Family Tips

Should conjoints work together or not

March 15th, 2007

Home relations considerably differ from official, and the few succeed harmoniously combine them. In most cases joint work of the married couple results in an intricate knot, to extricate which even the professional psychologists not always succeed.
Actually examples of domestic business-tandem, in experts opinion, quite a bit. “From one side, there is nothing reprehensible, that a husband and a wife work together, - says Bela Dzasokhova, chief of the department FMCG of Cornerstone company. - But, from the other side, there is a risk, that all of their domestic confusions will be automatically carried in office. Very few are able to leave the personal problems in the walls of own house”.
Joint service of relatives is not especially welcomed in large western companies. If employees get married, one of them often ask to leave a company, says Dzasokhova. For example, according to consultants, similar limitation exist in TNK-BP and Russian representative office of Royal Dutch/Shell. But in that very companies extremely reluctantly tell about existence of some limitations. HR-manager of the Russian representative office Royal Dutch/Shell Natalia Petrovicheva specified, that they do not welcome work of the married couples in one subdivision, and also family relations, when it refers to the choice of provider for some services. “Foremost we follow business interests, but not interpersonal relations”, - Petrovicheva says.

How to choose the school

March 14th, 2007

April comes soon and schools will be taking documents from future pupils. Prudent parents do not wait until the last moment, and get known beforehand what actually is going inside school doors.
Choosing the school you should ask yourself, what results are you looking for? For one family it is important, that a child was erudite, had mush knowledge on various subjects. Other parents wish, that their heir had a high level of general knowledge. When the choice of priority is made, begin the selection of specific educational institution.
There are a few simple advices which will help you move in the right direction. You may often hear that its not a school, but teacher, that you should choose. But general atmosphere at school is not less important.
Therefore the advice is to go round the object of your research around. If young smokers stand on the porch of the building, and teachers pass by, it means, that teachers don’t wish to interfere in their upbringing.

How to educate a creative child

March 13th, 2007

It seems, carrying with formal education of the child, we completely forgot about a creative side of educations, about creative development. That it is not yet late to do it. Especially as creation is not only superfluous but compulsory condition of comprehensive development of a human being. After all, all sorts of designers and artists are in great value now.
General researches of the last years in area of brain physiology proved, that the increased amount of different activity in music and painting helps children in mastering mathematics and languages. The American scientists proved, that children from four to seven years, lagging behind in children garden due to the increased activities in art caught up with reading and have better abilities in mathematics.
Swiss and Austrian researchers introduced music classis instead of mathematics and languages for children from seven to fifteen years. In three years time these children showed the same level of mathematic knowledge as those, taught on plain program. Languages progress of this group of children was even higher, than of those, who devoted much time to language studies.
Painting develops speech skills. Learning forms of objects, colors and their shades promote extension of vocabulary; discussions develop connected speech. In brief, engagement in creative work supports education.

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