Icelandic telecommunications company Mila set up a direct webcam feed to capture Reykjavik’s skyline on New Year’s Eve and stream it live over the Internet.
With over 200,000 visitors worldwide, the New Year’s Eve live webcam feed was a great success and captured the attention of those wishing to experience Reykjavik’s impressive firework display. Read more
New Year’s Eve in Iceland’s capital, Reykjavik is being streamed live via Inspired by Iceland’s website this year. The Iceland tourism campaign has a webcam over looking Reykjavik’s skyline so the whole world can join in the celebrations and enjoy the spectacular firework display.
In addition to the live New Year’s Eve celebrations, Inspired by Iceland is looking forward to a promising New Year after both Iceland and Reykjavik topped the polls for popular 2012 travel destinations. Read more
AboutKidsHealth provides advice on helping parents cope with their children’s phobias and strategies for curing them of needless anxiety.
As a child, John Greene looked forward to the day when the end-of-summer carnival rolled into his hometown. For months leading up to the highly anticipated event, he would set aside a portion of his total allowance – a mere 75 cents, he recalls – to spend on sticks of cotton candy, rigged games, and tickets to rides that would leave him wishing he refrained from eating so much of the spun sugar. Sure that every kid loves the carnival, he want to share his joy with Kayla, his seven year-old daughter. Read more
Leading online provider of children’s health information, AboutKidsHealth, looks into diabetes management, and whether approaching management as a family can aid in adjusting to the strain of a chronic illness.
When her daughter was only three years old, Jeanne McKane knew something was not right. “She was thirsty all the time,” she says of her daughter, Olivia, now seven years old. “She would ask for a drink, down it, and then ask for another one, and down it. She was peeing about every 15 minutes, wetting the bed at night, and losing weight – she was just generally unhappy.” Read more
Do parents efforts in teaching kids early math pay off? Leading online provider of children’s health information, AboutKidsHealth, reports on the success of these early math teaching attempts.
Like many parents, Tracy Solomon spends quite a bit of time counting with her son Xavier.
“First, we learned to recognize numbers: speed signs on the road or pointing out people with numbers on their sports jerseys,” she recalls of his preschool days. Next came counting sets of objects. “I tried to count things he was into like cars and airplanes.” Read more
Iceland tour provider Nordic Travel is offering horseback riding tours for horse lovers looking to book holidays in Iceland.
With Nordic Travel visitors can experience why the Icelandic Horse is widely celebrated and discover why the breed has remained pure for over a thousand years. Read more
Babycity stocks a great range of Baby Prams and Travel System solutions from top name brands including Hauck, Obaby, Brevi, Hello Kitty, Disney Baby and Cosatto. It allows parents to compare and review an extensive range of baby prams and travel systems on-line and with the great new video clips parents can see how the buggies work too!
Babycity is a great on-line baby shop for parents to buy all the nursery essentials needed for baby’s early years, and nothing is more essential than a practical and easy to use travel system. Read more
Leading online provider of children’s health information, AboutKidsHealth, investigates the evidence suggesting that mindfulness martial arts and meditation aids those with ADHD and anxiety.
“I’ve always been an anxious person,” says 19-year-old Harry Wenban. His claim is bemusing at first, given his calm demeanor and the placid tone of his voice. But his anxiety is a characteristic he’s spent six years taming through meditation. “I am in no way the same person now,” says Wenban, recalling how his apprehension prevented him from making friends or talking to girls. Read more
Many teenagers find that getting a driver’s license is a signal of increasing social independence and confidence, but for many parents it is a maze of worrying statistics and unsettlingly thoughts. Leading online provider of children’s health information, AboutKidsHealth, reports on the phenomenon of teenagers drinking and driving.
According to Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), road crashes still remain the leading cause of death among teenagers. Forty-five per cent of these crashes are a direct result of impaired driving, such as teenage drinking and driving. Read more
Leading online source of children’s health information, AboutKidsHealth, reports on the positive effects of a Toronto-based program seeking to encourage black fathers to get involved in the lives of their children.
Anthony Davis, better known as Peculiar-I, is a “regular” at Toronto’s J.C. Hair Salon & Barbers. “It’s good to be back,” he says, during his most recent visit. “It feels like it’s been too long.” But unlike most, if not all, of the shop’s regular clientele, Peculiar-I never sits down for a trim or a hot shave when he’s back. Instead, he’d rather talk to both patrons and barbers about a subject close to his heart: fatherhood. Read more
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