fatty acids are oily fish, walnuts, flax seeds, pumpkin seeds, canola oil and soy.

Source: UPI.com

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Kids Don’t Get Enough Omega-3

The Certificate of US Citizenship (form N-560 or N-561) is a document issued by the United States government as proof of U.S. citizenship. Individuals who are eligible to apply for the United States Certificate of Citizenship include those who obtained U.S. citizenship while residing in the United States or individuals who were born outside the United States to U.S. citizens. Specific details of eligibility include:

■ Your parents are U.S. citizens, but you were born abroad.
■ At least one of your parents became naturalized when you were under 18 years of age and met the special conditions of the law.

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What is a Certificate of Citizenship?

For little readers what is better than cuddly books that are beautifully decorated with simple images and words that baby can start to recognize? And, parents can read the rhyming stories when they are not attached to strollers or car seats.

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Little Softy Books

Republican Ralph Hudgens, a state senator in Georgia has proposed legislation that would allow no more than two embryos to be implanted at a time in a woman younger than 40. For women older than 40 the legislation would limit the number to three.

Seriously?

I know that the “standard” is usually two-three embryos and any more is usually just overkill but for people like me the chances of conceiving are fo limited that for the government to limit my chances to conceiving is like a country telling me I can only have one child.

In my opinion, this bill would be devastating to hundreds of thousands of families trying to conceive using in-vitro.

What needs to happen is that doctors need to think about what they are doing. For a doctor to implant six embryos into a woman with six children already is disastrous.

But, for a doctor to implant three or four with the hopes of one taking? Hopeful.

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Should Women have to Limit Embryos?

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Adoption Quote of the Week

Source: US Department of Education, as cited in “Literacy Statistics for the United States,” Literacy Council of Buncombe County.

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Average Television for a Kindergarten Student

Maurice Sendak quotes

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Book Quote of the Week

Unlike a child who has an IR-3 visa, a child who enters the country on an IR-4 visa will not receive their American citizenship until their adoption is complete in the United States.

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What is an IR-4 Visa?

Young adults will be immediately drawn into Susie Salmon’s world, or rather, heaven, with the second sentence: “I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973.” Immediately, the reader knows that Susie is dead and in Chapter One we see and feel her murder. The description is vivid and all too real, but the reader must feel it in order to be drawn into the story.
Sebold’s gift here is not in the imaginative plot of the story, but rather in the narration. Told in first person, Susie becomes an omniscient narrator from her interim heaven where she awaits her killer’s justice. She follows her family through it’s initial search, then grief, and finally, through its demise. She learns, despite her eternal age, to grow and to understand how the world exists without her in it.
Thankfully, Sebold gives us a happy-ending wherein Susie is granted a miracle and in turn is able to finally break her hold on Earth and her family. The story, despite its grim conflict, is touching, funny, and inspiring.

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Lovely Bones, a Review

The game of Tag is the best aerobic activity for kids. Children love to run fast for short periods and then rest and go again!

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Get Fit Friday: Tag II