Is Your Cat Fat? How To Help Your Chubby Cat Lose Weight

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My girlfriend Lynn and I share a chubby 9 year old female cat named Raja. We became worried about her weight after her last vet visit. In one year she gained over 2 pounds! Wow! That's like a 120 lb. person gaining 24 pounds!

Is Your Cat Fat? How To Help Your Chubby Cat Lose Weight

When Science Fails...

We promised the vet we would put her on a diet, which consisted of senior and weight-loss formulas from a "scientific" brand of cat food. We continued to feed her dry cat food because she liked it fine and it was convenient for us. One small bowl a day and she and we were satisfied. We also started measuring her food to prevent overeating, according to the vet's instructions.

After a couple of months, we and guests to the house noticed that she seemed even fatter and more lethargic. We became very concerned, but still trusted in our "science" dry food.

Then, I just happened to come across a book at the local library while browsing the new book section. It was called: "Your Cat: Simple New Secrets to a Longer, Stronger Life." I decided to look up "obesity" in the index and found some very shocking information.

According to the author, Elizabeth M. Hodgkins, D.V.M., the dry food we were feeding Raja was not only the cause of her weight gain and laziness, but it had the potential to cause more severe problems, like feline diabetes! I was surprised to learn that cats are not like us or even like dogs... they are "obligate carnivores", which means they get their entire nutrition from meat. Unlike us and dogs, who are omnivores, cats can't process grains and other carbohydrates very well. Their bodies just aren't built that way.

Guess what the main ingredients of those "scientific" diet foods we were feeding Raja? Corn, wheat and other grains! She need to go on a "Catkins" diet and fast!

The Ideal Cat Diet

The ideal diet for any cat is protein, fat, moisture and low carbohydrates... just like the makeup of their natural prey: small animals and birds. If left outside, cat's eat what they catch and they don't chase after corn on the cob! They prey on mice, chipmunks, birds, etc.

The only cure for feline obesity according to Dr. Hodgkins, is low carbohydrate, high protein wet cat food. She insists that all cat owners drop dry cat food altogether. So, armed with this new information, I went on a quest to find readily available canned cat food that consisted of decent meat ingredients and that had carbohydrates at the recommended amount: 10% or less.

My Search For Healthy, Low Carbohydrate Cat Food

It took a while, but I found quite a few flavors of Fancy Feast, Petsmart's Sophisticat Supreme, Wellness Core, and Innova Evo's Cat and Kitten that met the low-carb, high protein, healthy ingredients criteria.

I discovered that it's important to read the labels of the canned foods you feed your pet and not trust any brand totally with your pet's health. Even within the above mentioned brands, there were flavors of canned cat food that were too high in carbohydrates or that had low quality ingredients.

How To Read A Cat Food Label

The key to reading labels is to make sure the food has decent ingredients and low carbs.

Here are the ingredient criteria you should look for:

• 1st 2 ingredients must be some form of meat, and NOT meat or fish by-products. (by-products are poor sources of protein and should not be the main ingredients in any quality cat food.)
• No corn or corn meal in the list of ingredients. Corn has a high-glycemic index which means it is too readily converted to sugar in the body... VERY high in unnecessary and dangerous carbohydrates.
• No rice, or other grains in the first 5 ingredients. (Same problem... too easily converted to sugar & too high in carbohydrates.)
• No bone meal or bone phosphorous in list of ingredients. (Bone meal and bone phosphorous may contain harmful and poisonous chemicals.)
• Actual carbohydrates 10% or less.
• Limit feeding of canned food with fish ingredients to no more than 3 days per week. (Fish has mercury which is poisonous to your cat.) NOTE: Be vigilant when reading cat food labels. I was surprised to find that some non-fish flavors of canned food contained fish somewhere in the ingredient list. This is ok, but just be sure to limit feeding of fish-containing foods to 3 times per week to be safe.

How To Determine The Carbohydrates In Canned Cat Food

By law, each can of cat food must list the "Guaranteed Analysis" percents for protein, fat, fiber, moisture and ash. There is no requirement to list carbohydrates, so those must be computed from the other guaranteed analysis percentages.

