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I think kids today (and people in general) put far too much of themselves on the internet. They are too quick to tell you where they work, what school they go to and show you pictures of their face from every angle. Such behavior can be dangerous, not only are you practically inviting creeps to stalk you irl but you are giving them all the tools they need to track you. Not to mention everything you do on the internet is saved forever and can always be used against you in the future, sound paranoid? Sorry, it is just a fact.

You can be yourself without giving away all the details of your life, trust me, I do it just fine. Be safe, if you use Facebook please set your profile to private, protecting yourself just a little bit can go a long way. You wouldn’t trust a random stranger on the street with your personal information so don’t trust random internet crawlers with it either.

Winter Solstice

The first day of the Season of Winter. On this day (DECEMBER 22 in the northern hemisphere*) the Sun is farthest south and the length of time between Sunrise and Sunset is the shortest of the year.

* In the southern hemisphere, winter and summer solstices are exchanged. Summer: December 22. Winter: June 21.

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Look up! It is a great evening for star watching, the sun is setting and kissing the clouds with a pink hue.

Step one: Make a tumblr blog and then theme it with a decent theme (note: you can skip steps 2 onward if you know how to make your own wicked cool theme and promote it).
Step two: Learn how to make animated gif’s.
Step three: Make lots of animated gif’s and post them all the time.
Step four: Post the url to your ask box a couple times a day and then answer totally random questions from your followers.
Step Five: Reblog other gif makers so the word gets out that you’re cool. Wait for your follower count to rise to the skies.

Here are a couple tumblrs that have done just that:

Sure there are other ways to become tumblr famous, you can create epic youtube videos and hope they take off and what not but creating gif’s is the easiest way I know to climb the ladder fast!

“The poisoned candy scare was a moral panic in the United States (and Canada) during the 1970s and 1980s regarding the threat that children could be in danger of ingesting razor blades, needles, or poison introduced to candy by tampering, especially during traditional Halloween trick-or-treating. Apart from one incident—actually an act of premeditated murder by a trick-or-treater’s father—there have been no recorded incidents of deliberately poisoned candy during Halloween or any similar occasion. ” wikipedia.org

Every year around this time, this topic comes up and every year I have to explain to at least a few people that what they are talking about is an urban legend. Halloween candy is your friend, don’t fear it. Sadly it is because of the panic this rumor ensued that it is illegal in several states to hand out homemade treats which is a real shame, imagine the days when there was a change the door you knocked on had a freshly made candy apple for your treat.

1. Take a few moments to check over your kids candy before they are allowed to start gobbling it down like true little goblins.
2 Take out any damaged or open pieces, set aside or eat them yourself.
3. Use your best judgment, based on your child’s age some hard candy or gum could be a choking hazard, so you can scarf that stuff as well.

Just another randomly original motivational poster by BestofStumbleupon.com