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- 3 years and up: With parental supervision, they can fill up a water or food dish and keep up play periods with a pet, such as throwing a ball for a dog or dragging a toy for a cat.
- 5 and up: School-age children can be more actively involved in pet training: teaching a dog to sit, talking to a bird and helping with grooming.
- 8 and up: Older children can exercise a dog by walking it or tossing it a Frisbee. They can also help clean cages and litter boxes and bathe pets.
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If you're single and you haven't tried the musical chairs of speed dating, try this to meet your match.
A $10 cover charge gets you inside for pupus, wine, and all the dates you can meet in five-minute speed sessions.
The event, sponsored by Party of Six dinner dates, is from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at the Long Life Center, on the 40th floor of the Century Center building, 1750 Kalakaua Ave. For information, call 536-4229.
The choice is yours
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| Daniel McFadden |
Economic factors affect our choices in life. Some of these we recognize as major decisions: marriage, children, jobs and housing, for example. Others, we may not reflect on as closely: Will we have another piece of pie, or buy a pack of cigarettes?
People often misjudge what their choices amount to and regret their decision after the fact, said McFadden, who's been an expert on the issue since the 1970s, when he developed a computer model to predict how people make decisions, now used worldwide.
