Real experiences by a Mom
Toddlers are pragmatic enough to understand that whining is a method by which they can get what they want from their parents. Instead of being annoying, their aim is just simply to produce the desired results. It is also another way of substituting for their lack of verbal skill to make a request. According to […]
Posted on May 27th, 2008 by admin
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Some toddlers engage in behaviors that cause physical pain or harm to others to get things done in their way. Such behaviors include hair pulling, biting or hitting and so forth. According to Mark W. Roberts, profession of clinical psychologist at Idaho State University, children engage in such misguided activities mainly for three reasons. Toddlers […]
Posted on May 25th, 2008 by admin
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Many of the much publicized teaching methods make children learn like a parrot, without making them do any constructive thinking. A lasting benefit of education can stem only from making the kids learn through thinking and understanding. There are now many websites such as http://www.inspirethinking.com that helps parents to teach their kids through thinking by […]
Posted on May 20th, 2008 by admin
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Although very young toddlers below two years age have not developed sufficient verbal skills, they do try to communicate using non-verbal techniques, mostly sign language. Toddlers are constantly trying to tell something to their parents or elders. An observing parent can easily understand their non-verbal action cues by constant interactions.
Young toddlers try to substitute […]
Posted on March 2nd, 2008 by admin
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Physical and mental growth of all toddlers in a particular age group is not the same, but varies according to each individual. The same is true in the case of twins also. Some may walk or talk earlier than the others, while some others are yet to begin these activities. Although this process is […]
Posted on February 29th, 2008 by admin
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Talking to a child many times a day, repeatedly, is a sure way of accelerating the process of his/her language development. If the toddlers hear the same words, phrases and sentences repeatedly over the course of the day many times, these will become part of these active vocabulary and they will soon learn to speak. […]
Posted on February 13th, 2008 by admin
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Parents have a key role to play in the basic language development of their kids. The babies learn to speak by hearing and the first words they hear are usually from their mom or dad. Therefore, in most cases, the baby’s first language teachers are undoubtedly its parents and the degree and level of their […]
Posted on February 13th, 2008 by admin
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Parents are overwhelmed with joy when they hear the first words coming from the mouth of their hardly one year old child. However, many parents don’t realize that they have an important role to play in the language development of their kid. A new-born baby usually hears the first words from its mother or father, […]
Posted on February 12th, 2008 by admin
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