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Show ' gtPnOlfcANAlBnM4.2SM " ' ' - ' ' THE DAILY HEUALD THURSDAY. JANUARY 21, 1999 Paul and Terie Wiederhold Make learning ai top priority in your home , CO By TIM NELSON Knight Ridder Newspaper! Dear Readers, We have been writing this article for five months now and we appreciate all of the questions mailed, or called in. We could not do this article without your help. We encourage all of you to support us in our efforts and send us your parenting questions; we are here to help. Recently we were asked by a teacher in Bountiful to write a newspaper article on learning tips for students and parents. We thought we would also share these tips with you. We only have room in this column to reproduce our tips to the parents. Perhaps another time we will pass on our educational tips to the students. Following is our educational message and suggestions: ... Education plays an important role in our society. It determines, for the most part, what we do for a living and launches our future. It increases our knowledge and helps define who we are. How seriously do parents and youth take this important springboard in life? Education can assist us to succeed in life if it is taken seriously. Here are a few suggestions to the parents that can help a student succeed in school: . ENCOURAGE YOUR children to have a set time and place to do homework every night without distractions. 2. Know what projects are due for your child. Often a child or r will claim they have no homework that night even though they have a major report due in three days. 3. Have a homework calendar available for your child. This can be a personal day planner or part of the family planner. r con4. Attend the ferences. Even if your child is doing well in school, this conference lets the teachers know you are interested in what your child is doing in school and that you are there to support them in their important job. ; 5. Make sure your child has adequate school supplies for her to suc. 1. long-ter- teen-age- parent-teache- , ceed in school. , 6. If there is something you are concerned about, contact the teacher. The teacher should be willing to talk with you and help you with your concerns. K 7. BE AVAILABLE to help your child study for his tests. Make up questions to test his knowledge and Understanding of the material. ; 8. Make sure your child gets a good night's rest and a good breakfast in the morning. Studies show that these are important physical requirements needed to enhance learning. ; h 9. Encourage learning by giving comments on a job well done, Ssitive they know you appreciate it when they put forth their best work in school. r 10. Remember to maintain a good attitude about school and the teachers. Your child will make judgments on school and her teachers based on your own attitudes. If a teacher does something to upset you, take it to the teacher rather than grumble about it in front of your child. : Both parents and students should remember that education is a very important part of life. Make it a priority in your home. : ;:Paul and Terie Wiederhold, Ph.D.,a husband and wife psychologist team, directors at Extended are Lifeskills Program in Spanish ' Family fork. Send your questions to their e- - ' jhail address Napsystemsenol.com or write them at 1443 E. 920 South, Prow, 84606 or call them at 794-031- or 374-862- .5; SCOP 8 ' St. PAUL, Minn. There are people who just don't know when to quit, and you can probably count Autumn Clark among them. She carried home a new pair of winter bike tires recently with her one the one she hadn't broken good arm pedaling from St. Paul to her job as a interpreter at the University of Minnesota last month. "It was just bad timing," she says of her mishap, a slip on a patch of ice when she turned to avoid an ""ft, 4 sign-langua- oncoming car. But even before she'd had her cast removed, she was already getting ready to climb back onto her Gary Fisher cross bike. 1 figure my chances of getting hurt driving a car are about the same," Clark says, "but most people think I'm a little nuts when I tell them that I ride in the winter." Whether she's nuts or not, Clark isn't alone. riding is one of the fastest growing segments of bicycling. Recent mild winters and advances in cycling technology have people out riding like never before. , CHRIS POLYDOROFTKnighl Ridder Newspapers e Dressed to ride: Studded tires and a battery-operatelight grace the bicycle Gordy Sepannen uses to bike the commute from his home in Lino Lakes, Minn., to his job in northeast Minneapolis. is one of the riding fastest growing segments of bicycling. 