In a month or few weeks now, my baby girl will finally see the beauty of the world, and I want my family, friends and relatives, and the world to know of her existence. Parents as we are would be so proud that our new babies will be acknowledged by everyone.
Birth announcements are among several ways to introduce our babies to our closest relatives and friends. Some people go with the traditional baby birth announcements. They use a simple or typical announcement card which in a way makes little impact. Baby birth announcements can be customized to make announcements wonderful. Paper culture can help you with having a baby birth announcements designed with style. Paper Culture’s cards are sure to fashion the wonderful way to capture the thrill of your newest family member. They use 100% recycled materials. In a way you get the best way to introduce your dearest and help save mother earth.
Posted in Accesories, Baby Care, Child's Interest, Family Life and motherhood, General, Home & Family, Love, Mother and Child Relationship, Parenting
Tagged baby, Baby announcement, baby care, baby shower, baby stuff, baby's home coming, Birth Announcement
Our two year old baby boy adores animals and animal like figure. That is because we had him used to watching all different kind of animals on video.
Last Easter Sunday we went out and get our baby to have fun with little kids in an indoor playground. The playground was decorated well. This time it’s with plush Easter bunny baskets filled with Easter eggs. The playground attendant was also waiting by the door pulling out Easter treats from a plush bunny treat bag.
While playing my son’s suddenly ran to the entrance as he saw three little kids wearing bunny hoodies. He may have thought that those were cool because he would like to wear them too.
Plush Easter bunnies are really cool must have items especially on Easter Sundays. Before we left for home we drop by a store and purchase on huggable bunny too for our son. The good thing is our son just loved it. In fact he enjoy playing with them. He holds his bunny and talk to them as if they were talking back.
Everyone loves to receive gifts – kids, teens, adults and yes, even the aged.
Wrapping a gift is an art. The easiest and most convenient way to do it, however, is to simply buy ready-made, same-designed bags and boxes that are available almost anywhere.
But how about setting aside some minutes in making a personalized box or bag to place your gift in? Not only will the receiver appreciate it because of the time and effort you put in making it; it will also enhance your creativeness.
For a starter, try this simple yet love-filled creation.
Materials : Flip-top box(big enough to hold your surprise); Color papers; pictures of receiver’s favorite items from old newspaper; ½ x 4’ color ribbon; fancy ribbon for bow; scissors; construction paper for the card; glue; tape; color pens or pencils; chocolates, candies, cute novelty items, or anything that serves as your gift.
Procedure : Wrap your box with color paper; Decorate box with pictures; Cut out hearts. Glue one to top end of ½” x 4’ ribbon. Write “pull string, please” on the heart; Tape your surprise – chocolates, candies, etc. – on ribbon with hearts as background; Write your message on a personally made card from a construction paper. Glue card to bottom end of ribbon. Wait for glue to dry; Put your string of surprise inside the box, card first; Tape glued heart –on-string to flip-top of box. Close the box; Tie box with fancy bow.
What your child will be tomorrow depends on how he is nurtured and cherished today. The quality of his training and the pattern of values inculcated in him will reveal the kind of person he will be.
Will he be a cheerful and pleasant person? Will he be an asset or a liability in society? These are significant questions parents should consider in the training and development of their children.
I have heard some parents say: “Never mind he is still a child”. When some responsible adults meaningfully urge that a child be reprimanded for some mischief, the child’s doting mother would beg: “Be patient with him. He is still a baby”.
This is more often than not tragic because the child is growing without the parents realizing that he is developing into manhood. And because he has been treated like a child all along, even in his maturing years, he behaves like a child. This is one reason we have a lot of childish people around us.
Preparing the child for school is one of the important matters parents should be carefully aware of, for it is in school where most of his waking hours will be spent. They should never consider burdensome the time that they need to spend with the child to teach him values that will help him develop love, patience and obedience. Their home training should teach lessons that will inspire cheerful disposition and encourage resourcefulness and independence. These positive values are the most important wealth parents can bequeath to their children.
There are some parents who leave the home training of their child to the so-called tutor. They have no time for the child, and if they have, the moments that they spend with him usually and in trouble – the mother scolding and berating the child for being very slow in learning and the child feeling guilty and losing confidence in himself.
