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It is common for family or group of friends to have a plethora of electronic devices at their disposal. Instead of posting about how boring the car trip is on social media, use your cellphones, tablets, computers, electronic readers, and gaming devices to pass the time. Consider using the devices to:  Challenge your fellow passengers to a gaming tournament.  Read about the cities and states you are driving through. Journal about your road trip. Play retro video games. Explore the night sky or regional terrain Road trips are about making memories. You can preserve these memories with your camera. Capture every funny, boring, frustrating, uncomfortable, and brilliant moment in a .jpeg.   You document your trip by posting the pictures to social media sites. You can use apps to create custom postcards out of your pictures and send them to your friends and family members. You can create a traditional or digital scrapbook out of the photos. As you drive to and from your final destination, you can edit the photos you’ve taken in the car. Pass the time on the road while listening to podcasts. Unlike audiobooks, podcasts are short and rarely serialized—if you lose focus or fall asleep, you won’t be completely lost. You can download podcasts online or directly from iTunes.   Podcasts cover a broad range of topics, from comedy to science fiction, education to pop culture/entertainment, and every topic in between. You will be able to find podcasts appropriate for every age level. Kids and adults alike can appreciate a DVD player and monitor on a long car ride. Movies keep kids entertained, engaged, and quiet. On your journey, you can watch your favorite films, view vintage flicks, or experience new blockbusters.  Opt to watch films related to the places you will visit.

summary: Entertain yourself with your electronic devices. Snap pictures of your trip. Listen to podcasts. Watch movies.


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An act is a mini-play unto itself, made up of several scenes. The average play involves 3-5 Acts. Generally, a scene will have a given set of characters. If a new character is introduced, or if the character's move elsewhere, that indicates that you're moving on to another scene.  An act is hard to distinguish. The podiatrist story, for instance, might end its first act with the arrival of the parents and the introduction of the main conflict. The second act might involve the development of that conflict, including scenes in which the parents argue with the podiatrist daughter, Easter dinner is cooked and Church is attended. In Act three, the daughter might reconcile with the father, giving his troubled foot a once-over. The end. The more experienced you become at writing plays, you'll be able to think in terms of acts and scenes as you write your initial draft. Don't worry about it in the early-going, though. The formatting is much less important than getting the drama right. Each scene should start with stage directions, in which you describe briefly the physical components of the stage. Depending on your story, this might be very elaborate or fairly simple. This is your opportunity to influence the way the play will eventually look. If it's important to have a gun on the wall in Act One, put it in there. Also include character directions throughout the dialog. The actors will take their own liberties with the dialog and move about as they and the director sees fit, but it helps to have any particularly important (as you see it) physical motions included throughout the dialog. A kiss, for instance, is probably important to direct, but don't overdo it. You don't need to describe every minute physical movement of a character, because the actors will ignore such directions anyway. In a play, each character's dialog is marked with their name in all capital letters, tabbed in at least 4". Some playwrights will center the dialog, but it's up to you. You don't need to use quotation marks or other distinguishing features, just separate the language by including the character's name every time they speak. This includes any prologue you'd like to include to the play, a list of characters and a short description of them, any notes you'd like to include about the set up of the stage or other directing guidelines, and possibly a brief summary or outline of the play if you're considering submitting the play to theatre contests.

summary: Break the plot into scenes and acts. Include stage directions. Tag each character's dialog. Include front-matter.


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As an adult in your household and primary protector of your children, you have an obligation to know what your children are up to. You never know whether you need to be protecting your child from someone else or from themselves. It may feel deeply wrong to snoop around your child's room. But, if you suspect they are hiding something — and they are unlikely to fess up on their own — taking a look around their bedroom might be the only way to shed light on the situation.  If you decide to search, look in drawers beneath or between clothes, under the bed, in between notebooks, CD or DVD cases, in backpacks or duffel bags, in pockets of clothes hanging in the closet, inside books with pages cut out, inside the trash can, and under loose floorboards among other places.  Your child's room is a sacred domain to them, and having privacy there helps them learn to set boundaries with others. That's why snooping around in your child's bedroom should be done as a last resort — when signs have pointed to there being something amiss, or when you have clearly found evidence. As a part of your search, you might want to do a cursory glance at any electronic devices your child uses. Look through your child's tablet, laptop, and/or cell phone.  Be on the lookout for any social media apps that you have not given your child permission to use in addition to messenger apps. Your child could be communicating with people who are posing as teenagers and are in fact child predators. Be very wary if your child has many password-protected apps. Furthermore, if your child is adamant about not handing over passwords, this might be an indication that they are hiding something in their phone or computer. You may have to install monitoring apps on these devices to keep a closer eye on your child's usage. Certain apps are now being designed to help conceal photos, videos, messages, and other apps that your child does not want you to see. These include Vaulty and Hide It Pro. Stay on top of new apps such as these and beware if you find them in your child's phone.   Similar to their bedroom, technology is often a private thing for your child; limit these searches to when something seems wrong and your child won't open up.
summary: Search their room. Check their computer and/or phone.