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  • Artistic Expressions
    • Indoor Creativity
    • Balanced Stones
    • Garden Sculptures
    • Table Landscapes >
      • About the art of Saikei
  • For entrepreneurs and inventors
    • My new inventors site
    • Dave was Interviewed
    • 200+ websites for entrepeneurs and inventors
    • Trade Show & Conference links
    • Patent Getting Process
    • LinkedIn groups for inventors
    • Invention Idea Assessment
    • Idea killers to overcome
    • Don't call yourself an inventor
    • Price Before Product Always
    • Licensing "Dead Weight" Patents
    • 96 article links for inventors
  • Our Book Heartfelt Memorial Sevices
    • Endorsements and Praise
    • Productive Family Meetings
    • videos on end-of life topics
    • Who are they going to call?
    • Managing online accounts of loved ones
    • Who Among You?
  • Video services for oganizations
    • Video shooter services
  • Family Video
    • video samples
    • Advice on creating your video
    • interviews about sharing
    • creating a video
    • 6 activities for story sharing
    • 200+ questions for story sharing
    • Resources to Inspire Story Sharing
    • Testimonials
  • For and with kids
    • Come to Grammie Camp
    • Family traveling games
    • Reading the dollar bill
    • Raising Kids 2b entrepreneurs
    • The Detective Game
    • Learning Idioms
    • Life and Skills Development
    • The art of gift receiving
    • Playground diplomacy
    • Names of very big numbers
  • Buckets O' Fun
  • Good Stuff from Dave
    • Finding a suitable mate
    • Microsoft Word Shortcuts
    • Raising Kids 2b entrepreneurs
    • Body and Organ Donation
    • Good Stuff Testimonials
    • My Oasis Hug Practice
    • Emergency Information Sheet
    • Contractor Bid Negotiations
    • home design suggestions
    • Names of very big numbers
    • Wedding & Reception Advice
    • Are you a Sociopath?
    • I pet wild birds in my hand
    • My Oasis Hug Practice
    • Esalen Massage Practitioner
  • Author Resources
  • Secular Jewish Celebrations
    • Bar & Bat Mitzvah Prep.
    • Yiddish and Hebrew words
    • Hannukah family program
    • Shabbat services
    • Passover Haggadah
    • Fun Seder Songs
  • Being Mortal Documentary And...
    • Have the Conversation
  • Our Bold Color Studio art
  DAVE SAVAGE
Life and Skills Development
Rewarding and Encouraging Skills and Knowledge that are beyond what most kids can do.
Parents or any relative / mentor pays $ or points toward some reward 
(make up your own reward score card)
Extra reward for a verbal or written sharing on what was learned and the lessons from what was done.
From Dave Savage  404 323-8686 dave@davesavage.com  www.davesavage.com

Here are some ideas
$20 for touch typing 25 words a minute with a max.of ? mistakes
$50 for touch typing 50 words a minute with max.? mistakes
$25 for juggling 3 balls for 15 seconds
 another $25 for juggling 4 balls 15 seconds.
$5 for every self development recording you listen to and tell me what you learned.
$2 for listening to selected music  (exposure to hundreds of types of music) 
  (reward for identifying selected music, composer, time period it was composed)
$2 watch selected classic movies
$3 watch selected informational videos
25 cents each know the definition of the words in Yiddish list (or language of your heritage) and use them in a sentence.
$1 to learn and use each rope knot, and $1 to demonstrate a knot a  week after learning it.  (truckers knot is always helpful)
$1 to learn how to flip food in a sautè pan like a chef
$1 to learn each style of neck tie knot.
$ to be able to say hello, goodbye, thank you, count to ten etc in different languages.
$ to know the location of major cities and other geography  in the US and the world.
$1 for each unsolicited comment by people to your parents complementing you for manners, behavior, attitude  
fixing bicycle flat tire
make a bed with hospital corners
how to properly polish a pair of shoes
grow a vegetable from seed that I can eat when ripe
to be able to iron a shirt and pants
demonstrate how to floss teeth
identify tools and perhaps show how to use them (see tool and maintenance catalogs on-line to study      Graningers.com, McMaster Carr, Harbor Freight.
sew on a button or use a sewing machine
identify the bones of your body
pick a company on the stock exchange and be able to follow it and quote approximate price on request
hard boil an egg so that the shell comes off easily
make fluffy rice
seeing selected plays and sharing what was learned or enjoyed about it
interviewing adults for career advice and experience
identifying tools and supplies at the hardware store – know what they are used for.
sharpen a kitchen knife or scissors
choosing appropriate cleaning products (hot water, mineral spirits, paint thinner, denatured alcohol, Goop, WD40, etc)
Memorizing greetings, goodbye and thank you in other languages
names of colors (is it red, plumb, burgundy, purple?)
being able to guestimate as well as you (speed, weight, distance, angle, age, length, volume, height, force)
 You can make it the “Detective Game” You’ve just seen a crime or accident and the detective asks about what
  you saw. These are difficult for adults and the game can be about who is closest. This is a free and fun activity
  when traveling and just hanging around.
learning the technical relationship titles of relatives.  (You are my second cousin twice removed even though I call you uncle)
 
Life skills
learning how to use a sewing machine and sewing on a button or mending a hem
backing up with a trailer
identifying trees, shrubs - plants, flowers
learning how to cook/prepare various things
fancy cloth napkin folding
gift wrapping
Learning-reading the Roman numerals at the end of movies to know when they came out
 Watch Youtube videos about turning everyday items/ / trash, into handy items -  search DIY upscale and Life hacks

Things to do
wash and wax a car  $10
gardening/ landscaping
cleaning and polishing silver tableware and shoes
memorizing and reciting famous quotes, stanzas and poems
 
 reading selected books:   extra reward for a discussion of the ideas and messages of the book  as it is being read
Many of the classics are free on the internet
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
The Little Prince
Classics   like Horatio Alger 
 
Reading important things aloud and with feeling  (theatrical and presentation reading style)
Gettysburg address
Declaration of independence
??..
 
Measure your body parts and then estimate the size of things.
Finger tips to elbow is almost a foot, thumb and pinky spread apart is 6” , arms stretched out is ?,  wrist to finger tips is?
Ground to the bottom of your knee cap is ?


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