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Love for cleanliness and order, alas, are not inherited. Therefore, useful habits need to be fostered at an early age. How to teach a child to work? We are looking for effective approaches by joint efforts.

Is it necessary in principle to impose on the child household chores? Many parents answer this question in the negative, preferring to invest as much as possible in the spiritual, intellectual or physical education of their children. However, household chores - this is also an important part of education, which is not limited to cleaning the house and washing dishes. First and foremost, domestic labor builds a sense of self-discipline and the ability to do chores that are an integral part of schoolwork. A sense of pride in accomplished housework, however small, strengthens a young child's self-esteem. At the same time, he learns to appreciate parental labor and joins adult l…

The New Year is a time when you can not only relax and air your thoughts, but also set goals.

One of these goals can be to increase your current sales or to start your own business from scratch.

What is your own business?

Very often we know how to do something well and love it, such as baking cakes, teaching children or painting. But there is a line between doing for yourself and doing for another person. What if you try being an entrepreneur in the new year? To launch your own service or product!

That's where a lot of excuses arise, fears that we don't even realize we have. To overcome them, you need a clear plan. And now is the perfect time to write this plan.

Let's look at an example of how to make a plan to launch your business.

One of the main mistakes of novice businessmen is to spend 90%, and sometimes 100% of their time to create a product, its improvement. And until you are 100% sure of it, you can never tell about it -…

A nourished and satisfied baby - a sight that warms the mother's heart. But not all means are good for achieving this goal. What products can not be fed to the child and why? Let's understand together.

With the question of what products are not allowed to children under a year, everything is simple. And yet some heartfelt parents try to feed babies whole milk, piously believing in its miraculous properties. The trouble is that many nutrients are not yet to the strength of the digestive system of the baby. Heavy protein and is able to seriously harm the kidneys. In addition, whole milk is full of dangerous bacteria and can provoke allergies.

What products are not allowed for children under 3 years old? Under a strict ban - any seafood. For all their usefulness, shellfish are the strongest allergens. It is worth considering and the fact that they actively absorb from the …

ON THE AIRPLANE, ANDREI SERGEEVICH SAID: "MARRY ME, I LOVE THIEVES!"

"Since childhood, I do not dream and do not make plans for the future. Because more than once I was convinced: the more you expect something, the less expectations are justified. That's why I took my trip to Istanbul with Andrei Konchalovsky 13 years ago only as an amusing adventure and no more, " recalls actress and TV presenter Yulia Vysotskaya.

- Yulia, the story of your acquaintance with Andrei Konchalovsky is well-known: in 1996 at the Sochi Film Festival, the famous director noticed you, an aspiring actress, in the hotel elevator. He met you, invited you to dinner, and two days later you flew abroad together. Tell me, did you feel like a fairy tale?

- No fairy tale, no way! First of all, there was a sense of jitters. What else could it be? After all, I was flying with a stranger, whom I had seen two and a half times before. I was a rather shy girl. Therefore, after get…

All children like to do various interesting activities: drawing, singing, dancing, sculpting, designing, weaving, playing sports games, etc. Parents, of course, want to give their child the opportunity to try themselves in one or more areas to acquire new skills, realize their abilities and, perhaps, find a favorite activity for life. Our test will help them in this! The material was prepared with the participation of Leonardo Hobby Hypermarket.

Decorating the house for New Year's Eve is a special ritual that fills the heart with pleasant anticipation. Children should never miss it, so feel free to take them as helpers. Together with them this activity will turn into a little creative fun. After all, to think up and create holiday decor with your own hands is so great! Experts of TM "Soft Sign" share interesting ideas and detailed instructions for their realization.

Paper towels TM "Soft Sign" with proper manual dexterity can be turned into small cute Christmas trees. Cut out a square from the paper towel, fold it into four. We turn it to ourselves at an angle and start to bend the free ends to the top, indenting each time about 1 cm. The result will be several triangles superimposed one on another.

Next, turn the workpiece backwards. In front of us is a figure with two corners on the sides. Bend them to the middle of each other in such a way that we get a figure resembling an …

A picnic is an ideal kind of family leisure. Fresh air, gentle sunshine, a sea of all sorts of goodies... What else do you need for happiness? Find an interesting entertainment for the kids, so that they have fun with the benefit of the case and do not interfere with the adults enjoy the rest.

Since a picnic is rarely without kebabs, they can be cooked with a child in the fresh air in four hands. Invite him to invent and make his own signature kebab. Let it consist of only fruit to start with. For example, from slices of banana, apple, kiwi, pear, pineapple and any other fruit. The child can quite independently thread them on a wooden skewer and pour honey. Besides, he will eat a dish of his own composition without much persuasion.

An ordinary rubber ball is a proven means to keep children of any age busy for a while. Kids 3-5 years old can throw the ball for distanc…

Nowadays, the rules of etiquette at the table in a restaurant are quite democratic. It is not at all necessary to wear a suit or evening dress for a trip to a cafe or restaurant, or to know how to use a huge number of knives and forks. And how many people know how to distinguish a fork for fish from a fork for meat? We will not talk about elementary etiquette either - it is clear to everyone that you should not take with your hands what is accepted to eat with a fork, talk loudly or raise your voice at the staff. These are the usual rules of behavior that all well-bred people follow. However, some of our tips may come in handy.

There is no dress code as such in most restaurants, especially when it comes to dining in the daytime, but some luxury establishments reserve the right to set their own rules - for example, men should appear in pants, shirts and jackets, and ladies - in evening dresses. This is especially true for Michelin restaurant…

Children's birthday is a bright and joyful holiday! Parents want to make it unforgettable and unique. Of course, it is not easy to organize a holiday. You need to make a lot of effort and spend a lot of time. And at the same time it is still necessary to connect the imagination to think of how to set the children's table, the idea of the holiday and suitable entertainment! Our entertainment test will help you decide on the theme of the holiday! The material was prepared with the participation of "Kvasenok" kvass.

Daniil Novikov is a foster father of a 14-year-old and chairman of the Pskov public organization "Pomogai-ka", which works with orphans. In addition, Daniil helps our foundation to shoot video profiles of children, and keeps a blog about his family on our website. Daniil talked to a boy from an orphanage in the Pskov region and wrote a text about it.

We talk to Sasha in his boarding school in the evening, in the next room there is "preparation" - this is when all school-age children are gathered to do their homework for tomorrow. Every day, except Friday and Saturday, from five to seven. The room where we talk about Sasha's life has four beds - this is the boys' bedroom. After the summer renovation, it became more beautiful here: new furniture, modern curtains. It hasn't gotten any cozier.

Sasha P.'s video questionnaire.

Sasha is 15 years old, and he is not like most of his peers who are desperately exploring their independence and the limit…