Yikes, math! No sweat, the math is simple enough. Just add up the percentages for protein, fat, fiber, moisture and ash. If the total is 98% or higher, then carbohydrates will be 10% or less, which is what we want. (This assumes the usual moisture content of 75-80%). The carbs will vary somewhat if the moisture percent is not in the 75-80% range so you'll have to re-compute.

Lessons Learned...

We were relieved that we had found a way to prevent feline obesity, diabetes, and other diet-related maladies that our cat might have contracted if we had remained with her inappropriate dry food regimen.

So if your feline friend is getting lazy and fat in his/her old age, try switching to healthier wet food and put your pet on a "Catkins" diet for the rest of his/her happy life!

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Our Exploration And Colonization Of Space: By Human Or By Machine?

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UFO sceptics would have you believe that interstellar space travel is at best highly improbable, and at worst impossible. Therefore, UFOs cannot represent the technology of a space-faring race of extraterrestrials. Hogwash! Unfortunately for the sceptics, fact number one is that one doesn't need any wormhole or theoretical 'warp drive' or other 'Star Trek' type techno-babble to explore the galaxy and boldly go where no alien has gone before. Sure, space is really BIG! Planet Earth was really BIG to human society many centuries ago, but that didn't stop the planet being explored from pole to pole, even if individual journeys took many years. And bacteria, insects, birds, and other life forms preceded us in exploring and colonizing Planet Earth. Terrestrial analogies aside, what if you have an alien race with life spans way, way surpassing ours? Then there's a possible likely alternative, a bit of the old genetic engineering to increase life expectancy? Or there's the likelihood of enhanced bioengineering (part flesh; part machine) to accomplish the same goal. What if an exploring race were to adopt those old stand-by sci-fi concepts of suspended animation or a multi-generation interstellar spaceship?

Our Exploration And Colonization Of Space: By Human Or By Machine?

But when crunch comes crunch, sure space is really BIG, but it is also very old. There's lots of time available to explore and colonize starting a few light years outward at a time. Consolidate, and then expand some more. Repeat as often as required. The time it would take to explore and colonize the Milky Way Galaxy (that is, via interstellar travel) is but a small fraction of the age of that galaxy even if a race of ET's never travelled at more that say 1% to 10% the speed of light. Such velocities, while pretty fast by our current abilities, shouldn't be beyond the means of a technologically advanced race. Consult any elementary astronomy text for the relevant distances and volumes and ages and do the calculations for yourself if you doubt this.

And once here (within easy reach of, or in our solar system), having a nearby base of operations as it were, one can easily have a whole plethora of UFOs visiting Earth on a regular or routine basis. It's not a case of one UFO taking ten thousand years to visit, then returning home taking another ten thousand years in the process, and having hundreds or thousands of such alien spacecraft doing the same. If you want to explore the South Pole over the long term, you don't make a daily commute from Sydney or New York - you set up a long-term base camp near or at the South Pole!

If there are no advanced extraterrestrial races out there, and that's a possibility that has to be considered, then eventually we'll reach that hypothetical level of technology that we current assume aliens might have. Now while such significant, but still subluminal velocities are beyond the capacity of the human race today, eventually, perhaps 1000 years from now, maybe more, maybe less, we'll advance towards and attain that level of technological sophistication. And 1000 years (give or take) is but a nanosecond in terms of cosmic and galactic time frames. Recall the level of technological sophistication humanity had 1000 years ago! Leaps and bounds have been made since then, and then some. What will another 1000 years bring?

[Note that intergalactic space travel (one galaxy to another galaxy) is quite another can of worms. The distance from one side of our galaxy to the other is tiny relative to the vast distances to our neighbouring galaxies. Even Star Trek stayed within our own galaxy, and they had warp drive!]

When viewing what exploration of space we've achieved to date, we note that the first pioneers weren't the right stuff, flesh-and-blood human beings, but devices composed of hardier stuff, like metals and plastics. An orbiting metallic Sputnik preceded any journeys by Russian cosmonauts. The unmanned lunar surveyors preceded Project Apollo. Unmanned space probes have landed on Mars, Venus, Titan, boldly going where no human has yet even remotely ventured. And so that will probably be true as well as humanity extends its reach beyond our solar system.

