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text 2020-05-25 04:03
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I also came across with a product called Sun Guard that is said to provide sun protection on your clothes when put in the washer during laundry. We wouldnt want to see our babies suffering from red sores or skin blisters just because we missed some parts. Their skin is much more sensitive than adults and tends to burn more quickly.Another important item that your child could use is hats. Thus it is important to dress up our little ones with clothes that offer sun protection, especially for babies who are six months and below as lotion with sun protection formula is not yet applicable for them.As a parent, there are many things that we should guard our babies from. However, we only need a small amount of sunlight and too much exposure is definitely not a healthy thing. Make sure to use a hat with a wide brim.If you have babies or toddlers who are six months and above, you can apply sunscreen lotion as an added protection from sunburn.

 

This product claims to stay on clothes until twenty washes. If the kids go in and out of the pool or sea frequently, make sure that you shorten the intervals.It is generally true that the sun is a good source of Vitamin D that our body needs to aid calcium absorption more effectively. Wearing one keeps the sun from burning your babys nape, face, ears and eyes.Technology has evolved a lot over the years, these days you can get baby clothes with a built-in sun protection in it.Some parents think that covering their babies with the use of a shirt or a blouse will be sufficient to protect their babies from the harmful rays of the sun; little did they know that the color and the kind of fabric matters a lot on how well it provided protection for their babies. However, you cannot simply get these at any stores and the choices are pretty limited and expensive.

 

One of these things is the damage the sun might cause on our babys black cover plastic trigger sprayer without metal spring Suppliers very sensitive skin, especially for the newborn baby. It is equally significant to offer the same amount of concern and protection to our babies. Using dark colored fabrics and clothes that are fashioned from closely woven materials should provide adequate protection for your babies compared to using the white airy shirt that we usually put on at the beach. Though some may consider having a tan fashionable and healthy, too much sun exposure does not only cause sunburn but may cause skin cancer as well.

 

Keep your little ones in the shade especially during the hottest time of the day.Adults are generally aware of how vital it is to protect our skin from the harsh rays of sun. Always put on the sunscreen lotion a half hour before you go out in the sun and replenish it after every two hours. When putting sunscreen lotion make sure to cover all areas of the body and that includes the nape, the ears, the fingers, the toes and many others. If your baby is old enough to wear sunglasses, then let him wear one to protect his eyes from sun damage.

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review SPOILER ALERT! 2016-08-29 06:21
Dreams of Significant Girls
Dreams of Significant Girls - Cristina Garcia

I was just starting to get on board with this book when I had to quit because of the attempted murder of Midori. I'm sure this sounds like I'm exaggerating, but I'm not. The character grabs Midori's foot, drags her down to the deep part of the pool and even that won't get her expelled from this camp... can't tell if it's because she's white or her family's very rich. Either way, it was super gross, and I'm done with this book now.

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review 2014-06-02 01:00
Not Destined to Be a Favorite of Mine
The Ambassadors - Henry James,Harry Levin

I'd read that Henry James had a very distinct split in styles, and that accordingly readers often differ greatly in which style they like. The only other book by Henry James I had read before this was <i>Washington Square</i>, one of his early novels, and it's a favorite--but that made me all the more reluctant to try one of his later novels and feel disappointed. I don't know if disappointment describes how I feel about <i>The Ambassadors</i>, one of his late and most celebrated novels. Bored and frustrated at times, admiring at others--but I definitely prefer the more straightforward, more simple in style <i>Washington Square.</i>

Late Henry James features some of the most convoluted sentences I've encountered in literature. I wouldn't go so far as to say this sported the kind of sentence where you are lost before you get to the end, and at times I did admire how much James could pack in--this is a novel very dense in meaning--but it probably did at the least slow the pace when you have lines filled with semi-colons, commas, dashes and other punctuation tricks to keep sentences like this one aloft:

<i>Melancholy Murger, with Francine and Musette and Rodolphe, at home, in the company of the tattered, one--if he not in his single self two or three--of the unbound, the paper-covered dozen on the shelf; and when Chad had written, five years ago, after a sojourn then already prolonged to six months, that he had decided to go in for economy and the real thing, Strether's fancy had quite fondly accompanied him in this migration, which was to convey him, as they somewhat confusedly learned at Woollett, across the bridges and up the Montagne Sainte-Genevieve.</i>

Also, in comparison with <i>Washington Square</i>, let alone, say Dickens, <i>The Ambassadors</i> has a paucity of plot. Not much happens here. Stether comes to Paris as the "ambassador" of his fiancee, to convince her son Chad to come home and becomes entangled with the people around him and is seduced by their charms and that of Paris. That's the core of theme and plot.  The climax of the book turns on interpreting a fleeting expression seen from afar. The dialogue is simpler than the narrative, to the point of frustration at times because there are such underplayed subtle currents you have to strain to figure out what is really going on between people. And though at times I did find those challenging nuances fascinating, especially whenever Maria Gostrey appeared, in the end I felt unmoved by these characters--a very different reaction than how I felt at the end of <i>Washington Square.</i>

