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REMEMBER the paperless office, that dream of perfect organization that was peddled by tech companies years ago as a way to sell computers?

The dream may still be elusive, but tech marketers knew what they were doing when they decided that paperlessness would appeal to customers. Whether at home or at the office, physical documents are a pain to keep straight. They take time to organize, they take up space, they can’t be searched and they’re easily lost or destroyed.

And it’s not just paper documents: everything created before digital media can add to the problem. The average American household has about 3,000 non-digital photographs and slides squirreled away in closets, according to ScanCafe, a photo-scanning service. And then there are all those books, cassettes and videotapes.

The last time my wife and I moved, we spent at least half our time packing and lifting books. E-readers may be revolutionizing the publishing industry, but their ramifications for the moving business, not to mention chiropractors, will probably be just as significant.

Because hardly anyone wants to throw away that old stuff, the solution is to convert all those snapshots, videos, music, books and documents to more portable, compact and durable digital versions. [...]

ver wish you could hide all your tabs in Chrome or Firefox with one click?

These add-ons are great for when you’re browsing the Internet at work when you’re not supposed to (tsk tsk), or just trying to preserve some of your privacy when family or friends are visiting. You can set a password on the Chrome version for restoring the tabs and also set a keybind so you don’t have to click the icon on your toolbar. Here’s how to turn your Web browser into a tab-hiding magician:

Note: Although both add-ons have similar names, they appear to be created by different authors.

For Chrome:

(Credit: Screenshot by Nicole Cozma)

Step 1: Download and install the Panic Button extension from the Chrome Web Store. After clicking the Add to Chrome, you’ll just need to click Install on the next pop-up window.

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TOKYO — From inspectors’ abandoning of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant as it succumbed to disaster to a delay in disclosing radiation leaks, Japan’s response to the nuclear accident caused by the March tsunami fell tragically short, a government-appointed investigative panel said on Monday.

The failures, which the panel said worsened the extent of the disaster, were outlined in a 500-page interim report detailing Japan’s response to the calamitous events that unfolded at the Fukushima plant after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami knocked out all of the site’s power.

Three of the plant’s six reactors overheated and their fuel melted down, and hydrogen explosions blew the tops off three reactor buildings, leading to a major leak of radiation at levels not seen since Chernobyl in 1986.

The panel attacked the use of the term “soteigai,” or “unforeseen,” that plant and government officials used both to describe the unprecedented scale of the disaster and to explain why they were unable to stop it. Running a nuclear power plant inherently required officials to foresee the unforeseen, said the panel’s chairman, Yotaro Hatamura, a professor emeritus in engineering at the University of Tokyo.

“There was a lot of talk of soteigai, but that only bred perceptions among the public that officials were shirking their responsibilities,” Mr. Hatamura said. [...]

Tags: 平板, 日本

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A suicide car bomber drove a vehicle packed with explosives into a building used by paramilitary forces in northwestern Pakistan early on Saturday, killing at least six soldiers and wounding 11 others, police officials said.

The attack took place near the town of Bannu, in the Bannu tribal region 25 miles east of North Waziristan. The paramilitary troops, known as Tochi Scouts, are deployed mainly in North Waziristan, the rugged mountainous region that is part of Pakistan’s tribal area and that has been a stronghold of militants.

The attack broke a lull in the suicide attacks that have ravaged the country in recent years, and the Taliban were quick to claim responsibility. It was another reminder that an Islamist insurgency remains a viable threat even as Pakistan careens from an internal political crisis, with rumors of a possible military coup, to a diplomatic one with the United States over an errant airstrike.

The suspension of terrorist attacks had been attributed to continuing peace talks between the Taliban and the government, though military officials have denied the existence of such talks.

A Taliban spokesman, Ihsanullah Ihsan, said the bombing was to avenge the death of a Taliban commander, Taj Gul, killed in an American drone strike in South Waziristan in October.

On Friday, at least 40 Taliban militants attacked a fort in the Mullazai area in South Waziristan. The militants killed one soldier and kidnapped 15, officials said. Mr. Ihsan said the abducted soldiers were taken to Taliban hide-outs in the tribal area.

Relations between Pakistan and the United States have remained strained since a November border airstrike by American-led forces that killed 26 Pakistani soldiers.

