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Here are some valuable tips for working mothers during Summer Holidays
As a child, summer vacation is a time to relax, play and study. This is a time children use to wait eagerly whole year to live freely without books teachers and school.
With high expectation, a time when children can create enough good vacation memories during holidays. But this may create a hindrance to working women who have to manage both office and kids.
Smart moms can only build wealth while raising family, which is effective only by scheduling your time for success.
Many time mothers face constant cries of children that their kids feeling bored or children busy watching TV or mobile even laptop, computers are used to play games for hours and they are like a Couch Potato.
Here is a challenge to engage your kids in some physical activates which they are losing now days as this will help them to be active and less lethargic.
Accordingly chalk out a plan and making your kids follow them rigorously will help working and non working mothers.
Working mothers can now manage kids during Summer Holidays with these ideas:
So, how do you manage the time? Follow the steps to find out a sane life:
First and foremost don’t wake up late: make them wake up at same time every day because changing their sleep pattern can lead to mood swings. As much as sleep is important, outdoor activities are too. So don’t lose the habit.
Make a Flow chart plan accordingly: Plan out your day in advance and set out your playtime, study time, and holiday’s homework time. Through this, your child will learn to manage time in a systematic way. This will be helpful in long run.
Special weekends: A week or long weekend at some happening place other than home gives a break to the entire family and time to spend with loved ones.
Explore resources: Make them join classes where they can easily learn through play that can be dancing classes, singing, swimming, library for reading, grooming classes and summer camps so on.
Build your team: Mostly working mothers manage summer vacation as a team effort with extended families, friends. Reach out to others for play and plan a day out with family or friends.
Grab their attention with Fun and frolic: Nowadays kids are generally lost in the TV and computer screen they can be reach out through this and we get some quality laughing-out-loud time by having a light and funny discussion or activates add in some fun ways in your daily routine.
Dine out: We can give junk eating in some days also, to come out of the daily battles between work and summer vacation .This will be a mood change from daily eating at home leading to monotonous life.
In these moments, you can take a deep sigh and console yourself saying that summer shall pass and soon, school will resume!.
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Meghalaya Reserves Legalized Gambling and Sports Betting for Tourists
The State Scores Extra High on Gaming-Friendly Industry Index
Meghalaya scored 92.85 out of 100 possible points in a Gaming Industry Index and proved to be India’s most gaming-friendly state following its recent profound legislation changes over the field allowing land-based and online gaming, including games of chance, under a licensing regime.
The index by the UK India Business Council (UKIBC) uses a scale of 0 to 100 to measure the level of legalisation on gambling and betting achieved by a state based on the scores over a set of seven different games – lottery, horse racing, betting on sports, poker, rummy, casino and fantasy sports
Starting from February last year, Meghalaya became the third state in India’s northeast to legalise gambling and betting after Sikkim and Nagaland. After consultations with the UKIBC, the state proceeded with the adoption of the Meghalaya Regulation of Gaming Act, 2021 and the nullification of the Meghalaya Prevention of Gambling Act, 1970. Subsequently in December, the Meghalaya Regulation of Gaming Rules, 2021 were notified and came into force.
All for the Tourists
The move to legalise and license various forms of offline and online betting and gambling in Meghalaya is aimed at boosting tourism and creating jobs, and altogether raising taxation revenues for the northeastern state. At the same time, the opportunities to bet and gamble legally will be reserved only for tourists and visitors.
“We came out with a Gaming Act and subsequently framed the Regulation of Gaming Rules, 2021. The government will accordingly issue licenses to operate games of skill and chance, both online and offline,” said James P. K. Sangma, Meghalaya State Law and Taxation Minister speaking in the capital city of Shillong. “But the legalized gambling and gaming will only be for tourists and not residents of Meghalaya,” he continued.
To be allowed to play, tourists and people visiting the state for work or business purposes will have to prove their non-resident status by presenting appropriate documents, in a process similar to a bank KYC (Know Your Customer) procedure.
Meghalaya Reaches Out to a Vast Market
With 140 millions of people in India estimated to bet regularly on sports, and a total of 370 million desi bettors around prominent sporting events, as per data from one of the latest reports by Esse N Videri, Meghalaya is set to reach out and take a piece of a vast market.
Estimates on the financial value of India’s sports betting market, combined across all types of offline channels and online sports and cricket predictions and betting platforms, speak about amounts between $130 and $150 billion (roughly between ₹9.7 and ₹11.5 lakh crore).
Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Delhi are shown to deliver the highest number of bettors and Meghalaya can count on substantial tourists flow from their betting circles. The sports betting communities of Karnataka, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana are also not to be underestimated.
Among the sports, cricket is most popular, registering 68 percent of the total bet count analyzed by Esse N Videri. Football takes second position with 11 percent of the bets, followed by betting on FIFA at 7 percent and on eCricket at 5 percent. The last position in the Top 5 of popular sports for betting in India is taken by tennis with 3 percent of the bet count.
Local Citizens will Still have Their Teer Betting
Meghalaya residents will still be permitted to participate in teer betting over arrow-shooting results. Teer is a traditional method of gambling, somewhat similar to a lottery draw, and held under the rules of the Meghalaya Regulation of the Game of Arrow Shooting and the Sale of Teer Tickets Act, 2018.
Teer includes bettors wagering on the number of arrows that reach the target which is placed about 50 meters away from a team of 20 archers positioned in a semicircle.
The archers shoot volleys of arrows at the target for ten minutes, and players place their bets choosing a number between 0 and 99 trying to guess the last two digits of the number of arrows that successfully pierce the target.
If, for example, the number of hits is 256, anyone who has bet on 56 wins an amount eight times bigger than their wager.