Since these books are Power Point Presentations, I show them to my baby on a computer and then print (See How to Create My Own Books).

• Showing Presentations on the Computer
• Randomizers for PowerPoint – problems resolved!
• Printing Presentations
• Creating your own Power Point Presentations
• Other Methods of creating books for your baby

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English PowerPoint Presentations
Russian PowerPoint Presentations
Spanish PowerPoint Presentations
German PowerPoint Presentations
Presentations in other languages

Other Resources for learning Zoology – books, toys, and our own units of study for this topic.

Note: files marked with ^M include Magnitudes of data – fact listing about each Intelligence Bit. Files marked with ^V include links to videos. Files marked with include sound effects.

ПОЗДРАВЛЯЮ! Маленькое счастье в животике (или в кроватке) – это просто НЕСУСВЕТНО ОГРОМНОЕ СЧАСТЬЕ для всех учавствующих! Я просто безумно за вас рада и страшно хочу чем-то помочь!!!

Тут ты найдешь огромный список нужностей, которые могут тебе оказаться полезными и безполезными, а также литературы, которая просто необходима и прочих источников информации, которые могут тебе прийтись по душе (или нет). На первый взгляд – это просто ошеломляющее колличество информации. Поэтому я решила сделать маленькое вступление: что тебе нужно срочно.

Are you pregnant? Did you just have a baby? Congratulations! That’s a great news!!!

I think that becoming a mother (or a father) immediately places you in some kind of sainthood. It’s extraordinary…

But let’s get down to business.

• Which items do I need to buy/get/borrow?
• What resources can help me (books, web)? (The most updated part!)
• Is there something I can prepare while I am pregnant?
• Can I just load the original document, since I can’t deal with all these encodings? (Sure, but it is in russian – here, enjoy!) Keep in mind, that things here, on the site, are updated more frequently, then the document.
• Baby Developing Games – 0-3 months
• Newborn Baby Swimming
• Doman Newborn Baby Exercises Checklist
• Doman Newborn Baby Choice Board
• Curious which things we tried for our own baby? Here is a monthly summary:
  • What can you do for your baby’s development? What worked for our newborn.
  • 1 month old miracle! – a personal developmental journey with a one month old baby.
  • 2 months old giraffe hunter – developmental blog for a two month old.
  • Hang on there! Three months old hanging for 12 seconds! – developmental blog of a three month old baby.

It turned out that we were among the first to have a baby in our circle of friends. So as soon as our newborn son has got company, we were bombarded with questions. I remember how terrified I felt myself! If not for my older sister’s advise, I’d probably would go crazy right in the middle of the baby store, or back at home later on… I still nearly did go crazy on my first day from the hospital, but being a control freak that I am, it was not an easy day. And still, I keep thinking “If I new that THEN!!!”

So I put in a document together. By the time it grew up to 14 pages, I realized I need to break it up into something more meaningful. For my pregnant younger sister, I wrote a plan: once you are 3 months pregnant, you should be reading the following thousands books, preparing the following thousands flash cards, and don’t even think of poking your nose into the baby store yet!!! No need to say, that my baby sister was terrified. I am not even sure she, hardworking as she is, had ever the patience to read the entire plan I put together for her. Moreover, I would love not to post this 14 horror thing in here. But until I have the time to translate it… You can find the link above. I belive in you.

I’ll try my best to break it up and make it more readable. Except I still have my precious firstborn on my hands (and not in college – another 18 years to that), so my time is limmited. And, the document is mostly in Russian. So I’ll do my best to translate and edit it at any nap-time… I mean free time I have.

And the most importantly…

GOOD LUCK AND ENJOY!!!

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Russian PowerPoint Presentations
Spanish PowerPoint Presentations
German PowerPoint Presentations
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Note: files marked with ^M include Magnitudes of data – fact listing about each Intelligence Bit. Files marked with ^V include links to videos. Files marked with include sound effects.

Transportation Presentations in English

Tractors (enhanced Трактора Thank you Anna Shevyakova and her team)

Bulldozers (enhanced Бульдозеры, Thank you Anna Shevyakova and her team)

Wheel Loaders (enhanced Экскаваторы, Thank you Anna Shevyakova and her team)

Cars (enhanced and translated Машины Thank you Olga Ivanova)

Eventually I'll translate this and edit it! Until then…

Нужности… их очень много. Каждому приходится по душе свое – моя сестра помогала мне с моим списком нужностей – но некоторые предметы я не использую совсем, а для нее они были самыми удобными. В любом случае, мне безумно помогло собрать registry на babies R US. На baby shower, который для меня организовали Сашкин, Юля и моя сестра, нам подарили от туда очень много подарков. Некоторые даже в двух экземплярах. Предметы первой необходимости мы оставили, а одинаковости сдали – получился store credit, который нас еще долго выручал: список нужностей все время видоизменяется, но главным и постоянным остаются, конечно-же, dipers, которые просто улетают сотнями.

Are we failing our geniuses?

Time magazine article that indicates the drawbacks of American system of education for gifted children (click on a link for a full article):

"We take for granted that those with IQs at least three standard
deviations below the mean (those who score 55 or lower on IQ tests)
require "special" education. But students with IQs that are at least
three standard deviations above the mean (145 or higher) often have
just as much trouble interacting with average kids and learning at an
average pace. Shouldn't we do something special for them as well?"

Where can I read more about Positive Discipline ?

My personal favorites are:

• How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish. It’s the best how to book I was able to find so far. Read our book review and even summary to print out and hang on the fridge for quick reference.
• I also absolutely adore their (Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish) Siblings without Rivalry – in similar easy to read format, with summaries and cartoons, and helpful not only to resolve issues with our kids, but with my own family as well!

Special thanks to Elina Aleynikov and Misha for sharing this wonderful list with us.

• Home made sticker book – on one page place pictures of animals, objects, plants, etc., on the other – where they should go. As you are creating this book, discuss all the pictures and their associations.
• Before bed time finger game: fingers are a 10 little pigs that go to bed (2 fat ones, 2 smart ones, 2 tall ones, 2 funny ones, 2 small ones)