NHS decimates North Salem 32 7 Friday, preps for Clackamas During the past two seasons, Newberg has often been its own worst enemy, shooting itself in the foot with penalties and turnovers. In the season opener versus North Salem Friday night, the Tigers were determined to not sabotage themselves with mental mistakes, to play with character and start anew. Tomlin team responded to them, especially on defense, that prevented the Vikings from clawing their way back into the game. The Tigers repeatedly turned away the North Salem offense and, instead of waiting for the game to come to them, seized control of the contest late in the third quarter to pull away for a decisive 32 7 victory at Loran Douglas Field. kids really responded well, Tomlin said. pleased at how we continued to keep going. Besides the last 15 seconds, we did an excellent job on defense. I really happy with the kids. Newberg dealt itself a difficult hand to begin the game after mishandling the opening kickoff, which put the Tigers at their own 4 yard line on their first possession. Refusing to be rattled, the home side put together a 16 play, 96 yard scoring drive that culminated with a 4 yard James Conrad touchdown run and drained 7:51 off the clock. Newberg forced and recovered a fumble on the ensuing kickoff, but turned the ball over, missing an opportunity to put North Salem on its heels early. The defense, however, quickly forced a punt and the offense followed through this time, with fullback Matthew McCarthy plunging into the endzone from one yard out to complete an eight play, 67 yard drive and put his team up 14 0 less than two minutes into the second quarter. The Tigers forced a turnover on downs on the Vikings next possession and with Conrad breaking into the secondary, appeared on the verge of blowing the game open, only to see a North Salem defender force a fumble with a heavy blind sided hit. Newberg settled for the two touchdown lead at the break, but broke the game open late in the third quarter. Adjusting to isolate the two North Salem linebackers that had been containing the Tigers inside running game, the line opened a massive hole for McCarthy, who broke free for his first big run of the game, then scored his second touchdown of the game a few plays later to make it 20 0 with 4:39 to play in the third. Seizing on the opportunity to put the game away, Tomlin called for an onside kick that Newberg recovered. McCarthy followed with a 19 yard run to put his team at the Vikings 27 yard line and one play later, tailback Andy Tautfest went untouched from 27 yards out to make it 26 0 just 20 seconds after McCarthy score. The Tigers closed out the scoring in the fourth quarter on a heads up defensive play by reserve defensive lineman Evan Smith. Pitching the ball on a sweep to the left, the North Salem quarterback missed his target, but before he could gather the ball, Smith leveled the Vikings running back. Jack Kerwin promptly scooped up the ball and scored from 17 yards out to complete the scoring. just can beat ourselves, senior lineman and captain Dakota Church said. get tons of penalties and most of the time it us beating Newberg, not the other team. If we don beat ourselves, the sky is the limit. Infrared 23 6s ,Air Jordan 7 Retro Raptor 2012 Powder Blue 3s Air Jordan 5 Laney Air Jordan 13 Ray Allen PE Air Jordan 10 Charlotte Bobcats Bobcats 10s Air Jordan Spizike Space Blue Air Jordan 9 Black Photo Blue White Air Jordan 8 Bugs Bunny 2013 It has been said that 60 80% of New Year's resolutions will be broken within the first two weeks. Personally, I am not a huge advocate of New Year's resolutions because I believe in setting and achieving personal goals all year around. However, I do respect the fact that New Year's resolutions are very popular, and I understand that the New Year is a very logical time to start fresh. That being said, I wanted to share with you the top ten ways to increase the likelihood for success with your New Year's resolutions. 1. Stick to 1 or 2 important goals. Having a laundry list of all the things you would like to change in your life can be overwhelming. Your chances for success are much higher if you stick to 1 or 2 of your most important goals. This allows you to concentrate all your energy and focus on these goals. Once you achieve those goals, you can always set 1 or 2 more. 2. Be realistic. It's okay to think big and want the best, but it is more important to succeed, so be realistic. Ask yourself whether or not your goals are reasonable and possible. It is probably not realistic to set the goal of never yelling at your kids again. How will you feel about your resolution when your children test you on a very bad day and you yell? Certainly one can cut back on yelling and work to find alternative ways to deal with misbehavior, but an all or nothing attitude may set you up for failure, and feeling like you've failed can set you up for more failure. Instead, accept and honor your humanness. 