I’ve finally got my hands on “How Smart is Your Baby?” by Doman. Since someone recently was asking if this book is worth buying (in addition to other “Teach Your Baby” series) I decided to post this review:

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Art? Problem solving?

Yes. Exactly. Art is one of the activities that kids can engage in very early. Self-expression through art can help vent some accumulated negative feelings. But according to Susan Striker, the author of Young At Art doing the RIGHT art project can do a lot more: it can serve as gateways to all forms of learning, from vocabulary building to early math skills and improved dexterity. Not the traditional coloring books or “this is how your art project should look like” type of work, but truly expressive, creative and educational.

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Now there is a scientific evidence, that concentrating on positive feedback with our little ones works better then pointing out their mistakes!

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10 Parenting Tips – Things You Shouldn’t Say to Your Children
By Maureen Lawrence

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We all have heard that kids exposed to violent content are more prone to violence.

Researchers point to an existing body of research that documents the negative effects of violent media on children. “A clear picture has emerged that exposure to violent media increases the likelihood of aggressive thoughts, emotions, and behavior.”

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There has been a recent swipe of most of decongestants, cough suppressing medicines, and other cold medicines for little kids from the shelves of all the pharmacies. This is further information on the dangers of cold medicines for the little ones:

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The secret? It’s a game. THE ONLY RULE IS: IF you get upset, you lose.

None of us wants our children to go through any encounters of bullying. Yet they will. I don’t think anybody can avoid it at one point or another, at some degree. Schools are offering “anti-bulling” programs, declaring “bully-free zone”, but they seem to fail on every account: except a satisfactory feeling feeling for the parents, of course. You just can’t stop bulling “from the top” – from the high authority. It is easy to find ways to torment, tease, humiliate or otherwise bully someone without attracting any attention from the teacher, even parent. And the worse is that kids who try to report such bulling, usually just get more bullied and hated.

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A kid easily succeeds with another task that leaves his peers struggling. Parents, beaming with pride, praise the kid by telling him, that he is talented, he is gifted. Praise is good, right? Not necessarily. As a parent who believes that praise is a very important and integral part of learning, of building confidence, I can see more and more that some types of praise can do more damage then good. Have you noticed, how sometimes “talented and gifted” kid can shy away from a difficult assignment, whose grades can even suddenly drop and he can lose all the interest in school, in work, in new accomplishments? Is it the school being too tough? Or should we blame the way we were praising this kid, how we present their learning process to them, how their self-image effects their undertaking of difficult assignments?

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