Parents should direct their child training efforts to the development of self-respect in the child, particularly in his early childhood. How the child feels about himself influences not only his choice but also his decisions. How he will grope in or cope with the world around him will be reflected in his concept of himself. The standard and ideals that parents awaken in their children by way of their example determine, to a large extent, not only their future lifestyle but also how they will face the challenges that come their way.
As parents, we should take stock of our ways of dealing with our growing children. We should reexamine the direction to which we are leading them. What kind of future are we preparing them for? What preparation are we giving them for their future?
Posted in Baby Care, Child's Interest, Child's Training, Family Bonding, Family Life, Guidance, Home & Family, Ideal Family, Love, Mother and Child Relationship, Nurture, Respect, development
Tagged child future, nurturing child, planning for the future
In a world where tomorrow’s discovery makes yesterday’s breakthrough obsolete, parents cannot help wondering as they watch their children careening into the future.
If society maintains its present rate of change, what will their children’s world be like twenty years from now? As traditional values continue to break down, what rules will guide their children as they face challenges yet undreamed of? And as they stand on the threshold of an uncertain future, what should parents do to help them prepare?
Parents should accept as natural their concern about the future of their offspring. It is doubtless prompted by a fervent hope that today’s children develop into tomorrow’s happy and successful adults. But parents can do more than just wonder. They can teach their children a simple goal-setting process that shows them how to achieve success and how to reap the many bonuses that accompany success.
The ability to set and attain realistic goals has far-reaching implications. Because success is the ultimate confidence-builder, the child who establishes goals and works to achieve them reaps the invaluable benefit of greater self-esteem. Each successive achievement generates the momentum to set and attain newer and more challenging goals.
The process is gloriously self-reinforcing. Each success brings a wealth of positive reactions from others, and each compliment or pat on the back contributes to a child’s belief in himself. The end product is a child who grows more confident and secure with each new achievement. And a secure, confident child is far better equipped to deal with the occasional disappointments and losses that are an inevitable part of life.
Goal-setting can be taught to elementary school children and refined to meet their changing needs as they move on to high school. Considering a child’s developmental timetable, 8 years of age is an ideal time for parents to introduce the goal-setting process. The typical 8-year-old is beginning to grasp the concept of cause and effect, and will be capable of understanding that certain desired actions may lead to certain desired ends. In addition to being intellectually ready, the 8-year-old’s differentiation between fantasy and reality has become more firmly established. This enables the child to choose goals that are more realistic and attainable than those a younger child might select.
Time passes so quickly, my little boy is now one year and 8 months. I know that my little boy is a smart kid. He barely speaks few words yet his comprehension is quite remarkable. One thing that he loves to do is to stare at pictures especially that of cartoon character like his favorite Dora the Explorer. The funny thing was that we previously had bought him several books from a store that sell used books but those books are no longer useful now. Why? Well, babies are babies; they don’t know what they are doing, so our little boy has turned the pages apart when he was younger. One day while observing my little boy it came into my mind that I need him to buy him few more books, perhaps coloring book this time so we can teach him how to associate colors to things around him.
Today we went to the mall for some groceries. We also met my husband’s long college friend in the third floor and on our way we again passed by the used books store. We drop by for a while and fortunately found a number of coloring books and story books. They were all so cheap so we get them to the counter and pay for them. My little boy is happy with his new books. However this time I need to keep an eye on him. Why? Well, babies are babies; I am really scared he might eat the crayons.
Reminiscing childhood days make me shed a tear not because we were poor but because of how life was simple. We do not have much when we were kids in fact my parent could not afford a kiddy bicycle for us. So when we were kids with envy we only watch our peers enjoying their bikes and wish that we have our own. Luckily for my husband his family was quite well off when they were kids so his parents were able to buy each of them a bicycle. I told myself that when I am going to be a parent I will make sure that my kids will not experience the sad things that I’ve been through when I am a kid but rather experience the things that I was not able to experience. Well I guess that but normal for all. We would always desire for the best for our dear ones.
A lot of things have changed from bicycle to 3 wheel carts, pedal cars, and now there’s battery powered kiddy vehicle which is commonly known as power wheels. Power wheels are battery powered electric ride on vehicles designed for kids. They come in different models. Seeing them is like viewing miniature models of different tricycle and cars. There’s Jeeps, Honda Minimoto, Peg Perego Gaucho Super Power S Series, Orange County Choppers, Power Wheels Ninja, Power Wheels MX3, Jeep Wrangler, Formula Cars, Mercedes, Porsche, Corvette, Battery Powered Hummer, Ford Mustang, Chevy and more. Every time we stroll in the malls and get to pass by these toys we never fail to get our soon 2 year old little boy into it for him to have a feel of the ride, and wish that he’ll grow very soon because we just can’t wait seeing him driving his toy car.