3. Be specific. Be as specific as possible when determining goals. Articulate how you will measure success and exactly what you are trying to achieve. Making a resolution to lose weight is too general. A better choice would be to set a specific and manageable goal. For example say, "I will lose 25 pounds by June 30, 2006." Be specific when answering the what, when and how. 4. Connect to your motivation for achieving your goal. Why do you want to achieve this goal? Why now? Make sure your motivation comes from your heart, and not from your head. In other words, your goal should be something you really desire, and not something you know you SHOULD do. Really connect to why this is so important to you. Pay attention to whether or not you are being driven by fear or love. Beware of setting goals based on what someone else in your life thinks you should do. Your resolutions should come from your authentic self. 5. Examine your belief in your ability to achieve this goal. What do you believe about your ability to achieve your New Year's resolutions? If you have tried to reach the same goal many times before without much success, your confidence could be wavering. You could be feeding yourself negative messages without even realizing it. Be conscious about positive thinking. Remind yourself that you are capable of doing anything you set your heart to. Tell yourself every day that you have the ability to take the steps it will take to reach your goal. 6. Create a detailed plan to achieve your goal. Let's say your resolution is to eliminate the clutter in your home. But how will you start when the clutter is overwhelming? It may be helpful to break large goals into intermediate, manageable steps. Make a list of each area you need to tackle. Then break each area into even smaller segments that can be tackled easily. For instance, set time aside to clean out old clothes, then to organize sweaters, then to throw out old shoes, and finally arrange clothing by color or type. Don't forget to specify a time limit for accomplishing each of the smaller steps. Before you know it, the larger goal will have been met. 7. Recognize that you may encounter obstacles. Most people give up on their goals because they run into some type of obstacle along the way. Obstacles can be internal or external. Examples of internal obstacles include negative self talk, limiting beliefs and discipline issues. Some external obstacles are the lack of time, money or resources. Know in advance what hurdles you may have to conquer. 8. Identify a plan of action to overcome obstacles. If you are trying to give up chocolate (I would never try this!), what are you going to do when you get a craving for chocolate, or when all your friends are chowing down on chocolate cake? Maybe your plan would be to carry a sweet substitute with you at all times. Or perhaps you could involve yourself in a fun activity when the urge strikes. If your obstacles are tougher and you need more support, consider hiring a life coach to help you work through your blocks. 9. Enlist the support of an accountability partner. As you work towards your goals, it can be very helpful to have someone in your life to be your support partner. Consider asking your partner or friend to help you stick to the resolutions you have set. Use this person when you are struggling and set up a plan to check in regularly with him/her. As a coach, I have the privilege of trading coaching services with my peers. My coach helps me achieve my goals, overcome any obstacles, and celebrate my success. 10. Celebrate success along the way. One of the most important things you can do for yourself is celebrate your small successes as you work towards your larger goals. Don't wait until the end to reward yourself. You deserve to be recognized for your efforts and your commitment, especially when your goals take a long time to achieve. If you don't celebrate on your journey, you will lose your motivation. So celebrate, celebrate, and celebrate! I wish you the best in achieving your 2006 New Year's resolutions. If you fall off your path, remember you can always get back on. It's okay to take a few detours. No one said there can't be St. Patrick's Day resolutions, Easter resolutions, or even Independence Day resolutions. Infrared 23 6s,It's as obvious as someone's nickname scrawled in bright green spray paint on the side of a white washed adobe wall: Graffiti in Santa Barbara is at an all time high. From elaborate displays on freeway overpasses and railroad under crossings to the hastily sketched monikers on sidewalks and simple "ES" or "WS" gang provocations on each side of town, it's hard to walk down almost any street in Santa Barbara without spotting signs of a tagger's late night handiwork. And despite combined efforts from the police, city workers, and volunteers all over town, the costly and constant trend only seems to be on the rise. "It's a nuisance problem," explained Charles Katsapis, an officer with the Santa Barbara Police Department who deals with graffiti on a regular basis. "We live in a beautiful city, and no one likes to see it." And like more traditional nuisances such as litter, dilapidated buildings, and abandoned vehicles, the explosion of graffiti threatens to harm Santa Barbara's profitable reputation as a quaint tourist destination and, most critically to residents, to lower property values. Confronting the graffiti tide has become a daily race in painting over paint, a back and forth, nearly Sisyphean task for the City of Santa Barbara's streets maintenance team, who go out early every morning to clean up as much as they can before the sun rises, only to see their efforts tagged up as soon as the next night. "The amount of cleanup we've done has almost quadrupled," said city Streets Manager Rick Fulmer, who said the graffiti abatement program costs his department alone about $200,000 annually. "We're tired of being hit all the time with people demanding that the city and police do something about it. Two of the West Coast's most popular art exhibits this summer, Street Cred at the Pasadena Museum of California Art and Art in the Streets at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, were all about graffiti; the documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop, by notorious British street artist Banksy, nearly won the 2011 Academy Award; and major brands such as Coca Cola, Nike, and Sony have hired "aerosol artists" in recent years for advertising campaigns. Though much of what's seen every day in Santa Barbara doesn't rise to this quality, there are some hidden spots that aren't regularly painted over where the spray paint does shine. Some communities have chosen to embrace the trend rather than fight it, most notably Venice Beach, where public art walls were erected in 2007 to allow graffiti and have resulted in a drop of illegal tagging nearby. In Santa Barbara, there is only about a block of wall space in the Funk Zone where aerosol art is tolerated (and only then with written permission), leaving plenty of kids with cans of green spray paint eyeing your white washed adobe walls as their next canvas. "It's extremely frustrating for us," said Detective Andy Feller, who's in charge of the SBPD's youth services sector, which covers everything from missing persons to attempted gang homicides. And that's in part because, as Officer Katsapis explained, "There's a mentality amongst taggers that it's not vandalism, that it's art." That notion is supported by the popularity of graffiti in mainstream culture as well as the rise of a multimillion dollar online aerosol art retail market that's accessible to anyone with a credit card number. Altogether, the combination leads to repeat offenses, little fear of the probation, fines, and even jail time that constitutes punishment, and a bravado that's both dangerous (because they might go to jail) and stupid (because they aren't afraid to show off). "One kid we arrested showed us everywhere he had tagged," said Feller. "It was like 15 locations. He had a sense of pride." Graffiti crimes have always been on the department's radar, but the spike in recent years has led to more actual prosecutions of taggers. And Feller fears more trouble down the road, as he's noticed a rise in conflicts between tagging crews, as well as between crews and gangs. Katsapis and his partner, Christopher Martinez, run into taggers on a regular basis, and report that they come from "all walks of life, all socioeconomic statuses." There was one kid from San Roque who lived in a beautiful house, said Katsapis, explaining, "[Taggers] party together, they know each other from school, and they share a common interest in graffiti." (Repeated attempts to contact taggers for this story were entirely unsuccessful.) And it isn't just teenagers. Some taggers are in their mid twenties, though they tend to follow an ethical code of sorts that includes only painting on city or abandoned property and not engaging in the "bombing" practice of scrawling as many little tags on as many places as possible or using "slaps," stickers that taggers put their names on and then post around town. "There used to be a different code," said Martinez of the older taggers' mentality, "but it's changing now," and that means that private residences and even people's vehicles have become fair game for this next generation. Regardless of its beauty, however, in the eyes of law enforcement, graffiti is graffiti, and Martinez and Katsapis frequently stop suspected or known taggers and look for paint marks on their hands and spray cans in their bags. "It's pretty rare for us to catch them in the act," said Martinez, noting that taggers use lookouts and special whistle calls to warn each other, making even complicated sting attempts difficult. "It's more common to catch them with stuff." One of the recent tools used by the police, as well as the city streets team and the Downtown Parking department, is the Graffiti Tracker, a camera equipped with a GPS tracking system that logs tags. When a tagger is caught, additional images of his moniker can be searched in the system, which is in use in jurisdictions throughout California and beyond, and then more serious charges can be brought against him. It's only been in use for one year in Santa Barbara, but it's already had an impact. "We've made some pretty big arrests, and it helps us put together a bigger case," said Feller, but he reminded that the program costs money and the department could use donations to keep it alive into the future. If you happen to spot a guy blasting the sidewalk with a high powered water gun just after dawn on any given weekday morning, you're seeing the city's top graffiti fighter, Mike Borrayo, in action, and he's already been at work for a few hours. "Anything that's a gray or brown wall," said Borrayo, whose early morning efficiency means the biggest tags are never seen by most residents, "we paint them." To do so, he drives a special $85,000 truck that the city purchased a few years ago, outfitted with the water blaster as well as various paints and nontoxic chemicals that Borrayo and the occasional part timers use to wipe walls clean. From July 2010 to June 2011, he did that for more than 300,000 square feet of public property (including the railroad, which contracts the city for cleanup). He's also responsible for posting notices on private properties that get tagged, as they have three days to clean up the mess or have the city do so before accruing fines; both residential and business owners complete such cleanups 99 percent of the time, and no one has yet had the city do it for them, despite more than 500 such notices going out last fiscal year alone. (To avoid tagging, Streets Manager Fulmer advised, "Don't make it easy for people to access your building. Make it bright. Make it unfriendly.") "The