BERT VERDONCK, lifehacker & life coach

Several people are talking about educating their children at home. Be it from a religious point of view or from the fact that parents can do better than the school system (or other reasons?), some parents are considering (or doing it!) to teach their children at home and not at school.

Why?

Education of children has become a complex challenge. Several children are “too” smart for their age. Others are more advanced in some subjects and “normal” at others. Teachers have to divide their attention to so many children, often resulting that the smartest become lazy, bored or rebellious and the “slower” children are not capable of catching up with the rest…

Anyway, would you consider to educate your children at home? Why (not)?

Looking forward to your replies,

Bert

Don’t we all dream of winning a big jackpot or lottery or … ? Sure we do!

But, how do you decide on the numbers? Some people select significant numbers like birthdays, others go for calculated numbers or some just pick random numbers.

Mary Wollens, an 86 year old ex-lottery winner, won the Ontario Lottery after dreaming of a lotto ticket and a large cheque. So she decided to buy yet another lottery ticket with the same numbers (duh?). Needless to say she won (again), (or I would not be writing this…) but what is fascinating is that someone else had the right numbers as well! Normally we would laugh at people buying the same numbers again, but instead of splitting the amount in half, it was now divided in 3 parts, where Mary took home 2/3!

What are the odds on that?

Sure, I play too and I keep on dreaming. So, I must change the order, dream of the numbers first, then play…

Enjoy every day,

Bert

This article is about helping people in distress and getting the best and most correct information about a patient, and the best use out of a mobile phone, often at times when there is no time to loose…A lot of rescue workers are loosing valuable time when they arrive at an accident scene. Often they don’t know if the patient/victim has certain alllergies, takes medications, is in treatment for a certain disease, etc., so they might start “helping” you with the wrong treatment, because of ignorance!

So, if you store the phone number of who should be contacted in case of emergency under ICE (In Case of Emergency) in your mobile phone, rescue workers will look at this number first! If you have several emergency numbers, store them under Ice1, Ice2, Ice3, etc.

This way, you might save your own life!

Tip: some phones give a warning if you want to store a number twice. A simple solution : just add the + sign at the end of your phone number. It works just fine and you can save the number again

Enjoy every day,

Bert Verdonck

So, what languages do I write articles in?

Well, I stick to the ones I know (English, Dutch, French, German and a bit of Hindi). So, why is this important to you?

As I will be writing in those languages, there might be some articles that you are interested in, but unable to understand (certainly, you dó know Hindi or German ). So, if that happens, don’t hesitate to mail me or comment, I’d be happy to translate it for you!

Of course, you could also use online translating websites (e.g. Babelfish ) if you are eager to know it immediately…

Happy reading,

Bert