By Randi Morse Yelena Kalendareva has a Mental Health and Human Services degree and is a New York State licensed cosmetologist in Brooklyn, New York. She is also the Founder and CEO of the natural and organic makeup line called, Aneley Cosmetics. Yelena spent years of research, trial and error in order to find the right chemist and a formula that will contain pharmaceutical grade minerals. She did this to allow her clients to look their best after skin care treatments, such as waxing, facials and microdermabrasion, without the risk of irritation that is caused by conventional makeup products. In addition, she has a Sabbath Collection for her Jewish clients, which has received the difficulty to obtain Rabbinical approval...
In our minds, we might imagine we've always known how to read. However, even if we've forgotten, learning to read was one of our earliest educational struggles. Slowly, we learned the letters, how they made words, and what those words meant. Along the way, some of us developed a lifelong love of books. We all need to learn to read, so it's best to start early.Read AllowedWhile it may seem counter-intuitive for teaching purposes, reading a story allowed to children gives them an incentive to start reading for themselves. Speaking the words reveals their inherent beauty and power. Stopping the story with a cliffhanger will have children clamoring to know the ending. Eventually, they'll take the initiative to find out...
Reading Eggs is the multi-award winning learning program that helps children learn to read. Based on scientific research and designed by literacy experts with 30 years experience, it’s proven to help kids learn to read using interactive reading games, guided reading lessons, fun activities and over 2,000 digital story books. Reading Eggs has already helped over 10 million children worldwide learn to read. Some of the features that earned it a Cool Tool Award Winner status as part of The EdTech Awards 2020 include its multi-tiered approach: • Reading Eggs Junior (ages 2–4): Toddlers build pre-reading skills such as phonemic awareness and alphabet knowledge with fun activities, games, videos and read-aloud books. • Reading Eggs (ages 3-7): Children take their...
I think for many people, Terry Crews’ treatment of Gabrielle Union was what started the descent into cancellation. Gabrielle Union had stood up for Terry Crews many times as a colleague and friend. And when Union was fired/pushed out of America’s Got Talent for entirely racist and sexist reasons, Crews did not have her back at all. That was the beginning of the end. Then Crews followed that up with a tweet in June reading: “Defeating White supremacy without White people creates Black supremacy. Equality is the truth. Like it or not, we are all in this together.” This is a ridiculous straw man argument – Black Lives Matter has never said “only black people matter and only black people...
During the coronavirus pandemic, novels have offered me sustained escape into the worlds of others. Natalie Bakopoulos’s new novel, Scorpionfish (Tin House), proved an exemplar—an immersive read in both time and place. Like much of Bakopoulos’s work, Scorpionfish takes place in Greece, centrally Athens. But this novel is not an escapist book. It’s a novel about the politics of space, claiming space, and claiming a self. It opens with Mira, an American ethnographer whose Greek parents left their native country and settled in the US, returning to Athens from Chicago as she does each summer. But this year, it’s different: her parents have both recently passed. Interwoven with Mira’s story is that of her Athenian neighbor, the Captain, who’s been...