thrill is getting away with it, I guess," said Borrayo, shaking his head and explaining that, as a lifelong surfer, he's always got his "guts and glory" in the ocean. "I see these kids tagging. Adopt A Block: Volunteer with Looking Good Santa Barbara, and clean up graffiti on your block by calling 897 2526. Meet at Calvary Baptist Church. Technically, Borrayo and his spitfire boss Georgia Lopez who started graffiti abatement work before it was a program and today gives out her cell phone number to repeat hotline callers are only in charge of cleaning up tagging in the city right of way, save for their additional work on the railroad corridors. So the Parks Department is in charge of trees, County Flood Control does the Mission Creek culverts ("It's kind of an endless job," said Water Resources Deputy Director Tom Fayram), utility companies handle their boxes, Caltrans does specific highway work, and so forth. A more centralized strategy might make sense, but in the meantime, Lopez and Borrayo have become the de facto clearinghouse, and regularly alert other agencies when their work is needed. But Fulmer, their supervisor, also admitted, "We'll sometimes go over our jurisdiction. We'll clean up extra areas." Despite the fact that Borrayo often visits the same graffiti spot multiple times in a week, painting the same color paint over yet another familiar moniker, he remains upbeat about his work. "It's job security," he said. "I love my job. I love making Santa Barbara look good." Plus, he's happy to see the support of the community volunteers. "I'm proud of this city," he explained, before showing off a particularly thick but hidden wall of graffiti in the Las Positas area that's only cleaned up once or twice a year. "That's what Santa Barbara would look like if you didn't have concerned citizens." On a recent morning down at the corner of Milpas and Indio Muerto streets near the railroad tracks and freeway off ramp, Sebastian Aldana Jr. and a couple associates were pulling weeds, picking up trash, and wiping graffiti off of utility boxes and power poles. It's something Aldana, a former painter turned caterer turned City Council candidate, does almost every week around the Eastside, where he lives on East Cota Street (though he was raised on the Westside). He's part of Looking Good Santa Barbara's Adopt A Block program, in which the city gives volunteers the tools they need to remove graffiti and pick up litter around their neighborhoods. "I just got tired of seeing my neighborhood filthy. It's okay to live in an old part of town, but it doesn't have to be dirty," said Aldana, who's seen his work spark others to do the same. "If I keep my block clean, and the next guy keeps his block clean It's one block at a time." Looking Good is run by the city's Lorraine Cruz Carpenter, who reports that 180 Santa Barbara residents and business owners have signed up for the program so far and received the bucketful of supplies in return. "It's a battle," she explained. "We feel that quick cleanup is one of the ways to resolve the issue or at least work toward getting rid of graffiti, and that's what our volunteers do. A lot of them stay right on top of it." That includes neighborhoods from the Lower Westside (where resident Jaime Limon leads the work) and West Downtown (home to another Adopt A Block leader turned City Council candidate Sharon Byrne) to the Upper Eastside, where Santa Barbara City College trustee Joan Livingston hopes to enlist one member per block. "Volunteers have enthusiastically stepped forward, and we now have close to 50 percent of our blocks covered," said Livingston, who said the tools provided by the city are effective and easy to use. "This activity encourages us to be the eyes and ears of our neighborhood." Enhancing the fight against graffiti is the Santa Barbara Youth Art Alliance, which began about five years ago as a mentoring program to work on murals around town, including the ones at Ortega Park and other former graffiti hotspots on the Eastside. "Since the murals were installed, there have been no incidents of graffiti vandalism at those locations, saving the city hundreds of dollars in repairs," said program director Ricardo Venegas. Then, in October 2010, the alliance kicked off the Milpas Graffiti Abatement Project to even more effect and applause. "Many business owners reported up to an 80 percent reduction in graffiti along Milpas from Canon Perdido to Cabrillo Boulevard," explained Venegas, who said the project ended in June but will likely be rekindled this month. "Our program makes an economic impact across the board because it takes youth off the streets and very effectively engages them in an art mentoring program that is both creative and relevant to their experience. The alliance helps to reduce and minimize all forms of vandalism, violence, and youth delinquency." With school back in session, everyone expects graffiti in Santa Barbara to start rising once again, but people like Aldana aren't willing to give up in this endless war. "We're gonna win," said Aldana. "You just can't throw in the towel." But in this back and forth battle involving cops, city workers, and hundreds of volunteers, is Santa Barbara missing an opportunity to channel possibly productive youthful energy? Laura Inks thinks so, and she would know, having started the only tolerated graffiti wall in Santa Barbara, two half blocks in the Funk Zone on Mason and Helena streets where artists can work when given permission to do so. "A guy was out there every single day painting the green fence green again because there was tagging," said