Thing About Life http://thingsaboutlife.com Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:38:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Children becoming ‘addicted’ to computers & smart phones http://thingsaboutlife.com/children-addicted-computers-smart-phones/ http://thingsaboutlife.com/children-addicted-computers-smart-phones/#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:31:13 +0000 Mark http://thingsaboutlife.com/?p=15 Continue reading →]]> Barnaby Lenon, chairman of the Independent Schools Council, said young people’s reading and conversational skills were being put at risk by overexposure to modern technology.

He said parents should avoid buying their children’s a smartphone until they are at least 15 and limit computer use to an hour or two a day.

“It is very hard to prevent children from accessing damaging material through the computer, but the main issue is that children spend far too long on computers and, as a result, they are not doing the two things that we want [them] to do, which are reading and conversation.” Read More >>

]]> http://thingsaboutlife.com/children-addicted-computers-smart-phones/feed/ 0 The History Of The Hot Dog http://thingsaboutlife.com/the-history-of-the-hot-dog/ http://thingsaboutlife.com/the-history-of-the-hot-dog/#comments Mon, 06 Dec 2010 08:11:26 +0000 Mark http://www.thingsaboutlife.com/?p=8 Continue reading →]]> It may surprise some hot dog connoisseurs that their favorite meat by-product on a bun has such a long history. Some historians can place the creation of the hot dog as afar back as 1487, others say it is more likely to have been created during the 1860′s.

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