INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Letting your kid write in shaving cream on a tray or pan will make the process more fun. You could also use whipped topping or pudding. Roll out lines to make letters with your kid. You can begin with their name to make it more interesting or go through the alphabet. To keep this less messy, try putting finger paint in a gallon zip-top bag and sealing it well. Be sure to squeeze out as much air as possible. Then your kid can trace letters on the outside of the bag. Write letters on the concrete with a hose or water gun. Your kid will be amazed at how fast the letters disappear. Just be ready to get wet. Give your kids letter blocks, magnet letters, or rocks with letters painted on them, as all of them encourage letter recognition in your child. These types of toys also help build dexterity and muscles. Ask your kids to identify letters when you're out places, helping them to see what letters make what sounds by saying the word out loud. When you see something that looks like a letter, point it out to your child. As an example, half a pretzel looks like an "E," while the top of a cup looks like an "O."

SUMMARY: Get out the shaving cream. Spell out letters with Play-Doh. Use finger paints. Use a hose or water gun on a hot day outside. Encourage your child to play with letters. Incorporate letter-learning into your daily life. Compare everyday objects to letters.

In one sentence, describe what the following article is about: Most cults have single leaders, or they're typically called collectives. If you're the one forming the cult, it's likely that you're the leader, but you need to make sure that your cult is organized for good purposes, not for your own material gain, or purposes of power grabbing. Cult leaders are typically charismatic and manipulative, but if you're going to form yours collectively, it's a good idea to pick someone who has the good of the group at heart. The person who wants to be the leader is the last person you should pick. By what rules, concepts, and moral code will your cult organize itself? What is the ultimate goal of the cult? How will you use Star Trek to change all your lives, and perhaps the lives of many others, for the better? What's your big message for the world? Focus especially on the issue of how you'll use this to transform your lives for the better. The difference between a Star Trek Cult and a Star Trek Fan Club isn't necessarily the fervency of your adoration for Star Trek, but how you use that fervency to change your life. It's helpful to write up these documents, but probably leave the word "cult" off of things. You don't want to give people the wrong idea. All cults have governing texts which have the virtue of being both mysteriously vague, pseudo-profound, and easy to read by a wide variety of people. If you want your cult to grow and attain a sense of legitimacy, it's a good idea to self-publish your guidelines for life, or your teachings as a group. Fair warning: people will probably find the idea of a cult about anything pretty strange, and you may face a lot of hostility and backlash if you're really public with your cult. It's good to have a quiet, private place where you can do the things you want to do, the way you want to do them. If you've got a Star Trek Cult forming, it's likely you won't be doing anything much more significant at first than watching episodes, having in-depth conversations, and maybe re-enacting a scene or two, which it's perfectly possible to do from someone's living room. If you're brave, you could try meeting in in public parks, or other places where you might attract some attention, but it might not be the kind of attention you want. All clubs, organizations, and groups need good slogans, cults included. It's an easy way to sum up what you do, organize around a singular idea, and keep everyone focused around the topic. Slogans should be memorable, simple, and multipartite, so they've be mysterious and vague in equal measure. "All Things Fly In Space" might work for your Star Trek cult. Or maybe quotes from the show: "I was born in Iowa, I only work in outer space." Make it memorable, and organic. When you meet people in public, start gradually bringing in the concepts and the obsession that you've decided to shape your life around, to start growing the group. Become an evangelist for whatever it is you've decided to adulate. Again, you may experience hostility and a lot of resistance at first, so you should try to market the less extreme aspects of your ideas. The utopian fun of Star Trek? Good selling point. Your plans of building a galaxy class star-cruiser in a warehouse in Queens? Maybe save that for later.
Summary: Choose a leader. Establish the rules of the cult. Write up a body text. Find a place to practice or worship. Come up with a slogan. Bring other people in, slowly.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Most farmers start off with 2 to 5 cows. They may not have the money or experience to handle more. Focus on getting a few healthy cows, then turning them into profit so you are able to afford more. Sell your products at a local level to get started. Keeping only a few cows means your land won't be overwhelmed. Cows take up a lot of space and may eat pastures to ruin if you aren't careful. If you have the money and experience, starting with a whole herd is possible, but be careful. Make sure you have barn and pasture space. A beef farm is much more flexible than a dairy farm. Cattle ranchers sell cows once or twice a year, usually in the fall. They spend the rest of the time tending to their herd, ensuring that the cows grow strong and muscular. Beef ranchers tend to rely on public lands or good pastures. To have a healthy herd, you need plenty of land space. The cows roam around and forage a lot. The overhead cost to start up is comparatively low besides purchasing land. You may not be able to find good grasslands in some areas, while the beef market may be competitive in others. Dairy farmers need to be very diligent to ensure their cows produce as much milk as possible. Dairy cows require a specific diet filled with nutrients, which makes them costlier to raise. They have to be fed and milked at the same time every day, but the result is that good cows produce milk year round. The startup costs are greater in dairy farming than beef farming. Dairy farms need extra equipment, such as stanchions and milking machines. The cows require quality hay. To get the cows to produce milk, you may wish to keep a bull around. Bulls are a little trickier to handle safely. If you don't want bulls, use artificial insemination, then sell male calves for extra profit. Calving farms are useful, but most farmers don't recognize the opportunity to sell calves. It is somewhat similar to dairy farming, except without the need for milking equipment. You raise the calves either as veal or sell them to other people, from other farmers to show clubs like 4-H. You need a separate calving bard and also have to consider keeping a bull or using artificial insemination. Calves are quick profit because you don't need to wait for them to grow up. Don't sell all of your calves, though. Keep a few for your farm. Each cow needs about 112 to 2 acres (0.61 to 0.81ha) of pasture space per cow calf pair. This amount of space provides enough roughage for a year. Most farmers are able to keep multiple cows on a single pasture if they're careful. If you leave too many cows in a pasture, they eat all of the grass. To prevent this, farmers rotate the cows to different fields. As long as you're careful not to strain your resources, your fields will continue to produce roughage.

SUMMARY:
Start with a small farm and a handful of cows at first. Choose beef ranching for a lower-maintenance cattle farm. Start a dairy farm for a more intensive but constant product. Raise calves for a unique farm that may fill a local need. Aim on having plenty of pasture space for your cows to roam.