Archives for November 27, 2017

MAM has a commitment to providing products that ensure the healthy development of babies everywhere. Which is why they’ve teamed up with Shot@Life this #GivingTuesday and pledged to match all donations up to $25,000!

The fifth annual #GivingTuesday, November 28, follows Black Friday and Cyber Monday and is a time for families, businesses, and charities to come together to celebrate generosity and to give. This #GivingTuesday, the Shot@Life campaign will be rallying support for UN agencies and partners working to deliver lifesaving vaccinations to children in developing countries; and efforts to advocate, fundraise, and raise awareness on their behalf.

“Despite progress in combating vaccine-preventable disease on a global scale, 1.5 million children still die each year from diseases we know how to fight including polio, measles, pneumonia and diarrhea,” said Martha Rebour, Executive Director, Shot@Life campaign. “With support from MAM, we hope to raise funding and awareness for these lifesaving vaccines.”

2017 marks the fourth year of MAM’s participation in #GivingTuesday. In previous years, MAM helped support Shot@Life’s efforts to provide thousands of pneumonia and polio vaccines to the children that need them most.

MAM is committed to ensuring the healthy development of babies everywhere. They’re matching all #GivingTuesday donations up to $25,000.

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About Shot@Life

Shot@Life is a United Nations Foundation grassroots advocacy campaign that champions global childhood immunization, a crucial component to achieving UN Sustainable Development Goal 3.2 which aims to end preventable childhood deaths by 2030. We rally members of the public, members of Congress, businesses, and civil society partners—through public education, grassroots advocacy, and fundraising—to support the cause and invest in global childhood immunization programs. Shot@Life’s 350,000 supporters and 1,400 core grassroots advocates in all 50 states strive to decrease vaccine-preventable childhood deaths and give every child a shot at life no matter where they live.

About MAM

MAM’s mission is to combine the best in technological innovation, medically sound function and contemporary design to help give babies the best start in life. Founded in Vienna, Austria in 1976, today MAM is a global leader in the baby care category, selling approximately 50 million products every year in over 60 countries. MAM works closely with teams of engineers, medical experts and studio designers to develop pacifiers, bottles, teethers and toothbrushes of unmatched quality. All MAM products are 100% baby safe: BPA-free, PVC-free, lead-free and CPSIA-compliant.

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About United Nations Foundation

The United Nations Foundation, a public charity, was created in 1998 with entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Turner’s historic $1 billion gift to support UN causes and activities. The UN Foundation builds and implements public/private partnerships to address the world’s most pressing problems, and works to broaden support for the UN through advocacy and public outreach. Through campaigns and partnerships, the organization connects people, ideas, and resources to help the UN solve global problems. The campaigns reduce child mortality, empower women and girls, create a new energy future, secure peace and human rights, and promote technology innovation to improve health outcomes. For more information, visit www.unfoundation.org.

When you enrolled in your online master in liberal studies, there’s a good chance you picked an online program simply because it worked best with your schedule. An online MALS degree means you’ve got the flexibility to study and do your assignments when it is convenient for you, which is exactly the kind of schedule busy parents need.

There’s a good chance your schedule is finely tuned, allowing you just the right balance of studying time, with parenting time, and possibly even a job as well. So what happens when that schedule is suddenly thrown completely out of whack thanks to the Christmas holidays? Suddenly that quiet time you have to devote to your studies disappears and now you need to figure out a way to balance everything until the kids head back.

Here are some tips you may find helpful and that will keep you on track with your online MALS program from a top school like Rutgers Online while keeping your sanity about you.

Easy on the Socializing

Obviously, the holidays is a time for socializing with family and friends, but with that said it’s also important to keep the amount of socializing in check. There is absolutely no reason you should feel pressured into saying yes to every invite that comes your way.

You still have your own daily responsibilities to look after, so making sure you leave time to get stuff done is imperative. It will also help you to relax and enjoy the socializing you do say yes to since you know there’s nothing else you “should” be doing.

Have a Sit-Down with the Kids Ahead of the Holidays

It will help to have the entire family on the same page as far as what your schedule requires. What this means is having a little sit-down or family meeting before the holidays begin. You can discuss the plans for the holidays, events you’ll be attending, and anything special you want to plan.

At the same time, it’s important to let the kids know you still have a very busy study schedule to attend to. Sure with online studies you can study any time of the day or night, but obviously you don’t want to be up until midnight each night simply because you ran out of time during the day.

Create Quiet Activities for the Kids

Another tip that can help is to do a little pre-planning and pick up some activities that the kids can work on while you study. Things such as arts and crafts, reading, watching Christmas movies, playing board games, working on puzzles, and word searches can occupy the kids for a decent amount of time. This allows you to focus without interruption and all kinds of background noise.

Ask the Kids to Join You

Lastly, you may find that the kids can actually work as fabulous study partners. Because liberal studies encompasses so many things such as history, social science and philosophy, it can be an enlightening experience for the kids to take part in discussions with you. This obviously works best with kids who are a bit older.