Cruiser Customizing for Bikes

There is no the better than climbing onto a motor bike and taking a ride away from the hustle and bustle of suburbia and riding through the coutnryside.  This has long been a hobby of mine and the same bug bit every member of my family, including my daughter.
Getting the right parts and accessories has  not been a problem for us since we found the Cruiser Customizing site.  Whatever you want they will have it. When it comes to finding a  honda motorcycle parts for my bike it is always the first place I look.
Cruiser Customizing has all the accessories I need including helmets and jackets and if you want to dress your bike up with some chrome then this is the place to get it.   I know because that is where I got mine.

Helping Troubled Teens

When your children get to those teenage years all the problems you had with them adjusting to school, teething, all the scrapes bruises and bumps will pale into insignificance.  Now you have to deal with them bringing home a rag-tag bunch of misfits that only a mother could love (and their mother probably feels the same way about your little darling), dealing their first love and the inevitable heart break that follows and what seems to be never ending puberty.  Your sweet cuddly bundle of joy has become a sweaty, smelly, grunting teen who seems to have lost the ability to communicateas well as all interest in hygiene


We all know this will pass but it is a time of deep concern for many parents.  They are entering into the age when they are most at risk of being seriously injured, turning to drugs or alcohol or getting to know the local police by their first names.  
This is a real problem and if you google helping trouble teens you will come up with 857,000 sites.  Yes I know, that information doesn't help much when you are at the coal face, but at least there is help out there for you and your teens and maybe you can take comfort from the knowledge that you are definitely not alone.

You Gotta Love them Anyway

When you have three grandsons you tend to hope one at least will be a little bit academically inclined but not my three.  They are lovely charming young lads with absolutely no interest in school or anything to do with school.


One of them doesn't mind sports day but the other two would just as soon sit under a tree and watch the world go by.  


So how does anyone inspire a young boy to take and interest in his own education?  If I knew the answer to that I would can it and sell it for a fortune.  Can't you just see it?  Mums and Dads (and grandparents) at their wits end lining up around the block to buy the magic formula.




It seems girls are more academically inclined than boys.  Boys would rather be down the river fishing or riding their skate boards or bikes and I can't seem to find the answer to why this is so.




I just accept my three boys the way they are, sigh deeply and try to convince myself it isn't my side of the family they inherited these genes from so therefore it must be from the "other side".



If you have an answer to this problem I would love to hear it and, believe me when I say, so would their parents.  If you haven't then you could check out this article I found at the John Hopkins University site.  It probably won't help but it may help you spread the blame aroung

Bond with Paintball

Have you ever played Paintball? I haven't either but I remember playing war games with my friends as a child using water pistols as our weapons and that is virually what Paintball is. Some companies arrange Paintball games for their personel to bond and build their team spirit.

Playing Paintball is great for families too, teaching kids self discipline while they enjoy shooting each other, and you, with paint balls. If you would like to get started in this fun sport then you should visitpaintball gear. They have everything you need including a great range of paintball guns, paintball equipment, paintball markers and much more to get your family and friends out there playing the best war game around.

Old comic Books

Have you thrown out all the kids old comic books? If you have you might want to kick yourself about now. A rare copy of the very first Superman comic is being put up for auction on Friday and bids are expected to soar.

Action Comic#1 was published in June 1938 and is considered by experts to be the worlds most valuable comic book. They have valued it at $126,000.

"It's the Holy Grail of comic books," said comic expert Stephen Fishler (Reuters).

When you consider the person selling the comic bought it in 1950 for 35c when he was only nine years old you would have to wonder why you ever threw those kids comics away. Apparently this was the very first super hero comic book and all the other super hero's followed Superman onto the market.

Perhaps somewhere in the back of a cupboard or in a box in your garage you have a comic book that is worth far more than you ever thought possible.......or did you throw them all away.

Love 'em or Hate 'em

Love them or hate them, The Simpsons has surpassed Gunsmoke as the longest running prime-time television series in the US and will begin it's 21st series in the fall.

I know The Simpsons has a huge following but I am not one of them. My family have decided that this is due to some kind of mysterious and serious disability but I just cannot see what everyone else in my family thinks is so funny about The Simpsons. It seems to me that there are a lot of people like me who don't watch The Simpsons but with it's track record I now have to admit I must be in the minority, otherwise why is it doing so well?

I was surprised to learn that The Simpsons had won 24 Emmy Awards and was the longest running animated series on prime time television in the US. Those of us who don't love The Simpson will just have to accept that we are very much a minority and admit that maybe we are missing something.

Brag A Little

Do you love to make your friends jealous bragging about "Your Stuff"? If you do then here is a brand new innovative networking site you will just love.
You can log on and brag to your hearts content about your blackberry or ipod or wii or whatever.
Go ahead, check it out, and stop upsetting your friends or, better still, be a little sneaky and tell them about the site so they can log on a read about all your great stuff.

Benefits of Circumcision

A few months ago I wrote an article about the health benefits of circumcision. If you would like to read it again go to To Snip Or Not To Snip. Today, on the Afrique en ligne site there is an article entitled Botswana to focus on male circumcision for HIV/AIDS prevention. Botswana has the highest incidence of a HIV in the world and they are focusing on circumcision as a means of preventing new infections.

It has also been found that uncircumcised males are at risk of contracting the virus that causes cervical cancer.

Circumcision, which has been considered as not having any benefit other than cleanliness is now proving to be far more beneficial than was previously thought.

If you would like to read this article go to Afrique en ligne.

Hope For Autistic Children

An article today on the Associated Press web site today gives new hope to parents in the US that they will soon be able to claim for the cost of behaviour therapy for their child with Autism from there medical insurance. This will be a great saving for parents as behavioural therapy is very expensive and according to the article some parents are paying as much as $1000 per week to help their child reach his or her full potential.

It has been proven that children with Autism or Asperger's Syndrome can be helped with intensive therapy and it is only right that parents should be able to claim at least some of that money back from their medical insurance. As the article states, this is discrimination against a group of people who have an illness and it needs to be addressed, not just in the US but in all countries so that all parents can get the help their child needs.

If you would like to read this article in full go to Associated Press

Predatory Pedophile Released

In July I wrote and article called Protect Our Children about my friends grandson who was being cultivated by a paedophile. On Monday I received an email from my friend with a newspaper article about the courts decision on this predator.

A supreme court judge in his infinite wisdom had released this predator. This paedophile had served a term in prison for 22 offences against children and for possession of computer child pornography. He was returned to jail in May this year because he breached his release conditions by speaking to a boy at a party and once again accessing child pornography.

It was the opinion of this wise supreme court judge that nothing more could be done for this serial predator in jail and that the only hope of rehabilitation was in the community under a strict supervision order. And I though judges were supposed to be intelligent.

It is a fact that paedophiles cannot be rehabilitated and will continue to offend whenever they get the chance. There is no way that a persons sexual preferences can be changed so what on earth is this man doing back in our society. Isn't the law there to protect us, especially our children? I would have thought this creeps rehabilitation would have been the least of the judges considerations, that his primary consideration would have been the safety of our children. Obviously I am not as smart as the learned judge.

If you would like to know this mans name so you can safeguard your children then please leave your email address and I will send it to you. He lived in the Brisbane area at the time of his arrest and I don't know where he is now but I'm quite sure it will be near his old home in the Bowen Hills/ fortitude Valley areas.