Inks, who got permission for the ongoing and changing outdoor exhibit (now called Artists Making a Street Scene) from Mountain Funding, the property owners of the long stalled La Entrada project. "Since we put the project up, the graffiti around there virtually stopped." And other cities are beginning to take note, as well this week, Inks gave a tour of the Funk Zone to the American Planning Association's California Chapter, which is having its annual meeting in Santa Barbara. Inks, who is the director of the Jurkowitz Center for Arts Education at the Granada Theatre, believes that the walls also offer a better future for the kids involved. "You can't really corral this group of kids, although they do love to paint and have their stuff seen. It's motivation to have them save their paint, so it's not going on buildings or underpasses," she explained. "That was my goal initially: to get them off the streets and onto canvasses and boards, and make them see that they can sell it and make a living instead of a rap sheet."
Free Shipping Clearance Sale Infrared 23 6s,Air Jordan 13 Ray Allen PE When it was time to replace my daughter sneakers in December, the only store in town that sells kids shoes didn have any styles with Velcro closures in her size. We looked at each other, she and I, with the exact same expression on our faces sheer panic. My kid can tie her shoes. Yes, my daughter is 8 years old, and neither I nor her father have even attempted to teach her to tie shoelaces. My mother in law, bless her heart, gave it a go last May and aborted her mission well before they even got to the words ears. had her try the shoes on anyway, and my big girl really loved them. much more fun. Or so she told me. You know, they big girl shoes. Against my better judgment, she left the store wearing them. But really, what else was I going to do? It was bad enough that her old shoes were an entire size too small. Confession: That was more than a month ago now, and we haven worked on this at all. I could claim holiday madness, but the truth is that I just don want to do it. My girl is extremely smart and with this comes a serious perfection complex. Anything new that she cannot conquer in less than 30 seconds can send her into a frustration tailspin that leaves all of us panting and in need of medicinal chocolate. Every morning when I tie her shoes a part of me cringes with shame. What kind of parent lets her 8 year old get away with not tying her shoes? Then I remember that some battles aren worth fighting. It has been a long, hard road littered with tears, but I have learned that forcing myself and my child into a situation that will cause us both legitimate emotional pain sometimes isn worth it. She will learn to tie her shoes. I know she will, when she is ready, and she will do it in about five minutes flat. But right now, every time I see those shoes on her feet, I feel like such a bad mom. How old was your child when they learned to tie their shoes? Was it hard to teach them? We haven gotten into shoe tying yet, but you make me think of all the things I feel imaginary pressure about for my almost 5 year old, plus the fact she like your daughter a little bit too. When she can get something perfect it useless for us to keep trying with her. So she be 5 in a month and she still can make it through the night without wetting the bed. And more often than I like we are wiping her on the potty. But who pressuring me, only myself. I know full well she do it when she ready. So will yours. =) No. My child is 6 and we haven taught her either. She doesn have anxiety or a perfection complex, just really crappy motor skills. She complains to me some days that her classmates know how to tie their shoes and that she doesn So I always ask her if she wants to learn (she has no lace tie shoes right now), but she does not. When she wants to learn, she will learn. Am I a bad mom for not teaching her? Not in my opinion. We are working on motor skills in other ways, but this just isn practical for us considering none of her shoes are lace tie shoes. When your child wants to learn, she will learn. My kid learned to ride a bike way before her classmates because she wanted to, so win some, lose some. (My son 2 so we not to this point yet, heck he can even velcro them himself yet. Anyhow not try some of the curly shoe laces? You could probably put those in and the shoe would stay tight without having to tie them. Maybe you could find one that works. If she has two pairs of shoes, you could put real shoe laces on the pair she likes better so it encourages her to work on learning to tie them but she could use the others for every day when she just needs to wear them. (Or weekend vs. weekday shoes). Kind of like potty training, we are starting on the early side and just taking it really slow. I don stress about it and neither does she. She got her first pair of tie shoes a couple of months ago, right after she turned four. We showed her how to loosen the laces, get them on her feet, tighten the laces, make a knot, and make a bow. She got everything down except the bow. For now, she just ties a million knots and the shoes stay on. It looks silly, but it gets the job done She get there eventually. I drove myself and my son crazy trying to teach him how to tie his shoes. Almost a year of frustration and hair tearing on both our parts. One day he sat down with a book (no joke) one of those little kid books that have the snaps,zippers,buttons and yay laces on each page and taught himself in 5 minutes. He was a bit younger than 8, but it took a good while after that for him to learn