Way back when, human society was mainly a rural one with manual back-breaking existences, not only for man, but animal as well. Then came the industrial revolution and labour got easier and machines took on more and more of the burden. Our mental burdens got easier too. We don't have to read anymore as we have radio, TV, talking books and DVDs. We don't have to add and subtract - calculators do it for us. We don't need to spell as our PCs come equipped with spell checkers. Our technology isn't just making our muscles less necessary, but our brains as well. And while human muscles and the human brain haven't increased much in strength or potential intellectual capacity over the past multi-thousands of years, our technological muscles and brains have. It's been pointed out that the average home PC today has vastly more 'brain power' than the computers used to guide Apollo to the Moon. And how many of us could beat a computer at chess, or checkers? Silicon chips are becoming 'intelligent' at a vastly faster rate than the brain stuff we are made out of - CHON (Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen & Nitrogen). Silicon's 'brain cells' or computer chips, and the software to utilize them are becoming ever more sophisticated and at a rapid rate of knots. We've all seen a sci-fi robot, android, whatever. The phrase 'artificial intelligence' has entered into common usage. How much longer before science fiction becomes science fact and silicon software replaces carbon wetware?

The question has been posed whether or not artificial intelligence is the next logical evolutionary step. And while humans may remain in control (or maybe not), they will be dependent on that technology, of that you can be assured. So, the question arises, why send CHON flesh-and-blood into space when silicon chips and software will do, and do better? It's been argued that artificial intelligence can make the trip to the stars on our behalf. They don't need life support - food, oxygen, a narrow range of temperatures, sleep, gravity, or as much protection from radiation, etc. They can exist on a minimal energy source, nuclear most likely.

It's been postulated that artificial intelligent space probes could explore the cosmos, land on suitable abodes and using the local resources found there (minerals, metals, available energy supplies, etc.), 'reproduce' themselves from internal programming given before the fact, and thus spread throughout the galaxy. Such probes are called von Neumann probes, after the famous mathematician who advanced the idea. Meantime, while they do all the dangerous dirty work, we humans just continue to inhabit Terra and live the good life.

Two objections can be raised to a galaxy filled with space travelling artificial intelligences. Firstly, it's going to take a lot to extinguish the human spirit of exploration. We want to experience the cosmos, and exploring via a surrogate isn't going to cut the mustard in the long term.

Secondly, I find it difficult to visualize a space probe, however artificially intelligent, that can somehow reproduce itself from scratch using the raw resources of another planet. I find that a pretty tall order. Just visualize the various technological processes that would require. It would have to be able to mine, perform smelting operations, manufacturing, fine detailed precision work, all at various locations etc. I won't say it can't happen, but I somehow doubt it will happen.

All up, while silicone and steel might be the pathfinders, CHON, even if it's alien CHON, will ultimately explore, colonize and rule the galaxy. Again, for the purposes of explaining the Fermi Paradox, there exists no extraterrestrial CHON, only terrestrial CHON, so that explains the 'where is everybody?' question.

Artificial intelligence apart, human beings have taken control of their own evolution, it's no longer just natural selection, but artificial enhancement. For quite some considerable time now, we've augmented our flesh-and-blood with artificial materials and devices, cosmetic and life enhancing - plastic heart valves, hearing aids, artificial joints, wigs, dentures, etc. And while not quite artificial in terms of non-organic materials and devices, we now have artificial selection in the sense of genetic engineering, the era of the designer baby.

So, sooner or later, humanity's flesh-and-blood, assuming we're still flesh-and-blood and not composed mainly of sturdier materials (CHON plus iron and silicon and plastics and ceramics, etc.), we will desire to get away from it all (Earth and our solar system). That's true even if we have evolved into something more akin to a hybrid of the biological and the artificial, and/or evolved ourselves into a race of quasi-supermen (and women).

But desire is one thing. Might there be something even stronger forcing us to 'boldly go'?

So what's that other more seriously driving incentive to 'boldly go...'? I mean scientific curiosity is all well and good, but it's going to be expensive to satisfy that curiosity. Wanting to vacation on some idyllic planet around another star system is fine, but extra-solar tourism is a luxury, not a necessity. There is another incentive, a far more powerful one, and that is survival. No star lasts forever. Sooner or later, our star is going to make our existence a misery. In fact, sooner or later, our sun will be the death of us all. If humans are still around when that peril makes itself apparent, we'll need to escape to another star system. Finding a suitable one is going to call for us to be 'boldly going...'! Of course other earlier disaster scenarios could force us to flee sooner - the threat of a swarm of killer comets dislodged from either the Oort Cloud and/or the Kuiper Belt heading our way or the likelihood of a nearby star going supernova would give us incentive to get the hell out of here!

