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The Importance of Character Education in Children

>> Mar 3, 2015

Character education is crucial for any child so that he grows into someone with good character and good moral values. We can see a variety of moral disease occurs everywhere recently. Children do need character education earlier!

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Child's good moral character can’t be bought or inherited. Child's good character should be built through a long process. Moreover, children are the future generation who will take current leadership. Therefore it is necessary to educate children as soon as possible in order to create a children generation who are smart, intelligent, good morals, and able to compete at the regional and international levels.

How to build child’s good character from home:
1. Establish a positive belief in children from an early age by giving credence to the child to make decisions for themselves, as well as directing the child to develop their talents and potential. Don’t pressure your child, either smooth or rough way.
2. Allowing the child to interact with other people or socialize. Environmental choices will determine the character of the child; therefore you need to establish and maintain a good environment that is conducive for your child. As you know, hanging out with the bad characters will make the child in bad character, and if your child gets along with good people, the child will grow well in good characters too.
3. Allowing the child to build spiritual relationship with God. This is useful for installing good values for your child. The spiritual connection can be run in worship rituals and daily social life.

As a parent, we should strive to educate children well by instilling good character education in order to make the children who useful for their family, parent, and country.

A Kitty and Husband’s Hand

>> Feb 28, 2015

After the locked up incident and I rescued him from the next door neighbor’s rain gutter, my relationship with Koneng is much closer. Now he loves to sleep on my lap and often sleep on our bed. The kitty might think that I'm his hero :)

My husband isn’t a big cat lover, but he allowed Koneng cuddled his hand :)

I have cute shots for Camera Critters and

Saturday's Critters. Sorry for less bright shots. I didn't use flashlight.

The Movement of Five Millions Biopori Holes

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Have you ever heard the biopori word before? Biopori are small holes in the ground that useful for storing water. So when it rains, the water will be easily absorbed into the soil that has many biopori holes. During the dry season, the land around our home wouldn’t be drought because they have enough water reserves.

Lots of things that can be done to prevent flooding, one of them is by making biopori holes as much as possible. My city –Bogor- is often referred to as the floods sender to Jakarta; that’s why it’s becoming one motivation of the Five Millions Biopori Holes. The City Government is targeting 5 million biopori holes in the next two years. Actually, this movement has been started since last year, but only reached 200 thousand holes. Now it will be followed by all elements of society, hopefully this target can be achieved.

Are you interested in making biopores in your home yard? Prior to participating in this movement, you need to know biopori more. The ones which make biopori holes in the ground naturally are soil worms and friends. We can help worms to make more holes in the yard by giving them food so they will form biopori holes as we expected. The food is organic waste such as used vegetable, food scraps, leftover fruits, results cut grass, or dried leaves.

Find out how to make a biopori hole :
1. Make a hole using a 10 cm-diameter biopori drill with deep approximately 100 cm. If the drill tool has hit the rocks that difficult to penetrate, the drilling should be stopped even if it only 50 cm.
2. The hole mouth can be reinforced with cement thickness of 2 cm and 2-3 cm wide.
3. Can also be added PVC pipe diameter 10 cm with 10-15 cm long. PVC is used to prevent the collapse of the hole.
4. Fill organic waste from kitchen waste, leaves or grass into the hole.
5. If the yard where you make the hole frequented by people, cover the hole with wire or netting. But don’t shut it all, let air goes into the hole.

Organic waste which put into the hole will turn into compost. Thus, the hole that we created it also serves as a composting plant. This compost can be harvested from the hole every 3 months. Do not forget after harvest the compost; you must re-put the new organic waste into the hole to feed the microbes in the soil.

Thus, a small hole with 10 cm wide that we created turns out offering a lot of benefits: to save water, prevent flooding, also make compost. Let's help conserving environment water by making biopori infiltration holes!