Pakistan has since blocked NATO supplies from crossing into neighboring Afghanistan.

On Thursday, the Pentagon acknowledged making mistakes before and during the airstrikes. But it said the Pakistanis had also erred. Pakistan’s military called the inquiry “short on facts.”

Tags: Pakistan, 巴基斯坦, 汽车爆炸

SEOUL, South Korea — Kim Jong-il, the North Korean leader who realized his family’s dream of turning his starving, isolated country into a nuclear-weapons power even as it sank further into despotism, died on Saturday of a heart attack while traveling on his train, according to an announcement Monday by the country’s state-run media.

Word of Kim’s death sent shock waves through North Korea’s Asia neighbors and reverberated around the world, reflecting the unpredictable outcome of an abrupt leadership change in one of the most opaque and repressive countries. North Korea is technically still at war with South Korea and the United States after nearly 60 years and has few friends besides China.

¶South Korea immediately put its armed forces on a high state of alert, and the South Korean news agency Yonhap reported that North Korea tested an unspecified number of short-range missiles on Monday morning. The news agency said the tests were conducted before the announcement of Mr. Kim’s death. The Defense Ministry in Seoul said it could not comment on the report.

¶The North had kept news of the death of its leader secret for roughly two days, perhaps a sign that the leadership was struggling to position itself for what many believe could be a particularly perilous transition. [...]

Tags: Kim Jong-il, 金日成, 金正日去世

Here are some interesting things about the Fiat 500 that don’t really matter: The little biscotti are not selling as well as Fiat North America—a division of Il Chryslerino—had planned. The 500 will probably finish out the year with sales in the low 20,000s, well short of management’s 50,000-unit prediction, apparently made at a blind-drunk Christmas party.
One behind-the-scenes drama involved the recent sacking of division head Laura Soave, an alleged marketing ace who presided over the bungling of the car’s launch: The first TV ads featuring Jennifer Lopez were late, the ad buys were erratic, and then it was revealed that Jenny From the Block used a body double to shoot her ads—so she wouldn’t have to actually return to the icky old Bronx, where the commercials were set.
Of course, blaming the marketing is the last refuge of scoundrels. The toughest nut for Fiat in North America—and the reason Fiat SpA repeatedly demurred on the matter of returning to the States in the past—was the absence of a dealer network, which was dismantled when the company left in 1983.
On a happier note, Fiat is rolling out the marketing for the Fiat 500 Abarth, a hot-hatch confection from the company’s famed performance division. These ads feature—for my money, and my wife notwithstanding—the most beautiful woman in the world, Catrinel Menghia, whose very name is NSFW. [...]

Tags: 500c, Fiat, 菲亚特

On Thursday, I wrote about a Pew Research Center study showing that the median age at first marriage is about six years higher today than it was in 1960, for both sexes.
在周四，我写了一些关于皮尤研究中心对于两性的研究，这些研究显示现在中年第一次结婚的时间比60年代晚6年。

But Philip N. Cohen, a sociologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, reminds us that using 1960 as a reference point can be misleading.

In 1960, the median age of first marriage was near a record low, having bottomed in about 1956. If you check out the trends going back to 1890, however, you get a much different picture:

“[T]he 1950s,” Professor Cohen writes, “doesn’t represent the ‘traditional’ family.”

OTTAWA — Canada said on Monday that it would withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol, the 1997 treaty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Under that accord, major industrialized nations agreed to meet targets for reducing emissions, but mandates were not imposed on developing countries like Brazil, China, India and South Africa. The United States never ratified the treaty.

Canada did commit to the treaty, but the agreement has been fraying. Participants at a United Nations conference in Durban, South Africa, renewed it on Sunday but could not agree on a new accord to replace it.

Instead, the 200 nations represented at the conference agreed to begin a long-term process of negotiating a new treaty, but without resolving a core issue: whether its requirements will apply equally to all countries. [...]

Tags: canada, kyoto Protocol, 加拿大

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton with the Dutch foreign minister, Uri Rosenthal, in The Hague on Thursday.

