Our Toddler's Reactions when Was Suffering Frustation During Our Trip to Caldas Novas and Rio Quente

We left Caldas Novas yesterday at 12:45 am. At 5 pm we arrived at home.

The road that we choose to travel was not the best choice. For those who don't know Brazil, it is quite easy to find holes at Brazilian streets and roads, especially, after the raining period. Brazilian streets are built only with asphalt, it is not used a layer of concrete above it. With asphalt, car's tires have a longer life and the construction of roads is cheaper and faster.

In fact, our itinerary passed by secondary state streets which offer a shorter distance, 301 km. The second path, which passes through Goiânia and through federal roads, would take 400 km. Usually, federal roads are better and safer.

Our daughter had a good time at our vacation. When the messenger of the hotel came to carry our luggage, our daughter started crying. She didn't want to leave. At that moment, my wife talked her that we were leaving, but we could return on the next vacation. At first, the strategy didn't work at all, but she kept up talking until my daughter feels better.

In fact, children don't have future perspective. Therefore, when their present is nice, they are afraid to lose it.

The same behavior pattern repeated all over the trip. At Hot Park, she was afraid to lose the waves and sand of the thermal artificial beach. She delighted with the ups and downs. Actually, we were surprised that she was not afraid of the beach, she wanted to be by herself without no support of us.
At the moment that we took her out, she cried again and said that she didn't want to go out.

For me and my wife, the trip was nice. It is very satisfying to notice our daughter appreciating her new experiences as well.

Avenida Santo Amaro, Caldas Novas, GO, Brasil

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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

22° Scattered Storms
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.

26° Nearby Thunderstorms
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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Ramp-up Brazilian Corruptions Cases

New cases of corruption in Brazil are ramping up. Federal Police, Brazilian Office of General Comptroller (CGU) and Public Prosecutors are working hard to identify and punish all kind of misuse and fraud with public budget.

Nowadays there are 13 years that the actual political party and its allies are conducting our country. All kind of fraud have been refined and a huge amount of money has been transferred illegally abroad to offshore accounts.

Lenience accords have been stablished with companies and public employees that are arrested. These accords are a manner to identify and extinguish the whole chain of robbery that have been stablished in this country since 2003. Damages can be mitigates as well.

Brazilian institutions have a rough job to be done. All of them are been bumping up against a strong resistance and lobby of politicians that are investigated and mentioned by press.

What we see is that the justice is slow and doesn't punish timely. In fact, the best way to take out power of these politicians and parties is by vote. At 2016, there will take place polls to choose mayors, states' deputies and counties' legislative representatives.

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