Books

Books are great. You can learn information, read for fun, or just read out of boredom. Some people read easy books, and some people like to read challenging books. What happens when children in a classroom want to pick out a book but don't know which one to pick? Do they choose a random one? Do they ask the teacher? Here are some good books for children to read if they have trouble deciding: (Note, these books are not exactly made for a certain child's reading.)

Charlotte's Web
The Giver
Tom Sawyer
Biographies
Fantasy
Auto-Biographies. Any kind of biography, or non-fiction book is a good book to read

for information. Fantasy books are nice to read for fun, but they don't really teach you any helpful information. (Most of the time.)

Video Games

Video games are fun, entertaining, and a great way to kill time. Even though they are nice for all these reasons, video games are not very good for you. Once in a while, a nice short game is good so that you can clear your mind, and possibly even reward yourself for achieving something that you wanted to. Video games are also very distracting. They can keep a child from doing homework, they can make you loose track of time and be late for a meeting, or they can make you stay up late and then you feel terrible in the morning. Video games are very addictive. Some people in the world have been playing the same video game for years! Usually people get addicted to a game if there is nothing that minute for them to do, or maybe they just can't stop playing because the producers of that game keep on adding to it. Younger children who play video games actually don't do as well in school as kids who don't play them. If you are a fellow video game player, I don't discourage you to stop playing. I just want to tell you that if you get addicted, it will be very hard to stop. Video games can make your vision worse also. People who already have an eye problem should not play video games with bright lights. Instead of playing a video game all the time, try reading a book, hanging out with friends, going to a museum, or even doing art. A healthy life is a happy one!

Eating Healthy

All humans on this planet eat food. Food is one of the things that the human body can not function without. When I see people forcing junk food into their mouths, I feel disgusted and sick. Obesity is a growing problem in America. Even though a lot of people eat healthy, most people don't. Some people eat fast food for every meal of the day, and some people only eat frozen meals because they don't know how to cook. If you are a fellow member of a family, it is your job to make sure that both you and everybody else stays happy and healthy. Some ways you could do this are: Eating five home-cooked meals a week, try not to eat any junk food, and buy things that are organic. Even though most people who don't eat organic food think that it is the same as regular non organic food, they are wrong. Non organic food has pesticides and hormones inside because the farmers want the food to look bigger. They do the same to meat. Some people just don't buy organic because it costs a bit more. What they don't know is that it only costs more because it is better for you. Did you know that you would have to eat twelve regular apples to get the same nutrients from one organic apple? I never knew that until I decided to research the topic. Organic foods also tend to taste better than junk food. Even though once in a while a bag of chips is okay to have, eating healthy food will keep you active, and of course healthy. Actually, children who eat healthy and have break fest each day do better in school than kids who don't. If you are a child, a parent, or anybody who wants to be healthier, try eating better. Even some recipes in cook books are specifically for people who want to diet, or loose weight. Using a weight loss system like pills, or liposuction is not natural. You just gain back all of the weight that you lost because you aren't changing your diet. If you want to change your weight, do it in a natural way that you won't regret later.

Discrimination

Discrimination is a problem that has been all over the world for many years. I once had an experience with discrimination that had changed the way I thought about people, society, and the world. Even though all of my experiences usually change the way I think of the world, they change my mind in different days. One time I was in a class room with my class mates and a different teacher than our own was going to teach us a lesson on the Middle East. During the lesson, this teacher was showing very strong signs of being anti-Arab. For example: He said that Arabs do not want peace, and that they want to destroy all of the Jewish people. The teacher himself was Jewish, so I can see why he takes so much pride in stating false facts. Even though him being Jewish normally would not matter, the comments he was making were very incorrect and hurtful to the people of different religions. His comments would also only inspire students to be violent instead of being kind.

At first, I thought all he was saying was the truth. (As most students do when the words come from a teacher.) I came home with a slip of paper and was to write feed back. I felt joyful and excited that I had all of this new information and I was ready to write. My mother had asked to read it and then she informed me that over half the facts that were on the back of the page were incorrect. One of the things the teacher had said was that Israel was just learning peace, and it's neighbors were learning war. Even though I don't disagree that Israel is not learning peace, I do have to say that Israel has had several wars with it's neighbors and it's neighbors have had several wars with Israel. I am not for war, I just think that it is wrong that a teacher takes so much pride in his or her own heritage, that they attempt to change facts so that the children who are learning the facts from them think that it is true. Discrimination is not okay. If you or a child is being discriminated by somebody, don't ignore it. Fight back.

Water Conservancy

For the past few months, I have been interested in learning about water. I first decided to learn about this topic when I had heard that water is not exactly the most popular substance in other countries. I went on the internet, and found out that every minute eight children in Africa die because of having no water. Even though in most communities people are able to support themselves, the other ones have very skinny people who are very hungry and thirsty and have no water to drink. This is a very big problem because several of innocent people's lives are being taken away because they were not able to find anything to keep themselves alive. If you were a poor person in let's say...the Middle East would you like it if you were just laying on the floor, about to die because of having nothing to drink or eat? I personally would not like it. I don't mean to say negative things or make you feel bad, it's just that this is a problem that sooner or later we are going to have to fix. Some television programs and web sites show you some ways to save water. I am not going to force you to look at them but once I gave it a chance, it really changed the way that I thought about the world and how I take many things for granted.

Hello, I am the Eblogger

The reason why I have created this site is because children across the world should know about important information that makes them smarter, and possibly gives them more things to debate about in school. The Eblog is a blog about important things that are going around in the world. For instance, I might make a post about the different types of endangered animals and why I believe it is important to save them. This is just to give some well-rounded non biased information to people who would like to read it. Enjoy the blog!

-The Eblogger.