Problem: Write an article based on this summary: Recreate national monuments. Make the environments from your favorite TV show. Recreate your city or neighborhood. Create the setting from your favorite book. Make your room.

Answer: Create elaborate and detailed recreations of cool national monuments, attractions, and other famous buildings and sights. Set them up so that your players or family members can go on a trip around the world in just a few minutes if they want to. Take inspiration from your favorite TV show and build your interpretation of the environment or setting of the story. You can build the high school from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or Finn's tree house from Adventure Time, for example. Recreate a walkable version of the neighborhood where you grew up. Include your school, local parks, your house, and other places where you spend a lot of time. Really stretch your imagination and recreate the environment from your favorite books. Make the Lonely Mountain from the Hobbit, or the wacky hills of a Doctor Suess book. Let your creativity fly! Take a single room or other small space and then recreate it on a grand scale. Make 1 block equal to 1-2". This will result in Skyscraper-sized doors. If you want, you can build yourself a home in the walls and live like a Borrower!


Problem: Write an article based on this summary: Determine the number of hours of sleep you need. Pay back your short-term sleep debt. Take a vacation for long-term debt.

Answer: Every person’s needs are different.  There are published guidelines available based on age, which is a great place to start, but you may need to take additional steps to determine your exact needs. Perform a simple sleep test. It will likely take more than one night to determine the results of this test. The next opportunity that you have to sleep in for a few days — a long weekend or a vacation — is your chance to perform this test. You may need several nights in a row to get the best results. Go to bed at a time you would like to be your normal bedtime. Resist staying up late even though you can sleep in the next day. Get accurate results from the test by sticking with a routine bedtime each night. Do not set an alarm clock. Sleep until you wake up naturally. The first night you will probably sleep for a very long time, maybe even 16 hours or more. This is because you are likely experiencing "sleep debt." Once your sleep debt is taken care of, continue to go to bed at the same time each night, never setting an alarm. After a few days, you will naturally wake up at about the same time each morning. By calculating how long you slept (if you fall asleep at 10 pm and wake up at 7 am, then you slept for nine hours), you know how much sleep you need each night. Sleep debt occurs when you fail to get the amount of sleep your body needs (going to bed early and waking up early, etc.). It accumulates over time, putting you deeper and deeper into debt.  You are adding minutes or hours to your sleep debt every time you cut your night’s sleep a little short. This can occur in both the short term and over months. You can repay your short-term sleep debt by adding an hour or so to each night’s sleep (going to bed early or sleeping later if possible) or by taking a nap. This means that you need to keep track of the hours of sleep you lost, therefore you need to know how much sleep you need. Longer term sleep debt accumulations may take several weeks, or even longer to pay back and get back on track.  Take a vacation with nothing on your schedule, then go to bed at the same time every night and sleep every morning until you wake up naturally. Don’t beat yourself up for sleeping a lot during this vacation. Just pay back your sleep debt and get back on a regular schedule. Once you have repaid your debt and you stick to a regular bedtime, you will reach a point where you no longer need that alarm clock in the mornings. This is provided that your bedtime is early enough to allow your body to get the exact amount of sleep it requires. Not everyone fits in the standard eight hours of sleep. Your body may require a little more sleep or a little less. If you have caught up on your sleep debt and you still feel fatigued during the day and have trouble waking up and getting out of bed, then you may have an underlying medical problem or medication that is contributing to the problem. Make an appointment with your doctor to figure out what is causing your fatigue.


Problem: Write an article based on this summary: Make new tagging rules. Have more than one Shark. Choose different animals. Play on dry land. Make your Shark blind. Add obstacles. Transform extra Sharks into seaweed.

Answer: Once you've become an expert at the game you can add your own rules to enhance it. Make it a rule that the Shark can only tag Minnows who have their head above water. It's fun to challenge yourself but never put your life in danger. Be cautious and make sure swimmers can make it from one side of the pool to the other in one breath. Add more Sharks so the Minnows have to swim faster and be more creative to get to the other side without being tagged. Instead of Sharks and Minnows, you can use Cat and Mouse, Cheetah and Gazelle, or Fox and Rabbit. If you don't have access to a pool, or if the pool is too crowded to play, move to a field or gym. This version is played year-round and can usually accommodate more players. Make sure to swap your swim trunks for sneakers.  Cones, tape, or basketball court lines are used to mark the boundaries. These will be the spots where players will start and end.  If you want to minimize contact, you can have players tuck a towel into their shorts, to act as a “tail.” Instead of tagging players, the Shark will pull their tail. Have the Shark close their eyes or turn their back until they hear a Minnow swimming. They must tag players by following their sounds. In this version, Minnows can exit the pool and try to walk to the other end of the pool without being seen or heard. If the Shark does hear them then the Shark will yell, "fish out of water" and the Minnow must start over. Place pool floats around the pool. If a player bumps into one, send them back to the beginning or make them sit through a time out. In this version, instead of becoming Sharks when tagged, players become seaweed. They must stay still and can only reach as far as arm's length to tag other Minnows who then become seaweed as well. If a seaweed touches a Shark, it turns back into a Minnow and can continue swimming to the end of the pool.


Problem: Write an article based on this summary: Take a deep breath. Stay in the present. Express yourself. Hang in there. Distance yourself, literally. Accept that working on it is progress in and of itself.

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It’s a cliche, but it’s a cliche because it works. Often you’ll find that you’ve held your breath when reacting, or have begun breathing erratically. Take several slow deep breaths using your diaphragm and abdominal muscles when presented with difficult situations. Procrastination has not been shown to be an effective coping method, and neither has straight-up ignoring the issue. Think about how to handle yourself here and now. Often, the issues that work us up are small ones, piled up high enough to feel huge and important when they aren’t. Every problem or stressor can always be broken down into components you can handle; if it doesn’t seem like it can, that’s only because it hasn’t been broken down far enough yet! Releasing a little steam can sometimes keep from the whole kettle boiling over, so to speak. Overcoming oversensitivity doesn't mean you have to be meek or unfeeling. Sometimes it means you need to talk it out when it's still comfortable to talk about, before you have time to ruminate on an offhand comment and become overcome or despondent. Over a long enough time, dealing with the same distressing or aggravating issue can make it so that the smallest version of it elicits a huge and seemingly disproportionate response. Don't let the small things gnaw away at you. Bring them out into the open so they don't build up. You may feel yourself go numb and quiet as a balm to deal in an uncomfortable social situation, but don't let yourself be defeated. Try and take a quiet moment to see the situation as it really is. You're probably not debating nuclear disarmament deals before the U.N. You're in a passing, emotionally stressful moment. Physically excuse yourself from the situation as easily as you can. It may prove more appropriate to slip away unnoticed, but if you're in conversation at a social event let someone know you're going to step away for a moment; this token gesture of normalcy can help stabilize your perception of the situation, especially if this was a situation in which you felt embarrassed or vulnerable. "Getting some fresh air" or "going to the bathroom" are both time-tested excuses. Considering the ubiquity of smartphones, you won't even need anything beyond a gesture toward an iPhone screen to indicate why you need to step away. It's not about embracing unpleasant feelings, but about accepting how small of a moment that feeling was, and that you're moving past it; you'll move past it every time, because there's no other option.