Conceiving Parenting Blinkies
What are blinkies? I keep hearing buzz about parenting blinkies and before that, trying to conceive blinkies.
But what exactly are these ‘blinkies’?
At first, I thought that these are special kinds of babies or something. “Why would they call their babies blinkies?”, I thought to myself. I did a couple of Google search about ‘Parenting Blinkies” or ‘Trying to conceive blinkies” and found out what these actually are.
Babytalkzone even has a dedicated sub domain for blinkies, and no, it’s not babies afterall. Blinkies are just… images that sort of blinks.
BabyandBump also has a forum dedicated to blinkies.
If you’re into blogging these are sometines called badges or the images you sometimes put on your blogs if you joined some directory submission sites like TopOfBlogs and Wikio and others.
Here are some samples of parenting blinkies or whatever is written on it:
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Fathers Raising Children
fathers raising children… that’s not new. I want to talk more about the subject.. anyone wants to share their personal experience?
Raising Children Compassionately – Book Review
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About the Author
Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D. is the internationally acclaimed author of Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, and Speak Peace in a World of Conflict. He is the founder and educational director of the Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC). He travels throughout the world promoting peace by teaching these remarkably effective communication and conflict resolution skills. He is based in Wasserfallenhof, Switzerland.
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
100 of 101 people found the following review helpful:
The topic is of great importance and the message is clear.
This book(let) is not widely useful with very young kids, but I like to have the non-violent communication luggage on board early on; I am sure it will come in handy once my kids grow to be the age that I be tempted to threaten or bribe them! However, I think I need to read some more of Rosenberg’s to fully understand his paradigm and communication guidelines.
Parenting Advice Regarding Growth
Are you looking for some expert parenting advice regarding growth of your toddler? To start off, here’s a graph that you can use to monitor if your child has the ideal weight height ratio of a child.
Many parents are looking for answers as to how can their child reach the max potential height specially if they have a son and believes that being taller has advantages in life.
Check some of the advice of parents like yourself regarding the ideal height of a child as they grow up.
Best Food for Height Gain
You may want to be aware of the food your child wants to eat. There are several food groups and one of them will help your toddler reach his maximum potential height.
Foods that are rich in different nutrients are said to be the best height increase food. Vitamin A, protein, and zinc are said to affect the most in most of the height growth process, this is according to many research and studies conducted.
But you’ll still need a balanced diet of calorie and others nutrition such as other vitamins, calcium, minerals, fat, and fiber to maintain a healthy physic and support your height growth. You must also remember that too much is not good as well as too less. So keep a balanced diet is recommended.
Sleep and Exercise can Increase Height
This is applicable to both adults and kids. Sleep and good exercise are proven facts that it help in increasing height. Toddlers needs at least 8 hours of sound sleep. For exercise, let them play and do some physical activities.
Most toddlers take at least one naps during the day at this age and are able to sleep all night (for 11-12 hours). If not, check to make sure that your toddler has a good bedtime routine and has developed the proper sleep associations.
How To Teach A Child To Read
Couple of years ago, I wrote 5 Tips in Teaching Your child the ABC. That tips and techniques that I shared there are based on my personal experience with my son, Matt. Those exact same techniques are still timely and applicable to day. With that, how can we teach a child to read? Check the tips and others in the rest of this post.
Like I said, the same old tips still applies:
- Start early
- Use props and posters
- Use video or other educational DVDs
- Repetition
- Rewards and complements
The tips above are guaranteed to work because I used them myself. For use to teach our child to read, we must introduce them to the alphabet and the sound of the individual letters that will make up the words.
Teaching Alphabet Letter Sounds
How to teach a child to read? Before a toddler can read, every child must know the sounds of the alphabet letters. He must be able to recall them quickly – he sees the letter and says the sound without hesitation.
- First thing’s first, teach your child to read the ABC. Point to each letter and ask your child to, “Tell me what this letter says.”
- You can create (help him) his own alphabet book. I usually buy my toddler some notebooks and pencils and he’ll scribble the alphabet for long hours. Staple some pieces of paper together and ask your child to draw pictures of items that begin with the sound of each alphabet letter.
- When you are teaching a letter sound, be careful not to add an “uh” sound at the end of the letter. For example, letter s should sound like a snake hissing, with no throat sound. Letter s says ’sss,’ not ’suh.’ If your child learns letters ‘c’, ‘a’, ‘t’ as sounding ‘kuh,’ ‘aah,’ and ‘tuh,’ those sounds will not come together to say cat!
Children have different learning rates. Your child may need lots of direct instruction to learn the alphabet sounds. Don’t forget, he will learn letter sounds more quickly with a short daily review.
