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Do you know how the term vitamin originated? In 1912 a Polish biochemist called Dr Casimir Funk concluded that foods contained vital substances necessary for the well-being of the body. He thought these substances were nitrogen compounds known as amines, so he called them vital amines and years later published a scientific paper titled ‘The Vitamines’.

When some of the chemicals that he had identified were discovered not to be amines, the ‘e’ was dropped from the word leaving us with the term vitamin.

Vitamins are of two types, water-soluble, (the more common known), vitamins B and vitamin C, and fat soluble, vitamins A, D, E, and K.

The fat soluble vitamins can be stored and fatty tissues and therefore are retained longer in the body. For this reason you can overdose on fat soluble vitamins if you are careless.

The water-soluble vitamins pass quickly through the body and need to be replenished daily.

Vitamin A is needed for good eyesight. It helps you see in dim conditions and at night. It helps maintain healthy hair, mucous membranes, skin, bone and teeth. It has anti-oxidant qualities and combats free radicals in the body.

Vitamins B are essential to the body for energy metabolism, digestion, making new blood cells, and making antibodies.

Vitamin C helps promote healing and helps strengthen blood vessel walls, helps prevent loose teeth, bleeding gums, bruises, scurvy, and haemorrhaging.

Vitamin D is necessary for calcium absorption and therefore also helps maintain teeth and bones.

Vitamin E helps maintain muscles and red blood cells and is an important antioxidant.

Vitamin K helps blood clotting and helps prevent easy bruising.

The following are recommended daily intakes in adults.

Vitamin A 700 mcg
Vitamin B 10 - 200 mcg
Vitamin C 40 mg
Vitamin D 10 mcg
Vitamin E 4 mg
Vitamin K 1 mcg

Here is something that most people don’t realise is even possible.

Most people, ( including myself), when considering starting a family, didn’t realise that it is actually possible to choose the sex of your child with a very high degree of success.

It seems that we’ve been told all along that it’s just a matter of chance and you have to take whatever comes. At least that’s what I was led to believe, and I never thought to question it.

Because of the importance of this information, I’m reproducing this post as a separate page on the site, and you will always be able to find the information quickly by looking in the right side bar under ‘Choose Your Baby’s Gender’.

It appears that that information was in fact wrong.

It would seem you can take action as a couple, and the success rate is 94.8% in favour of you having the child you want. So are you a couple dreaming of a boy, or of a girl, as your next child?

If you’re sure the answer to that question is ‘Yes’, then you need to get this book beautifully written by Ashley Spencer.

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Follow these 12 simple tips and your children will grow up to be better behaved and better equipped to cope with life’s challenges. In the process you will save yourself a great amount of stress and both you and your children will enjoy life more because of it.

• Your child will take everything you say at face value implicitly. A child will understand more than you think they will, and if you say something not really meaning it, they will believe you. If you run them down, you will probably program them to believe it.

• Children love challenges. Tell them not to do something, and it becomes a great challenge to do it and escape punishment, or just escape notice. Don’t make threats, try to handle it differently.

• Don’t use bribes. All they will understand is that you have to bribe somebody to get what you want.

• Don’t force promises. Small children can’t keep promises so don’t pressure them into lying to you and then punish them afterwards. It’s better just to try and ask them to do their best.

• Cut them a bit of slack now and then. Give them some space, some freedom, and they are more likely to do something for you when you want it done.

• Keep things simple when you’re talking to your children and don’t confuse them by asking them to do too much at once. Don’t use big words, use simple everyday language.

• Do not give military style orders and expect blind obedience and an immediate response. Rather explain what you want done and try to let the child learn for itself and provide its own solution. Remember to praise the child for its efforts. Afterwards you can say it might have been easier to do it like this, and let your child learn, rather than feel inadequate.

• Don’t give them everything they want, or indulge them too much. They’ll begin to expect it all the time.

• If you’re involved in a game don’t bend the rules. All your child will learn is that rules are made to be broken.

• Don’t impose rules on your child that they are too young to keep.

• Don’t make them feel guilty. They will grow up hesitating to try to do something for themselves or make a decision in case they fail and feel guilty about it.

• Be careful what you order your child to do, and only give that order when it is absolutely necessary to do so. Never order something as a joke, or your child will never take an important order seriously.