Chill out on hot summer days with frosty fruit smoothies. Bursting with all the juicy goodness of fruit, smoothies rehydrate and nourish while they satisfy and soothe your thirst. Best of all, they re quick and easy to make at home. Be creative. All you need is a blender, ice, and a steady supply of basic smoothie ingredients. Here are four fruit smoothie recipes to get you started: Blueberry Banana Blast 2 cups 500 mL organic apple cider or apple juice 1 cup 250 mL organic blueberries fresh or frozen 7 8 cup 220 mL crushed ice 1 small ripe banana, sliced Place all ingredients in a blender. Press blender lid firmly in place. Blend on high speed until smooth and frothy. Makes 2 large smoothies. Quick tip 1 Get in the habit of putting your over-ripe, unpeeled bananas in the freezer. Use these frozen bananas to add flavour, texture, and frostiness to your smoothies. To use, remove frozen, unpeeled banana from the freezer and hold under hot tap water until the peel softens enough to remove thoroughly. Small bananas can be added to the blender without cutting, but...

When is a good time to introduce your child to a dentist. I would strongly suggest that you introduce your children to a dentist before they had any problems with their teeth. You want them to start out with a positive experience thus, lessening the possibility of any dentist phobias. Go ahead and laugh I m one of those people who developed an early fear of dentists. My First Experience I was very young, and one of my baby teeth became abscessed not a pleasant feeling. Anyway, it was my father s duty to take me to the dentist. In the dentist office, I was told to swish some strong, green liquid in my mouth and spit it out. I was to do that until all the liquid in the glass was gone then go back to the dentist chair and sit down. I, being the obedient child, did as I was told. I swished and spit, and once done, climbed into the dentist chair. I did not have a clue of what was going to happen next, until of course, the dentist told me to open my mouth and began to pull my tooth out. Low and behold, the green liquid I had swished in my mouth was the antiseptic...

Failure is a fact of life. Every venture will involve a certain amount of failure on the road to success. These plans that fall through can be an important part of the growing process on one condition - that you take the time to learn from your failures. The only failure that is permanent is to give up completely. Let s take a look at how to learn from failure. The most important concept is that you should keep from repeating the steps that led to the failure in the first place. If you repeat the same methods, you are most likely to have the same outcome. Take the time to analyze what went wrong. What steps did you take, and which ones were responsible for the bad outcome. Perhaps you went way off track, or maybe you would have succeeded except for a small detail or two. For instance, consider that you were scheduled to make a public presentation, like a home demonstration, about your business. After the presentation, though, you had the distinct impression that it was a flop. Look back over the steps you went through to get prepared. Did you take the time to...