Your Baby’s Brain Connections
Thursday 3 July 2008 @ 6:28 pm

OK, before I go on, perhaps you’d like to know first what the heck that thing called brain connection is. A brain connection is simply a connection between a brain cell with a cell in other parts of human body. More connections between those cells will develop more brain connections.

As for your baby, a brain connection shall be developed stronger when the activity or undertaking happens more frequent.

Please read the above statement once again!

Done? OK, so now what does that mean? To make it clearer, let me give you some examples…

If you regularly talk to your sweet baby (even if you know that she doesn’t understand a thing about what you’re saying), then she will commonly talk faster in the future than a baby with untalkative parents.

A baby that always interacts frequently with her surroundings will generally have good socialization personalities in the future. All the love and compassion you give towards your baby will develop a positive character when she grows up.

When you talk to your baby you’re actually generating a certain connection in her brain. The more frequent you perform this activity, the more powerful and solid the brain connection generated and in the future, your child will have a good conversational ability.

Hundreds of happenings experienced by your sweet baby will generate hundreds of connections in her brain. The more frequent your baby experiences a certain event, the more powerful and solid the connection generated in her brain.

That’s why people say that a baby is like a white paper, it’s up to her parents what they want to write on it!

So please be careful when interacting with your baby and don’t waste your time! Start developing you baby’s personality and intelligence as soon as possible.

Did you know that smiling to your baby when she cries could generate a certain brain connection that will produce a positive emotional effect to your baby…?

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Personalized Baby Gift Ideas To Celebrate The Gift Of A Bouncy Baby
Sunday 6 April 2008 @ 1:44 pm

A personalized baby gift is a memorable welcome-to-our-world gesture, that will be treasured by mom, dad, and baby alike. You don’t want your gift to be just another baby shower trinket. If chosen with care and consideration, a personalized baby gift is likely to become an heirloom, with stacks of sentimental value.

Personalized Baby Gift Ideas For The Nursery

If you want to indulge the parents-to-be, and you have a budget without bounds, help with the baby furniture is always welcome. Personalizing these items can be arranged. However, ’special’ doesn’t have to equal ‘expensive’. There are a host of personalized baby gifts for the nursery, that are affordable, yet meaningful and practical

A personalized baby gift idea that will be used for many years, and remembered with fondness beyond childhood, is a wooden rocking chair. If it is expertly crafted of solid wood, and given a special place in the nursery, it will be a little corner of comfort and dreaming right through the toddler years.

Another very useful personalized baby gift, is a wooden toy chest. If this piece of baby furniture is combined with a seat with a comfy cushion, so much the better. Just make sure that the chest has been made according to sensible safety regulations, with hinges which aren’t prone to mishaps. You don’t want the chest to be memorable for a totally unexpected reason! Toy carts can also be personalized, and will come in very handy later on.

Smaller personalized baby gift ideas for the nursery include a natural growth chart. This gift will feature high on the sentimental value list in time, with special memories connected to each growth phase. Every baby loves being introduced to his or her own image. Personalized mirrors will become a source of entertainment, and distraction.

Wooden shelving for all the baby paraphernalia are useful. Beautifully decorated wall plaques, collage picture frames for all the ‘firsts’ in a baby’s life, and wooden wall clocks all become treasured personalized baby gifts.

Personalized Baby Gift Idea To Cuddle Up To

One of the sweetest personalized baby gift ideas, is the My Baby Forever doll. The softest, cuddly fleece doll, custom made according to newborn-baby size and shape, will delight and comfort. The birth information is embroidered on the clothing. A cute knotted cap completes the outfit. This machine-washable little darling, will be much loved and hugged.

Later on, toddlers love to dress the doll in their own baby clothing. Grandpa’s Doll Bed is an add-on must-have, perfectly sized for the ‘newborn’ doll. The Doll Bed is unfinished, to be painted and personalized by the toddler, with a little help from mom or dad. Swaddled in a matching interlock blanket, or a fleece blanket, your My Baby Forever doll arrives looking very much like the newborn. A muslin Peek-a-boo Gift Bag can be added for the perfect delivery, so to speak.

Personalized Baby Gift Idea With Old-Fashioned Charm

What little girl or boy doesn’t dream about their very own rocking horse? Painted in cheerful colors, this personalized baby gift will be adored in a year or two. Choose a generous size, to allow for use over a number of years. Many of these rocking horses are masterly crafted of solid wood, with exquisite detail. Some even include a ‘mane’, bridle and leather ears.

Personalized Baby Gift Idea For Dressing-Up

Clothing and related items are always welcome gifts, and if these are personalized, are valued that much more. From hand painted bibs to backpacks, shirts to sets of hangers, washcloths to baby wipes, abound in all shapes, textures, and colors. A selection of these, creatively collected in a baby gift basket, will be a hugely appreciated personalized baby gift idea.

Be considerate, and include personalized sibling shirts for a big brother or sister. These youngsters often feel very left out, with all the hullabaloo about the baby.

These are just a tiny, tempting taste of all the unique personalized baby gift ideas out there…

For more information read Baby Nursery Theme - From Crib To Baby’s Haven With A Nurturing Nursery Theme at Cribs-For-Babies.com

Rika Susan of Article-Alert.com researches, writes, and publishes full-time on the Web. Copyright of this article: 2006 Rika Susan. This article may be reprinted if the resource box and hyperlinks are left intact.

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Kids and Teens: Would You Sign Your Kid Up for this Day Camp?
Friday 28 March 2008 @ 8:04 pm

Let’s say you received a flyer for a new summer day camp in the mail that contained the following information:

“We take your kids and keep them inside all day long. We do not allow them to move around much. They will spend their day in front of screens, the TV screen, the computer screen, and the video game screen. We like to call it Screen Time. Instead of three meals a day, we feed them all day long with junk food to keep them from being hungry for meals. Our camp is only $250 a day, please send a check for the whole week.”

Would you send your kid to this camp? Of course not! What parent in their right mind would?

So why do we do it?

So why do we let our kids do this everyday?

If you will indulge a 47 year old guy just one little “when I was young rant” here goes:

When I was a kid, they had to drag me inside for dinner or bedtime.

Many people my age tell me the same thing.

Most of these things do not happen all at once, they just sort of creep up on you.

What to do

Screen time is not necessarily a bad thing. It’s when screen time is the only thing that it becomes a bad thing.

A strategy that has worked in our family and in the families with whom I counsel and coach is this:

For every hour that a kid spends in front of a screen, the kid has to spend an hour outside having fun.

Simple, powerful, it works. Now go use this stuff!

Jeff Herring - EzineArticles Expert Author

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