Further recommended readings:

Gilster, Paul; Centauri Dreams: Imagining and Planning Interstellar Exploration; Copernicus Books, New York; 2004:

Macvey, John W.; Interstellar Travel: Past, Present, and Future; Stein and Day, New York; 1977:

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Online Sports Games - Feel The Enjoyment

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Playing online sports game are among the best way to spend free time. Many people prefer playing these games as unlike other online games, these games do not involve any kind of violence. Some of the most popular online sports games include cricket, football, basketball, ping pong etc.

Online Sports Games - Feel The Enjoyment

The best thing about these games is that they involve the same rules as that of the actual sport. You need to develop the competitive spirit to enjoy these games. Since there are plenty of websites offering you these games, you should look for the sites which are user friendly and have good collection of sports games. Also, look for the ones which have got the multiplayer features in it, as then you can compete with players from all over the world. This will help in adding more thrill and excitement. Since online gaming is always more prone to virus attacks, thus you should update the anti-virus of your personal computer frequently. There are many bogus websites online that hack and infect the data stored in your computer and thus you should be careful. Majority of the online sports game available on internet are free of charge. However, you may also come across some paid ones. Nevertheless, free ones are equally good and maintain a good range of games.

Playing these games is not only a great pastime but also it increases your concentration as well as the confidence level. You should start by playing simpler games and when you become expert in them, you can go for the more complex and challenging ones. Even you will find a lot of girls playing online sports games including football and cricket.

These games have surpassed the popularity of video games. The increase in demand of broadband and internet services has further pushed the demand of these games. These are also helpful in brining your friends closer to you who are living far away from you. Since there are plenty of such websites available online, it is wiser to choose one or two which you think can meet your requirements. These are ideal for passing idle time. Not only this, they make you alert and enhance the brain activity.

If you love sports very much then you will surely like to spend a lot of time watching or playing that sport. Each of these games comes with superb animation, amazing soundtracks and high quality graphics.

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Go on an Epic African Safari

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Do you ever feel a bit tired of life in the concrete jungle? It's easy to go along throughout your modern life despairing at the sight of building after building. In some cities, there are few green spaces or older buildings to refresh your eyes, and spending a day in front of the computer means that you may not even want to once you get there.

Go on an Epic African Safari

So what's the solution? Many people go on holiday to escape the tedium of their corporate lives, but they just end up in a jungle of another sort with a package beach holiday. Is it really that exciting to spend your holiday in a smaller, warmer version of your own home country? For some people, this is good enough, but it certainly isn't for all of us. So what do you need to do in order to escape your everyday life and really experience something completely different?

The answer is to go on an African safari. What could be more different than your office-based, work-driven life than a set of safari game drives across the open plain, seeing animals you'd previously only seen on TV and experiencing the smell, the views, and the incredible sensations of Africa? Very little, if you ask me - and that's why this is a total change from your everyday life. Trust me, your only regret will be that you have to go home at the end of the trip.

So what do you have to look forward to if you embark on a luxury African safari? There is plenty for everyone to do. Your primary attraction will naturally be the game drives. These involve, at their most basic level, having a guide tour you and other tourists at your lodge around the African countryside, tracking the elusive animals and looking for some great sights. They don't always happen, because animals are by nature unpredictable, but a good guide will make the experience worthwhile no matter what you see.

The safari lodges themselves are often worth writing home about. Luxury lodges have their own appeal, with lots of cushy amenities and unusual experiences. Private reserves are your best bet to catch the big five, as they are often quieter than the public parks. This means the animals roam a bit more freely and as such you're more likely to see them; they haven't yet learned to stay away from the vehicle routes. Even then, jeeps in these regions can often go 'off-road' which means you'll be even closer and can continue to track more exciting animals as you wish.

An African safari is an exciting experience for all ages. There are plenty of kid-friendly lodges, so if you're imagining your next dream family trip, a trip to Africa could definitely be it. If you're looking for that essential change from your regular corporate life in a big concrete box, you simply must consider an African safari. It's time to get back in touch with nature.

