INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Your parents’ concerns may be completely unrelated to your goals, and explaining why you want an account will help them make an informed decision. If they’re scared about strangers talking to you online but you don’t care about commenting and just want to watch videos, it may put their minds at ease. If you’re only interested in watching your favorite YouTubers but don’t plan on making your own videos, it could convince them that you’ll be safe. If you do want to make your own videos, think about why you want to make them and have a good explanation ready. “I want to express my thoughts on the movies I see” or, “I want to share clips of me playing games with my friends” are examples of good reasons to make YouTube videos. In your explanation, play up the benefits of a YouTube account. Point out that you’ll learn how to do new things and be exposed to more educational experiences. If you want to make your own videos, explain that there are valuable skills involved in editing and filming your own videos and that you’ll be learning from the experience.  It takes patience, communication skills, and a knowledge of video editing to make videos, which are all skills that your parents probably want you to learn anyway. Say something like, “Making my own videos will make be better at public speaking and communicating effectively! You want me to be a good speaker, right?” Your parents will be more likely to let you make an account if they understand the kind of videos that you want to make or watch. Choose 2-3 good examples of the kinds of videos that you’d be interested in watching or making to give them an idea of what you will be looking at. Pick videos that work as good examples of an average video instead of choosing the funniest or coolest video that you’ve seen. What you find funny or interesting won’t necessarily have the same effect on your parents, and the point is to expose them to the formats and tones of the videos that you’re interested in. While a PowerPoint is quite easy to put together, it will impress your parents and show them that you’re serious about getting an account. Make a slide for each point that you want to make and present it to them to help them understand why you want an account. Choose a pre-built layout from the main menu to give your PowerPoint a cool look.

SUMMARY: Tell them why you want a YouTube account. Focus on the benefits of getting a YouTube account. Show your parents the kind of videos you want to watch or create. Build a PowerPoint to show them that you’re serious.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Start at the side closest to the damaged board or boards. Carefully pry away baseboards and molding from the wall and pry thresholds up from any doorways with a pry bar.  This method works when the damaged boards are close enough to the edge of the floor that it is possible to remove a small number of surrounding boards to get to the damaged boards and replace them. Try your best not to damage any of the pieces that you pry away so that you can replace them afterward. Insert a pry bar under the boards at their seams and press down on the end of it like a lever to pop the joints loose. Work from the edge where you removed baseboards and molding in towards the site of the damage until you can remove the damaged boards. Set aside the boards that are still good, in the order you removed them, so that you can replace them afterward. Line up the tongue and groove of the new board the same way as those of the board you removed were lined up. Snap the new piece into position. Save the damaged board so that you can use it for future repairs. For example, if you need to match the color to repair scratches and chips, you can take it with you to the home improvement store when you go looking for the repair kit. Work in reverse order as when you removed them, starting with the boards that surround the replacement board. Line up the tongues and grooves, then slide or gently tap them back into place with a hammer if there is a lot of friction. If you use a hammer to tap any boards into place, use the damaged board you removed as a buffer between the hammer and the good boards to prevent damaging them. Line up the baseboards, molding, and thresholds in the same order you removed them to reinstall them around the edges of the floor. Gently tack them back into place with baseboard nails and a hammer using the same nails and holes as before. Use new baseboard nails if any of them got damaged when you pried them out earlier on.

SUMMARY:
Remove any baseboards, thresholds, or molding from around the area. Lift out the boards starting with the ones closest to the edge. Replace the damaged board with a new one. Return all the boards you removed to their places. Tack any baseboards, molding, or thresholds back in place.