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School From Home: Helicopter Parenting Is Back!

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Photo by  Pressmaster  from  Pexels School From Home: Helicopter Parenting Is Back! (Quick-ish post) For many of us school has just started for our precious little ones or just about to begin. With the COVID-19 pandemic though life in general is not what we're used to anymore. Like some of us working from home, our children are also "working from home". School is not what it used to be and is 100% essential to our children's future and just humanity's future in general. I've noticed a BIG problem during the first week of my daughter's school from home ...I'm sure I'm not the only one but I am very confident a lot of us have become full time drill sergeants! Hopefully I can share my tips and tricks to help cope with this new normal. About the drill sergeant (the helicopter parent is approaching) ...

Be a search bar hero with Google Chrome!

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Image sourced from Wikipeida Be a search bar hero with Google Chrome! (Quick Post) Getting tired of having to type in your favorite search engine's address every single time you want to search? Is your default search not cutting it and you end up typing your way to an outside engine? Are you doing a research project and rely on several search engines at once?  I don't have to tell you its annoying typing in Google.com, Yahoo.com, or any other search and have to wait for it to load, then type again after clicking in the text field and so on and so forth. It gets redundant. With today's day and age we're in the fast lane and we need our results even faster than the few clicks and loads we have to go through. Search no more. Google Chrome has a feature that will solve this. What is Google Chrome? For beginners and for those who aren't super tech savv...

Oh Boy! Writer's Block! EVERYTHING BLOCK!

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Image by Lukas Bieri from Pixabay So, I got writer's block ...Actually, I got everything block! (Quick post) So, it's been a while since I've updated this blog. I have so many creative ideas, fun things to research, and well, with everything going on its just really tough to keep it up. I love to write and do creative things but with the pandemic, kids being home, and world affairs it really causes not just a block on my writing but also a block on life! I have EVERYTHING block and I HATE IT!   So, what causes writer's block and how do I get over it? What is writer's block? Photo by Emily Morter on Unsplash Writer's block in short is when an author or artist has a slow down, bottleneck an...