THE HAGUE — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and other international leaders urged countries and private businesses on Thursday to fight increasing efforts to restrict access to the Internet by repressive governments and even some democratic ones。
在海牙-美国国务卿希拉里克林顿和其它国际领导人在周四呼吁各个国家和私人商业一起不断的努力去为那些限制接入互联网的镇压政府和某些民主国家而斗争。

Opening a two-day conference on digital freedom here sponsored by Google and the Dutch government, Mrs. Clinton warned that restrictions on the Internet threatened not only basic freedoms and human rights, but also international commerce and the free flow of information that increasingly makes it possible.

“When ideas are blocked, information deleted, conversations stifled and people constrained in their choices, the Internet is diminished for all of us,” Mrs. Clinton said. She added: “There isn’t an economic Internet and a social Internet and a political Internet. There’s just the Internet.”

Mrs. Clinton and others cited examples in which autocratic countries — often with the assistance of international technology corporations — cracked down on access to the Internet or the use of it, including Syria, Iran, China and Russia. But increasingly some democratic countries have tried to restrict information, a development that underscores the complexity of controlling an essential part of modern life. [...]

Tags: clinton, 克林顿, 希拉里克林顿

Chinese telecommunications- equipment maker Huawei Technologies Co. said it will scale back its business in Iran, where the company provides services to government-controlled telecom operators, following reports that Iranian police were using mobile-network technology to track down and arrest dissidents.

Shenzhen-based Huawei will “voluntarily restrict its business development there by no longer seeking new customers and limiting its business activities with existing customers,” according to a statement Friday on the company’s website. It said the company was making the move due to the “increasingly complex situation in Iran.” Company spokesmen declined to elaborate.

The action follows a front-page Wall Street Journal article in October that documented how Huawei’s business grew in Iran following a pullback by Western companies after the government’s bloody crackdown on its citizens two years ago. Iranian human-rights groups outside Iran say there are dozens of documented cases in which dissidents were traced and arrested through the government’s ability to track the location of their cellphones—technology for which Huawei has provided support. [...]

Tags: huawei, iran, 伊朗, 华为

FRANKFURT — The European Central Bank moved aggressively to head off a recession and credit crunch in the euro area Thursday, cutting its benchmark interest rate for the second month in a row and taking unprecedented steps to expand emergency funding to cash-starved banks.
法兰克福-周四，欧洲中央银行有侵略性的采取行动去避免在欧元区的经济衰和信贷短缺，连续第二个月减少基准率利，同时做出空前的一步去扩大紧急基金以帮助那些现金紧张的银行。

 But stocks fell after Mario Draghi, the E.C.B. president, quashed hopes that the bank might drastically scale up its purchases of euro area government bonds to help contain the sovereign debt crisis. Yields on Italian and Spanish bonds rose, an indication that investors were more pessimistic about those countries’ creditworthiness.
但是在E.C.B总裁德拉吉发言后，股票下跌了，使希望破灭了。银行可能彻底按比例放大欧元区政府债券的购买物，以帮助控制主权债务危机。意大利和西班牙债券的收益率上升，一个标志是投资者更加的悲观看待这些国家的信用等级。

At a news conference, Mr. Draghi said he was “surprised” that comments he made last week were interpreted as a signal that the E.C.B. would buy more bonds if political leaders, who are meeting Thursday and Friday in Brussels, delivered tougher rules on budgetary discipline.
在一次新闻发布会上，德拉吉先生说他很“惊讶”他上周做出的这些言论被解读成E.C.B.的一种信号，当政治领导人周四和周五在布鲁塞尔会面时，投递出一种对预算纪律更加严厉的规则后，E.C.B.将购买更多的债券。

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Tags: European Central Bank, 欧洲央行

People hike up a remote section of the Great Wall at Badaling, north of Beijing on September 24, 2010.

“Jaime’s China” is a weekly column about Chinese society and politics. Jaime FlorCruz has lived and worked in China since 1971. He studied Chinese history at Peking University (1977-81) and served as TIME Magazine’s Beijing correspondent and bureau chief (1982-2000).

(CNN) — “He who has not climbed the Great Wall is not a real man,” the Chinese like to say.

I’ve taken up that challenge many times over.

I first climbed the Great Wall in August 1971, soon after I arrived in China as a tourist. I still remember my excitement and awe when I scaled its Badaling section, 85 km northwest of Beijing.

It is, after all, the longest man-made structure in the world, stretching 8,851 km (5,500 miles) long. It is said to be one of the Seven Wonders of the World.

