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BabySense V Baby Monitor Review… Buy it!

Jacaranda — Sat, 15 May 2010 14:53:36 +0000

After the highly successful blog post about baby monitor, I decided to write something more about it and this time actually endorse the best baby monitor yet.. after giving a not so bias review about it.

BabySense V baby Monitor Review… Buy it!

For a little less than $200, you are giving your baby your love, heart, or eye, or attention by using the Babysense V baby monitor. The BabySense V is a unique Baby Monitor that senses baby’s movement and breathing through the mattress during sleep. That’s how powerful and sensitive the device is at the same time!

The Babysense V has all the important feature that a baby monitor should have but this one is far more advance! It monitors the baby’s movement and breathing! That is super sensitive!

It’s every parent’s worst nightmare – your baby stops breathing in the night and you don’t notice until it’s too late. The Babysense V is medically proven to help to prevent this by monitoring both your baby’s breathing and movement, and alerting you if it spots any irregularities.

It will sound a loud alarm to alert parents if baby stops breathing for more than 20 seconds or if the breathing rate drops below 10 breaths a minute. It comes with instructions that explain what you should do if the alarm sounds.

If breathing sounds are normal it displays a flashing green light to give you peace of mind.

How Babysense V works

The operation of Babysense V is by using a large, passive sensor pads that are highly sensitive to even the slightest motion a baby makes. These Babysense V pads constantly monitor a baby’s every movement.

The motion patterns are transmitted to a compact microprocessor, the Babysense V control unit, where they trigger a flashing green light that is clearly visible from a distance. The flashing green light is the signal that all is well, providing a parent or caretaker with peace of mind. If, for whatever reason, the baby’s movement stops for 20 seconds, or slows to less than 10 movements per minute, an audible alarm will sound. On hearing this alarm, a parent or caretaker is alerted to come to the aid of the sleeping baby.

Babysense V is not a medical device. Premature and high-risk infants must be under supervision of a doctor or health professional.

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Calming Toddlers with Calm Kids

Jacaranda — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:15:50 +0000

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.

Anyway, Calm Kids is an inspiring book of gentle wisdom for parents. All parents want their children to enjoy a positive sense of personal worth. This book will give you, the parent, the skills to help your young children and your teenagers develop hig self-esteem as well as organisational and decision making skills.

I hope that this book will help me in raising up my children and making them better individuals. Also, I will be sharing my thoughts about this book as I progress in reading it.

Preschool Toys – Useful tool for Preschool Activities

Jacaranda — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:09:12 +0000

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

Jacaranda — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:59:07 +0000

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

Start Early

When is early? It still depends on you. As soon as you feels like your baby can interact with you, you can start telling him things you want him to learn. I started introducing letters to my son during his 18th or so month (maybe earlier).

The earlier he knows what those things look like and learn its name, the better.

Use Props and Posters

I collect Stephen King books and other IT and work related books all lined up in a shelf. I remember the first time I introduce the letter ‘S’ to my son. I kept showing him letter ‘S’ of every Stephen King novels on the book shelves.

Aside from single letters from books, we also bought a number of posters which we placed in every door of the house and areas where the toddler often play.

We also use alphabet-shaped fridge magnet to further supplement his learnings. Everywhere we go, we always made sure that we bring along these toys with him.

Supplement with Educational VCD/DVD

With todays advancement in technology, many information are available in many media formats. Aside from toys and educational posters, another big help in teaching your child the alphabet (and counting numbers) are educational DVDs or VCDs

Bought several of them when I noticed that my son are very interested in letters. Bought several volumes of Barney and a few special edition/episodes of The Sesame Street.

Repetition

Repetition is one of the most basic learning techniques. It may sound boring for us adults but for a baby who is very curious about anything around us, repetitions is a superb way of retaining information.

For example, every morning (after watching the morning news.. that’s for me), we always watch The Sesame Street’s Alphabet Jungle or Big Birds’ The Number game! There are days that we watch Barney or Dora the explorer over and over and over again.

He like those shows.

Give Rewards and Compliments

A simple smile, a sweet kiss or a “very good son!” said cheerfully will have a tremendous effect on the development of your child in general.

Every time he does good, we always shower him with compliments. We can actually see on his eyes that he is happy that because we are proud of him and what he can do.

These are just few of many ways on how to help your toddlers learn not just the alphabet or numbers but a lot of other things.

There are also other factors that may influence the learning capacity of a child like heredity, living environment, media, learning resources and others. But what is really important is the parents love and support for the child.

Ideal Weight and Height of a Toddler

Jacaranda — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:57:24 +0000

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.

As you can see, the image consists of two graph showing a certain “Vincent Stephen”’s height and weight graph. In the foreground image you can see the Weight Chart – it’s age, versus weight. I assume that the purple colored chart or the numbers inside those purple are the ideal weight for a particular age of the baby.

Example, if you have a 20 month old baby, the ideal weight would be 26 pounds or 12 kilograms.

The image or chart at the background shows the ideal height of a child in any given age.

This height and weight chart is a very good tool in monitoring your child’s health in terms of proper height and weight.

Bookmark this page so you can refer to it any time in the future.