20-mil- Cold-weath- Cold-weath- 4. uiwt ill ulii limn ,u .... i.ii - 5 y'Hi 1.1 . I, 3 County Cycle, a bike shop in Roseville, Minn., rides them in the "Iditabike," the legendary Alaskan bike race he's finished five times. That's Tdita," as in the legendary race. In the winter. Iditarod sled-doBut on a bicycle. There are actually two races, one 100 miles long and one 320 miles long, and Madden has ridden both. The events have become so popular, and attracted so many newcomers, that participants are now required to carry $150 to pay for their own evacuation. Cash is required on the spot. g Technology -- f'. "If you go back 10 or 15 years, you'd see fall and winter were just dead for us," says Jerry Rowan, a purchasing manager with Bike Nashbar, an bike supplier. "But that's really changed. We're selling a lot of light systems, for example. People are obviously out there riding." Maybe the biggest reason for that is advances in outdoor clothing. Fabrics such as Goretex, windproof Polarfleece and improved polypropelene have made it easier to work up a sweat and still stay warm. Manufacturers like Shimano, Lake and Pearl Izumi also have started to design some of their accessories, such as gloves and bike shoes, specifically for winter riding. Recent electronic advances have LED played a part, too: taiUights, improvements in NiCad Ohio-base- d mail-ord- ;. er low-pow- n. '..aiostsDr . 31 Jot: "It's definitely cold," Madden says batteries and the adaptation of halogen lighting technology have made riding in the dark both practical and affordable. Rechargeable headlights, for example, can now be had for less than $100. ideal for Hard-cor- e sheet-met- 10-wa- tt Perfect for winter Even bicycles have changed with the weather. The super low gearing and wide tires on i"ountain bikes have proven riding. winter riders add snow tires to their wheels either handbuilt versions studded with screws or imported tires with carbide embedded right in the tread. Last season, the tires were selling so fast some stores couldn't even keep them in stock. Some riders also use super-wid- e "Snowcat" rims, made by an Alaska ; ! company. Michael Madden, who works of the Alaska race. "During the day, it got up to, like, 37 degrees, and then dropped to about 30 below at night. There was one stretch where I didn't see another living thing for 90 miles. All you can do is just keep moving to keep warm." Most of the time, though, he limits his riding to the commute between his home in White Bear Lake and the shop. at See BIKERS, C2 Provo museum celebrates International Printing Week PROVO Visitors to the Crandall Historical Print." Several decades Printing Museum can get a page of the Bible printed on a replica of the only Gutenberg press in the after the first pundit's predictions of United States. The museum brings the International Printing the paperless sociWeek observance to Provo with a special open ety, it has become house celebration held at the museum, from clear that our love affair for ink on p.m., today and Friday. The Crandall Museum has hosted more than paper is far from over. Despite the three thousand visitors since it opened its doors in September and plans to treat visitors to the massive changes ushered in by the advent of per- Printing Week Celebration with refreshments, sonal computers, and the ever evolving ability to door prizes and printing demonstrations. digitalize larger and larger quantities of data in Visitors will see demonstrations of printing a smaller and smaller spaces, paper is still here. Johannes Gutenberg spent more than 20 years page from the Gutenberg Bible on a recreation of the only Gutenberg Press in America. Thomas and more than a quarter of a million dollars on Hinckley, technical director, will print these pages research and development of the art of printing and cast type as Gutenberg did on a historical 16th from movable type. His goal was to print copies of the Bible as attractive as the copies produced by century hand caster. Souvenir names for visitors will be set in hot the scribes. In the ensuing 50 years, more copies of the Bible metal by Larry Erickson on the museum's old 1913 ' have been printed than any other book. The Book model 5 linotype. Lectures on the printing of the first edition of of Mormon was first printed in 1830, using the the Book of Mormon will be presented each same process Gutenberg invented in 1450. Since evening by Louis E. Crandall, president of the then, 80 million copies have been printed. The Crandall Historical Printing Museum, museum. Reservations for his lectures are required because of its unique artifacts, celebrates the and can be made by calling the museum at printing of the scriptures. The museum is at 275 E. Center St., Provo. The International Printing Week is sponsored in America by the' International Association of hours of operation are p.m., weekdays. The public charitable Printing House Craftsmen (IAPHC). The theme of museum operates as a the 1999 celebration is "Concept through foundation and is funded by donations. There is no Completion: Clear . Communication demands charge for admission. 1-- 6 i i 3 w-i- iJ Jr ' . . i ' 'J 377-777- 7. 1-- 5 non-prof- it - History: Thomas Hinckley Works the Gutenberg press at Crandall Historical frintlrig Museum in Provo. 1 , I it 4 (.!5. |
