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Have You Had Your Child's Vision Checked?
May is Healthy Vision Month. Celebrate by learning about eye exams for kids.
Safety Rules for Riding a Bicycle
Riding a bicycle is more than a fun and healthy family activity. Besides being great way to exercise, many people also use bicycles to commute to work, go to the grocery store, or to visit friends and family. Some people use them as their primary mode of transportation.
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Erasing the Regifting Taboo -- WSJ
Did you know there is a National Regifting Day? It’s December 20, 2012. Regifting seems like a perfectly rational way to direct something you don’t really want to someone who might appreciate it. But it has a bad rep.
This Wall Street Journal writeup reports on research that might help shift attitudes about regifting:
Regifting is often presented as synonymous with tackiness, but the taboo on the practice is partly the result of a misunderstanding: Recipients of gifts think the givers are far more offended by regifting than they truly are. Givers assume that they’ve passed on “title” to the gift and that recipients can do what they wish with it. Receivers, meanwhile, feel constrained by the giver’s original wishes.
Researchers recently demonstrated this disconnect through a series of experiments involving hypothetical and real-world scenarios. …
The taboo against regifting was considerably weakened when researchers — Gabrielle S. Adams, of London Business School, Francis J. Flynn, of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and Michael I. Norton, of Harvard Business School — introducing the idea of National Regifting Day (which really exists but has little traction).
Hypothetical gift recipients who were informed about that holiday altered their judgment of regifting to the point where it matched that of givers….
Unless or until National Regifting Day catches on, the authors suggest givers “encourage receivers to use their gifts as they please …” — including you-know-what.
The whole piece is here.
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We know we need to eat more vegetables. The challenge is to do it with flavor and variety. So we’ve become creative. (via Kitchen Window: Even Your Mother Will Approve Of Vegetable Chips)
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There are recipes!
Get Your Free Healthy Women's Action Kit
For National Women’s Health Week, we partnered with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Women’s Health to create the Healthy Women’s Action Kit. This kit provides the information you need to:
- Manage your cholesterol, blood pressure and risk for diabetes
- Stay safe using…
This is a great Home Buyer Quiz from Kiplinger. No matter how finanicially savvy you may be, I bet that you learn something new. I know I did!
MBTA fare increases are coming July 1.
Image description: May is National Bike Month. Bike to Work Week starts today, and Bike to Work day is this Friday.
Find events near you and get involved.
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