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Frontier Communications

 

 

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Montclair State University

 

 

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Credit Suisse First Boston

 

 

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Brian Letscher, Actor

Hawaii Five-O, NCIS, Cold Case, Law & Order and The Mentalist.

 

 

Rick Saldan is a wonderful combination of master magician, comic improviser and first class speaker. The audience loved his program, which was music to our ears. If you love celebrity motivational speakers such as Tom Hopkins, Dale Carnegie and Zig Ziglar, then you'll love Rick!

Dottie Burman, President
Burtley Productions, Inc.

 

Rick Saldan is an incredibly talented performer and motivational speaker with great insight. He shares many powerful motivational messages that will enhance your life for the better!

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Dream Illusions

 

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Inspiration Times Magazine

 
 

Creative Story Book Reading
Author: Rachel Webb

A child development specialist once told me that if you can read a book to your child in less than 3 minutes you wasted your time. What? You mean I can't race through it and get the story over with!

Real quality reading time should include your child asking questions, pointing at pictures and interacting. As all parents grandparent and care-giver's know, our kids tend to pick the same book and want it read over and over and over. Let's face it, reading can get boring for the adults! Here are a few tips on ways that parents can keep reading interesting and help our children build important developmental skills.

USE ANIMATED VOICES
Read the story using a different voice for each character. My father read the JRR Tolkien series to us as children and his Golum and Bilbo Baggins voices were the best!

LEAVE OUT WORDS
When reading leave out words or parts of sentences for your child to fill in.

READ WITH ACCENTS
If you find yourself getting bored with a book, start reading with an English, French or Spanish accent!

SING THE STORY
Make up a tune and start singing. If you aren't good at making tunes up pick a familiar classical or folk song.

CHANGE THE WORDS
In reading their most favorite books I keep my attention by changing the main characters name constantly throughout the story. My kids find it a fun game to correct me. For older kids try changing the sentence or word at the end of every page to see if my kids can catch the mistake. Start with outrageous words (Hippopotumous or Pickle work well)that have nothing to do with the story at first but make it harder as they catch on.

READ THE BOOK BACKWORDS
This won't work for all books, but it's lots of fun to try!

MAKE UP A NEW STORY
A good childrens book should tell a story that makes sense without the printed words. Help your child make up a new story that fits the pictures.

WORD SEARCH
If the kids know their alphabet, teach them a simple word, then have them find or count how many times the word is used in the story.

Whatever way you read - make it fun!

Author Rachel Webb has four children who help her design large write-on/wipe-off fridge calendars. All decorative calendars are entirely magnetic and guaranteed not to slide off when the kids slam the fridge door! Visit her site: http://www.Note-Ables.com








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Author Rachel Webb has four children who help her design large write-on/wipe-off fridge calendars. All decorative calendars are entirely magnetic and guaranteed not to slide off when the kids slam the fridge door! Visit her site: http://www.Note-Ables.com

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