Home can be more green

In this mechanical world, I have a dream to have a green home. Is it impossible? Where I can get powered by sun, I can have partial supply of water from rain, I can have vegetables from my garden, fresh air for breathing and I can produce fertilizer from my wastage of foods.

No its not completely impossible, we may can’t do everything like my dream but we can do so many things to change our sweet home to be more sweet, environment friendly and green.

Just few mechanism and steps can change huge to our home environment.

1. Transform the Incandescent light to LED or CFL Light

We can save huge electricity consumption by transforming old Incandescent bulbs to LED (Light Emitting Diodes) or CFL (Compact Fluorescents) bulb. Near 60-80% electricity can be saving by this. These lights have more benefits for us. They generated fewer warm then the incandescent bulb more than 80%. So it will ensure our cool weather inside the room. A small compression between these bulbs can give us clear view. http://www.designrecycleinc.com/led%20comp%20chart.html

Energy Efficiency & Energy Costs	Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs)	Incandescent Light Bulbs	Compact Fluorescents (CFLs)
Life Span (average)	50,000 hours	1,200 hours	8,000 hours
Watts of electricity used	6 - 8 watts	60 watts	13-15 watts

2. Solar energy

We can easily set solar panel in our roof and can save fuel made electricity as well as we can save money in a long run. Solar energy will create the environment friendly atmosphere at our home without noise and hazard. Maintenance is very easy and cheaper.  It will give you effective control on your energy consumption.

3. Preserve rain drops

In the rainy season we can easily preserve the rain drops for our daily cloth wash and for our house hold use. We have to setup a tank and some filter to collect the pure water from the sky. Rain water can save our supplied water by pipe. It will save our money and energy. http://preservethefox.org/water_harvesting.htm

4. Plants can provide more options

Pure oxygen is one of the vital needs for us. We can easily ensure limited pure air by doing some little changes at home. We have to keep some plants in the room. But before buy any plants we have to check, which plants need little water and sun light to live. And there are some plants on nursery which don’t need extra care. These plants can bring changes in interior of the home as well as provide us fresh oxygen.

5. Fertilizers at home

Though we have some trees at our home, we can produce fertilizer with wastage foods and vegetables. We have to setup a compost bin to preserved these wastage and create fertilizer for our own plants.

 6. Drop your shoes at door

Dust, toxins and pollutants come to our home thru the window and shoes. We can’t close the window all the time. But we can easily drop our shoes near to door. And limit the excess of dust and toxin with other unhealthy things by dropping shoes at the door.

7. Maintaining household equipment

Last one is we have to maintain properly our electronics equipment and water appliance to minimize the loss of energy and water. Have to be cautious when we go for purchasing energy and water efficiency equipment’s. It’s may take some extra money from your pocket but will serve you more in long run.

Green home can save your money and time in your daily life and provide you more comfort and extra value of life.

Read More...

When kids are growing, we need to think

We love our kids most, sometime we feel confused what should we say to our kids? When kids are growing, is the toughest time for them and also for parents. They need us most and sometimes we may not be prepared for the time.

 

As a parent we have to know and need to help them to grow up. So if we know some basics then it will help us lot.

1 Self confidence

Every kid tries to follow their parents. Most of the kids will answer “want to be like Mama or Dad’’ if you ask them, what you will do in your life? Kids gather the experience of life thru their parent’s behavior. Your kid will follow every steps of your walk along with you style of talking, your expressions and thinking. So their self-confidence will depend on your acts and words.

Your positive language and praising activities will create an atmosphere where your kids can feel better and solid. Please try to avoid comparing one child with other one. Because every child has difference and psychology never be same. Comparison will create misperception and negative sentiment about people, works mostly on them self.

Never say, you are fool or you are not good as x. It will affect those most. We can counsel with them, it’s just a mistake and next time we will try more to avoid this kind of mistake. Express your love and feeling, even they do something wrong.

2 Act like friend not like boss

They are only kids! They have the right to do mistakes and naughty works. If we behave like boss and the entire time try to say don’t do it. Is it right? Just try to follow their activities, and speak loudly or give them hug and kiss when they do something really good. Repeat the good jobs more than bad jobs. Your encouragement will make them happy and lively.

3 Discipline, never beyond the limit.

If we want to create our children to be a good citizen, we have to maintain disciplines and rules at home.  Kids should be aware of do some thing or they should be know the basics. Like, we can’t use slang or bad words to anyone. We have to maintain some rules strictly. Like before ending the home work they can’t watch TV. Or have to respects older one of the family. We have to be careful about the consequence of the rules and activities. It’s a continuous role. We never can think, oh we have informed them that’s enough. We have to remembering them time to time about the rule of the family. It will create some dos and don’ts on their mind and help them to choose the right way.

4 Quality time for the kids

Now a day, it’s a huge issue in our daily life. Mostly we both Mama and Dad are working. For that reason we have little time for our kids and family. On the other hand whole day we have to work so much and face the pressure, when we reached home, we feel tired and exhausted.  But our kids need us mostly that time.

We can change some of our daily procedures to make sure to provide the quality time to our kids. We can wake up 15 minutes early and taking the breakfast together. Like after dinner, we can take a small walk to make them happy. In every week, we need to go for outing with members for having on time with own people.

Give them chance to decide, what are they want to do on the weekend?  It will give kids, new thoughts and they feel much attached with us. Try to give them time when you are in kitchen or reading the newspaper, make some participatory function to involve them with you. Or you can take them with for grocery shopping.

5 Loves without Condition

We have to remember that, we are not having our child to find out their mistakes rather than provide them guidance and show the way. Love shouldn’t have any condition. It’s always out of give and take policy. We have to express our love while they did mistakes. We have to realize they are learning from us. If we continuously tell them about their faults, their morality will be down. So we have to tell them, we can’t do same mistakes again and again. Next time we will do better. Just boost up their confidence and give them the support.

6 Try to be Hero

We mentioned before that every kid want to be like their parents. Every boy have a dream, once upon a time, he will be as like his father, same to the girls. They will follow how you behave? How you speak? How you treat others? What other people say about you? How you eat? How you feel about country, people, and society? Show your honesty, respects, high morality, love for others and they will treat you their Hero and follow you. Your smiling face will teach you to smile.

7 Think about you

No one can be totally perfect as a human being. All of us have some shortfall or limitations. We have to express our weakness and strength to our family members. It will make them clear about your ability as parents. The main power of us, we love our family and trying to do every good thing for our family. So this is the only and last positive thing for us.

 

We can’t change our ability or basic in a single day but we can try to do better day by day. And our love with guidance can make our kids to be a real hearted good person.

Read More...