Calming Toddlers with Calm Kids
Successful parenting, developing self-esteem, coping skills, affirmations, setting goals, friendships and relations and many more, these are the things that the book “Calm Kids” will supposedly teach its readers.
Today I bought a book called “Calm Kids” written by Shirley Lane-Smith. I probably got the old version of the book since the cover is different from the one selling in Amazon (the photo in this post). This one has close up shot of cute faces of two kids.
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Preschool Toys – Useful tool for Preschool Activities
Child development toys are wonderful means of attracting children to the world of learning. Toys designed especially for preschool toddlers emphasize on memory skills, patterns, and matching activities. Creative skills and artistic abilities of preschool kids are also enhanced by some of these toys. Moreover, preschool toys can be designed to cater to a kid’s imagination and interest in a specific field.
Preschool toys help toddlers get acquainted with colors, numbers, and letters. They also enhance the interactive skills in children, improve their eye-hand coordination, as well as encourage muscle and finger movements. The right kind of preschool toys encourage children to engage in basic activities like reading and writing. Playing with preschool toys can also enhance a child’s ability to communicate with the rest of his/ her play group members.
Importance of preschool toys:
- Preschool toys act as important accessories in the toddler’s world of imagination. They help children imagine all kinds of situations and act it out in their mind’s eye.
- When children play with preschool toys, they learn the basic motor skills. Play also helps improve their visual and auditory senses.
- Toddlers acquire the ability to solve problems while playing with toys.
- Preschool toys have the ability to improve the memory and increase concentration levels in children.
- Playing with toys makes a child more acutely aware of his/ her surroundings.
- Preschool toys focus on improving the child’s innate cognitive abilities.
Preschool age is the time when children start interacting with their surroundings and gain valuable knowledge in the process. The stage is marked by a dominant urge to explore and learn. Preschool toys are vital tools in inculcating this sense of exploration and learning. These educational toys aim at developing essential social and personal skills that eventually help in the overall development of children.
(Source:- www.educationaltechnologies.com)
Tips Teaching One Year Old Child Toddler the Alphabet
Here is another great post from the Father and Sons blog. This blog post is about the father’s experience in teaching his son, a one year old baby/child/toddler, the alphabet.
In his post, he enumerated 5 Tips that helped me him in teaching his one year old son the most important topic in a child’s learning development.
Here’s what the father mentioned in the post:
- Start Early
- Use Props and Posters
- Use Educational DVDs and VCDs
- Repetition
- Give Rewards and Compliments
Let’s quote the whole blog post here to further explain the bullets
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Ideal Weight and Height of a Toddler
We all know that a child or a baby’s average height and weight is proportional to his age. Generally, a doctor or a Pediatrician, during your child’s regular checkup, will figure out whether a child’s height and weight measurements are ideal for his or her age. This is one way for the doctor to know if a child/baby is healthy or not.
Weight and Height Chart
Below is a graphical chart for us parents to know if our toddler or children is in the bracket of ideal height and weight. Of course you still should visit your Pediatrician for your child’s regular checkup.
The Pediatriacian knows about what is an ideal height for a child’s age.. that goes the same for the weight. But how can ordinary parent like ourselves know if our child/baby has the idea average weight and height? The first thing that pops to mind is a weight and height chart.
Here’s a simple Height versus Weight versus Age chart or table that can serve as our reference… Click image for larger view.
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