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QUARTERS
Quarters is derived from an old piano teacher's trick, wherein a student must play with a coin balanced on the back of their hand to teach the hand to lay flat. This may sound difficult, but it's not, and in fact kids find it fascinating.
The truth is that I have kids who could care less about 'hand position' and resist all patient, erudite attempts to explain and demonstrate it to them: they are simply not interested.
But put a quarter on the back of the same child's hand and say, "Play Jingle Bells that way, bub," and you have a child primed for an unusual, witty experiment in dexterity.
Yes, the quarter will drop on the floor. Yes, it will roll under the piano. Have several ready. Just laugh and continue. It's worth 75 cents.
If it's all right with the parents, give them the quarter for particularly good work. This game has led to indifferent kids showing me how they can play with all sorts of things balanced on their hands, a piece of gum, a Tic Tac, a rock.
One brilliant kid was also an eight-year-old magician, who, unknown to me, sprayed his hand before the lesson with a magician's trick powder which sticks metal to the hand. I was mystified by his expertise during Fur Elise until he slyly turned his hands upside down and the quarters remained

Entertaining Printout Games For Relieving the Stress on Road Trips
Using printout games on a road trip is a brilliant way to occupy your child/children. Because as we all know there is nothing worse than a bored child on a long trip. When your children become bored they first begin to aggravate each other which in turns aggravates the adults in the vehicle making for a miserable trip. So there is a way to keep everyone happy in the vehicle, play some road games.
There are many vehicles that have family entertainment built right in but for those of us that cannot afford these types of vehicles there is a cost effective way to occupy your children, printout games off the computer. It is quick and easy and gives you and your family a way to interact with each other as you go through your travels.
When you begin to look online for these games to printout you want to look for websites that offer these types of games for free. There are dozens of websites that will allow you to do so. All you need to do is search for them on any of the search engines and you will get a list of the websites. Then just find the game you would like to print out and hit the print button and you should get a printable version of the games