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Maximizing Your Potential by Definition

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Someone once pointed out to me that in many of my presentations focusing on my theme, Maximizing Your Potential, I did not define potential specifically. Allow me to do so now.

Maximizing Your Potential by Definition

Whenever I refer to potential and how to make the best of it, I'm referring to the God-given abilities, skills, and talents we have. Specifically, our skills fall into three categories, and only three. There are those we use with people, those we use with things, and those we use with information.

A. Borrowing from Mr. Richard Nelson Bolles' book, What Color Is Your Parachute?, here are 13 basic skills we use with people:

· Speaking or listening to others so as to convey or receive information. (Communicating)

· Influencing others by our words or actions. (Persuading)

· Showing sensitivity to the feelings of others. (Sensing)

· Favoring the implicit or explicit needs of others. (Serving)

· Caring for others by using specified techniques or approaches to improve their physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual problem. (Treating)

· Giving expert advice or recommendations based on our own area of expertise. (Advising)

· Paying attention to instructions and then carrying out the prescribed action. (Taking instructions)

· Monitoring behavior and coordinating it in order to achieve organizational objectives. (Managing/Supervising)

· Recognizing and utilizing the skills of others. (Leading)

· Arriving at an individual or jointly agreed-upon decision usually through discussion and compromise. (Negotiating/deciding)

· Exhibiting showmanship for fun, laughter, or entertainment. (Entertaining/Amusing)

· Dealing with the problems of others in the context of their total self while helping them to identify and resolve them through self-directed action. (Counseling)

· Giving new information or ideas to people through lecture, demonstration, or practice. (Training)

B. When it comes to dealing with information, we use our skills 15 different ways. Here they are:

We investigate, detect, compile, and classify information by means of research. (Researching)

· We examine two or more people or objects in order to learn about and react to their similarities and dissimilarities. (Comparing)

· We study the behavior of people, animals, or things, or the details of a particular phenomenon or place. (Observing)

· We perceive and define cause-and-effect relations. (Analyzing)

· We deal with numbers in performing simple or complex arithmetic. (Computing)

· We give a definite structure and working order to things. (Organizing)

· We inspect, diagnose, test, and evaluate information, people, or things. (Evaluating)

· We take what others have developed and apply it to new situations often in a new form. (Improving/adapting)

· We transform apparently unrelated things or ideas by forming them into a new cohesive whole. (Creating)

· We fashion or shape things. (Designing)

· We conceive shapes or sounds by perceiving their patterns and structures and we enable others to see them, too. (Visualizing)

· We record, memorize, or reproduce on paper or in the mind. (Copying, Storing, Retrieving)

· We determine the sequence of tasks after reviewing pertinent data or requirements. (Planning, Developing)

· We systematically accomplish tasks in a manner that causes objectives to be attained or surpassed. (Achieving)

· We speed up the accomplishment of a task or series of tasks so as to reach an organizational objective on or ahead of time. (Expediting)

C. Finally, let's look at the skills we use with things. We do so by:

· using our body as an instrument of accomplishment. (Being athletic)

· using our hands or body to identify or move an object. (Handling)

· manipulating hand tools. (Using Tools)

· monitoring, adjusting, and servicing automatic machines. (Minding Machines)

· performing some or all operations upon an office, shop, or other machine or equipment. (Operating Machine or Equipment)

· performing some or all operations upon a vehicle. (Operating a Vehicle)

· putting materials into or taking them out of machines. (Feeding, Emptying Machines)

· using earth as an instrument of accomplishment. (Working with Earth and Nature)

· preparing, building, installing, and displaying machinery or equipment. (Setting Up Displays, Machinery, or Equipment)

· attaining precise set of limits, tolerance, or standards. (Precision Working)

· putting an object back into good working condition or similar to its original condition. (Preparing)

I encourage you to inventory the skills that have brought you success and satisfaction. Then look for creative ways to emphasize them. When you do, you'll be maximizing your potential.

Remember: When you maximize your potential, everyone wins. When you don't, we all lose.