I’ve lost count now but in the 40 years that I’ve lived in China, I must have climbed it about 80 times.

That includes a trip onto the Shanhaiguan section, where the wall starts near the seaside resort of Beidaihe in the east and a trek to the Jiayuguan Pass in Gansu Province, where the wall ends in the west. [...]

Tags: Great Wall, 长城

A graphic video showing a toddler run over and ignored by bystanders has caused furor and outrage in China.

Editor’s note: “Jaime’s China” is a weekly column about Chinese society and politics. Jaime FlorCruz has lived and worked in China since 1971. He studied Chinese history at Peking University (1977-81) and served as TIME Magazine’s Beijing correspondent and bureau chief (1982-2000).

(CNN) — Wang Yue, the two-year-old girl who was left for dead on a narrow street in southern China after a hit-and-run accident, has died.

The toddler, nicknamed Yueyue, had been cared for in a hospital in Guangdong province since she was injured a week ago.

She succumbed to severe injuries Friday morning.

Two hit-and-run drivers ran over Yueyue, one after another, after she wandered into the alley outside her father’s hardware store. Both fled the scene but are now under arrest.

But there was one thing more shocking than the double hit-and-run: the seeming apathy by pedestrians, cyclists and drivers—18 of them—who did not stop to help.

Yueyue laid motionless in the street for 10 minutes until Chen Xianmei, a 58-year-old woman who collects trash for a living, passed by. She moved her to safety and called for help.

A security camera captured the incident on tape. After the video was posted online, Yueyue’s plight prompted sympathy, outrage and debate in and outside China. How could 18 people pass by the critically injured child and do nothing? The incident has also prompted widespread soul-searching in China about the state of the nation’s morality and civic-consciousness. [...]

It’s important to cool down properly after running, so that you avoid muscle soreness and rapid decreases in blood pressure and heart rate. Here are some tips on how to safely cool down after running.

Tags: Running, 跑步

iPhones need to be restored if they are unresponsive. Check out these tips for when you should restore your iPhone or when a simple reset may do the trick.
如果iPhone反应迟钝，它们就需要被恢复了。了解一下以下的技巧：何时你将要恢复你的iPhone或者做一个简单的重启的技巧。

Tags: iphone, restore iphone, 重装iPhone

电子杂志，曾经是少量的印刷的杂志，在网络高手间被复活了。佳布里就在华盛顿为下一期的的食品电子杂志(三叉子匙子)而工作着。

ON a trip to an indie bookstore in Brooklyn in the summer, I came across a curious creation: a small, black-and-white publication that consisted entirely of snapshots of Lindsay Lohan, known for her movie roles in “Mean Girls” and “The Parent Trap,” and, more recently, for her well-publicized courtroom appearances.
在夏天拜访布鲁克林的一家独立书店时，我遇到一件很惊讶的作品：一本小小的，黑白的出版物完全由林赛·罗韩的快照组成，使用她知名的电影角色“辣妹”和“天生一对”，以及最近的她众所周知的法庭形象。

This print tribute to Ms. Lohan, called Lindzine, reignited my obsession with zines — mini-magazines that are generally made by hand and are available only in small quantities. It’s a passion I’ve had since my teens, though one I’d neglected in recent years.
这种由出版物由Lohan女士，称之为Lindzine出品，这又使用对微型出版物（这个小杂志，放上手只有一点点的重重）产生了浓厚的兴趣。这是我小时候很有激情的东西，虽然近几年我已经忽视了它。

I began to hunt for zines, both in small shops and on the Web, and was thrilled to discover a flourishing industry of quirky, clever do-it-yourself publications that touched on almost everything, with topics as varied as local food, art, short fiction, music reviews and comics. My collection expanded from Lindzine to include several more with funkier names like The Bushwick Review, Original Plumbing, Girl Talk Zine, A Girl at Night on the Internet, You Taste Like Nachos and Uptown Problems.

My new discoveries even prompted me to create zines with friends, including one called CandyLand, a celebration of the simple pleasures of summer, and another called Girl Crush, a collection of women’s essays and ruminations about women who have inspired them.

