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Imagine: knowing what your baby wanted before he or she were able to talk! Reducing frustration, encouraging thought, increasing language development… Now you can! Sign Language Works!

Hi, my name is Elizabeth and I’m new to this site. I would like to share some scientific findings and shed some light onto the “phonics versus whole word” debate. Hopefully this will help parents in making an informed decision about how they want to approach reading instruction with their child. If whole word reading is going to damage their brain, then certainly we should run away from it as fast as possible.

Good eating habits has never come easily in my family.  Our only meal together as a family is breakfast.  After breastfeeding for as long as we could one of our struggles was to get veggies into our son’s growing little body.   Here are a few tricks that worked for our very finicky eater.

After he turned two we started giving him a little bit of Breyer’s vanilla ice cream.  And here’s the secret;  I mixed about half of it with Sweet Potato baby food.  He loved it – - – until he tasted regular vanilla ice cream.

Here’s how I added the audio to my PPT flashcards.

First:
You need a microphone for the computer – obviously. I got mine free after a $2 instant rebate from OfficeMax or Office Depot a few years ago. Sometimes they have awesome rebate deals.

Second:
Familiarize yourself with the “Sound Recorder” program that comes with most Microsoft software. When the program is opened, it basically looks like a small grey box with “stop” “play” “pause” “record” buttons on it and a small screen showing the wave frequencies in green. Pretty cool!

This is just a summary of the Glenn Doman’s method of teaching children a foreign language with my own comments. For easier identification, my own comments are going to be in blue.

1. Select which language you want to teach.
   I really like Teresa’s recomendations on your selection of the language.
2. Materials that you need:
   1. Dictionary
   2. Tapes
   3. Bit of Intelligence Cards
   4. Reading materials

Being pregnant, or breastfeeding, AND in pain, the most difficult part is choosing what medicine you can take, and which one can be dangerous for the developing baby. Avoiding drugs and going through pain? I don’t know what’s worse. Don’t you just wish that most drugs contained a little more information on the label then just “consult a physician?” It seems that there will be a change for the better in that:

The FDA today proposed major changes in how prescription drug labels inform doctors about drug risks during pregnancy and breastfeeding.

Thanks to Linda Sebec for sharing this with us!
We do a lot of math in our everyday life, but I thought it would be fun to compare whet we do to the Swedish national curriculum in math. My kids are under 8½ years old any younger
>The school in it’s teaching of mathematics should aim to ensure that pupils
>– develop an interest in mathematics, as well as
>confidence in their own thinking and their own
>ability to learn and use mathematics in different situations,

Me and my son, together, just started learning Spanish. This is an ever growing list of useful resources that I was able to find so far:

• Power Point Presentations and how to use them
• Websites for Parents
• Websites for Kids
• Books and CDs for Kids
• Software
• DVDs, Videos, TV programs
• Toys

Please, please, please add to it via your own comments below or posts on the forum! I am sure that all of us can benefit from more suggestins and favorites!

Websites for Parents

• Yahoo Education Spanish Dictionary: free online Spanish English dictionary with sound files for many words.