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review 2014-03-24 03:09
Considered One of the Greatest Novels for Good Reason
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky,Larissa Volokhonsky,Richard Pevear

On the surface this novel could be read as a psychological thriller, family drama, and murder mystery--with enough of a twist to satisfy an Agatha Christie fan. It's rather beside the point though, and the reveal is hardly the climax of the book. This is after all one of the most celebrated works of not just Russian, but world literature, one of the candidates for greatest novel ever written. My introduction to Dostoyevsky was an excerpt from this novel, the chapter "The Grand Inquisitor." And not in a literature course, but a philosophy course, where it was used to raise issues about the nature of God and the problem of evil. It's the speech of (and a story by) the atheist Ivan Karamazov he tells to his devout brother Aloysha. And to give Dostoyevsky his due, he props up no straw man--it's a powerful indictment of God.

Not that I always appreciated the religious-themed passages. My Dostoyesky could go on and on... Those of you who complained about the speechifying in the novels by Russian-born Ayn Rand? The similarities in style are no accident--she was a fan of Dostoyevsky--certainly not of his philosophy, to which she was diametrically opposed, but of the way he wove such themes into plot and character. Sometimes I felt preached at in this novel--I particularly found the chapter on the sainted Zossima's teachings an unbearable slog, and by midpoint I decided to skip the rest of that chapter. Maybe some day I'll go back, but I rather doubt it. But believe me, that was the only part I skipped or wanted to skip. The eldest brother Mitya sometimes came across as too-stupid-to-live and the youngest Aloysha too goodie-goodie. And every female character was a drama queen--not that the men fare much better. But as long as the focus was on the brothers and their relationships with each other and their odious father, I was riveted. And certainly each of them were more engaging to follow through hundreds of pages than Raskolnikov, the monomaniacal and repulsive center of Dostoyevsky's <i>Crime and Punishment.</i> Certainly I'd be much more likely to read more of Doestoyevsky than Tolstoy, whose <i>War and Peace</i> bored me to tears (although I did rather relish <i>Anna Karinina.</i>) I do absolutely think <i>The Brothers Karamazov</i> lives up to its reputation as one of those great works everyone would learn a lot from being acquainted with--and an engrossing story as well.

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review 2014-02-28 06:09
Greatly Entertaining
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

I was thoroughly entertained by this and never found it a slog reading through its 800 plus pages--and that actually came as a surprise to me because I am by no means a Dickens fan. I decided to read this one because it's on the the list of 100 Significant Books I've been reading through--and because a friend told me that I should at least try this one before giving up on Dickens. This was actually his own favorite among his novels, and the one most autobiographical. Even knowing as little as I do of his life, I could certainly see plenty of parallels between the young Charles Dickens and David Copperfield. And especially given this was written in first person, this book has a confessional quality that drew me in and propelled me forward.

The thing is this novel I so enjoyed is guilty of every sin that so often drove me batty in Dickens: the rambling plot riddled with unlikely coincidences, the long, long length, the at times mawkish sentimentality, the phrases repeated again and again, the characterizations that often seemed more caricatures, and above all, the women characters that convince me Dickens thinks of the female gender as not quite human--or at least I felt so at first. David's mother Clara in particular drove me up the wall--I wanted to reach into the book and throttle her. It seemed to me in my reading of several of Dickens novels that his women run to four types or combinations and at first David Copperfield seemed no exception. There is the angelic creature who is often a victim, such as Clara, Little Em'ly, Agnes and Dora. There is the evil harridan such as Miss Murdstone or Rosa Dartle. There is the sacrificing Earth mother such as Peggoty. And finally, there is the (often rich) eccentric such as Betsy Trotwood. But ah, often the eccentric characters are so richly comic--and in the case of Trotwood there is more than initially met the eye--in fact I wasn't a third way through the novel before I loved her. And Agnes grew on me too. Not everyone's reaction--George Orwell, among others, despised the character. But she was the first female character who struck me as being a rational creature. But they're memorable--and not just the women. I don't think I'm ever going to forget Mr Micawber. I know I'll never forget Uriah Heep, the most odious, shudder-worthy villain I've met in literature.

So yes, after this book I got more of a sense of Dickens' charms. A Christmas Carol has been a favorite since childhood. And I did love Great Expectations--till the end, which I found a bit of a cheat. But I hated Oliver Twist and A Tale of Two Cities. It's David Copperfield that's convinced me I should try more of Dickens. It was worth traversing its long and winding length.

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