Vacation and Our Method to Persuade Our Little Daughter

We are almost there, but the whole world is coming back home after Easter Holiday.
We can't stand places too crowded. Luckily, Caldas Novas will be empty for the next four days when we will stay there.

In fact, crowded places are not practical to deal with toddlers. The effort necessary to deal with them would be hugely greater in this condition.
Our daughter is very active and, in some moments, she doesn't obey us. When there are other people, it is more difficult to convince her to do the right thing. We have been trying to improve our ability to persuade her.

Sometimes my wife adopts an energetic attitude with her. We never apply physical punishments as an education method. In fact, assertiveness and firmness are working quite good with our daughter.

Once she tried to hit us, but my wife was firm and emphatic with her. Although she is only two years old, we know that she is able to understand
most of our conversation, so it is not a waste of time to talk with her about what is wrong and right.

At 2:40 pm, we made check-in at hotel. Let's have a deserved rest now

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GO-139, Caldas Novas, GO, Brasil

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Toddler's Swimming Classes

At the far end, the last hill is Caldas Novas' Hill. In a few minutes, we will arrive over there.

Caldas Novas is under a thermal groundwater table. There are a lot of thermal resorts and hotels where beautiful water parks are offered to their guests.

My daughter loves pools. At January, we enrolled her in swimming classes. She loves the class style, its routine and her teacher.

We do think that it will be very important to her physical development and wellness.

At the firsts classes, she was afraid to diving, but , after few classes, she got used to it and now she loves diving. Actually, she always asks to repeat more and more.

This is not her first experience with water resorts. When she was 20 months old, we went to Pireneus' Inn Resorts at the inner part of Goiás state of Brazil. She loved playing with most of its attractions.

In Rio Quente, a city near by Caldas Novas, there is a park called Hot Park. It has an artificial beach with thermal waters, sand and waves. We scheduled to go there by tomorrow. It will be amazing.

We are looking forward to arrive there. It will be a pretty good vacation.

22° Scattered Storms
GO-139, Caldas Novas, GO, Brasil

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Good Friday and Toddler classes

Good Friday

We wake up early, had breakfast and went to my mother's house, by bike, just to cut a fish in slices to do a "moqueca" for family lunch.

Before lunch, we put together ours packs and luggage to travel to Goiânia and Caldas Novas.

At lunch time at my mother's house, we met my brothers and their families. It was awesome. For lunch, we had "moqueca" and roasted "Tambaqui", for complement there were "farofa" of carrot and smashed potato and rice.

Children's education was the main issue that we talked about: which school they are enrolled, educational methodologies adopted by their schools and how was their adaptation to scholar routine.

In our case specially, we choose a bilingual Canadian school. So, we emphasized its class routine, our so far perception of school methodology and progress of our daughter's learning. We said that at her age, it is expected to develop social habits and speaking fluency. She is two years old and goes to Toddler classes.

Furthermore, it was nice to say that school staff always say that she is very independent. She wants to do every thing by herself. For instance, before classes start at the beginning of the year, she didn't wear diapers anymore.

At school, she is learning English vocabulary. As a complement, she already does homework. Every week, she chooses a book in English to borrow. We show the pictures and read the story to her. It is very important to improve her vocabulary.

We left my mother's house at 16:15 pm to go to my mother-in-law's apartment at Goiânia.

The journey was not so calm. It was raining during all the time. We made a pause in Jeriva diner to have dinner. I had Jerê of cod and orange juice. We arrived at 7:20 pm.

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Anápolis, GO, Brasil

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War against Brazilian way of doing politics

It is incredible how politics is conducted in Brazil's public sector. A great part of contracts signed have been manipulated to guarantee a bribe to public employees and politicians. Almost all big deals done by Federal Government are suspicious of overpricing and irregularities at its execution.

At the last years, Brazilian prevention institutions have conducted several actions with the goal to identify corruptions cases, but the biggest one has been conducted since 2014: operation Car Wash. Several irregularities in Petrobras contracts were found out.

The list of irregularities at Petrobras is huge: overpricing at Pasadena/US refinery acquisition and Abreu e Lima refinery at Brazil, and a lot more.

The amount of money involved with all bribes ramp up to billions of dollars. As an example, only one big construction company is accused to have gotten improperly R$ 7 billions. Some public employees have already been condemned and were obliged to give back money found by Brazilian prosecution institutions at offshore bank accounts.

Right now it seems that only a small part of crimes has been unveiled. Every week new special operations are conducted by Federal Police revealing new bribery strategies and new transgressors.

Brazilian citizens hope that it is the beginning of a new era, that Brazil will be a good place to doing business and that public elections will be more fair.

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