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Home Air Ventilation Systems Provide Clean Air

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Home Air Ventilation Systems Provide Clean Air   The air in our home can often contain many airborne contaminants from various chemicals, which are found, in cleaning products, appliances, as well as, heating and cooling systems. These contaminants are known to cause many health issues, such as allergies, asthma, and other breathing problems. The US Environmental Protection Agency, also known as the EPA, has reported that today's home contains more than 1,500 hazardous compounds caused by synthetic products. Over time, these pollutants can affect a person's health, productivity, vitality and greatly increase medical costs. Also, the EPA recently listed air pollution in the home as being one of five of the top environmental issues and nearly 50% of illnesses stem from lack of indoor air quality and ventilation. Health related costs total well over one billion dollars every year because this problem. The EPA has advised all homeowners to add home air ventilation systems

Helping Your Child Learn How to Spell

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Helping Your Child Learn How to Spell   Learning to spell simple words is a huge milestone for young children. It takes a lot of work and practice for both the child and the parent. It is important for the parent to remember that this is a slow process and that event the smallest amount of progress should be celebrated and rewarded so that the child continues to be motivated to continue. Children usually learn to spell when they are around first grade. Some children may start a little sooner. However, first grade is the time when children start to have the mental abilities. Still, even first graders have a short attention span and limited memory capability. Therefore, it is important to keep the words short at this age so that they will be able to memorize them. Words that this age group can handle include: cat, bat, sat, bad, bag, had, fan, fat, dad, has, hat, jam, dog, log, sad, can, tan, pan and tap. Parents should quiz their children every day in order to help them memorize t