The word “zine” is a shortened form of the term fanzine, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. Fanzines emerged as early as the 1930s among fans of science fiction. Zines also have roots in the informal, underground publications that focused on social and political activism in the ’60s. By the ’70s, zines were popular on the punk rock circuit. In the ’90s, the feminist punk scene known as riot grrrl propelled the medium.

Lately, it seems, the zine is enjoying something of a comeback among the Web-savvy, partly in reaction to the ubiquity of the Internet. Their creators say zines offer a respite from the endless onslaught of tweets, blog posts, I.M.’s, e-mail and other products of digital media. [...]

BARROW, Alaska — The ancient whale hunt here is not so ancient anymore.
阿拉斯加，巴罗-这里的这项古代的狩鲸活动已经不是太古老了。

“Ah, the traditional loader,” one man mumbled irreverently. “Ah, the traditional forklift.”
一个人不客气的说：“啊哈，这是传统的装卸机，啊哈，这是传统的铲车。”

That morning, the first of the annual fall hunt, a crew of Inupiat Eskimos cruising the Arctic Ocean in a small powerboat spotted the whale’s spout, speeded to the animal’s side and killed the whale with an exploding harpoon. By lunchtime, children were tossing rocks at the animal’s blowhole while its limp body swayed in the shore break like so much seaweed. Blood seeped through its baleen as a bulldozer dragged all 28 feet of it across the rocky beach. At one point, one man, not Inupiat, posed beside the whale holding a small fishing rod, pretending for a camera that he had caught it on eight-pound line.
在早上，第一年度的秋猎，一群爱斯基摩人驾驶着机动船在北冰洋上巡航，寻找着鲸鱼的喷口，他们加速到鲸鱼的身边同时使用爆炸的叉子杀死了鲸鱼。到了午餐的时候，孩子们向鲸鱼的喷孔处扔石头，它的疲软的身体在岸边就像被很多海藻击打而摇摆。被推土机穿过岩滩拖了28米后血通过鲸须流了出来。在某一处，一个男人，不是一位爱斯基摩人，在鲸旁边握着钓竿摆了个POSE，他抓着一台相机伪装在8英磅的线上。

Eventually the heavy equipment gets the job done, and the whale is lowered onto the snow — and the shared joy is obvious. Big blades emerge and the carving commences. Steam rises when the innards meet the Arctic cold. Within an hour, nice women are offering strangers boiled muktuk — whale meat. People mingle. “Congratulations,” they tell the family of the crew.
最后重型机器将工作完成了，同时鲸鱼被雪覆盖了-同时很明显值得分享快乐。大刀片出现并开始切割。当内脏出来遇到北冰洋的冷时，蒸气开始上升。在一个小时内，漂亮女人煮了鲸鱼皮和鲸鱼肉给大伙吃。人们混杂起来。他们告诉家人“一起欢庆啊。”

A young man bends over the liver and peels off the membrane so he can take it home to make a traditional drum. A row of Eskimo children slide on the slippery skull bone. A biologist reaches into the whale’s eye sockets, making sure someone remembered to cut out its eyeballs so the lenses could be used to determine its age.
一个年轻人弯腰在肝脏上剥去膜，这样他能够把皮带回家做一个传统的鼓。一群爱斯基摩小朋友在鲸鱼的头盖骨上滑动。一个生物学家碰触鲸鱼的眼膜，确保某人记得切断眼球，因此镜头能够用来确定它的年龄。

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Tags: Powerboat, Whale, 捕鲸人

Peanut Butter Cookie Bites

Please enjoy this recipe for Peanut Butter Cookie Bites. It’s made with only 4 ingredients.
请享受一下花生酱饼菜。它需要4种材料来制作。

Prep Time: 15 minutes
15分钟准备时间

Cook Time: 10 minutes
烹饪时间：10分钟

Total Time: 25 minutes
总计时间：25分钟。

Ingredients:
材料：

• 1 egg 1个鸡蛋
• 1 cup sugar 1杯糖
• 1 teaspoon vanilla  1茶勺香草
• 1 cup crunchy peanut butter 1杯颗粒花生酱

Preparation:
准备：

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly grease large cookie sheet. Mix together egg and sugar. Add vanilla. Blend in peanut butter until all combined. Scoop heaping teaspoons onto prepared cookie sheet. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes.
预先加热到350华氏度以上轻轻的涂上饼面上。混合鸡蛋和糖。添加香草。调入花生酱直至所有都混合起来。掏一茶勺涂到饼面上。烤8到10分钟。

