April 24, 2012
Is it me or has everything beyond the necessities of parenting grown to mountainous proportions. We are encouraged to factor into our parenting appropriate talk, structured play, sensible diets, self-esteem activities, and on top of that to model a loving relationship with our partner. Don’t know about you but I suddenly feel very tired – lol (lower case). Humour aside there is no mistaking ...
April 14, 2012
I’ve always believed in mother’s intuition, even more so when my daughter, less than two years old had a strain of flu she couldn’t shake. I was taking her to the doctors everyday because the antibiotics didn’t seem to be working and she was losing energy. One particular day, I got a doctor who listened to her chest ...
April 1, 2012
If you google baby sign language you’re sure to get a lot of results. But what you may not realise are all of those results derive from the years of research by Dr. Linda Acredolo & Susan Goodwyn. In fact, today’s parents almost don’t give it a second thought when they incorporate baby sign language into their families ...
March 17, 2012
It turns out that for those parents who use words rather than “baby talk” or sounds to communicate with their babies are helping them to categorise objects with words. Researchers from Northwestern University have found that babies were able to categorise pictures better when they heard words rather than sounds. “Three-month-old infants were shown a series ...
March 17, 2012
Most people would all agree that gratitude is part of our lives, whether through a pray, a lot of thank yous when someone does something special, or when you stop just in time before an accident occurs. But is having gratitude for the things and service done to us that important? Well in a study conducted by ...
March 17, 2012
Over the years we shared some fabulous stuff with families and their babies about baby communication, baby sign language and we have now set up a blog site that puts all of that information in one place! If you have any baby signing stories, articles etc, let us know and we will post it here. If ...
