Type Kids *Disclosure: I received a free version of this program to try. This means that my son gets to work for me and learn a new skill, and I can tell you about a great new product!* I’m not sure that the next generation is going to know how to type! Will everyone be […]
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Tell me of Brave Women: Review *I received a copy of this book from Hay House Publishers for review* According to the World Health Organization, statistics show that 35% of women worldwide have experienced either intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence in their lifetime. 35%. Any violence is too much. This is […]
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Type Kids *Disclosure: I received a free version of this program to try. This means that my son gets to work for me and learn a new skill, and I can tell you about a great new product!* I’m not sure that the next generation is going to know how to type! Will everyone be […]
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Tell me of Brave Women: Review *I received a copy of this book from Hay House Publishers for review* According to the World Health Organization, statistics show that 35% of women worldwide have experienced either intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence in their lifetime. 35%. Any violence is too much. This is […]
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*Disclosure: I received a free version of this program to try. This means that my son gets to work for me and learn a new skill, and I can tell you about a great new product!*
I’m not sure that the next generation is going to know how to type! Will everyone be thumb typing when it comes to the workplace?
The art of typing has become a long-lost skill.
I learned how to type when I was in high school. I found a game on a floppy disk called Typing Tutor. It was a DOS-based program that used games to teach you how to type. I spent an entire summer going through the program. Now, I think I am a pretty fast and accurate typer – all thanks to that game!
I remember once, my father stood outside my bedroom door, and heard the keys clunking away. “Stop playing games and get your homework done!”
“I am typing my report!”
I couldn’t have been more proud of myself!
Now, I want to make sure that my kids have those same skills.
So, when I was asked to review a new typing program for kids called Type Kids, I jumped on board!
Here’s what the website says:
Why learn touch typing?
Did you ever realize that almost all text your child will write during his or her life will be done on a keyboard?
Touch typing is the skill to type with all ten fingers and the ability to find all keys blindly, without having to look at the keyboard. After completing the 30 lessons of this online course, your kid’s typing speed will increase up to 5 times. This means that typing text that would have taken 30 minutes before the course will take less than half the time afterwards.
Once your children have learned touch typing they will enjoy it for the rest of their lives. They will save hundreds of hours in the next few years alone.
Type Kids uses a game based on a pirate adventure to help kids learn how to type. Join Captain Forty on a treasure hunt and learn touch typing along the way. At the end of each lesson you will get to play fun games!
By completing various skill-based activities, you earn coins which then help you to unlock games. As you proceed through the levels and the games, your child will receive progress reports via email. This will tell your child about his accuracy, what letters he needs to work on, and give him encouragement to continue playing.
Learning touch typing can be fun! Unlike traditional methods that are boring, children consider our classes to be fun. Kids continue with the course on their own initiative because they want to know how the story unfolds and play the cool touch typing games.
It is also recommended that this is something a child does from time to time, and not all at once. This will keep her motivated and won’t tire of the activity! This works for us. Every few days, Daniel will ask to play again, and it’s great to see that he hasn’t forgotten what he worked on before.
Once you are hooked, you can sign up to take the entire course.
Even though the course has been developed for kids more and more parents take it themselves after seeing the progress made by their children.
Course structure
The course consists of 30 online lessons, each of which takes approximately 25 minutes to complete. All instructions are given as clear animations with audio. Explanations from previous lessons can be reviewed at any time.
You can learn touch typing at your own pace. Most participants complete 3 classes a week, which means that the whole course is finished in 10 weeks.
The cost for the complete online course consisting of 30 lessons is $89.95.
You don’t have to take my word for it! Here’s what Daniel has to say:
I like the activities because there are stories you have to help them escape from evil guys. The games are fun, too.
It’s pretty good at teaching me how to type.
I also like the little exercises where you combine both typing hands.
I like learning how to type. It’s important for me to learn how to type.
This is some of my exercising: fdsa jkl; fjdksla; kds;a jfd; as laf; jklaf
Here’s Daniel typing before he started the program:
And here he is after a few weeks and completing just a third of the program:
There is no doubt that Type Kids works!
I look forward to seeing him progress further, and he’s already so proud of himself!
Type Kids is a winner in our household!
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*I received a copy of this book from Hay House Publishers for review*
According to the World Health Organization, statistics show that 35% of women worldwide have experienced either intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence in their lifetime.
35%.
Any violence is too much.
This is is the subject of Tell me of Brave Women by first-time novelist, Laura Riley.
In her book, Riley covers stories of several women and one man from around the world. Evangelina has been made into a sex slave for a drug lord in South America; Thelma witnesses a woman being abused in her bar in the United States; Hassad is a chief investigator in the Middle east who believes it is the right of men to control their wives; while Samara travels the world as a storyteller trying to empower women.
These stories are all interwoven – mostly through a connection with a charitable organization called Secret Sisters that shelters abused women and has homes all around the world.
This book is beautifully written. The characters are all distinct, and even though there are many characters and plots happening at the same time, it is not confusing. Because the book is 500 pages, it looks daunting, and why it took me so long to pick it up. However, it is a very quick read – because of the story line, and also because the author doesn’t get bogged down in details and descriptions. I like that.
The author, Laura Reiley is a psychotherapist, lecturer and aid to battered women. She has studied the status of women in 89 countries and personally believes that abuse will only end when women unite against it. Through her writing she tries to encourage women to come together and demand justice and equality.
Therefore, the novel is a piece to motivate people action.
It acts almost as a utopia – or a guide to utopia where life for women should be and is better.
Tell me of Brave Women includes female characters who have experienced almost every kind of abuse or injustice to women. Many of the issues also wrap up with neat little bows. And, wouldn’t it be nice to have a shelter for battered women in every country and every city with enough funding and a wealthy benefactress to keep them all going?
Although, this may not be possible or realistic, the book paints the picture of how things should be and could be when we start treating women equally.
One thing is for sure; it certainly made me take an even greater interest in my local women’s shelter. You will be inspired after reading this book to do what you can to help women – by not turning a blind eye, by making a financial or tangible donation to a shelter, or by being a good friend to someone who might need you.
I recommend picking up a copy of Tell me of Brave Women by Laura Reiley.
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