 

Makes 30 to 36 Peanut Butter Cookie Bites.
做30~36个花生酱饼

 

Tags: Peanut, 花生酱

Transcript: How to Clean Your Laptop

Weather, 90046, January 18… Five degrees and sunny? Ah. SEVENTY-five and sunny. Hey guys – Jonathon Stewart here for About.com. Most of us wash our heads at least every day or two, so why neglect your second head, or as you may refer to it, your laptop computer. But no matter what you call it, there’s a very good chance it could use a good cleaning – check it out.
天气，90046，1月18日。。5度和晴朗?哈哈。7-5度和天气晴朗。喂，朋友-乔纳森·斯图尔特在ABOUT.COM这里为你服务。更多的人至少1-2天会洗一次头，因此为什么忽视你的第二个大脑（或者你可以这么称忽它，你的电脑）。但是是无论你怎么称呼他，来看看，这里有一个好机会能学到为它做一次好的清洗。

Laptop Parts to Clean
清理笔记本电脑配件

There are five general parts to your laptop that warrant cleaning: the case, the keyboard, the screen, ports, and vents. To do the job at home, you’ll only need a few things: isopropyl alcohol, some purified or bottled water, a lint-free cloth, and some compressed air if you’ve got some. And of course a computer to clean – this is Bork.
这里有你的笔记本电脑的5项一般配件能够被清洗：机箱，键盘，屏幕，接口和通风口。在家里就能做这项工作，你仅仅需要一些东西：异丙醇，一些纯将瓶 装水，一件不起毛的衣服，和一些压缩空气（如果你能得到的话）。当然电脑清洁-这是博克。

Bork, like all laptops, is susceptible to dirt, dust, pet hair, and other gooky residue, and the more often you take a few minutes to remove all of it, the less likely you’ll run into any sort of operational issues with your computer. Well, dirt-related ones anyway.
博克，跟所有的笔记本电脑一样，很容易脏，有灰尘，沾上宠物的毛发，和其它黏稠的残渣，同时你经常花一些时间捣鼓他们，这样你会越少和你的电脑一起陷入麻烦。好，无论如何都与脏有关系。

Prepare the Laptop for Cleaning
准备为笔记本进行清洗

Start by shutting down your computer and detaching any cables or wires from the main body. Close the cover and use your lint free cloth to remove any obvious dirt or dust. Next, mix a 50/50 solution of isopropyl alcohol and water into a small spray bottle if you’ve got one – if not, just dab your cloth into the solution. (Make sure you do all of this away from your computer.) After all, the last thing you want to do is spill a bunch of liquid on your laptop while you’re cleaning it.
起先，关闭你的电脑同时将主机上分离任何电缆或电线。把盖关上，同时用你的棉绒布去除任何明显的灰尘。下一步，将50比50的异丙醇和水在一个小喷瓶（如果你能弄到一个话）中混合-如果没有，把你的布好好的擦干将。（确认从你的电脑移开了所有的东西）毕竟，这最后一件事当你开始清洗时，你要去挤一些液体到你的笔记本上。

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Tags: Laptop, 如何清理笔记本电脑

Setting up good homework habits early is important for future school success.

Since homework starts as early as kindergarten these days, it’s a good idea to get kids into a rhythm of great homework habits as soon as possible. From ways to help your kids get more organized to giving them ways to minimize and eliminate homework stress, here are some great tips for good homework habits that work.

1. Divide and Conquer
Kids can often feel overwhelmed when they look over their list of assignments for the week. Help your child manage his assignments by planning out his work on a daily planner. (This can be particularly helpful if you are at work when your child gets home from school; having a list like this can help your child and your childcare provider manage his workload when you are not there.)

For example, if all the homework is due on Friday, you can try scheduling several minutes for different subject such as reading, math problems or spelling words. Or you may want to have him spend Monday doing reading and reserve Tuesday for math, and so on.

Writing down what needs to be done can be a great way to manage homework, and crossing off assignments when they are completed and tracking their own progress can be satisfying for kids and help give them motivation to continue their work. [...]

Tags: Homework