© Etienne A. Gibbs, MSW

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3D Studio Max Animation Tutorial - A Brilliant Way to Learn

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From the past decade, the technology which we are seeing now has created numerous options in the animation industry. If you have a little knowledge regarding animation, computers and internet will give a best opportunity in the animation industry. If you are a serious beginner regarding the career in this 3D industry or computer or video games and movie or entertainment industry the best choice for you is 3D max. In 3D max, you will know about the inverse kinematics, spine modeling rendering, lighting, and some animation skills. And also you are able to transfer these techniques into 3D software. When you purchased this tutorial, you need run through the manual come with this max. However, there are so many web sites in internet are providing the best online tutorials for the beginners. In that site, you can obtain the resources like textures, tutorials, meshes and scripts.

3D Studio Max Animation Tutorial - A Brilliant Way to Learn

You need to consider so many things before learning the 3D max tutorials. One of the best methods to crate your objects is Max modeler. Primitives are the basic objects to create in Max. Please make sure that you are comfortable with the max modeling interface, you need to start some of the interesting and complex. Modeling a wine glass, an apple, egg modeling, and many more complexes you need to crate. The best suggestion is you need to create all your own models from the scratch. However, sometimes it is impossible to crate our own models due to constraint of time or just a plain lazy. To resolve this issue you can download the meshes from any web sites, or you can purchase from any commercial ones.

Creating great CGI is only a part in modeling. However, mapping texture and mapping material is another big part in CGI. If you are using these materials and texture in a proper way it will show realism and effects in your images. For these mapping materials, the max has enormous options. And also it has very good basics to learn. You can learn all the aspects of the animation with these tutorials. You need clearer and vivid knowledge on this 3D max tutorial. With the help of computer animation models, you will easily learn computer animation.

You can learn these tutorials from websites and some online magazines. With the help, these tutorials, you can learn some important application of various techniques of computer animation. Apart from the online tutorials, you can learn from the books also. There are some important books are having step-by-step about the animation. However, simplest computer animation tutorials will teach you the art of animation in four steps. The first step is how to create an image or a figure by using various graphic techniques with 2d or 3d graphics. In second step, you are able to create the animation with the commands to the software. The learning of commands will depend upon the software you are suing. In third step, you are able to set the colors of the back ground and objects or some of them related to objects. The final step is saving your animation.

There are some esteemed web sites in internet providing the online tutorials for the beginners. You can download these tutorials free of cost. Some of them are providing these materials and some of the important tools for few dollars.

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I Didn't Send My Child to Kindergarten

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My son, Aqmal, approached someone and asked a question:"Do you know Mr. Iwan?"
Adhyaksa Daud (the Minister of Youth and Sports of Indonesia) answered:"Yes, what is your relationship with him?"
Aqmal answered:"He's my father".

I Didn't Send My Child to Kindergarten

The above conversation happened when Mr. Daud came to pick up his daughter, Fahira, a few days ago. Fahira is in the same class with Aqmal in grade 3. Mr Daud and my husband were also classmates while they were still in junior high school.

I didn't send Aqmal to kindergarten. Some friends told me that if Aqmal didn't attend kindergarten, he wouldn't have a chance to socialize with other children around his age and it might lead to a social interaction problem in the future.

I have my own reasons :

1. Some children are not easy to wake up early in the morning. I let little Aqmal sleep as long as he wanted. He would then wake up by himself happily, and was ready to explore another exciting day with me.

2. I never left him alone. We played toy cars, three wheeled bicycle and even barbie house collections. We cut and pasted pictures. He asked me to make drawings. We watched animations films together. I fed him while he played computer games.

3. I showed him the normal interactions between (adult) people. I took him to meet my friends. I brought him along to Ninta's school. We visited my parents, my parents in law and other relatives. I was invited to wedding parties, birthday parties, family gatherings and he came along with me.

4. I created warm and joyful atmosphere at home. Our home was never quiet even though there were only two adults (the maid and me) and two children (Aqmal and his elder sister) before my husband came home at night. Luckily, the maid was a type of person who loved being around young children. The maid and I often sat together on the floor to watch TV together while the children run and jumped around or lied down to rest on our legs.

5. I collected books including children's books and kept children toys properly. As we all know books and toys are good for stimulating young children's mind.

The above conversation between Mr. Daud and Aqmal was a proof that Aqmal is no different from other children. I'm also happy that I have lots of sweet memories about Aqmal's childhood.

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