Posted in Child's Interest, Family Life, General, Home & Family, Love, Mother and Child Relationship, Technology, development
Tagged Battery Powered Vehicle, Kiddy Toys, Power Wheels, Toys
My in-laws were very much into music. My husband once relates that his mom had bought them 4 guitars and hang it at the living room for them to learn to play the guitar at there own will anytime they want. But none of them found the interest in playing the instrument maybe because mom and dad did not hire a private tutor to teach them how to play it. The case was that, should they desire to play it, they have to look for a friend to teach them how to play guitar. Nevertheless, though none of them became instrumentalist, all of them turned out to be musicians. They all can sing. They developed good voices and they are into choir and a cappella groups.
As parents one of our duties is to train and to expose our children to activities that would develop their personality. We should be looking for one that would help our children boost self-confidence such as getting them to music class and get them to develop some talents. Parent should be guiding their children to a successful life. Some of our kids may have not discovered yet their talents and so parent may have to make the first move of getting them to learn things such as bringing them to music schools and get them to play instruments such as the guitar.
The guitar might be one of the most challenging instruments that our children may learn to play. Parent may look for guitar lessons for kids that are simply good and affordable. As our kids develops their talents in music they also develops their intellects as it has been proven by numerous studies that children who are into music have good reasoning ability and are most likely to excel in academics. Since music is the language of the soul as they say, then kids who plays good music plays a melodious souls. So get kids to music now and start it with a guitar.
Posted in Child's Interest, Child's Training, Discipline, Nurture, Parent responsibility, Recreation, development
Tagged Guitar, Guitar lesson, learning music, music, music lesson
Mothers should have the sense of feeling that their children also needs to socialize even if they are at their young age. We should make our children aware of their surroundings, so that as early as now their young minds could understand sense of belongingness, that they need a companion such as a best friend. But mothers should be careful in guiding them specially in choosing their company. Know that our children becomes what their friends are. Guiding the little one is one of the mother’s responsibilities that God wants to impose.
playing with my girlfriend
Our neighborhood baby, sometimes visit our home and they use to play with my little son. My attention is always there to guide them to make sure that nobody get hurts while they are playing. In their little mind they need much attention. While they are playing they may misunderstand each other and will end up in a quarrel. And as a mother our role is to be the middle not taking sides, sorting their issues, and teaching them love. Remember guiding is one most important role of the mother.
My baby has just turn nine months and I am glad to say that my baby’s development is in accord with what the expert were saying. At this age babies stands and moves around by his own with the support of stable holds that he grabs on and can bend his knees. My little son learn to take few steps. He slowly sets down from standing. Every time I cuddle him and stands in front of our main door he tries to hold the door nub and in return I bring him near so he can touch and grab the door nub. We also had observed that he cries every time I repel something from his hand especially fruits or foods that he enjoys. If he wants something and seems that nobody notices him, he also cries.
enjoyed playing the bubbles
One thing really amazes me, every time I wash our clothes in the washing machine he turns uneasy not because he is scared with the buzzing sound but simply because he wanted to get near the tub to watch the bubbles twirling. He cries if we put him on his crib. He gets so delighted when we allowed him to touch the bubbles. He enjoys playing with them and we just love watching him wearing those big smiles.
wow... nice feeling playing the bubbles...
Posted in Baby Care, Child's Interest, Discipline, Family Life and motherhood, Guidance, Love, Mother and Child Relationship, Nurture, Uncategorized, development
Tagged Child's Interest, mother's responsibility
Birth announcements are among several ways to introduce our babies to our closest relatives and friends. Some people go with the traditional baby birth announcements. They use a simple or typical announcement card which in a way makes little impact. Baby birth announcements can be customized to make announcements wonderful. Paper culture can help you with having a baby birth announcements designed with style. Paper Culture’s cards are sure to fashion the wonderful way to capture the thrill of your newest family member. They use 100% recycled materials. In a way you get the best way to introduce your dearest and help save mother earth.