to get the things tight enough to not come apart in 5 minutes He now 12 and has, I think, tied his shoes once the first time he put them on after buying them and just pulls them on and off without undoing the laces at all (drives his dad nuts! :)). Maybe you could have a pair that she wears to school that are pre tied (so to speak) tight enough that they can be just slipped on and off without having to untie/retie them, but also have a pair at home she can practice on. She get it. I think my younger daughter learned to tie her shoes at 7. She is now 9 and JUST learned how to ride a bike makes me feel bad. You are not alone and you should do what works for your family however be careful with the perfection complex because you don want to turn events into a situation where you avoid doing or teaching key things just because it is hard and frustrating for your child. My 11 year old is a lot like that, and it IS easier to just avoid it altogether but I think we all know that what is easy is not always right and what is right is not always easy I have found this out the hard way, lol. Good luck and she will be just fine! My step son is 11 and still can or even button his pants. He is autistic, so this makes it a bit harder, as when he doesn want to learn something, he makes it practically impossible to teach. We had him for Christmas, and I sat down and made him just work on the knot. nothing else, just the knot. one step at a time. he needs to learn, as his feet are now my same size, there are no Velcro shoes left. My other two are getting there my 7yr old can do it himself, and my 6yr old is learning. my 3 yr old doesn register it on the radar yet. No your not a bad mom for that. But you recognize it, and I hope you start soon, but you have more time than those of us with boys. Girls have more shoe options without laces. No, you are not a bad Mom for this. And it is ridiculous for anyone to say you are. My DD is 5 and knows how to tie, but she had an incentive. Her school has the children earn buttons by activities that they can do. Like counting to 100, knowing all capital and lower case letters, and being able to zip and tie. She loves earning the buttons and when she found out she had to know how to tie her shoes to earn that button, she made me teach her. She didn even have tie shoes, so she practiced on mine. Each parent decides what is important for them and learning these things is one of them. My DS is about to turn 3 and I haven even tried to potty train him. Because I know how difficult it was to train his sister, and I know my son and whether he is ready. My 8 year old has just recently learned, too. I work in a therapy clinic and got a great tip from the occupational therapists: let them practice with pipe cleaners. The hardest part for kids is that the laces won stay in place while they trying to figure out what to do with them. Pipe cleaners will stay in the position they bent into, so kids can get the technique down without getting frustrated that it keeps slipping. I twisted the ends of 2 pipe cleaners together then pulled the other ends through holes I had punched in a small piece of cardboard so he had a surface to work against. (I hope this makes sense.) He had it figured out in no time after that. Are you serious? You are really making this about you? Spend more time teaching your daughter to tie her shoes instead of asking complete strangers online if YOU are a bad mom only thing that is making me question your parenting abilities is that you are more worried about YOU than yor child is what is wrong with our country. Why do you need approval from others? You are taching your child that is important to care about what others think more than being herself feeling sorry for yourself and tend to your children like a real mom. Geez. I an elementary school teacher, and assuming typical motor skill development, most kids can tie their shoes by age 6. It is frustrating when they should be able to, but their parents have not helped them to learn. Pausing before physical activities to get shoes tied for safety takes up valuable learning time. Kids often approach the teacher to ask for their shoes to be tied in the middle of learning, because they are distracted by them being untied. I tell my students that they need to tie them or find as buddy who is able to help them, I don tie shoes myself after the first month or so of first grade. In short, I think it an important skill to learn, and for my own kids, I never want them to be learning something if it wasn developmentally necessary. 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Future home owners will be especially appreciative of your helping them out with this action. At this point, you will have some paperwork to review, sign and payment to be made. Make sure you read everything carefully and confirm completed work is as you expected. You reviewed most of this when you signed the proposal, but final paperwork may include information about the unit warranty, limitations, a statement that the work was done and that the unit is working properly. If you have not had an informational walk through by this time, make sure to ask them to do so! You should get copies of the paperwork and manuals for the new unit. A great way to store these is in a zip lock bag along with any small parts. Lastly, you should also ask if they have a Service Agreement program. A service agreement program can save you money on maintaining your new HVAC unit and will likely make you a priority family customer. 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Air Jordan Spizike Space Blue